OT: Need Vista help suggestions

[Randallw]

I think the same thing happened to me when I copied my SEV stuff to a new vista machine. I copied the game, all my mods, and extras from the old computer to the new one, and then it asked for the code. No problem since then.

[Romulus68]

Randallw said:
I think the same thing happened to me when I copied my SEV stuff to a new vista machine. I copied the game, all my mods, and extras from the old computer to the new one, and then it asked for the code. No problem since then.

I've done the same thing just now. Entered my Key, etc. Game loads and runs fine, but when i try to load a saved game its all blank?

Is their a settings file that designates the saved game directory?

[Fyron]

No; as far as I can tell, SE5 just loads savegames from a relative path.

[Romulus68]

I sorted out the save game issues.

Now its about 'Performance' issues. How can this Quadcore with 4 gig RAM and a huge video card be choppy in SE5???!!!

Not the combat, but just scrolling about. BTW, this is my first experience with Vista and its REALLY sickening me. I'm so close to reformatting the hard drive and putting XP on this machine, but I'm worried about hardware conflicts, etc.

Any suggestions to boost gaming performace in Vista 64 bit Home Premium? oh, I have about everything turned off that can be turned off......that I can find in Vista.

[Fyron]

Vista does not have any native DX8 code; all the earlier DX stuff gets emulated in the new layers. This results in typically poor performance. Most DX8 games were designed in a bygone era, and do not stress modern hardware at all, so its not as noticeable. But with SE5, the game engine was made with modern (if lower end) machines in mind. Performance in XP is ok, but the translation layer in Vista hurts it quite a bit.

I should also point out that you should not expect "Quadcore" to make a lick of difference for 99.999% of games, since they tend to be single-threaded processes. You end up with lower performance compared to a dual core CPU with individually faster cores (there aren't any modern high-end single core CPU designs, but such would theoretically perform even better). 4 GB RAM is way overkill as well, since no process in XP can normally use more than even 2 GB of (physical) RAM, and they are designed with that in mind (ie: there probably are no games yet that will use more than 2GB even in Vista/XP 64-bit OSes).

[Randallw]

I listened to Fyron when I got my new machine, so I didn't get Vista 64. However the fact that Vista 32 can't use more than 3GB of RAM never came up . At least I have a spare GB if in future I upgrade to 64 bit.

[Fyron]

The actual limit in win32 is somewhere around 3.5GB, depending on how the motherboard chipset reserves hardware address space.