Thanks to my team, the Boston Red Sox, winning the World Series I now have a nest egg that is starting to burn a hole in my pocket.
I am thinking of getting a new PC and for this I need some help from the Forum. What specs should I be looking for in order to get the best out of AACW, BOA and NCP? Is Vista going to be a problem for me?
Any help or advice given would be most welcomed.
Thanks
Korrigan wrote:Time to upgrade yeah, because Pocus is thinking about buying a new PC...
We are very busy today, finishing NCP master 1.00 version, but Philippe might find some time to give you some infos.
Thanks, Korrigan,
I look forward to hearing from Philippe (and any others).
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'Nous voilà, Lafayette'
Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917
'Nous voilà, Lafayette'
Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917
I just love using that "smiley" 
But seriously, there are quite a few that have been reporting problems getting AACW to run on Vista, but at the same time, I think most of them were able to get it going in the end. So, I think you can expect it to work, but you may need to work in order to get it to work. But it all works out in the end
But seriously, there are quite a few that have been reporting problems getting AACW to run on Vista, but at the same time, I think most of them were able to get it going in the end. So, I think you can expect it to work, but you may need to work in order to get it to work. But it all works out in the end
Rafiki wrote:I just love using that "smiley"
But seriously, there are quite a few that have been reporting problems getting AACW to run on Vista, but at the same time, I think most of them were able to get it going in the end. So, I think you can expect it to work, but you may need to work in order to get it to work. But it all works out in the end
That is exactly what has me worried. I am not the most PC-literate guy in the world.
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'Nous voilà, Lafayette'
Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917
'Nous voilà, Lafayette'
Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917
Neither am I, but the only problem Vista gave me with AGEod-games yet was a missing "DLL-file"-message when running AACW. After installing it, Vista (Home Premium) didn't give me any problems. The solution for that problem can be found here: http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=3122Le Ricain wrote:That is exactly what has me worried. I am not the most PC-literate guy in the world.
However, if You, like me, are old and have a collection of games back from DOS- or Win95-days that are dear to Your heart, brace Yourself for having to part with quite a lot of them forever..
Regards, Henry
Henry D, also known as "Stauffenberg" @ Strategycon Interactive and formerly (un)known as "whatasillyname" @ Paradox Forums
"Rackers, wollt Ihr ewig leben?" (Rascals, Do You want to live forever?) - Frederick the Great, cursing at his fleeing Grenadiers at the battle of Kunersdorf
"Nee, Fritze, aber für fuffzehn Pfennije is' heute jenuch!" (No, Freddy, but for 15p let's call it a day!) - Retort of one passing Grenadier to the above
"Rackers, wollt Ihr ewig leben?" (Rascals, Do You want to live forever?) - Frederick the Great, cursing at his fleeing Grenadiers at the battle of Kunersdorf
"Nee, Fritze, aber für fuffzehn Pfennije is' heute jenuch!" (No, Freddy, but for 15p let's call it a day!) - Retort of one passing Grenadier to the above
Henry D. wrote:Neither am I, but the only problem Vista gave me with AGEod-games yet was a missing "DLL-file"-message when running AACW. After installing it, Vista (Home Premium) didn't give me any problems. The solution for that problem can be found here: http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=3122
However, if You, like me, are old and have a collection of games back from DOS- or Win95-days that are dear to Your heart, brace Yourself for having to part with quite a lot of them forever..
Regards, Henry
Thanks, Henry,
You came up with the second thing that worries me. However, as you have shown me the solution to the first problem, I am hopeful.
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'Nous voilà, Lafayette'
Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917
'Nous voilà, Lafayette'
Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917
Well, we (AGEod) are pragmatic lads:
Pocus, the lead coder, is using a very basic PC with XP to develop the AGE engine.
First, because, this way he knows real time the minimum specs for our games
Second, because he is not paid enough to buy a new one
(However, we're going to offer him something decent for X-Mas)
Celtic, our second coder, is using a recent PC with Vista.
Hence, we should guarantee you that our next generation games will be fully Vista ready.
Once again, Pocus will be able to tell you more about this, I'm just the PR guy you know...
Pocus, the lead coder, is using a very basic PC with XP to develop the AGE engine.
First, because, this way he knows real time the minimum specs for our games
Second, because he is not paid enough to buy a new one
(However, we're going to offer him something decent for X-Mas)
Celtic, our second coder, is using a recent PC with Vista.
Hence, we should guarantee you that our next generation games will be fully Vista ready.
Once again, Pocus will be able to tell you more about this, I'm just the PR guy you know...
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." Mark Twain
VGN will be fully Vista compatible, but NCP and SPA (I really like to use this acronym) are still using our current DirectX engine.
I will get a new puter, true. As Celtic is on Vista, I will have to stay on XP, so that we have both system available. This is the most logical decision, but I guess you all realize that the truth is that I don't want to have this memory and buggy resource hog which is Vista, so I will ask the shop to reformat the puter in XP
The problems with Vista are as a matter of facts problems with video drivers which are lacking compatibility with older DirectX versions. ATI and NVidia offer a very good support for the devs who use advanced rendering techniques (seen in FPS eg), but they don't much care to double-check if what they add break something in very basics functions which are mostly used by independent studios best not named
I will get a new puter, true. As Celtic is on Vista, I will have to stay on XP, so that we have both system available. This is the most logical decision, but I guess you all realize that the truth is that I don't want to have this memory and buggy resource hog which is Vista, so I will ask the shop to reformat the puter in XP
The problems with Vista are as a matter of facts problems with video drivers which are lacking compatibility with older DirectX versions. ATI and NVidia offer a very good support for the devs who use advanced rendering techniques (seen in FPS eg), but they don't much care to double-check if what they add break something in very basics functions which are mostly used by independent studios best not named
Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law."
And for the specs Pocus, do we have a rough idea of what kind of specs would be needed for VGN?
My personnal advice would be to go for a N-Vidia Video Card, despite raw performances last ATI drivers are way too buggy...
My personnal advice would be to go for a N-Vidia Video Card, despite raw performances last ATI drivers are way too buggy...
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." Mark Twain
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