The video game thread

and it's proper windows, none of that vista mcgubbins

i fail at sparking off pointless arguments, mainly due to dimmers being awesome at having windows

has anyone actually tried the vista replacement?

You mean Windows 7?

Smells like bear shit to me

Chicken shit bullshit.

My mate has Windows 7. He says it's like Vista without all the bad stuff.

whats the difference from xp then?

people do realise that vista was just xp but allowed your pc to use better bits dont they?

I don't get why there's so much hate for Vista. I hardly ever have any problems with it. In fact the last time mah computer died was when I tried installing Ubuntu and it committed suicide. For no reason.

I converted an old machine to Ubuntu. It's fine for some things but if you want to use any kind of mainstream software you're screwed. Sure, there's WINE, but that's just another little pain in the arse.

I've just tried that Brain Training thing on the DS, stupid thing wouldn't recognize my writing or my voice so I have an age of 80. I'm actually pretty smart.

Maybe you just write and speak like an 80 year old?

B-LOO

RET

YELLOH


You just have to learn how to speak to it.



G-REEM

and write in a japanese accent

in other news, windows 7 is alot better than vista, it boots and operates much faster.

parg, if you don't know of anything wrong with vista, try moving files between 2 pcs, it takes over twice as long to transfer files than it does in pretty much any other OS


Windows XP has roughly the same as ubuntu in this one.

It was announced as a bug as soon as the first vista beta was out and had never been fixed.

And try creating a network with them. It doesn't like that very much.

Oh and there's:

"Do you want to open this application?"
-Yes
"Really?"
-Yes
"Are you sure you want to open this application?"
-Yes
"Ha, well you can't! You aren't an administrator."

an option that is a single click to enable but is a registry hack to disable.

I accidentally clicked the option and it completely forgoed the usual click apply or okay and immediately removed the toggle option.

http://crazymonkeygames.com/Treasure-Seas-Inc.html

I've just spent the best part of an hour and a half playing this.

Well I have a shared folder between my computer (Vista) and my dads (XP Media Centre) and it works fine and dandy. That's about all I do though so I'm not sure about anything else.

Is that through a router or direct? To get my multi-OS PCs networked through my router I had to create usernames and passwords that were identical on each computer. A bit of a ball-ache but it worked eventually after much googling.

My Vista PC isn't recognized as a media server by my PS3. I think that's a problem with both systems though to be honest.

Router. The only problem I've had with networking is getting the printer attached to the other PC to show up here. It never does.

The Amazing Fletch wrote:http://crazymonkeygames.com/Treasure-Seas-Inc.html

I've just spent the best part of an hour and a half playing this.

I'm pretty high right now and fully regret clicking on this link. An hour of my life has just gone!

Eh that game isn't that great. The little Popeye type thing in the top right corner annoyed me.

The Amazing Fletch wrote:Thumbs up to MobyD for the awesome avatar.

lol there is nothing awesome about ric. and WHAT IS HE DOING IN A VIDEO GAME THREAD? oh yeah getting tipz

I have ubuntu. great os but not the fastest as its aimed to be a easy transition to linux i guess so has a bit of bloat. It has some good alternatives to programs but nothing beats industry standard. Adobe are actually releasing software for ubuntu now.

Vista and Xp arent the same at all. Xp is registry based where vista isnt. Vista was a rewrite from scratch. sure it had xp features but its not xp. Vista isnt bad anymore. The problem when someone releases a new OS from scratch is driver compatibility. Vista lacked drivers for the first year of its existance. but now with all the updates its a great OS. Windows 7 is Vista rebranded and improved. much like xp is a rebranded windows 2000. (everyone hated 200 for its first year much like vista). Windows 7 looks to be great so far and has backwards compatability for vista devices. if you look at the timeline of windows based OS you can see what is rebrnded and whats a new os from the version number.Microsoft allways release like this so they can work out the bugs in their os then release a new one bug free.

sorry for the long ass post:D but on gaming i play a free fast pased fps called urbanterror. its kinda like parkour meets quake3

omg that game is awesome

you play it? my game name is SkaDude

Does anyone play WoW? My workmate does and it's ruined his life. Honestly, I asked him what he was doing this Thursday and he had to check to see if he wasn't having an epic battle with the Dwarves or some shiz.