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Ace Ruxton
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Join date: 4 Aug 2006
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08-04-2006 16:10
Okay, so I have windows Vista, using an ATI Radeon X300 Graphics card... it says my graphics card may run buggy, so I hit ok run anyways, and than it says my drivers are not up to date, which they are because i made sure they were up to date so Vista runs as well as possible...

Any fix for this because I'd really like to play on my desktop, as my laptop is very slow and extremely out of date.
Thili Playfair
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Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
08-04-2006 16:28
ati's drivers on vista dont have openGL support, so no.
Ace Ruxton
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Join date: 4 Aug 2006
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08-04-2006 16:33
If i purchased a NVidia, would it work? or do i have to switch back to XP?
Drizzt Naumova
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Join date: 9 Oct 2005
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08-04-2006 22:58
Sl runs on opengl, as vista has no support for that yet, so yes..xp it would be
Thili Playfair
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08-05-2006 03:43
Nvidia drivers have openGL , been running SL and Vista awhile with a nvidia 6800/7800 cards both work, just eeeh Vista as its right now use alot of ram so if you have under 1 gig ram i wouldnt use Vista with SL.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_88.61.html
Ace Ruxton
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08-05-2006 05:05
Well, i have 1gb ddr2, but im fairly sure im going to go back because its running fairly slow and I get alot of errors and i mean it took like.. a week and a half to get my soundcard working and im using third party drivers.. so I'll probably go back.. but if i do will this graphics card work on xp?
Thili Playfair
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08-05-2006 09:27
dont ask me about ati really :p , should work.

just install xp and save yourself the trouble , vista isnt worth it anyway, if you want dualboot, install vista when youre in windows xp, it will make a dual boot for you, pref install on another drive/partition to avoid mixing,
Ace Ruxton
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08-06-2006 07:28
Yeah, after I installed it i realized i should have partitioned my harddrive to dual boot.. and now my stupid HP computer won't run recovery tools.. it asks for the admin password.. which i have set to none, but it still wants a password.. so i changed it to another password and it still wont let me *shakes fist*