BF2S Forums BF2142 Vista compatibility?

I thought Vista had some issues with PunkBuster.

I run Vista Ultimate RTM - 2142 working fine.
Just give BF2142 admin. access to prevent PB kicks.

As there is still an evident performance lag and quite a lot of incompatibilities, a gamer should wait for some major patches and updated drivers.

okay then..... I think I know enough.... I'll hold off on Vista for the time being......  I already knew MS were smacktards when it came to stability and coding in relation to DirectX apps.  Now I see Vista is no different then XP in its first years.....

you can disable indexing and all that stuff in vista through properties and the games runs amazing on vista ultimate, (how do i know) cuz i have vista rc2 running.

Here you go:

1. Intel Core Solo - single-core CPU, becoming obsolete.
2. Intel Core Duo - Intel's first try on double-core CPUs, generally enough to work and play.
3. Intel Core 2 Duo - overhauled Core Duo. Lower-power/heat version (laptops, etc). Still DOUBLE-CORE. Different sources report performance boosts from 10% to several times (depends on tasks you do I guess).
4. Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme - high-power/heat version of Core 2 Duo (desktops, etc.). Not really much faster than plain Core 2 Duo.

My advice would be - if you can afford Core 2 Duo, get it, as it is better than Core Duo. On the other hand, if you get Core Duo, you're not going to suffer...

Check this: http://www.3dnews.ru/cpu/core_2_duo/index3.htm (page is in Russian, just look at the graphics').

As for Vista - well, I'm using Vista since RTM release, about a month or so... Generally, usability is better but it needs lots of tweaks and patches yet. And it doesn't really designed for games, too much bloat...

I've seen good advice on Vista - DO NOT BUY VISTA ALONE! Wait and buy it as OEM version with new computer, when it becomes available. This way you will be sure that computer will run it OK and get it much cheaper.

XP will do just fine for next 1-2 years. If you still decide to go Vista way - you can download RTM version and run it legally for 30 days (or longer, but it's not legal ). You will need at least 1 GB of RAM (2 GB better) to run it.

P.S. I run Vista on my home laptop: Core Duo 2 GHZ, 2 GB RAM, SATA HDD, ATI X1400. Works fine, I even play BF on it.

Last edited by [RU]Grmbl (2006-12-29 06:08:56)

DocZ wrote:

Well, here's another question (probably one of the stupidest questions since the dawn of ages):

Will Battlefield run when you have DirectX 10 installed?

(I searched the net for a suitable answer, but every site is so terribly vague and evasive on the question of backward compatibility)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10

In fact, Vista includes Direct3D 10. It runs BF2142 OK...

I believe that Direct eXes were backward compatible because they included features from previous versions. Probably this should be the case. But there are rumors that DX9 will run slower on boxes with DX10 installed. I don't think that it matters much given ENORMOUS GPU requirements for Vista. :-)

Microsoft will not nuke all of the existing pre-DirectX10 games with this upgrade - they are not so stupid.