A question about Vista

Angela Liu · Post by **Angela Liu** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:51 pm

Hi guys,

I got my comp just last Christmas, before Vista came out. They promised to mail me a copy once it come out and it will upgrade my comp to Vista home Premium. It arrived yesterday and I'm wondering if i should upgrade it or not, if I will be able to run the game. I basically don't want to install, unable to play allegiance, and return to XP again for nothing. There have been a lot of topic about Vista unable to run this game so I just want to check if I can save the trouble of trying out myself.

My comp info:

Windows Version (and Service Packs): right now is Windows XP Media Center Edition, if upgraded will be Windows Vista Home Premium
Processor Speed: AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core processor 3800+ 2.00 GHz
RAM: 1G currently, planning to upgrade to 2G+ (depends on price) within next week

My computer is marked "Vista Ready" so i'm assuming it should be able to handle it.

I can live with XP, but if Vista seems to work with this game I'll upgrade it.

--Angela

Post by **FreeBeer** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:11 pm

I honestly don't know much about Vista - and I certainly have no experience with it. If I had a copy, I'd be willing to install it on one of my machines to see if it caused any problems with Allegiance... assuming that it has the same 30 day activation as XP, I'd keep it unactivated, check to see if Alleg worked, then uninstall it. (No, that was NOT a hint to anyone to send me a bootleg copy.) /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" />

Personally, I'd hold off on installing Vista until some of the known issues are worked out. (That's assuming that you have no other compelling reasons to install Vista.)

StarmanOmega · Post by **StarmanOmega** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:38 pm

You can run alleg with vista but it won't work if you have any antivirus other than AVG.

ImmortalZ · Post by **ImmortalZ** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:40 pm

And Vista Home Premium will NOT work with Alleg in most (if not all) cases. Vista Business or above is required.

Post by **aem** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:42 pm

Allegiance should work but I can't guarantee you won't run into any problems. But I'd stick with XP unless you have tried Vista out and like it more than XP. I've had access to it since well before its release under my university's agreement with Microsoft. I installed in on an XP laptop in a dual boot configuration. I used it for about a week to try it out and never use it anymore.

Dual booting is an option for you if you have enough space free. Dual booting means they are both installed on a separate hard drive or a separate partition and you select which one you want to start when you turn your PC on.

Andon · Post by **Andon** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:44 am

Dual booting isn't hard to do if you have the right software - Personally, I recommend Partition Commander. Very easy to work with, you can make a partition, and make it so that you choose the OS on startup. You can have any OS through that, except possibly Mac OS.

I'd suggest installing it on a partition and dual booting. This way you can't loose anything - The only stuff Vista would effect would be in the partition it is in.

ogorass · Post by **ogorass** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:17 am

Angela, Vista Home edition's are crap. They are more like demo's than the real product, so going form XP to Vista Home is a downgrade actually. If you consider Vista, try to get at least Business Edition, if not Ultimate (I'm running Ultimate and it's pretty good). As for gaming issues: VirtualPC or other virtual machine application is the ultimate sloution for older games, especially on more powerfull machines, like yours. It saves the hassle of multi boot (it DOES have issues sometimes, mostly due to magically inexplainable reasons) and you can have many many OS'es on one box. Although I advise 2Gig RAM if you plan on alt-tabbing between virtual machine and actual OS /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Cadillac · Post by **Cadillac** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:19 am

Vista Home Premium doesnt work either?!

Oh great ... just great.

Now not only do I have to wait a year before I can play Alleg again, but I have to farking pay even more.

Grimmwolf_GB · Post by **Grimmwolf_GB** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:06 pm

If you really want vista, get the business edition for Allegiance. We had plenty of people unable to connect to the lobby/servers with the Home version (basic and premium). The business edition however has no problem, which is kinda bad, because that's the version I have, so I cannot work on solving the problem with home version...

I might be able to grab one from a friend of mine, he gets one with his laptop and does not need it as he is Linux fan. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

Angela Liu · Post by **Angela Liu** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:11 pm

I personally don't like ultimate (let alone business) on my home computer, because at home I actually do a lot of multi-media staff and business don't include those. Ultimate will eat away my processer quite quickly as I tried it 2 month ago. Actually that's the whole reason I got new computer before Vista come out so i can use the better version of XP (for myself, HP Pavillion a1600n with XP Media Center Edtion is a good choice consider all the things I do. I aimed for it's 24 USB plug that can be used at the same time /mrgreen.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="mrgreen.gif" /> )

Besides this edition won't let me run dual-boot since it's only an upgrade version from my current XP and it's not the full copy. I already have half of the files required for installation on my computer when I brought it, so this Vista disk is ony an express upgrade disk. I tried dual-booting it and all it happens is it will overwrite the XP file and make me unable to use XP anymore, ended up making me recover to beginning and reinstall everything again.

Are there any Windows Vista Ultimate user here? I find it slow to work with with all the extra staff added. I'll proboblly get another comp at the end of this year to replace my old laptop and try ultimate on that, if Ultimate actually work.