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**Adretheon** · 04-20-09, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Cecil900

Originally Posted by vexle

Originally Posted by Ruukil

Originally Posted by jason_jinx

Vista will help your ability to game

Whaaa?

Many old games will not run or run poorly on Vista.

False.

I've had a few older games crash on me. Games that played fine on XP.

**~~Cecil900~~** · 04-20-09, 06:09 PM

Originally Posted by Adretheon

Originally Posted by Cecil900

Originally Posted by vexle

Originally Posted by Ruukil

Originally Posted by jason_jinx

Vista will help your ability to game

Whaaa?

Many old games will not run or run poorly on Vista.

False.

I've had a few older games crash on me. Games that played fine on XP.

Like what? I can get any old game to work in a DosBOX. OR you can run it in compatibility mode with XP and your golden.

**Adretheon** · 04-20-09, 06:17 PM

I had issues with the first Rainbow six. (I know, I was bored

) It would randomly crash to the desktop. Granted, I never cared enough about it to want to fix it. So it probably coulda been fixed by backwards compatibility.

**Ruukil** · 04-20-09, 06:44 PM

There are programs for running older games on Vista

http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=3

this is a good site.

Anyway I'm going back to XP and I need something new. I honestly don't know what though.

**Whiskey_dod** · 04-22-09, 06:39 PM

get the brick!

**Ruukil** · 04-22-09, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by Whiskey_dod

get the brick!

I can't afford the brick.

**investigater** · 04-22-09, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Ruukil

Originally Posted by Whiskey_dod

get the brick!

I can't afford the brick.

Get the B.F.H. then...

**ninja|oaklandr** · 04-22-09, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by teXasStorm

all my games have about a 5-10 fps jump from xp to vista to windows 7 :/ vista is better for gaming after sp1 than xp it just requires better hardware

So vista needs better hardware to do better than XP. That makes sense.

**shatter99** · 04-23-09, 04:43 PM

Can you post the model # of your motherboard so we can see what chipset you have and what it supports, and the power rating of your power supply? I assume your existing video card is PCI-E.

Since you did not answer this question I assume you changed your mind.

**Ruukil** · 04-24-09, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by shatter99

Can you post the model # of your motherboard so we can see what chipset you have and what it supports, and the power rating of your power supply? I assume your existing video card is PCI-E.

Since you did not answer this question I assume you changed your mind.

Oh sorry, I didn't realize I'd missed it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/eMachines-W6409-...01153009r13881

I think that is a link to what it is.
A eMachines W3506 MOTHERBOARD

I'll have to find my power-supply info a bit later unless you find it before I return here.

My video card is ATI Radeon HD 2400 (currently overclocked.)