Reply 60 of 116, by DosFreak
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Been on an excercise all week last week so haven't had time to work on the list. NBC gear in 85+ temperature.......is not that bad actually. Could have been ALOT worse. Going to work on the list a little bit this weekend.....
I've had some people ask why I have so many games not working on Vista 64bit while they work fine on their systems. Well there are a couple of reasons:
1. I'm doing most of my testing on laptops with Intel video cards. As you know these cards and drivers are horrible. If a new game works it's usually a stroke of luck. (This is why I ROFLMFAO every time I hear mention of Intel competing with ATI/NVIDIA in the GPU market...good luck INTEL you'll need it.)
2. I do not use my physical CD's anymore for testing. I use Daemon Tools and point to my cd images. As you know some copy protection do not like Daemon Tools. If the game doesn't work then I'll mark it down as "Not working" and move on to the next game. I'll then come back later and load the latest patch and try again, if it still doesn't work then I'll use the NOCD patch. If it still doesn't work it'll still be marked as "Not Working" and I'll come back to it in a couple of months.
3. I only mark games as green if I have no problems with it. Installation, graphics issues, addon requirements (.NET, latest DX redist, C++, etc etc etc etc to infininty) All get in the way. If I don't feel like hunting down the addon (especially if the game doesn't mention it), then I'll mark it down as RED until I get around to figureing out why it doesn't work.
4. I'm testing ALOT of OS's here. Windows 2000, Windows XP 32 and 64bit, Windows 2003 32 and 64bit, Windows Vista 32 and 64bit, and Windows 2008 32bit and 64bit. I also do some dabbling with Linux, 9x and NT4 images so that when I get around to testing I'll already have the OS's built and I don't have to worry about hunting down software and utilities. Obviously this takes alot of time and is one of the main reasons why one OS may have more "Not working" games than other OS's.
The games I mark as GREEN on my list you can be assured that I spent ALOT of time making sure these games work. The games I mark as RED I WILL mark as RED at the drop of a hat. It could be as simple as a CRC error on a physical CD (If I do use a physical CD) or as complicated as an MS update that causes the game to be nonfunctional. It could be alot of things.
So don't bash my list because I marked your precious little game as non-functional. My list is to serve gamers not to satisfy egos or fanboy obsessions.