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TGEA compatible with Vista???

by Mquaker · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 01/22/2007 (10:26 pm) · 25 replies

TGEA instably is working on vista, but can't run on explorer 7.0

Has anyone tried it??
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#21
02/10/2007 (3:57 pm)
I Would stay away from developing with Vista as GG doesn't support it for this engine right now. However it is likely that the finished game you make, by the time it is done It might run anyway. What i mean is, i notice mixed results from developing in this OS, and running a final game and developing on a machine is 2 different things. I used to have no problem running American Mcgee's Alice on my old computer with win98 on it, but when I did some Modding, the version stopped working. Then i got XP did the same exact Mod, it ran fine on both machines, but would not run on the 98 machine if it was also the one i did the Modding on. It didn't make sense to me why, but that the way it happens and I checked this process out on more than one setup and found this to be the case. I doubt my little story help anyone understand anything, but i think its relevant to know that these Os's have as many or if not more bugs in their current build. Look at XP, things about it still arnt stable, yet they produce another OS. Didn't I read that 98 is still their most stable OS to date, or at-least with the least amount of crashes and reported problems?
#22
02/14/2007 (1:19 pm)
In defense of GG and their engine, it looks like this (Vista and games) is not a localized problem:
Vista Playing Havoc with Gamers
#23
02/14/2007 (1:47 pm)
Dev for Vista is no problem. But don't dev ON vista until SP1 is out and they fixed that damned broken UAC stuff, because until then you can drop Vistas Security if you want to dev because you must use an admin account (this should fix the problem above normally as well)

But even then: The performance is sub par. Since alpha where NVidia sent out the first vista drivers, they were just trash. The only API that benefits is DX7 because DX7 drivers on XP are broken or completely removed while they work great on Vista.
DX9/OpenGL XP drivers are that far optimized, that it will take 6 months to a year until they will be en par with XP performance.
#24
02/14/2007 (2:03 pm)
Its logical for there to be issues with any older products with a new OS.

For a product that hasn't even really been out yet (1.0), theres no reason to not have it running decently, which it seems to be, in most cases. As I expect majority of the problems are video driver related and probably will benefit from a DX 9.0Ex renderer pipeline versus a DX9.0c pipeline

Sporadic issues are acceptable though
#25
02/20/2007 (5:19 pm)
Here is the same question.

can download to 99% on the online FPS game, then it occures a error or a down.

I guess that a firewall of ie7 block it.

Has anyone tried to work on ie7?
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