As many of you may know, I decided to take the plunge last week and pick up Starcraft 2(SC2). But what you probably don't know is that my almost 2 year old Sony Vaio laptop is running Vista.
I knew from the get go that Vista was not nearly as good as Windows Xp, since it was pretty slow when I made the transition from Xp to Vista (very painful transition). When I thought it couldn't get any worse, worse than being pretty slow and frequent crashing; my purchase of SC2 showed me the dismal nature of this OS. Let's not forget my laptop has 3 gigs of RAM which would seem sufficient (in my eyes at least) to run SC2 smoothly on at least the lowest settings. Boy was I in for a surprise, it seems like Vista loves to eat up RAM like the obese glutton of an OS that it is. This is ridiculous! It can barely run SC2 on the lowest settings ( the graphics are comparable to a Nintendo DS game, and that is not acceptable considering my laptop was almost 2K last year). Don't even get me started on me attempting to run SC2 on medium settings. It was so slow that I could watch a sloth do a 100 meter race before the damn game would have loaded. A message indicating that I am slowing down the game pops up so frequently that it's starting to get annoying. I feared that trying medium settings would melt my computer due to the incompetence of Vista. I really do loath this OS, especially when it comes to playing games. Buying SC2 is my way of getting back into the PC gaming scene but Vista is like a rash constantly pissing me off. Why couldn't Microsoft just update Xp instead of making Vista and Windows 7. Seriously how can an OS that is over half a decade old be better than present day OS, it just boggles my mind. Just the thought of me running SC2 on Windows Xp and 3 gigs of RAM makes me feel all warn and fuzzy inside but then I am slowly brought back to the reality of the crappiest OS I have ever used, this pathetic OS we call Vista.
Dude. You are really STUPID. Do not complain that it's the OS' fault that SC2 can't run properly--because it isn't. It's YOUR HARDWARE. 3 gigs of RAM? Psh, is that all you know about. You probably have a 2 year old crappy processor, or a 2 year old crappy on board graphics card. Most likely both. I can run SC2 on Vista, 7, and XP on the same settings without any difference on frames per second.
ReplyDeleteI've never liked to game on laptops in the first place. I just feel more comfortable with a desktop (which happens to have XP on it for that reason).
ReplyDeletelol Hassan thanks for the constructive criticism. Chols, tell me if I'm wrong but doesn't Vista use more RAM than Xp and as a result Vista makes things run more slowly, right? Because I used to play counter-strike on an 8 year old laptop which had Xp and it ran seamlessly.
ReplyDeleteSC 2 was designed to be played on Vista and 7 because 64 bit vs. xp which is 32. You most likely have way to many programs running. I literally had to shut down all my programs to the bare minium to get the game to play in medium setting without constant warnings. Also updating drivers helped alot.
ReplyDeleteYeah when I play SC2 I shut down all my anti-virus software, close my browser and msn all that stuff and I still get warnings on the low settings. Some times I wish I could afford a gaming computer
ReplyDeleteHassan has *some* valid points - depending on what graphics card you have currently, updating it could help a lot, amongst other things. I'm no computer expert but that's the main reason I haven't tried out PC gaming yet.
ReplyDeleteVista came pre-installed on my 3 year old laptop and it doesn't have the specs to handle it so it's sloooow. I'm on Arch Linux atm, probably trying out Windows 7 once I get a new computer.