M2TW on Vista?

[edyzmedieval]

I don't know if it's exactly the right forum, but how well M2TW runs on Vista? Any problems?

I have a new laptop, DELL XPS M1710.

2.0 GHZ Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM DDRII -> soon to upgrade to 4GB
256MB nVidia GeForce 7900GS
17" monitor

[Goofball]

I don't know if it's exactly the right forum, but how well M2TW runs on Vista? Any problems?

I have a new laptop, DELL XPS M1710.

2.0 GHZ Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM DDRII -> soon to upgrade to 4GB
256MB nVidia GeForce 7900GS
17" monitor

I don't know if this is the right forum either, but my new laptop (also using Vista) is so close to yours I figured I'd tag along on your thread.

I just got a Dell Inspiron 1720

Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (2MB cache/1.8GHz/800Mhz FSB)
2GB Shared dual channel DDR2 SDRAM
256MB nVidia GeForce 8600 GT
17" monitor

Anybody know if either of us will have any problems?

I haven't installed M2TW on the laptop yet because I'm picking up my pre-ordered copy of Kingdoms tomorrow and was waiting for that before installing.

[Ferret]

I'm running M2 on vist without any problems except the graphics being so good i can't get off it

[Husar]

No problems here on Vista 64.

[edyzmedieval]

So it's basically safe. Kinky then, I'll be glad to enjoy some of my favourite action in the weekends out in the forest.

[Rhyfelwyr]

I might have scared you off M2TW on Vista in the Hardware and Software Forum, but it turned out dodgy RAM was causing my problems, so you should be OK.

[Bob the Insane]

ditto working fine on Vista 32bit...

[Budwise]

You should be fine, I am running Vista and my desktop is a puny (Working in a factory kills your computer budget)

Athlon Sempron 3000+
1gb DDR 1 400mhz ram
320 gb HD (The sole reason to upgrade to Vista)
Geforce FX 6200 GFX card

and I can run it fine.

[Kraggenmor]

Running it on Vista just fine here as well.

I only hope adding Kindoms doesn't effect it. Can't imagine why it would but...never know.

[Guyus Germanicus]

I don't know if it's exactly the right forum, but how well M2TW runs on Vista? Any problems?

I have a new laptop, DELL XPS M1710.

2.0 GHZ Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo
2GB RAM DDRII -> soon to upgrade to 4GB
256MB nVidia GeForce 7900GS
17" monitor

edyz -

You have almost exactly the same thing as I do. I simply have a higher grade video card, 7950 GTX w/512 Meg card memory.

The only trouble I've had was a bad download from McAfee. They sent out a generic message to their users apologizing. But I had to use the system restore feature to back out the faulty program. It was stealing resources in some bizarre way so that when I played M2TW I as getting 'sticky' responses to commands. Bought my laptop in June. If you upgrade to 4Gig of memory, you should have no worries. I only have 2 Gig Ram, but have had no performance problems. But I shut down some things like Google, and Dell Support, and other stuff I don't use when I'm playing the game, out of habit.

VISTA is a memory pig, and I've heard that 2GB Ram is pretty much required for good performance. So any extra should be helpful for you.

[Husar]

Uh, I have 2GB and when playing Medieval 2 in Vista I keep my background programs open, Medieval 2 isn't all that demanding on your RAM.

I've also played games in the vista betza when I only had 1GB RAM and didn't notice any big performance problems in comparison to XP.
Of course you're always better off with 2GB these days.

[edyzmedieval]

Absolutely incredible. M2TW works on High settings without a single trace of lag! It's absolutely superb!