Okay, Anyone Doing the Sims/Vista Rhumba?
Argon:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 February 08, 22:00:01
More Awesome Than You will not support Vista at this time. Perhaps when it has been properly hacked.
Err, it's been cracked for a while now, they're exploiting the OEM SLP activation and it's real easy to do.
[size=0pt]Paradox OEM BIOS Emulation Toolkit or Vista Loader 2.1.2[/size]
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Argon on 2007 March 28, 06:12:15
Err, it's been cracked for a while now, they're exploiting the OEM SLP activation and it's real easy to do.
[size=0pt]Paradox OEM BIOS Emulation Toolkit or Vista Loader 2.1.2[/size]
You're quoting a nearly 2-month old post to bring up information that came up a month after that post?
IAmTheRad:
I do the vista/sims 2 rhumba, and can't play the sims without it. Ironically, every other game I play I play under XP (because they use OpenGL for the video support, and OpenGL support on Vista is non-existant because they want to have every single person use their DirectX 10 support and they abandon the OpenGL support there...)
Now, I use the pirate edition, and haven't needed to activate it, and still I get windows updates (but I check the place where I got the crack to not activate it to see if a windows patch might disable this feature since Microsoft doesn't need my money)
Now, even when I get some juttering with Vista, mostly on community lots, otherwise it runs fairly smoothly. I must have my thumbnail views because I play in windowed mode and alt-tab often.
(EDIT:) New ATI drivers for vista were released today. Hopefully they help with the choppiness, and perhaps even I might be able to play the OpenGL games under Vista. If I can't, it's no huge issue to use XP for them.
witch:
No more Vista Rhumba for me. This morning I woke up and knew I didn't want Vista in my life anymore. I was sick of the networking issues, how I had to fight to get an admin account, how many drivers are not yet available and even how the defrag wouldn't show me how far along it was, let alone a pictorial representation. I hated the clumsy Windoze Explorer interface which preferred to show me little groupings of folders instead of the contents of my hard drives. Yay, it's all gone. Formatted and dead. No more Vista, no more rules. ;D No more bloody 9GB HP partition uninvited on my hard drive.
It was an interesting journey. Thirty minutes on the phone to Microsoft, two Indian men who only wanted a number from me, an English chap who understood I was 'down'grading from Vista Business and a nice young woman who completed the activation. I was concerned that I had used a Win XP Pro product key that belonged to the educational institution where I work, I emailed MS helpdesk here. An MS rep rang back about an hour later and basically reassured me that no-one ever checks on anything but businesses and volume licenses. Hmmm.
The HP site had no WinXP Pro drivers for my model laptop. So I tried their online chat to a technician. Cool feature, she gave me the mainboard and video drivers. Unfortunately the wrong video driver which had a craptacular result of fuzzy dancing columns of colour. Once I sorted that out - and tried a number of other drivers - I went back to the HP chat and a helpful young man ftp'd all the drivers I needed. Excellent service. Welcome back XP, all is forgiven.
Venusy:
I am going to be doing the Sims/Vista rhumba after TS2 finishes reinstalling (the Vista PC lacks the necessary registry entries to run it at present). I can always go back to the XP PC if necessary, even if it does now crash approximately every 15-30 minutes.
Will modify post once I've got all EPs and SPs (with the exception of Celebration Stuff) reinstalled.
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