Quote:I know I mostly skipped XP, but still, Vista isn't bad. I think a lot of the problem was people upgrading computers that weren't really powerful enough for it, while I got it with a brand new PC... and aside from the usual "some mostly older games don't work now" issues that happen with every new OS, and are fairly rare apart from the DOS issues which I think are as much or more NVidia's fault than Microsoft's, it's just fine. Aero Glass is really cool looking, too... :)This simple fact is that windows 7 runs 10x better than Vista with 1/2 the system specs. People should not need the more powerful hardware to run Aero, which has been proven with 7, which runs Aero with non of the bloat. Besides, it's a mute point, Microsoft is abandoning vista soon anyways. "7 is Vista fixed" - those where Microsoft's words. They are not going to try fix vista anymore with patches, the patch is 7. Vista may work OK for the causal user, but as a person in the field, I can tell you it has major problems. Even Microsoft admits it. My teachers hate vista, the tech community hates it, many end users hated it. This is why there is windows 7, Microsoft didn't hire 20 engineers from apple to fix Vista because it would be easy.
Quote:Also etoven, if he upgraded to 7 64-bit, as I said, the problem would be entirely unchanged. The problem is 64-bit OSes not supporting 16-bit executables, not anything about Vista, XP, or 7 in particular.Windows 7 runs 16bit programs in a 64bit environment threw an emulation layer called windows legacy compatibility layer. Vista tried to force end users to use 32 bit code, but that was only in Vista, Microsoft has sense abandoned that idea with 7.
Quote:Maybe a virtual machine could help, if it was possible to install in one and then play in normal Windows and the game actually worked, because VMWare as far as I know does not support DirectDraw which is of course vital for games that require it, but otherwise, I don't know what can be done...This is not so, VMWare supports direct draw and any another feature available on a physical machine running the same hardware.