APolitical said:
That's because your mom and dad bought a dell which ships with Vista but doesn't have the architecture to appropriately support it. Tons of machines loaded with vista run like absolute shit, so what he's saying is actually quite accurate. Pretty much any windows XP machine can run Orange Box just fine, as long as they aren't sporting an integrated video card like some cheap laptops. The game looks nice but the graphics are nothing revolutionary, and that's on purpose. Most of Valve's profits come from the PC, and they obviously want the game to be playable on as many machines as possible. As a result, it's going to be able to play on most any reasonable system. Of course Vista throws a wrench into things, but the vast majority of people playing this game are on XP. Maybe you should ask mom for some ram for Christmas. |
He's right Vista may be the problem. I've had to create a partition and install XP in it to get some games to run on mine. Including Fable which is a @#% MS game!!
