Vista

**DragonsWarrior** · April 09, 2010, 04:22 AM

im getting vista put in and im just worried if it will affect my total war games. will it work fine when installing them.

**Capt. Fozdike** · April 09, 2010, 04:27 AM

It will work fine mate. I had MTW, RTW, M2TW and ETW all running on Vista for a long time. But why not go for Win 7?

*Waits for Jaketh to come and start bagging Vista*

**DragonsWarrior** · April 09, 2010, 04:36 AM

thanks im not sure why reason why i updated it becouse whenever windows had a update it always went funny

**Capt. Fozdike** · April 09, 2010, 04:44 AM

So you've already purchased Windows Vista?

**karamazovmm** · April 09, 2010, 06:58 AM

why vista not win 7? its much more fluid in terms of usability and stability

**Taiji** · April 09, 2010, 08:05 AM

Turn off UAC

Install to a folder like c:\m2tw, to avoid 'program files'

Run the program in xp compatibility mode

... I wonder if I've forgotten something, I have a feeling Vista's even more hassle than that...

I've got Vista on a notebook I rarely use. I've never bothered trying to get m2tw working in vista. I've just had to deal with a great many people having problems with it.

Windows 7 is a hassle too, possibly even more so, what with changing ownerships and so on.

And it seems that some scripting errors cause CTDs in 7, where in XP they get ignored.

If you don't have a good reason to change operating system - Don't!

**DragonsWarrior** · April 09, 2010, 09:01 AM

i didnt i was getting it repiared and he said he was going to install vista so i thought ok

**Shiloh** · April 09, 2010, 11:32 AM

At some point you're going to have to upgrade to a new OS and if you're getting it for free...why not? Support for old OS will cease at some point, and you'll have to upgrade anyhow. I'm running RTW, MTW and NTW on Vista and it plays just fine.