View Full Version : Please make the game XP compatible.
PatternGhost
02-20-2008, 07:05 PM
I'd love to not have to downgrade to Vista from XP to play the game.
Derella
02-20-2008, 07:12 PM
For those of you that recall, the MUO page on our coprorate website specifically stated Windows Vista. The Champions Online product page on our website does not for intentional reasons:
http://www.crypticstudios.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=173&Itemid=34
I think that's pretty clear -- the game will run on XP :)
Raindog
02-20-2008, 07:54 PM
Good stuff
SAVeira
02-20-2008, 08:41 PM
Good to hear. I know it is VISTA only, I know that I would get the XBOX 360.:D
TerraDraconis
02-20-2008, 08:43 PM
I'm pretty certain the Vista/360 only thing that Cryptic was doing for Marvel Universe Online is something Microsoft was pushing. I would think they will make CO XP fiendly. Err Friendly.
PatternGhost
02-21-2008, 01:04 AM
I think that's pretty clear -- the game will run on XP :)
Ty! Good to hear. =)
Rhyder
02-21-2008, 01:31 AM
Just taking a guess here, imo that the game will work on XP/Vista and the 360, maybe more stations to come :)
Atleast so far what I'm hearing from other people that its coming to the 360. :D
Esbat
02-22-2008, 12:56 AM
Sweet... all my machines in the house are XP, and I'd hate to have to not only buy NEW parts for my comps to play but also a new OS. Hell no. Lol
Gold-Rush
02-22-2008, 01:05 AM
Sweet... all my machines in the house are XP, and I'd hate to have to not only buy NEW parts for my comps to play but also a new OS. Hell no. Lol
OhMy GOD!! Esbat!!! :D
Get thee to GURU in the general forum!! :D
SBeaudway
02-22-2008, 07:08 AM
Hey maybe by the time Champions Online is released, Vista won't suck!
j/k
Darksmith
02-22-2008, 07:18 AM
If it ends up being Vista only... I won't be picking it up.
techogre
02-22-2008, 07:44 AM
Same here. I need to use XP pro for work stuff at home occasionally. To get the features I want, I would have to get Vista Ultimate, about $500, plus a hardware update. No thanks...
Skruff
02-22-2008, 07:53 AM
I think that's pretty clear -- the game will run on XP :)
Or perhaps it means that Microsoft will be replacing Vista quickly with something new (kind of like how WindowsMe died a quick death and was replaced by XP as I recall) and CO will run on that *shrug* :confused:
Test-Rat
02-22-2008, 09:20 AM
You know, by 2009 Vista will probably be running quite nice.
DarkChilde
02-22-2008, 10:11 AM
Not running on XP would be the dealbreaker for me also. :confused:
Malaclypse
02-23-2008, 11:07 AM
I'd love to not have to downgrade to Vista from XP to play the game.
Shoot, please make it Windows 2000 compatible! Same argument!
lankershim
02-23-2008, 01:31 PM
You know, by 2009 Vista will probably be running quite nice.
...or MS may even come out with a new OS by then...maybe call it something like 360-OS, heh.
Malaclypse
02-23-2008, 05:57 PM
...or MS may even come out with a new OS by then...maybe call it something like 360-OS, heh.
Well, I think they need to. If you look at the real numbers for Vista adoption, they're pretty, well, abysmal, considering that you can hardly buy a computer without having Vista shoved down your throat.
It's not leadership by design, leadership by example, or leadership by merit... it's failure of leadership due to people eventually getting wise to the fact that you're trying to screw them over.
So, yeah, even though they seem to be repositioning to slip out from under the OS biz a bit, I do think they'll have to have something else eventually.
Shoot, please make it Windows 2000 compatible! Same argument!
Same. It says "PC", and I've been stubborn about "upgrading" my OS for the better part of a decade.
RighteousRage
02-23-2008, 06:07 PM
Bill Gates thinks Vista is an astounding success, ha ha.
Malaclypse
02-23-2008, 06:23 PM
Same. It says "PC", and I've been stubborn about "upgrading" my OS for the better part of a decade.
Cheers to you, my brother/sister/sibling entity-in-arms! I just never wanted to be forced to shift to a licensing structure which claims that the software (OS) I purchased so many times with so many boxes is something I can't put wherever I want with whatever copies I had bought. Plus, Win 2k was the last one I figured out how to entirely disable IE on.
thatsmystapler
02-23-2008, 07:39 PM
Bill Gates thinks Vista is an astounding success, ha ha.
He's actually come out on video pretty much stating that Vista could have used a bit more development time.
Vista will be running much better by 2009 since service pack 1 will be out be then. XP wasn't running all that great either prior to the first service pack. And since Microsoft is planning to stop updates for XP come June,2008(at least that's what they are telling the computer companies), that will make XP somewhat obsolete in terms of driver updates, compatibility, etc.
Malaclypse
02-23-2008, 08:04 PM
He's actually come out on video pretty much stating that Vista could have used a bit more development time.
Vista will be running much better by 2009 since service pack 1 will be out be then. XP wasn't running all that great either prior to the first service pack. And since Microsoft is planning to stop updates for XP come June,2008(at least that's what they are telling the computer companies), that will make XP somewhat obsolete in terms of driver updates, compatibility, etc.
Yeah... but the real problems with it are in the licensing arena, and the Bad Idea in the First Place department. All the IT shops who have to support it that I deal with, software vendors, etc are STILL to take the step of seriously making a stab at Vista Support.
They're all 'No plans for Vista support any time soon'
thatsmystapler
02-23-2008, 08:11 PM
Yeah... but the real problems with it are in the licensing arena, and the Bad Idea in the First Place department. All the IT shops who have to support it that I deal with, software vendors, etc are STILL to take the step of seriously making a stab at Vista Support.
They're all 'No plans for Vista support any time soon'
I work for Dell and troubleshoot Vista daily. And it does have it's issues, but it's nto nearly as bad as some people think either. A few more OSRIs and compatibility issues than XP, but again, those quirks should be gone by the time this game comes out.
Malaclypse
02-23-2008, 08:18 PM
I work for Dell and troubleshoot Vista daily. And it does have it's issues, but it's nto nearly as bad as some people think either. A few more OSRIs and compatibility issues than XP, but again, those quirks should be gone by the time this game comes out.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I'm not saying it is a support nightmare, I'm saying one of the reasons why I think adoption is so slow - we have software vendors for (more specialty-type stuff) that aren't even bothering to try to start supporting Vista yet, and that mostly because their customer base isn't even really asking them to.
After all this time.
Beldoman
02-23-2008, 08:22 PM
So much haet for Vista in this thread.
And, in truth, when the primary problem with Vista compatibility is that software and hardware developers don't want to actually build their products the way they should have been building them all along ;) I suppose MS is still partly to blame there, for letting them have far too much deep system access for so long that they got used to it...
thatsmystapler
02-23-2008, 08:34 PM
So much haet for Vista in this thread.
And, in truth, when the primary problem with Vista compatibility is that software and hardware developers don't want to actually build their products the way they should have been building them all along ;) I suppose MS is still partly to blame there, for letting them have far too much deep system access for so long that they got used to it...
QFT
Now that's not to say that Vista is without issue. But a lot of the initial problems were on the side of the other manufacturers for failing to update their drivers and whatnot.
Malaclypse
02-23-2008, 08:34 PM
So much haet for Vista in this thread.
And, in truth, when the primary problem with Vista compatibility is that software and hardware developers don't want to actually build their products the way they should have been building them all along ;) I suppose MS is still partly to blame there, for letting them have far too much deep system access for so long that they got used to it...
Heh, as a long-time member of the software developers you mention, I'd put it more like 'for making systems that required it' rather than 'for allowing it'. They dug their own grave there with incestuously coupled systems built solely for the purpose of no-holds-barred anything-goes competition with their perceived competitors. The fact that we all got pretty much railroaded into .NET and VB when pretty much everything out there was stabler and, well, better.... and the fact that they had to go through so many OS and dev environment gyrations and coupling, and modelled their competitive advantages on VB being crowbarred into the OS in back doors?
Definitely their own fault. I'd so much rather be writing in Delphi or something with pre-.NET web services and SOA, or whatever they would have reasonably evolved into by now. But, well, here we are. At least I don't do involved game development and have to deal with the same weirdness in the way they made DirectX competitive.
Plademan
02-23-2008, 09:06 PM
The only (non-easily fixable) problem I've ever had with vista is that I can't play Virtual ON on it.
guyhey
02-23-2008, 09:10 PM
Sweet... all my machines in the house are XP, and I'd hate to have to not only buy NEW parts for my comps to play but also a new OS. Hell no. Lol
I have no problem buying a new OS for a game like this, but VISTA that's a step back I just can't take.