Vista and CSS

To save much time and effort, the following strategies are advised if you have problems with Vista and running CSS.



1. Downgrade to Windows XP. If your computer is good enough to run Vista, it will be good enough to run XP.

2. Buy a seperate gaming computer.

3. Ask here if you think that it is not Vista that is causing the problem. (eg. Lag issues e.t.c.)

4. Finally, try typing the error message in Google and looking for results.



Thanks!



EDIT: If you have vista and you want to
know if your issues are related to vista it's self please check the
following Recommended specs sticky: [ندعوك للتسجيل في المنتدى أو التعريف بنفسك لمعاينة هذا الرابط]



If your specs are far above the RECOMMENDED specs in ALL categories then your issue is not related to vista.

Here are a few things to watch out for when running vista and gaming

1. low amount of ram 1gb may seem like alot but vista OS uses an entire
GB of ram just to run itself with no other programs running. XP only
uses about 500MB of ram.

2. Shared video memory. This is by far the worst. If your video card has
a decent amount of DEDICATED ram such as 256MB and lower and your
shared video memory is about the same amount of higher than you will
have issues. The cause is shared video memory uses system RAM to
allocate more video ram to the game. CSS by default will use ALL of your
video ram to run itself. Newer DX10 games are much more compatible.

3. Drivers for older video cards. Your awesome PC may run fine on XP,
due to differences in driver builds a vista driver may not use your
video card or other devices as well as an XP driver would for the XP OS.


4. Vista by default has more overhead and more resource usage than XP.
It also is a DX10 OS. This means older games such as CSS will not run as
well as a DX 9 lvl OS like XP.



If you feel that your machine should run fine on Vista than please post
your dxdiag and your issue in the following forum and ask for help.



Thanks, AfterHoursGaming