Vista - Re: The best Vista Edition for the Computer Games

The OS is the same, just different features. You will be able to play
games the same way on all flavors. Shouldn't have an impact on frame
rates or visual quality (except for maybe memory usage on the higher
quality OS versions).

Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com



MaRo wrote:
> I want to buy a new Vista but I don't know which edition I should get. Is the
> Ultimate Vista 32bit compatible with all computer games? I'm able to pay more
> for Ultimate and "get it all" than buy a Home Premium edition, as long as all
> computer games will work with the ultimate

Pretty much the only difference that matters is that the shorcut to Game
Explorer on Business/Enterprise from Start/Games is not there. You have to
go to Start/All Programs/Accessories/Games to find it. Parental Controls is
disabled by default when you join to a domain, which only
Business/Enterprise/Ultimate can do.

That said, game developers will mostly be testing on CONSUMER versions of
Windows Vista: Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate. BUSINESS versions will
work, but may well run into issues due to locked-down security settings,
lack of administrator rights, etc.

--
Chuck Walbourn
SDE, Game Technology Group

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Chuck Walbourn [MSFT]" wrote:

> Pretty much the only difference that matters is that the shorcut to Game
> Explorer on Business/Enterprise from Start/Games is not there. You have to
> go to Start/All Programs/Accessories/Games to find it. Parental Controls is
> disabled by default when you join to a domain, which only
> Business/Enterprise/Ultimate can do.
>
> That said, game developers will mostly be testing on CONSUMER versions of
> Windows Vista: Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate. BUSINESS versions will
> work, but may well run into issues due to locked-down security settings,
> lack of administrator rights, etc.
>
> --
> Chuck Walbourn
> SDE, Game Technology Group
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>
>