Sins and Vista?

Sins + Vista = Love?

I recently stumbled upon this game from various gaming websites/forums rabidly raving about how sweet this game is. My only concern, is that about Five-ish months ago I bought a new gaming computer. Unfortunately, I didn't do enough research and am now unhappily stuck with Windows Vista (AKA piece of shista). While things have been getting slightly better due to my use of 3rd party programs like Wlan to stop annoying internet hiccups; most games still have flaws that do not work well on my computer.

Examples:
**TF2 randomly has an error where the driver crashes, but miraculously recovers about a minute later. It's like watching the resurrection! (My drivers are all up to date)
**Universe at War: Randomly crashes when the game starts to get interesting. (Unrelated to number of units, the crash is, completely random.)

My point is this. Both of these games are part of the new cute line of "Games for Windows!" However it is in my honest opinion that the line should read "Games for Windows XP Service Pack 2."

So, developers. I have a Geforce 8500gt graphics card, 4 gigabytes of memory, over 500 GB of disk space and a sincere will to try your game. My question to you is this: Is your game Vista friendly or should I avoid this game too?

Ps. I read you're coming out with a demo soon.. interesting! Perhaps I will wait and see how well that runs on my machine before deciding to purchase. Time-i
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I run Vista Ultimate 64bit with an Athlon64 3200+, 2gb of RAM and a X800pro video card. The game runs just fine for me, no crashes yet. If you're seeing random crashes I would first update all your drivers, scan for viruses/malware and then after that see if you can clear out some running programs.
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Vista Home Premium 32 bit, 4 gig ram, 8800GTX. No issues at all.
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Running vista home premium 64bit, with 2 gigs of ram and 8800GTS 640. Not a problem at all. Smooth as butter.
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Vista Ultimate 32 Bit 4GB ram 8800 GTS Absolutly no problems
Reply #5 Top
I had some issues with Sins and continuous random crashes at specific times. Last night I was able to install the Vista Service Pack 1 (avail. for MSDN subscribers only atm) and it fixed all my issues.
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Dell XPS M1710 (cual core / nv7950gtx) laptop, 4gig ram, Vista ultimate, no problems so far.
Reply #8 Top
Runs perfectly for me (even though I agree that Vista blows).
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Vista ultimate 32 bit with 8600M GT GFX. No problems.
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Ive got random crashes . Vista 32bit 2gb ram GeForce 8600gts.

Made sure i had at least 1 gb ram free on vista as recommended but boom . It crahes. More now than before.
Reply #12 Top
You guys should upgrade to XP.
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You guys should upgrade to XP.
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LOL yuh. Ooop hang on 11 pending updates for Vista....oooo maybe i should. lol
Reply #15 Top
It runs fine on my Vista laptop.
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Why?
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why not? Best to keep up to date isnt it? Maybe thats why the stinking game keeps crashing. Even in single player.
Reply #17 Top
Compaq with an AMD 4200+, 1gig of generic ram and a Gforce8800 GT running Vista home Prem. No issues or crashes with graphics maxed out. Vista really isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, although it does run a bit slower than XP with the same setup. *shrug*

Reply #18 Top
It wont be for ever guys. Vista will get there. Xp took long enough to get where it is right now.
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Vista 32bit, GeForce FX7900 (512mb) - The game runs fine, apart from when I zoom in on battle - in which case it'll randomly freeze for about a minute, then recover

"Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

Then it'll carry on, up to date drivers - no other issues anywhere else...
Reply #20 Top
Holy crud it crashed again. Happens like every game now. Some dude had 3000 ping so i commented on this and Vista went PING! Then i swore really loud and it shut down Sins with some error message reading Minidump: balah blah blah.

Man this just isnt fair.
Reply #21 Top
Vista64
4G RAM
8800GTX

Cannot play the game on highest settings because of repeated crashes. Put the game on high settings and I get very few crashes (still some, but not that often).
Reply #22 Top
No issues with Vista 32bit and an 8800GTX. This is a computer which crashes out of a lot of games (eg Forged Alliance, Crysis), often because of an overheated GPU (increasing fan speed to 100% helps). Sins has been rock solid.
Reply #23 Top
i have vista premium 32bit 2GB 8800GTS and have random crashes, but i know its my mainboard driver but i must wait on SP1 cause the manufacturer said "with sp1 it works fine, so we dont make a new driver atm" so i must wait.. but the crashes are only in the first 20min of a game.. if 20 min are gone i can play without any problems o_o.. so i wait a bit to get sp1..

and vista is a nice os, and it's not the fault from MS if some hardware producing ppl dont make the right drivers o_o
(and sorry for some gramatical or spell mistake... it's not my main language XD)
Reply #24 Top
for people with display driver problems look in the technical for help i had same problem and found older drivers that work perfectly (97.something) the mini dumps is a multiplayer problem NOT vista i have seen people with various systems XP and vista, otherwise game runs perfectly on vista
Reply #25 Top
Your problem is probably related to a driver issue with your peripherals than vista itself. I'm running Vista business Edition and I play sins without a single crash so far.

Make sure you download the latest drivers for vista for your different peripherals and this should really help the stability of the game.