NEWS: GameEx 7.53 Released

[Tom Speirs]

3rd February, 2007 - GameEx 7.53

Fixes and compatibility updates for Windows Vista and 64 bit versions of Windows

Should now run out the box on Vista

The Setup and applications have been digitally signed.

Ben Baker's Setup Wizard 1.74

Fixes picture and slideshow transitions with latest ATI video drivers and on Vista.

Asta La Vista.

[Nologic]

Thanks for the update...even tho I'm not doing Vista.

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for the update...even tho I'm not doing Vista.

I installed it yesterday, and spent the whole time since getting GameEx to work with it, other than that useless pile of crap to me

[Tom Speirs]

I installed it yesterday, and spent the whole time since getting GameEx to work with it, other than that useless pile of crap to me

Seriously though it seems to me its just a big spin, bells and whistles marketing exercise. Although its probably a great revolution if your retarded and just bought your first computer. To me it just slows me down... A lot...

Edit: The Aero interface although it serves no productivity purpose is actually quite theraputic though, deffinitly chills you out a bit.

FFDSHOW works with it. MAME seems to work fine. Still a few minor glitches with GameEx to sort out, HTML apps arnt working right, and I've not got round to checking out the multimedia stuff yet.

[Nologic]

Yeah its nothing but a new coat of paint. I won't go into bashing it...but if I do update my OS post WinXP...it'll likely be Linux. Which I'm not a huge fan of...but its getting better and windows seems to be getting worse.

[Tom Speirs]

Yeah its nothing but a new coat of paint. I won't go into bashing it...but if I do update my OS post WinXP...it'll likely be Linux. Which I'm not a huge fan of...but its getting better and windows seems to be getting worse.

I would still choose it over Linux. I wouldn't say its a step backward, if you spend a day configuring it to remove all the (treat my like an idiot stuff) its probably better. But certainly not value for money considering Microsoft have cut possible piracy dead.

[Nologic]

Well from some of the bench marks I've seen over at Tom's Hardware...performance wise it dogs out in some area's badly and generally is slightly slower than XP.

I like the looks of it...but past that I see every thing going the other way. Hell XP in a lot of ways is a step back from Win2k.

Really unless PC hardware forces me to upgrade to vista...I won't be going if I can at all help it.

[headkaze]

I've been reading alot of bad things about Vista, with DRM etc. trying to dictate to the user on how they can use their own media. It's getting out of control. I always thought the Window's logo looked suspiciously like a swastika but now Vista has finally made me realise it's not a joke. Ubuntu is looking very sexy all of a sudden. Apart from all the hidious paranoid security and fisher price treat you like a do do head features, and Trusted Computing features (they don't trust you by default) it's nothing more than a really nice skin for XP with a giant esoteric lock around it. It's mud, very shiny and good looking mud, but it's still mud. Try walking through mud quickly, you don't get anywere.

Anyway, Mame works in Vista because Aaron got it working on his new Vista box. So it wasn't just a nice coincidence

[Nologic]

LOL

[Will]

Where I come from they refer to Vista as "putting lipstick on the pig" and that seems about right to me. There are MANY ways it could have been a revolution, but they scaled it back to an evolution. The things they have done towards (not there yet) security are commendable, but still needs some tweaking. My guess is SP1 Vista will be pretty darn awesome. Being able to run in limited user mode is way more significant than people realize--and as soon as most software is written to allow this, things will be much better for Windows. I think if they would spend some time appealing to the hardcore folks like myself by making things more configurable I'd switch from GNU/Linux. I'd like to see native Unix environment support, a better shell, a more simple interface to turn on/off features and USELESS processes, and for everyone's sake, native support for other filesystems like ext2/3, xfs, and zfs. All that and they'd have me! For now I use Ubuntu 99% of the time and LOVE it. I haven't found anything that it doesn't do that I can't live happily without. Not to mention the fact that the whole system feels much more responsive on my Core2 Duo laptop in Linux than Windows. LONG LIVE LINUX!!!!

[Nologic]

"limited user mode" doesn't that just mean not automatically granting new user accounts admin rights? Hehe

You can lock down users fairly tight in windows...the problem is...you have to lock them down. Most people have no clue how to do that...or that they should.

I typically run with admin rights...but when kids are over I let them game on a locked down account...can't save files...cant download files...hell can't even use the internet...they can only execute what is visible to tha account...which isn't much.