CS and Vista Beware!

[Pip Roberts]

New Microsoft platforms always have some limits to their reachback. Thus programmes that ran in W95 do not run in XP and so on.

Some new games need new drivers which could cause problems. After running all 3 CS programmes for some time in XP I loaded a 1.05 gig wargame by Montecristo. This corrupted my East Front 11 games because it needed the installation of Direct X 9. Microsoft themselves have admitted that Direct X 9 and later versions can cause problems with Campaign Series Programmes!!

Thus there may be serious problems when running traditional CS gaames in Vista. Even if they run OK for a while they may crash later following the installation of Direct X9, (or future verions) or other new drivers.

Fortunately Jason and the Matrix crew have made the Matrix disc work in Vista but what about the old CS scenarios? There are over 1,000 of them and many of us will have special favourites.

PROPOSED SOLUTION
Hard drives are now huge and cheap. I partitioned my hard drive into XP and W98. XP runs all the latest programmes while the W98 partition runs all the old favourites.
When I get the Matrix disc I will run it on XP so life will be simple and I won't have any conflicts.