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    Couple of questions about gaming on Vista

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ravenmorpheus, Jan 1, 2008.

  1. ravenmorpheus

    ravenmorpheus Notebook Deity

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    Hi there

    This is probably in the wrong place so please move if needed and I apologise if it is in the wrong place, wasn't sure where to post :)

    I had to do a fresh install of vista the other day and I made a backup of the registry entries for my games but they aren't appearing in the programs and features list (add remove programs in XP) despite the registry entries being there after I put them back, is there anyway to get the games to appear on the programs and features list again?

    Also as an aside I've got an Acer Aspire 9300 with an nVidia Geforce Go 6100 GPU, currently it has 2 gb of RAM (1.7gb as shown vista) so my question is this, currently I am playing Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts but I have to have the graphics on the lowest settings, same goes for TES 4 Oblivion - so will putting extra RAM in (I have the slots available for 2gb extra) help improve the situation in terms of speed and being able to up the graphical qualities?

    Thanks in advance for any help/advice :)
     
    ravenmorpheus, Jan 1, 2008
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  2. davey

    davey Notebook Guru

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    Sorry but an extra 2gigs of ram will do very little in any change to the graphical situation you're in. The 6100 isn't powerful enough to run this games at anything about the lowest settings as the card was a low power model and is over 3 years old (i think)! To run those games you really need to upgrade...i.e a new laptop and you won't be able to upgrade the card in a laptop. Vista won't even read 4gigs of ram anyway unless you have the 64bit version.

    Dave
     
    davey, Jan 1, 2008
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