So, I get a brand new computer. I build it, I love it. All my games work. I finally got rid of the constant barrage of security questions and updates. I have all my temperature programs running. All the fans are at speed. Its PERFECT. See TL;DR version below wall of text here:
Except one thing. "But one thing? Not so bad!" Its my favorite game, and the one game I was most excited to play. S.T.A.L.K.E.R does NOT work on Vista. I'm tired of trying to fix it. Stalker reads 1GB of RAM on Vista Its programmed to crap out/it starts crashing into the hard drive when it gets over 1GB. Thing is, I have 2GB. And so do most Vista users. This bug does not happen in XP. So it only reads half my RAM, but the textures are valued to use up to 1.5GB since I have 2GB. Long story short its programmed to use 1.5GB but can't read more then 1.0GB, which results in VIOLENT crashes. And I can't turn the settings up as high as I could, so it ends up looking like it did on my OLD computer. And it still crashes because of other technical problems. And I simply cannot install mods otherwise it crashes no matter what I do.
tl;dr The one thing that doesn't work is my favorite game. ^_^