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Hello. I have recently had to replace my pc as it is getting way too old and starting to have serious problems. The new pc I ordered comes with Vista Home Premium. I was wondering if anyone had any little tricks or some advice on how to swap from Xp to Vista with as little trouble as possible.

I need to download a different version of PoL than the one that comes on the vana'diel collection yea? From the playonline website?

I would really like to be able to transfer all of my macros to my new pc without having to rewrite them, and I would rather not store them in pol, if possible. Could anyone tell me what the file name is that holds your macros and where it can be located?

If anyone could provide any other advice I would appreciate it, my pc gets here today and I would like to try and have it up and running as soon as possible with ffxi, I have dynamis tonight :) Thank you

#2 Apr 16 2008 at 8:50 AM Rating: Decent

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Ignore me.

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#3 Apr 16 2008 at 1:31 PM Rating: Decent

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Goodknightdrg wrote:

I need to download a different version of PoL than the one that comes on the vana'diel collection yea? From the playonline website?

Yes http://www.playonline.com/homeus/headline/news01.html should help. After downloading pol make sure you install the expansions. Simply putting the disc might not load the install program you need. You have to manually get the install program to work by going to My computer goto where the disc is located and opening it up and locating the INSTLL folder.

#4 Apr 16 2008 at 5:02 PM Rating: Default

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The new pc I ordered comes with Vista Home Premium.

Don't. Not joking. Insist they install XP instead.

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#5 Apr 16 2008 at 5:12 PM Rating: Decent

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Unfortunately it's too late for that. I still have XP SP2 on my old pc, is there any possible way I could transfer that OS over to my new pc? Probably not but I guess it doesn't hurt to ask.

#6 Apr 16 2008 at 5:16 PM Rating: Default

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is there any possible way I could transfer that OS over to my new pc?

If you have an install disk that isn't a "recovery" disk, you could. If not, it's not a disaster, but there still isn't any particular reason to run Vista.

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#7 Apr 17 2008 at 12:30 PM Rating: Decent

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Well, I got the pc, installed PoL and ffxi just fine, but I'm having a problem with the video card that was included in the system. It came with a GeForce 8600 GT. Every so often I'll get an error message on Vista, "Display Driver stopped responding, but it now working properly". Sometimes it will go back to normal after the message (but still mess up again in short time), and sometimes it just causes the whole pc to freeze up and need to be restarted.

I've installed the driver for the card that came with the bundled software, and also have tried the newest driver from Nvidia's website, but the same thing still happens.

Anyone possibly know what is up with this? I'm on Vista Premuim 32 bit, AMD Athalon X2 6400+ 3.2 Ghzs dual core processor.

Everything else on the machine seems to be running very good, I hope I can figure this out soon ;\

#8 Apr 17 2008 at 8:03 PM Rating: Good

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Heh, that sounds like just a wee bit better than my new system from February :)

Nvidia and Vista and FFXI have arguments all the time. Nvidia has a special FFXI drive to address the problem, but I think that the 8800 might be one of the cards it doesn't work for.

. . . . aaaaand I've since lost the bookmark, since I did the sensible thing and found and XP OEM and downgraded myself to XP from Vista. (Vista, for me, lagged when running notepad. NOTEPAD. I think an IRQ was misconfigured or something but that absolutely shouldn't happen on an OS these days so I dunno wtf was wrong with it. I'm just happy to have XP again.)

#9 Apr 18 2008 at 2:40 AM Rating: Decent

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Well, it turns out just the video card is malfunctioning, its not doing anything graphically intensive at all. I popped in my old pos Raedon X1300 and it operated everything fine, although very slowly lol. So I'll have to return the 8600 gt to the manufacturer. I'm going to ask them if I can pay the difference and get a card better than the 8600gt, I've read some bad reviews on its performance.

Could anyone possibly suggest a good video card for me? This is one area I do not know much about as far as pc's go. What I am looking for specifically is something that can handle the newest games with ease, but just as important, run and older game like ffxi without a hitch. I would say an reasonable price range would be $200-$300, as long is it will in fact play new games nicely and it will last for a while.

I am also considering the option of maybe getting an oem XP and "downgrading". I myself so far haven't seen any major problems with vista, but then again due to my graphics card failure, I haven't been able to test FFXI or any other games out on it yet. If I purchase an oem from say Newegg, can I use my validation code from my old pc?

Thank you !

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I believe you can use the reciept as validation.

I'm a Radeon fan myself, and since I installed a Radeon HD 2600 on my system my computer has run as smooth as silk. It handles FFXI at high, oversampled resolutions without much effort. Also, the benefit of a Radeon is that if you choose to stay with Vista, it doesn't have nearly as many FFXI+Vista+video card arguments. Even before I downgraded myself, adding in a Radeon card was a huge improvement over the Nvidia card. That said, some people just like Nvidia better, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Here's the link I lost before, I think: It reviews the video cards that the new Nvidia FFXI driver is compatible with, and gives the link to the driver itself at the bottom.

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10;mid=120674217018156389

Edited, Apr 18th 2008 10:19am by catwho

#11 Apr 22 2008 at 1:35 PM Rating: Decent

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I've been using Vista home premium for 5 months with only 1 crash on 2 PC's and my wife plays MMo's most of the day.

I don't do any programming or geeky stuff, just browse, play WoW and download music on occasion.

I did however buy a decent gaming PC from a specialist Company that actually gives a toss about it's customers unlike Dell/HP it's amazing the difference what a bit of system TLC makes.

I have G Force 8800GT Graphics card and no issues with them at all.