Issues with Vista

[jmet]

Use WINE or Cedega to play WoW in linux ?

While it can work lets not forget to mention that Linux simply just doesn't do gaming without jumping through allot of hoops and presents allot of over head not found elsewhere. And I don't see how suggesting a user move to something so complicated when they are having issues resolving a much easier issue is much of a solution.

It seems your bias against Vista is over riding some common sense in this regard. Vista is fine for gaming regardless of some peoples opinions and while Linux is great and has its uses lets be honest in that gaming is not one of them outside of certain people who are very dedicated and have the time and knowledge to commit to setting up and maintaining such a configuration.

[jmet]

Well i didnt BUY vista so i could use xp...

Synergy works fine under Vista.

[jmet]

*skips over all the unhelpful "my OS is better than yours" crap*

I run five machines at home. When they're running Windows (which is all the time I'm gaming), three of them are XP Pro and two are Vista Home Premium.

I use Multiplicity, which works perfectly across all of them.

I also run an unmodified Multibox.

The only problem I've ever had manifested itself as client connection lag, followed by client disconnect. I wrote about this somewhere else, but ultimately solved it by simply making entries for all machines in the host file for each individual machine.

In short, I have a mixed Windows configuration and haven't had the problems you've had, which isn't a great deal of help other than reassuring you that there's nothing inherently wrong with your setup, despite what people may have you believe.

The big difference is that my SERVER machine runs XP. I only use Vista clients. I couldn't say if the server runs under Vista, but I'll have a play with that when I get home.

Do you have an XP box that you can run the server on?

Exactly, the amount of biased "fanboyish" crap given in this thread is laughable. He asked if anyone knew how to resolve his issues under Vista and instead of not saying anything at all or suggesting he not use Multibox which doesn't work under Vista in my experience and using Synergy instead everyone wants to suggest he forget the money he just spent and go buy what they think he should run instead regardless of how far off point they are being or the even further level of difficulty they are presenting to the user.

Why not just suggest he buy a Mac, it give the stability and security of Linux without spending all of ones time configuring something to run while taking a performance hit due to the overhead... and oh yeah it runs natively.