[BadVista Advocate] A game on Vista

[Jacob Maynard]

I decided to earn my pay, yesterday. I sat down to play "Pocket Tanks." It
is installed on the computer at work with Vista. If anyone here has played
"Pocket Tanks" before, they know it's not the most graphic-intensive game
made. For those of you who haven't played it, it's much like "Artillery"
and the old "Gorilla" game in QBasic, except that this has different
weapons.

On an XP machine, this game runs fine. Machine requirements are 233 MHz
CPU, DirectX3, and a card that supports 32 bit color. Very low
requirements. However, in the menus, the system is slow as can be on a HT
3.2 GHz, ATI X300/550 Vista machine. It almost stops showing the
animations, and in truth, it would be better because the animations are so
choppy. The mouse reaction slows while in the game.

Freecell has been upgraded to actually DEAL the cards and give you
tool-tips. Otherwise, there is no big difference.

Maybe I'll play Solitare for you all today.

Jacob