Graal runs better on Windows 7 than on Vista.
 

I recently installed Windows 7 and the moment that playerlist pops up and you click it, you know something is fixed. For Vista users you're used to an annoying error "beep" sound going off everytime you click anything on the playerlist. That's gone in Windows 7.

On Vista, if you have the Aero theme enabled (where the taskbar, start menu, and windows have a transparency effect, preview mode when you put your mouse over something in the taskbar, etc) your screenshots with alt + 2 will come out blank. On Windows 7 this is fixed, even while using the aero theme.

There are no performance issues, but then again I am running on a high end system so it's hard to tell. I guess Microsoft gave Graal a break this time, ;).

Fixes:
-Annoying beeping sounds when clicking on anything in the playerlist.
-Blank screenshots due to aero theme.

That's one ugly taskbar, man.

I think it's pretty hot, the main problem is that my resolution is tiny (1024x768) so it looks much larger than it should be. The red-ish background is thanks to valentines pluffy. :[

http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...43#post1498343

also, less lag then on vista (duel booted on my laptop)

I had a beta going in a virtual session at work and I found Windows 7 was alot more resource friendly than Vista :)

Wait, do you know the speed of the hard disk (i.e 5400pm or 7200rpm)? Because I recently reformatted my laptop to Vista Enterprise and Graal still doesn't run smooth on it, even though it's specs were on par with my desktop's which ran Graal fine on Vista. I was thinking it has something to do with the hard drive only being 5400rpm but if your laptop also has it then it must be Vista for sure.

Ever since I got Vista, Graal haven't been running smooth at all in D3D - it is however running fluently in OpenGL mode.

Perhaps related?

not sure, how do i look that up? :o

same here, but i can't type normaly in OpenGL, it skips a few letters :\

Have you tried toggling bitmap fonts in the option window?

no, i would go and try RIGHT NOW, but i cant. (guess why :oo:)

'Tis fixed, try again.

ok :o

'Edit: didnt help ;)

Pretty ugly tileset, man. Should go with 'Original' :)

Err... he is using the Original.

It's pretty dumb, the only different between Old and New is the tree's. They need to make a proper Old tileset, that's like the Original but with fixed grass(as that's how the old tileset really was).

Oh.. theres 3 different tilesets I got them mixed up lol.

Well, Graal ran fine on my Vista desktop. -opengl mode runs very choppy.

Right click "Computer" in the start menu, properties, on the top left it should say Device Manager, disk drives, then try posting the model of the disk. Can try to look it up for you. :]

Well graal runs slower on my vista for some reason i tried everything to fix the prob and i just dont know what to do. lol i look up tweaks and stuff on blackviper.com (and nothing works) any ideas? lol i really should make my own thread for this.

I think it's pretty much known Vista and Graal don't get along. Always enable bitmap fonts and if that's not doing anything then I don't know how much you can actually do to fix it. Luckily Windows 7 runs it much better and it is currently free until next March or so...:]

hmm ill have to look into that i might just use my vista computer to burn movies and use my old xp computer to run graal on :)

Graal is terribad on Vista because Vista can't handle all of the text with its RAM-hogging ability.

You could run another game, for instance, World of Warcraft, without a problem, but, Graal just seems to be Vista's kryptonite. :{

yea to tell you the truth the side txt on GK slows me down big time i have to keep typing /clear none stop.
also on Combat Arms it lags me alot unlike xp, xp runs normal with both games. oh well looks like im going back to my good old vista computer. lol. ty all for your help.