Comments on: Geometry Wars for Windows Vista disappoints

By: ilovethemonkeyhead

ilovethemonkeyhead — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:21:18 +0000

you just have a crappy laptop with an intergrated *intel* graphics card. to prove it, i ran geometry wars on my 3 month old windows vista home premium laptop with a pentium dual core t2130, 2 gigs of ddr2 ram and an integrated intel graphics card and got a jittery experience without the blue grid or even the trail from the “ship”. the explosions were rotten, the sparks dissipating after a few milileters and with only a tiny number of them

so i ran the same game on my 3 year old desktop computer with a pentium 4 HT 550 processor, 512MB of ddr ram and an nvidia geforce 6600 graphics card with 256MB of dedicated ram and got all the eye candy and playable frame-rates at up to 4X anti-aliasing. the only problem with both, though is that i can’t change the screen resolution (it looks better in windowed mode anyway)

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:47:56 +0000

Hey, I can’t get those effects on my laptop. I don’t have that blue grid behind with the waves… how do you turn those effects on?
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By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:45:21 +0000

I agree Luna, Echoes is a much better game than Grid Wars 2. It really keeps up with geometry wars for the 360.

By: David Mosian

David Mosian — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:41:01 +0000

I had Grid Wars 2 on my XP box wit the XBox controller, but when I moved to Vista, GW doesn’t see the controller. Pity.

By: Koogle

Koogle — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:57:37 +0000

thanks for the heads up on these games, I didn’t know there were some good pc versions of geometry wars.. just tried grid iron2 with my dual stick gamepad.. don’t think i’ll bother with the vista version, sounds like a punch in the face to microsoft for trying to scam us pc users again..why couldn’t tehy have done a better job than the console version for the pc.. us pc users don’t like shitter versions of the console version. silly billy’s

By: Luna

Luna — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:58:24 +0000

Can I recommend a similar free game called Echoes from binaryzoo.com – in my opinion it’s way better than Grid Wars 2.

Great blog Long, keep up the good work!

By: Matt Sharpe

Matt Sharpe — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:28:34 +0000

I can’t even start the game, it just crashes when I try to load it.
Meh.
Time to try out grid wars…

By: BenN

BenN — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:59:40 +0000

I’ve found it crashes lots as well, but that might be because my WEI is only 3.2 and NVIDIA still haven’t released decent drivers for their graphics cards.

By: Demens

Demens — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:16:38 +0000

After playing it on 360 for countless of hours, i decided to give it a go on vista. At first it seemed horrible, probably becouse of keyboard+mouse combo. Then i plugged in my gamepad, played for a while and got that exact “geometry wars”-feeling i get on the 360.

I’m not buying it though. Already paid for it on 360.
And about gridwars, it’s not as smooth and finished.