Vindows Wista

hey everybody
couple of months ago i posted about how windows vista isn't horrible
it's just mediocre.

anyway, i figured i'd update you all on my story

so i went to my buddy's house and we decided to play garrys mod, lucky me my raptop can play garrys mod so we went ahead and started playing

and then anything like fire, or anything involving particles, crashed my game (laptop fine, os fine, just garrys closes). so I decided that night that I would put Xindows WP on it.

"Why would you do that?" you may be asking.
Well the reason why my game was crashing was because my computer uses shared memory for the video card. And with two gigabytes of ram, you think that'd be pretty good, right?
well it was fairly good, but not good enough for me.
so I decided if I put windows xp on it, it would get rid of some of the overhead (read: memory guzzling) from Vista (it's just that windows wants to USE the hardware new computers have.. I would be elated if they realized that the reason we update hardware isn't because of the operating system but because of OTHER programs), and then my games would run fine.

and then I hit a couple of snags.
first, Toshiba didn't relase XP drivers for my laptop. So thanks to the internet I got the correct drivers.
Notebook Review Forums

But if you follow the link, you can tell that it was quite a journey.
Anyway, I finally got all the drivers for the machine to discover that
intel hasn't found a resolution for this problem.

so anyway, i was a determined sob. I want to play garrys mod and I want it to farking work on my goddamn laptop.

anyway, I decided I'd force the app into windowed mode and it works.
Why does it work? I have no fucking clue.

But for those of you out there with an intel 945 or other crappy onboard video card, trying to play a source game with the orange bawks engine, force it into windowed mode.
here's the code to put in the options
-startwindowed / -sw / -windowed / -window / -win use the Window display mode (game appears as a window on the desktop)


and now it works fantastically.
well here's to you system, I completely beat you this time.
Ian 500 x Internet infinity