Comments on: Do Microsoft Game Studios not trust the Windows API? http://hastalavistavista.com/2007/08/22/do-microsoft-game-studios-not-trust-the-windows-api/ Vista is on trial and my XP install disk is within easy reach Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dennis Wright http://hastalavistavista.com/2007/08/22/do-microsoft-game-studios-not-trust-the-windows-api/#comment-418 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:49:26 +0000 http://hastalavistavista.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/do-microsoft-games-studios-not-trust-the-windows-api/#comment-418 Just as a postscript, Jonny tells me CFS3 is a fairly old game that ran fine at maximum realism etc on the old onboard graphics chip. Doh!

Still, he has much newer games that were beyond the onboard chip but now run properly.

]]> By: Does Microsoft Game Studios not trust the Windows API? « VistaSucks.WordPress.Com http://hastalavistavista.com/2007/08/22/do-microsoft-game-studios-not-trust-the-windows-api/#comment-390 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:19:24 +0000 http://hastalavistavista.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/do-microsoft-games-studios-not-trust-the-windows-api/#comment-390 [...] Does Microsoft Game Studios not trust the Windows API? Microsoft Game Studios‘ Combat Flight Simulator 3 (CFS3) does not in general run properly on dual core computers running XP or Vista. The reason appears to be that the code by-passes the functionality in the Windows Application Programming Interface (API) for sharing out processing tasks between CPUs. In my case it was a little known AMD utility that saved the day. Read more. [...]

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