tried vista yet?

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:30 am

i bought vista along with my new rig, since oem edition is so much cheaper, and i was pleasantly surprised. have you tried it yet? what do you think?

Reznorock · Post by **Reznorock** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:47 am

Ive seen pics of vista , it looks great but from what I understand only a few million people(if that) have purchased it and mostly people seem to be downgrading to win 98 and such for performance reasons.

I really would love to run vista but it's a hog, every version of windows that comes out gets worse and worse. to be perfectly honest I think most people would rather just run win 98 or maybe xp and just get a different desktop shell to make it look nicer.

I'll get vista when someone buys me a copy and gives me a monster comp to run it.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:57 am

I've been using vista since before it was officially released (through quasi official channels, even) and it runs no slower than XP ever does. It even keeps from bogging down for longer.

I enjoy it very much, going back to XP would significantly hamper my productivity.

The only real problem I have is a few compatibility issues, with games especially. They are nearly never totally shot though, with the exception of Darwinia, which has had a vista specific patch released so it's a non-issue.

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:56 am

it runs pretty fast for me too, but i have'nt tried XP on this computer, so i can't really compare. it does use a lot of RAM, but i guess that's just because it loads my frequently used programs into any unused memory. my bf has a laptop with just 512MB, and it runs just fine, i don't know how.

i've had no compatibility problems with applications except for one slight problem with oblivious (when i exit the game, vista tells me an error occured and the game had to close :wtf:).

i was quite impressed the first time i booted it up and found that allmost all my drivers had been installed automatically, behind the scenes. i had to disable all the new security stuff, though, it was just too dang annoying. i love the new games explorer, and it found all my games except for stalker.

i would still use win 98 if it was practical, though. allthough performance is great, i just know that games and heavy applications would run faster if windows was slimmer. unfortunately, microsoft expects gamers to just buy an xbox, and so they don't care that much about performance on the computer as long as it looks good.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:38 pm

I had it quite a while ago, thought it was trash. Never looked at it since.

MadBill · Post by **MadBill** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:18 pm

So far my only issue is that "SuperFetch" precaches media.
Programs, fine and great... Media: what the fucking fuck?

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:37 pm

My brand spanking new laptop had vista on it when I bought a short while ago - I played with it for a day or two, then uninstalled it and got meself xp instead and use stylexp to alter the skin every once in a while, so it looks pretty and neat.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:57 pm

is there some way to trim down a version of windows and remove all the useless ms software and make it barebones?

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:11 pm

nlite for XP, flower

Also I'm sorry if i called you guys jews, I promise not to do it again ( at least not in GD) and i fully understand that the mods have no choice but to delete posts that include racial slurs.

johnnygothisgun · Post by **johnnygothisgun** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:14 pm

whats nlite, dont leave me hanging you nig

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:17 pm

google it yourself

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:37 pm

I havn't read through the thread but my experience with visto so far is that:
I tried a brand new laptop with vista on board (just windows bootup, some solitaire and wordpad - showing an old pal how to use the thing)
- it ran like shite. I thought windows took as long to start as if it were a 600MHz machnie with Win XP and a big messy registry. And this system didn't even have office installed, no applications games no nothing. Something elese annoyed me too during the try-out but can't remember what.
So all in all, I thought 'great, just another 'gotta buy new windawz gotta buy new powerful rig deal' for everyone who's forced to play with DX10

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:40 pm

PiP wrote:Something elese annoyed me too during the try-out but can't remember what.

Enlightening

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:46 pm

Never tried Vista, hope that helps

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:52 pm

Inin · Post by **Inin** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:34 am

O...G...M...?

Mechanurgist · Post by **Mechanurgist** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:45 am

I read all the detailed specs on Ars and I see no conceivable reason to upgrade, especially given the numerous driver issues I've heard about. I'll get it when I get a new box in a year or two.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:01 am

I don't see the benefit of buying now either as most of the stuff I don't need except maybe DX10 but I won't need that for quite awhile. I might get it when I get a new box but that will probably be awhile off.

Prove me wrong maybe?

popscythe · Post by **popscythe** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 3:07 am

POOPERSCOOPER wrote:I don't see the benefit of buying now either as most of the stuff I don't need except maybe DX10 but I won't need that for quite awhile. I might get it when I get a new box but that will probably be awhile off.

Prove me wrong maybe?

Bot livesearch and get a free vista ultimate... soon.

Problem solved.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:50 am

Inin wrote:O...G...M...?

What?

Other Guy's Money?

Or do you mean "OEM" ?

"Original Equipment Manufacturer".

You get special wholesale package deals from those.

Then they rip you off on spare parts/etc.