Help. I am tempted to goto Vista I have a nice Legit copy of Ultimate 32bit, sat on my desk, I used to run Vista but with my old AMD x2 4600 and 3GB DD400 I struggled to get the same FPS in my BF2142 and COD4 gaming. Now I am due a 8800GTS soon... I have a Q6600 with 4GB DDR2 800mhz Corsair XMS2, and that disk is looming at me... I know Vista has more bugs, I know my X-Fi card requires unofficial drivers to give me full performance, but somehow I don't care Am I insane
Yes, Yes you are. Regardless of the more ridiculous bugs Vista still has even in SP1 I'll be staying with XP because when I buy new hardware I expect it to go faster than the old stuff and not just to support the huge overhead of a new operating system.
no you aren't insane. I don't mind Vista and will probably be aquiring a copy when SP1 is out. I don't really have any gripes with it, how many things (as complicated as an OS) work flawlessly out of the box? Like you said, there is a work around to the problem in hand. We all know the hailed Linux has driver issues yet people don't tend to complain.
What bugs? Care to enlighten us? As for FPS slow-down in games, this has proved to be in the single-frame numbers. I doubt that you'd know the difference.
Well it comes like this. I am getting a DX10 card DX10 is not on XP won't be and never shall be i believe. I am also buying Crysis soon, since they've patched out some bugs now which bugged me * regrets trading it in * So see you soon guys And yeah I am insane... I have to be.. I own a pc.
Vista on a good PC runs great, really. When installed on an old pc, it gets super annoying because the pc can't handle Aero and it's animations. However this is not your case so I don't see why you shouldn't upgrade (yes, it's an upgrade) It takes some times getting use to, especially around the Control Panel, but it's okay Oh and it somehow saves lots of power. Yesterday I was at my college's library and my laptop still had 50% left after roughly 3 hours of running... I just couldn't believe it. Thinking back it doesn't make sens but that's still what happened. I was there from 2pm to 5pm with the laptop running, connected to the college's wireless, doing my thing
AFAIK most of the really serious bugs are sorted out now. There will always be some bugs in software. I have run vista since release and I find it superior to XP in most aspects. The only thing I find harder to use is the customization menu for skins and display settings simply because they stopped using tabs on this in Vista. Other than that Vista works better in general. Most problems come from bad drivers, but this is being sorted or have been sorted. My X-Fi runs just fine under Vista. Audigy, however do not. Some older games could have some sound related problems, but Creative ALchemy should take care of this. ALchemy is software that comes with X-Fi cards. I haven't tried it myself, though.
I have Vista ultimate on my computer, works great, all my hardware runs just fine, there has been one problem, my 6 year old logitech joystick lacked drivers, but that's 6 year old hardware. go for it.
Run it. Virtually all bugs have been eradicated and the thing is faster, more stable and far more secure than Windows XP was and is. Gaming has been improved with (at most) a 10 FPS deficiency.
Vista Ultimate 64-bit here and it is amazing! Far better then XP. I would even go with 64-bit if I was you (yes I know, you have Vista 32-bit)... If you have any Windows Vista 64-bit disk, whatever edition, I suggest to use that disk as install disk. Upon inserting your Ultimate 32-bit OEM edition cd-key, you can install Vista Ultimate 64-bit and activate it without any issue. (This is possible, as all edition OEM and RETAIL are all the same disk, the serial key selected the OS edition to be installed. If you don't have access to a Vista 64-bit disk, no mater, Vista 32-bi is still very good. Just keep in mind if you would like a little system and program boost, and support 64-bit applications you can do the switch, without purchasing a new Vista. I suggest to disable UAC when you are installing your applications, driver, and updating windows with all the update for the first time, and clean the Start menu. Once done, then enable UAC (don't worry, Windows WILL remind you to enable it). If you use the latest version of your software you should not have any UAC prompts. (only for system programs like ccleaner type of program and disk defragmentation programs)
I run Vista 64-bit at work and I leave UAC on. Works fine for me and I don't mind the occasional prompt to update software.
It's possible to disable UAC prompting for administrators but leave it on for other users. My problem with Vista is I have the well-known 'nvlddmkm.sys' bug; maybe one boot in five the dreaded BSOD appears at the end of boot, push reset and try again. Then no problems till the gamble of next boot. MS blame nVidia, nVidia blame Vista. A million cures, mostly illogical, none guaranteed. I was looking at the current price of XP last night... Vista may be more secure, but I never had a security problem in XP. I've seen more BSODs in a month of Vista than in a year of 98SE. Not a happy bunny.
