I see peoples problem with Vista ..

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Well back on XP for now, I've been using Vista stable for around 5 days now and tonight it just decides to mess me around. USB stopped working, I rebooted just thinking Windows was being Windows but after 3 reboots and 3 attempts at playing Call of Duty 4 I just gave up.

Basically I was going into the game and playing for around 3 minutes then the screen would just go black, the sound in the background was still going but the screen went black. No 'driver has stopped responding' just a black screen and reboot of your own accord please. I have done nothing different than usual, installed nothing extra and it just decides to do this.

On XP now it's all normal. I just played CoD4 for a good 45 minutes with no problems. Obviously I might be overreacting a little here but I've got to say I'm not impressed at the moment after Vista was working so well for me.

Have any of you had similar experiences?
 
I bought vista 64bit on day of release and have had no problems since installation.

My guessi s there is something wrong with your hardware
 
I've run COD 4 with vista 64 with no problems, it did not like the graphics driver to start with and kept blacking out, updated to a vista x64 driver and no probs.
 
Vista x64 version, 169.38 x64 drivers. It had been working fine up until now, Vista doesn't seem to want to play with my external drive either. It's all coming out of the wood work now ..
 
Your overclocked may be down to the problem of a 64 bit OS being unstable.
If you had 32bit vista then that would be another matter.
 
Ross1234 said:
Those things all work fine for me.
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What a useless comment....

Welcome to the 'Ive tried Vista, it broke, im back on XP, it works' club. Theres badges and t shirts, please leave your name and address with the receptionist and go through to the drawing room...
 
Skeeter said:
What a useless comment....

Welcome to the 'Ive tried Vista, it broke, im back on XP, it works' club. Theres badges and t shirts, please leave your name and address with the receptionist and go through to the drawing room...
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and just why is that a useless comment? :confused: All those things do work perfectly fine. The op asked a question and ross answered it.
 
Vista x32 was mostly fine out of the box for me. During it's release there were quite a few buggy device drivers floating around, which hampered it's robustness. However with it updating itself overnight on a regular basis that all changed. It is as fast if not faster than XP could be on this machine. The only flaw is the famous file copy/calculating issue.
 
Vista 64 has worked fine for me ever since i dumped my xi-fi card and went back to on-board sound.
 
Rackerz said:
Have any of you had similar experiences?
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That happens to me in FIFA 07 (on Vista 32bit). Cause of problem, & you won't believe this, was Power Options, 'Turn off the display' time! Setting it to never seems to have sorted the problem out.

FYI only get this problem with FIFA 07 & no other game, so put the problem down to it :mad:
 
I'm using Vista x64 with no problems including an X-Fi fatality card.

The key is to have up-to-date hardware with update-to-date firmware and BIOS's that fully support Vista.

Its no good saying "It works fine with XP". XP came out 6-7 years ago and the hardware designed for that OS is not necesarily modern enough to run as well with Vista, which takes advantage of more modern hardware.

I often think this is MS's failing really. In trying to please everyone they make their OS's run on too greater a range of hardware. If they did what Mac did and design their OS's for a certain breed of hardware it would really solve a lot of problems.
 
Skeeter said:
What a useless comment....

Welcome to the 'Ive tried Vista, it broke, im back on XP, it works' club. Theres badges and t shirts, please leave your name and address with the receptionist and go through to the drawing room...
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Obviously its either PEBKAC or hardware issue,my current Vista x64 games list(all working fine including some beta games).

BG+exp pack
BG2+exp pack
Icewind Dale
Icewind Dale 2
Master of Orion 3
Stalker
KOTOR
KOTOR2
UFO-Afterlight
Morrowind+exp packs
Oblivion + Shivering Isles
Spellforce 2 Gold with Starforce drivers(even Starforce can't put a dent in my Vista x64 stability ).
Space Rangers 2
Prey
UT2004
Hellgate London
Two Worlds
Painkiller Overdose
Sid Meier's Pirates
Steam games(CS,DoD,TFC etc..)
Bioshock
Might & Magic 8
WoW+exp pack
Silverfall
Mythos(beta online game)
Jericho
UFO-Extraterrestrials
Jedi Academy
Jedi Outcast
Starcraft + Brood wars
SWG
DarknLight
LOTRO
Vanguard
9 Dragons
Archlord
Deus EX
Deus EX 2
Dungeon Runners
Jade Empire
The Witcher (uses TAGES drivers)
XCOM-Enforcer
UFO-Alien Invasion
NWN + all exp packs
NWN2 + MoB
NFSU2
SpaceForce Rogue Universe

I'll make one very useful comment ,my 7800GT OC(factory overclocked card) would randomly freeze in some games with XP and Vista x64( I had to reduce my factory overclock by 10mhz to get it 100% stable in XP and Vista x64,took me ages to figure out the problem when I was only using XP at the time).

One more point some games like to have latest DX9.0C version, yes DX9.0C even in Vista,you can get that via Microsoft(for all versions of Windows including Vista) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en

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i bet you had the same problem as me, my USB devices randomly stopped working, i had to press F8 on boot and select "disable driver signiture enforcement" for them too work

SP1 has fixed that though :) so come on back
 
mrbios said:
i bet you had the same problem as me, my USB devices randomly stopped working, i had to press F8 on boot and select "disable driver signiture enforcement" for them too work

SP1 has fixed that though :) so come on back
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Sounds like dodgy drivers, which hardware and drivers are you using? I have never had a problem with USB in Vista. Been running it for nigh on 13 months now.
 
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