Have you installed those performance and compatability/reliability packs? apparently they improve performance across the board but I havent noticed much difference, infact might of been better before I installed them.
IS VISTA up to scratch yet for games?
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Have you installed those performance and compatability/reliability packs? apparently they improve performance across the board but I havent noticed much difference, infact might of been better before I installed them.
Yes i have but i am always changing the settings on my games and changing resolotion on my monitor that being honest its been changing that i havnt been able to compare them. I am more than happy with Vista's speed at the moment and im only running a good mid range pc.
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For people who have issues with Vista, the main causes seem to be:
1) User Ignorance
2) Operator Error
3) Lack of 3rd party drivers for some (usually old) hardware
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x) Actual 'defect' in Vista that needs sorting
The one problem I've had with Vista so far that I think could actually be considered as an proper O/S defect is very slow copying of file over my network (this seems to have been reported by quite a few people).
Vista is easily as good as XP in all but a very few specific cases.
There's no way I would suggest that everyone who already has XP should be looking to upgrade immediately, as Vista isn't that different to XP. But if you've built a new machine and need to buy an O/S, then IMO there's very few reasons not to chose Vista now.
Vista is just as stable as XP for me. I've had zero lockups/crashes in the few weeks that I've been using it as my main PC. In XP I only had a few crashes/lockups (over about 4 years) that I can think of and almost all of them were while gaming. So I would suspect that those issues in XP, were actually driver conflicts/problems rather than an issue in XP itself. I've no idea what some people do with their machines if they encounter numerous crashes/lockups in either Vista or XP.
Going by Raven's rants against Vista and his apparent lack of any detail in what is wrong with it. It would seem that he hasn't managed to get past the first 3 causes of Vista problems, as detailed in my list above
So true, so true. Especially the last bit (Higlighted in bold
)How long does XP take to load up for yourself?
Im finding it very hard to belive that it take's twice as long to boot up and shutdown.
UAC is a breeze to get round, many, many ways without even turning it off. Im very suprised people on here (OCUK forums) are actaully complaning about silly things like the UAC. I would have expected that since we are computer people that majority of people if not all woulden't mind taking the time out to research things like this.
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For people who have issues with Vista, the main causes seem to be:
1) User Ignorance
2) Operator Error
3) Lack of 3rd party drivers for some (usually old) hardware
.
.
.
x) Actual 'defect' in Vista that needs sorting
Perfect.
Like i said before:
Vista = Crap.
More like User = Crap.
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ITS OFFICIAL, VISTA SUCKS ASS!! now just accept that fact, I've ran it, and so have my mates and we all agreed they we would rather lick dead dogs knackers than use Vista, we promptly uninstalled it from our machines and installed XP and we promised never to mention the embarrassing time we used Vista as an OS, the official OS for dummies.
So what your saying you and your "mates" couldn't get the os for dummies to work?
Well, I have no real probs with vista, only one with regards to games being that Vista uses a load of ram, put a game that wants to load 1.5gb into memory and you get some trouble, nothing serious though. Again this comes back to vista needing 3gb of ram, well, it does for me anyway.
stability wise, well, it switches from aero to normal visual style when entering games, i guess to preserve some resources and as you dont need to see pretty aero when playing in full screen etc.
for me vista does crash every now and then, less dramatically then XP ever did as vista seems to doa nice polite littel crash, lets you know it trying to fix it, then a few seconds later da-daa everything is ok again. only one BSOD to date. firefox will have a moment every now and then when running 5+ tabs, but vista fixes it.
have been running it for a coupl eof months now, was dual booting with xp, but sacked it after 3 weeks and did a fresh install on vista only and have had no problems since.
vista has for me been a lot better then xp ever was, thankfully for me the old days of the OS freezing, then clsing all open windows/programs, then coming back to life or needing a reset are gone.
:thumbs_up: from me on a user level, although i know laot of boffs have many gripes with vista in terms of structural design.
stability wise, well, it switches from aero to normal visual style when entering games, i guess to preserve some resources and as you dont need to see pretty aero when playing in full screen etc.
for me vista does crash every now and then, less dramatically then XP ever did as vista seems to doa nice polite littel crash, lets you know it trying to fix it, then a few seconds later da-daa everything is ok again. only one BSOD to date. firefox will have a moment every now and then when running 5+ tabs, but vista fixes it.
have been running it for a coupl eof months now, was dual booting with xp, but sacked it after 3 weeks and did a fresh install on vista only and have had no problems since.
vista has for me been a lot better then xp ever was, thankfully for me the old days of the OS freezing, then clsing all open windows/programs, then coming back to life or needing a reset are gone.
:thumbs_up: from me on a user level, although i know laot of boffs have many gripes with vista in terms of structural design.
ITS OFFICIAL, VISTA SUCKS ASS!! now just accept that fact, I've ran it, and so have my mates and we all agreed they we would rather lick dead dogs knackers than use Vista, we promptly uninstalled it from our machines and installed XP and we promised never to mention the embarrassing time we used Vista as an OS, the official OS for dummies.
What exactly are the problems that your having with Vista and what is it you dont like about it?
All you have been doing is talking a load of crap, you haven't actually said what these problems are or why you dont like Vista.
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No probs with Vista here, seems more stable also but then again didn't have much problems with WMC2005, think its just a case of "its MS forcing vista onto people syndrome" for people not liking it or nit picking
iv played only dx10 titles/demos on my vista ultimate 32bit
and even tho these new dx10 titles arent optimized like future dx10 titles, it still runs smoothe and i have no problems.
the only vista thing i disslike, is the audio it sounds more automaticly surround sounded by default in vista. its a lot different to xp :S but you can try and make the sound more ballenced in the sound blaster console but the audio still doesnt sound 100% the same as xp. alltho its probibly because im used to XP audio
and even tho these new dx10 titles arent optimized like future dx10 titles, it still runs smoothe and i have no problems.
the only vista thing i disslike, is the audio it sounds more automaticly surround sounded by default in vista. its a lot different to xp :S but you can try and make the sound more ballenced in the sound blaster console but the audio still doesnt sound 100% the same as xp. alltho its probibly because im used to XP audio
Same experience. My pc is ROCK solid in xp. In vista its a joke ( well at least it was a month ago). Too many crashes in games.
Although i was using 32 bit with 2gb ram. It seems a lot of the people not having any problems seem to be using 64 bit with 4gigs.
I ordered the 64 bit disc and got 2gigs of extra ram and i'm going to try vista again when the crysis demo comes out.
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Upto date drivers and a Hotfix linked to from nvidias website and now vista is stable as you like.
I stayed away from XP for a long time on release after a bad experience but TBH i was allowing one bad install to cloud my judgement I wasnt prepeared to do the same with Vista.
Only real issue im left with is random slow copies, but im sure that will get fixed soon.
I stayed away from XP for a long time on release after a bad experience but TBH i was allowing one bad install to cloud my judgement I wasnt prepeared to do the same with Vista.
Only real issue im left with is random slow copies, but im sure that will get fixed soon.