Might go back to XP Pro..
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Lysander said:
I was usng a business copy before christmas and did not get this popping up all the time. Also, Its a wireless usb keyboard and mouse. Just like any other one it uses the generic usb driver and performs fine. Its just vista being a llittle b****
Ice On Fire said:
As far as ATI goes, your gaming performance will all be to do with what kind of games you're playing.
For me, Need For Speed Most Wanted runs near perfect [though a bit stuttery in places, probably due to its dislike of dual cores], however, Prey, Doom3 and Quake4 look like poo. Reason being that the ATI RTM beta drivers do not support Open GL yet and even Quake1 with a GL engine is unplayable. Playing games that use Direct 3D are fine. I hope that the full drivers for ATI come out soon though, hopefully in the next 24 hours.
I would just like to add something to people who are "going back to XP" after just a few days usage.
WHY?
I remember when Gibbo first posted that he may be able to get Vista into the hands of the end user early. There was so much jumping around and cheering that people failed to note what he actually said - EARLY.
I've been on the phone to a competitor this week, to see when they're planning on launching Vista onto shelves, I was told Feb 5th! That's not even the launch date we were told by Microsoft.
The way I see it, is that both nVidia and ATi had to rewrite their drivers for Vista, in both 32 and 64 bit guises. It takes time. As well as that, they've been working towards the RETAIL LAUNCH date, the 30th.
And here we are in advance of that date, with people moaning about drivers.
Yes, the drivers may not appear right on the dot tomorrow. But anyone who ditches Vista before the 30th on the grounds of poor drivers is quite simply an imbecile. What about the MSDN people who got it in November? How do you think they managed?
I bet Gibbo wishes he hadn't bothered.
WHY?
I remember when Gibbo first posted that he may be able to get Vista into the hands of the end user early. There was so much jumping around and cheering that people failed to note what he actually said - EARLY.
I've been on the phone to a competitor this week, to see when they're planning on launching Vista onto shelves, I was told Feb 5th! That's not even the launch date we were told by Microsoft.
The way I see it, is that both nVidia and ATi had to rewrite their drivers for Vista, in both 32 and 64 bit guises. It takes time. As well as that, they've been working towards the RETAIL LAUNCH date, the 30th.
And here we are in advance of that date, with people moaning about drivers.
Yes, the drivers may not appear right on the dot tomorrow. But anyone who ditches Vista before the 30th on the grounds of poor drivers is quite simply an imbecile. What about the MSDN people who got it in November? How do you think they managed?
I bet Gibbo wishes he hadn't bothered.
i guess you have a point there tute. im happy with how my installation has gone but its tough **** that the drivers arent out yet is the way i see it. i am glad i got it early, though. and the 30th is tomorrow, so give it a day or two and maybe some newer drivers will be out for the chipsets and gpu's. if not oh well, it was a choice out of vista or linux for me as i couldnt stand xp anymore. i like new technology whether it can play games or not lol 
Tute said:
As was said here a couple of weeks ago:
Loadsamoney said:Yeah to many Vista threads in here now, the Dons did close a few and tell everyone to post in the Vista threads that were already about, but looks like they got sick of doing that now, probably no one listened.
Gona be worse when it hits and all the '******* VISTA IS A PILE OF *****' threads turn up, theres no graphics drivers or nowt for it yet, and Gibbo rekons hes shipping it when he gets it in around the 12th, and the official date is the 30thoh what fun, this place is going to go up next week when ppl get it, but can't use it as Gibbo shipped it early before the graphics card etc... manufacturers released their Vista drivers, as they have all said they will release drivers for it before the launch, so who's to say they wont release em till the 29th, its still before the launch, trouble is Gibbos shipping it next week so he rekons, oh dear gona go up in here i tell thee, gona be a whole lot worse VISTA VISTA VISTA
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To the OP, if you were installing something like Daemon Tools, its no wonder it fell over. Hell, that thing used to kill my XP, never mind trying to get the drivers for it running on Vista.
Daemon Tools installs something called SPTD, which ran fine until it came to restarting my computer, which caused me to run through a never ending reset loop. And that was on XP.
If you need something like Daemon Tools, go to their archive and get the really old one - it doesn't use SPTD and seems to work fine with just about everything. Not sure what the point of SPTD was in the first place.
-- The Unusual Suspect.
Daemon Tools installs something called SPTD, which ran fine until it came to restarting my computer, which caused me to run through a never ending reset loop. And that was on XP.
If you need something like Daemon Tools, go to their archive and get the really old one - it doesn't use SPTD and seems to work fine with just about everything. Not sure what the point of SPTD was in the first place.
-- The Unusual Suspect.
Why would the moaning on the forums affect them one jot? It wouldn'tTute said:Well, no!
But was it really worth the moaning on the forums?
In fact I'm sure they'd rather customers moaned here than on their telephone support lines.
Why are people moaning about it? Im still using the RC release and iv had no problems with it at all..
I use it for gaming, browsing, downloading (game being FEAR)
It works fine for me?
Obviously there are some niggles like the control panel just being layed out rather rubbish but everything is working, driver support is obviously minimal at this stage.
Maybe i just got one of the good ones
I use it for gaming, browsing, downloading (game being FEAR)
It works fine for me?
Obviously there are some niggles like the control panel just being layed out rather rubbish but everything is working, driver support is obviously minimal at this stage.
Maybe i just got one of the good ones
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i went back to xp after vista RC2 and honestly its much better than you think. looks good, uses little ram, very stable, loads of drivers floating around. im going to wait till SP1 and till i have a new rig/2GB ram before i buy into vista.
