Time to turn back?!

TheDean

TheDean

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Well,

I'm irratated. Why you ask? Well....Vista. I bought Vista Ultimate x64 about a month ago. Now, for the first 2 weeks or so it has been reasonably acceptable. Ok, the Nvidia drivers for my 8800 hadn't been released, but I could do most of what I wanted from the OS. I enjoyed the new toys to play with and generally my experiences with the it. Now it's gone all wrong, horribly wrong...

I can no longer watch movies.....or any video for that matter! For no apparent reason, my massive collection of films on my 400GB hard drive do not work. It looks to be a codec issue - The sound plays and the picture displays a blank screen. However - I have reinstalled VLC - No luck. I have also reinstalled ffdshow. This also fails. Interestingly this may or may not be related to the installation of the new Nvidia 100.65 drivers.

Is this really time for me to turn back to XP SP2?!
 
I know how you feel. I got sucked into all the hype. Fair enough its different "under the hood", fair enough its got a bit more security, wow its got DX10, and the fall-back comment that the usual suspects say when you criticise Vista of "yeah, everyone on 98 said the same thing about XP as well, and now look at them, lol, lol, ***!!!1one". Only difference is XP is more than usable. Don't tell me its suddenly gone crap just because Vista is out.

I imagine the only "wow" people will be saying about Vista once they install it is "wow, what a waste of money"

I wish I stayed with XP. In fact, I am seriously considering flogging my copy of Vista Retail... I suppose I am just glad I bought Retail and not OEM... At least I can get some money back...

I have completely changed my mind about Vista.
 
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I had the exact same problem with the movie thing, One day they worked fine woke up the next & it was just sound & blank screen.

Suffice to say i've ditched Vista & gone back to XP Pro, Decided to get windows blinds & use a theme thats just like aero in a way :)
 
This always happens with new products - especially when drivers from people like nVidia have been fairly useless.

I'm running x64 and x86 variants on a variety of machines, and I've got no problems.
 
the-void said:
I have got XP running with no problems. So tell me, why upgrade again??
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I'm not telling you to upgrade, I'm saying there aren't any major problems with the OS - just driver incompatibility and software incompatibility.

Quite simply, if you aren't willing to chance driver availability and you want all your software to work, don't be an early adopter of a new OS. No one is forcing you. It will, however, be a much different picture in a few months time.
 
csmager said:
I'm not telling you to upgrade, I'm saying there aren't any major problems with the OS - just driver incompatibility and software incompatibility.
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lol. It wasn't directed at you personally csmager. I should go back and edit it to make into a statement.


csmager said:
Quite simply, if you aren't willing to chance driver availability and you want all your software to work, don't be an early adopter of a new OS. No one is forcing you. It will, however, be a much different picture in a few months time.
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Why, whats going to happen in a few months? Is photoshop going to stop working on XP, is premiere on Vista going to enable everyone to be great directors, are people going suddenly develop writers block on word because they happen to be using XP instead of Vista?

Or do you mean in a few months time its going to be impossible to buy a computer with XP on. (Sort of forcing people to upgrade if they want a new machine).

Even when you get all the drivers sorted out. Apart from DX10 games, name one application that is a vista exclusive must have program, and then your giving me a good enough reason to upgrade. Otherwise its upgrading just for the sake of it. (And more about MS making money than Customers value for money)
 
the-void said:
Or do you mean in a few months time its going to be impossible to buy a computer with XP on. (Sort of forcing people to upgrade if they want a new machine).
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This will happen for sure, especially on the high street.

Even when you get all the drivers sorted out. Apart from DX10 games, name one application that is a vista exclusive must have program, and then your giving me a good enough reason to upgrade. Otherwise its upgrading just for the sake of it. (And more about MS making money than Customers value for money)
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I can't really see the point of a company wanting their package to be Vista exclusive, unless they want/need to use the DX10 API in which case, they do not have any choice. Or maybe they get some kickback from MS if they are branded Vista exclusive?
 
I will wait for SP1 for Vista to be released before I change from XP Pro to it, I have no desire to cope with driver/software/hardware incompatability issues.

By then I would think a lot of these teething problems will have been sorted out. :)
 
Well I'm sick and tired of the aero interface already, I'm now in windows 2000 mode with most of the effects turned off, to me it's just like I've brought an expensive theme for windows, I appreciate things have changed under the hood but how does that benifit me when XP is already pretty much rock solid, when making the transistion from 98 to xp it really felt like I was getting somthing new and was a hell of a lot more stable than 98/me, I just hope to god someone can somehow make it possible to run DX10 on XP.
 
the thing thats annoying me more than anything about vista is how much the HD loads ALL the time. That and the ghey flash player not being compatible with IE. I tried using IE 32bit browser but it still says its 64bit!
 
im going back to xp x64 also, just taken vista home premium off of my laptop.

And going to do my main rig over the weekend.

Its not vista at fault its the lack of support for apps and hardware that i have and use.

Coh for example, runs fine in xp @ 1920x1200 in vista it chugs. Driver issue i know.

No real support for the x-fi as of yet, again driver issue.


Canon printer, cd label proggy. runs like a dog under vista lol.

I know its not MS whom are at fault. Give it another 6 months and i will switch back.
 
TheDean said:
That was helpful - Cheers for that
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Its true though, if you jump on the new OS, you can't expect it to be flawless from the get go, XP certainly wasnt perfect on release.
 
TheDean said:
That was helpful - Cheers for that
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It's true though.

Any major operating system will have initial problems with drivers. It doesn't help that most driver manufacturers were happy just to sit back do nothing and let vista take most of the flak for it.

Stick with vista; in a few months once drivers have been released it will be the best purchase you've made. :)
 
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Give yourself the best of both worlds :)
 
JonRohan said:
It's true though.

Any major operating system will have initial problems with drivers. It doesn't help that most driver manufacturers were happy just to sit back do nothing and let vista take most of the flak for it.

Stick with vista; in a few months once drivers have been released it will be the best purchase you've made. :)
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I know - I knew I would be forced to upgrade once DX10 games start appearing anyway, so I just took the plunge - I may have to put Xp back on and then try again in 3months
 
Once vista codec pack was installed and now there 100.65 drivers out, I have no problem playing anything on my vista. I'm surprised tbh.

Have you tried a vista codec or ace mega pack ?
 
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