Vista Version for Development and Gaming

Supertaff · 12 Jan 2007 at 14:14

Hi Guys,

Use my PC mainly for playing games, e.g. FS X, CoH, Total War 2. I also do Java development using Eclipse.

Which version of Vista would be best for this? From what I have read Home Premium sounds fine, but want to make sure I'm not going to have any development problems from not going the whole hog for Ultimate.

Views?

Cheers

Taff

Burnsy2023 · 12 Jan 2007 at 15:38

What sort of devlopment do you do?

Home premium will most likely be fien.

Burnsy

Fr0dders · 12 Jan 2007 at 16:49

Supertaff said:
Hi Guys,

Use my PC mainly for playing games, e.g. FS X, CoH, Total War 2. I also do Java development using Eclipse.

Which version of Vista would be best for this? From what I have read Home Premium sounds fine, but want to make sure I'm not going to have any development problems from not going the whole hog for Ultimate.

Views?

Cheers

Taff

depends if you do any support using remote desktop

Vista Home Premium doesnt have any remote desktop facilities. But if all your doing is coding and playing games, then theres nothing in Vista Ultimate for you

Ronaldo · 12 Jan 2007 at 21:29

but aint there many 3rd party remote desktop stuff?

TrUz · 12 Jan 2007 at 21:35

Yep there is several free remote desktop programs. Home Premium will be fine for you.

TrUz

FirebarUK · 12 Jan 2007 at 21:42

64 or 32bit though? I've heard reports that 64bit Vista is awful for a lot of games, as they simply don't work...

NathanE · 12 Jan 2007 at 21:54

MrLOL said:
depends if you do any support using remote desktop

Vista Home Premium doesnt have any remote desktop facilities. But if all your doing is coding and playing games, then theres nothing in Vista Ultimate for you

Home Premium has a Remote Desktop client (mstsc.exe). It just doesn't allow incoming Remote Desktop connection, that's all.

Supertaff · 12 Jan 2007 at 22:57

Development is mainly very basic Java work, creating simple programs, along with doing some VBA and Visual Basic 6.

I do a lot of support of friends PC's via remote assistance in XP, does the lack of remote desktop mean I won't be able to do that for people? or is it just a way of getting into my PC from a remote location?

Cheers

taff

FirebarUK · 12 Jan 2007 at 23:03

It will only mean you can't get into your PC, not the other way round. Your a client only, rather than both client/server(host).

PinkPig · 13 Jan 2007 at 00:38

FirebarUK said:
It will only mean you can't get into your PC, not the other way round. Your a client only, rather than both client/server(host).

Though Remote Assistance (distinct from Remote Desktop) is still available both ways.

FirebarUK · 13 Jan 2007 at 10:22

Good good

SamG · 13 Jan 2007 at 10:35

Does Vista ultimate run slower then Home Premium because of all the extras?

I'll be using Vista for gaming and a lot of 3D graphic work so is Home Premium best suited for me as well?

Dureth · 13 Jan 2007 at 10:49

All versions of Vista will run the same.

SamG · 13 Jan 2007 at 11:05

Dureth said:
All versions of Vista will run the same.

OK thanks.