Vista - Worth the jump yet?

I'm a gamer and run Vista and have no problems with the games I play.

It's not so much a problem with Vista, remember most of the games you are currently playing were not written for Vista

Any op system utilising programs not written for it may experience difficulty.
 
squiffy said:
CAQ not working for one,

the built-in CAQ vista driver only works with some motherboard. the CAQ works on mine..

UnusualSuspect said:
but if everything runs as smoothly as my system under Vista, I don't know why people are stalling on using it.

no two systems are the same, even if both have the same parts they'll still act differently.. that why i say they gonna try/test it themselfs
 
I'll just get in line as the nth person to say that vista = le crap:p

I've used it for the past month and there have just been far too many compatability issues. (I'm going back to XP this weekend!)

[jeramy clarkson]
Running vista is a lot like owning an Alfa. For that brief moment where everything just works, it works well and is an amazing o/s to use. The remaining 99% of the time is spent wondering what you did to break it again.
[/jeramy clarkson]

Ok, a little extreme. But you get my point.

Microsoft spent so much time gucci-ing up the O/S that they forgot that its meant to run on computers other than the super powered development rigs that they have. Consequently you end up with problems like This which make you tear your hair out.

So to answer your question, stick with XP until at least SP1 is released for Vista. By then there might be a decent array of drivers and the like.

HTH,
Freakish_05
 
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My experiences with Vista

- installing it was a breeze. Barely any user input was needed and it was quite fast too

- loved the sidebar at first, but later removed it. It's handy for some people but just like the Mac version of it, it's just a gimmick with little actual use since you can't look at it while working in most programs.

- the speed is fantastic. Vista responds much better than XP, feels way smoother, and while in XP I felt all the time that my PC stopped responding (white screen), Vista gives the illusion that everything is working just fine even if your CPU is pushed to the max.

- compatibility was very good except for the standard software. One thing I never got is the amount of people complaining at Microsoft when they release a new OS. If you look at Apple which has horrible backward compatibility, Microsoft still does it a fair bit better. It's only logical that software that intensively uses Windows resources may not work well in Vista if it was made for XP.

Nero's new version (7.X) works fine on Vista, as do the new versions of nearly all other software. The only program I didn't find to function well despite the "Vista compatible) label was PowerDVD. Also to my surprise, I managed to get Windows 98 games working very well. Ultima IX, which is a notoriously buggy game which won't even run well on Windows XP, runs more than fine on Vista (I actually completed it on Vista, which says a great deal). I tested over 50 games and of all those two failed to work:

- Gothic 3 (which barely worked on XP because of the many bugs- now works after a patch
- Fahrenheit, which won't install because the setup does a specific check for DirectX9 and of course that's not Vista's fault.

So when it comes to games, Vista is more than up to scratch. Dosbox works perfectly too so old DOS games and Windows 3.1 games are at your grasp too. So for gaming, it's no worse than Windows XP and obviously, for future DX10 games it will be essential.

The only downsides I found to Vista was a few minor bugs (I made a topic today concerning one, where Vista seems to guess what kind of folder you want, and it doesn't do it too well) and of course, it uses more resources. About 500Mb with drivers and stuff running idle (although I got a lot of drivers for this and that) so 2Gb of memory is really needed for gaming.

Of course, this is Vista 32 bit we're talking about. For now, I don't see any merit in the 64 bit version. Support for it is much worse, far more compatibility problems, etc. but this is because of the nature of a 64 bit OS. I think most people who say negative things about Vista either do so because either their PC is not very recent or they went for the 64 bit version at a time where there's very few programs written especially for it.
 
depends totally on the hardware imo..

in my main pc

Epox nforce4 motherboard
Dual Core Opteron
2gb
7900gt
Xfi

the performance is really bad in games, and i get weird issues with sound which makes me revert to using XP which really really flies and is rock solid

on my testpc

msi nforce4 motherboard
opteron
2gb
6600gt
onboard sound

seems to really fly along (don't use it for gaming though)



tried multiple drivers for my main one, all of them give a noticable drop in game performance (Company of Heroes flies in XP, is a tiny tiny bit juddery in Vista)

so i'm using XP on all machines

i'm sure it'll get better, and maybe performs better on other hardware with better drivers
 
I have had vista for some months now, all good and I too do almost everything and it's on 24/7 and more stable than XP.

My dad's new DELL pc has Vista too and it also runs famously!
 
red_avatar said:
It's not a problem with a DX9 game, it's a problem with the setup that does a straight check for something which no longer exists in Vista - I believe it's a part of dxdiag or so.

fairy nuff. shame i don't have it anymore. i sold my copy otherwise i would have had a go... :p
 
Of course, this is Vista 32 bit we're talking about. For now, I don't see any merit in the 64 bit version. Support for it is much worse, far more compatibility problems, etc. but this is because of the nature of a 64 bit OS. I think most people who say negative things about Vista either do so because either their PC is not very recent or they went for the 64 bit version at a time where there's very few programs written especially for it

Unless you have 64 bit version of Vista installed you can't really comment,personally I have the 64 bit version of Vista and was shocked on how compatible it was with software and my games (over 35 installed),infact I have all my software running great,drivers are not even a problem,personally going 32 bit Vista is a sideways move from XP IMHO ,if you want the real upgrade go Vista x64 with its superior memory handling(4GB+) and security over Vista x68.
 
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