Why is anyone installing Vista?

Vista is a good operating system, but just not good enough for enthusiasts...yet :)

Great for the family PC, in fact it's fantastic :)

For the enthusiast speed freak gamer (like me) it's not up to scratch as drivers need work, popular games need patches, but this will come in time and I have my copy waiting in the case till hardware can utilize it's features better :D
 
Set it up last night on my old 40 Gig "testa" drive, (fresh install from boot dvd) and took about 30-40 mins). All gfx etc worked fine, just the audio missing (realtek) needed to be installed (searched for drivers and it installed straight away). Tried the game "Oblivion" and worked perfectly (in-game music worked which didn't on XP). Only had 1hr with it last night, so need to familarise me sen with it:)! looks good mind
 
bfar said:
Because its FUN numbnuts! Its one of the biggest newest pieces of software ever published and we all want a go. Are you mad to ask this question on an enthusiast forum??? We want it right now, even if it doesn't work :p :p
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Dito :)

Works great for me and im running 64bit. Expected problems but nothing worth writing about so far to be honest.

If you have the drivers and the system capable of running Vista, why not?

The question should be, "Why stick with XP"?
 
I run x64 ultimate and i've had only 1 problem which was the sound drivers. I sorted that out in 5 mins though. It runs very fast, tested out a few games and they run perfectly (no performance drop on GF 7600GT). I also have Visual Studio prof and MySql server 5 running perfectly on it too.
All-in-all i'm very happy with vista so far. Not a reboot in 7 days now and no errors, crashes or bugs experienced.
 
Gimpymoo said:
Dito :)

Works great for me and im running 64bit. Expected problems but nothing worth writing about so far to be honest.

If you have the drivers and the system capable of running Vista, why not?

The question should be, "Why stick with XP"?
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1) If it ain't broke, why fix it? I can turn my machine on, run my applications and all's fine :)
2) I play a lot of Half Life 2 and some reports are suggesting it's (current) performance in Vista is a lot worse. This goes for many other titles as well I believe... Nothing currently runs faster in Vista, only slower.
3) EAX support is lacking I believe as well...

So if I were to upgrade to Vista, I'd be gaining nothing, and losing something... 0 - 1= -1 :)


I'll wait until I build a new machine probably latter half of the year and worry about Vista then :)
 
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Kojak said:
Those who work with PCs and who are likely to come into contact with Vista at work in the near future will want to be up to speed with Vista as soon as possible.
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thats partly my reason to go vista, since i detest going on courses, i'd rather learn through trial and error and i need the os to be able to do that!
 
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