New Windows Vista

[justleftlife]

I just got a new laptop for my birthday (YAY 22! i made it past 21) Its an intel duel core 1.7ghz with 2gigs o' ram and i really can remember the video card off the top of my head.

It has Windows Vista Home primium edtion on it... Now, I got it home and i was playing with it. I am a bit sceptical about it. Even alittle alienated by it. It feels really... apple like. I did start growing on me abit... But i want to know what you all think about it.

As Far as i know not much is compatable with it... but i am starting to read more and more about. Its turning out to be somewhat more compatable. Anyway i am installing WoW onto it to and we will see how well it does.

[azminisk8r]

hmm, never though about wow, and actually you'll find that most things actually are compatible

[xmastree]

you'll find that most things actually are compatible
This guy didn't (http://208.98.41.245/media/vistainstallation.wmv) :rolleyes:

[azminisk8r]

oh yeah i saw that before i bought it and thought, oh **** what have gotten myself into

[Daruvian]

WoW will work just fine on it... I've run into quite a few games that won't, though... Civilization IV isn't... Might be with a patch... But my internet connection is so bad here, I wasn't trying... Also, you'll have to download a lot of compatible drivers for your hardware... Also, with the "better" versions of Vista, the aero glass crap can give you quite the performance hit if your system's specs aren't up to it... So if you're doing a lot of gaming on it, I would recommend turning it off... Myself, though... I'm sticking to XP for now... I've run both XP and Vista on two of my systems to give it a little test run... Definitely sticking to XP until some good games come out for DX10...

[Nagoshi]

This guy didn't (http://208.98.41.245/media/vistainstallation.wmv) :rolleyes:

LMFAO!

And Vista slows down performances, so if you're gaming you'd better stick with XP Pro.

[Daruvian]

LMFAO!

And Vista slows down performances, so if you're gaming you'd better stick with XP Pro.

As my previous post said... You can get rid of most of the performance hit by cutting off all of the aero crap...

[Eclecticos]

This guy didn't (http://208.98.41.245/media/vistainstallation.wmv) :rolleyes:

Most things are compatible? . . Like what a USB Mouse? :down:

Read the News. Its getting better though sloooooowly.

Ever notice its alot harder to do a thumbs down than a thumbs up. . try it :D

Gladiator Style. None of that bent elbow crap. . lmao

[Fear.Sin]

Windows Vista was designed so programmers could not take any shortcuts using windows related files to help run their programs. Well not solely designed just for that but that was one of the implementations of Vista. That is why not a lot is supported because a lot of programmers have gotten lazy.

I do agree that XP is better for gaming atm because vista sucks so much resources from your computer. I do however like how the new account systems work (not to be mistaken for User account control). What I mean is how they have separated all the accounts from session 0 so you don't infect the whole computer from one account.

I don't really have an argument when it comes to Vista... After all it is just a wake up call for the rest of the industry to get ready for their next 64 bit OS anyway.

[DaveW]

I don't really have an argument when it comes to Vista... After all it is just a wake up call for the rest of the industry to get ready for their next 64 bit OS anyway.

Let's face it, no-one like Microsoft, and no-one wants to Admit that Vista's actually pretty good. My new laptop arrived 2 weeks ago. Turns out the 'compatibility problems' i was having was due to the crap Acer had installed on the machine. Since i've removed it, my average RAM usage dropped 5% and i've had no compatibility issues, at least not yet anyway.

-Dave

[Bucko]

I have no doubt Vista will be a great OS. I'll be waiting until the bugs are worked out because of my experience with different Windows OS' which are never brilliant on first release.

[DaveW]

I have no doubt Vista will be a great OS. I'll be waiting until the bugs are worked out because of my experience with different Windows OS' which are never brilliant on first release.

No program is ever brilliant on it's first release. An OS especially. I think it's doing pretty damn well and I honestly haven't found any of these bugs that people are complaining about yet. Admittedly there's not much i've tried to do...but i've got firefox running it, Latex, Eclipse IDE, Java, C&C3 Demo, Steam, Supreme Commander, i've hooked it up to my wireless network and everything. The only problem i'm having is that my stupid XP computer won't respond to Pings and i can't transfer files to it! (From any other computer. It can ping out, but not back. It's not a big enough issue that i've tried fixing it-small files i use my memory stick, large ones i use a DVDR.)

-Dave

[Nagoshi]

There's no multi-channel sound possible, unless you have those expensive models of X-Fi with multi-channel emulation. It takes waaaaaaaaay too much drive space. It is not used like Windows XP, since it's based for new computer users, not gurus like us. I've lost myself quite a lot of time in it in 2 days passed on it... I don't know. There's a something in it that doesn't make it feel all right for me.

I personally love it... but, there's something bugging me, probably in the way they built it, that I don't like.

[Xpirate]

I don't really have an argument when it comes to Vista... After all it is just a wake up call for the rest of the industry to get ready for their next 64 bit OS anyway.

I really doubt that I will upgrade to Vista or any other OS until 64 bit processors are more prevalent.