Vista not as bad as people say

[thoughtdisorder]

What was this thread about again?

 

[Mussels]

What was this thread about again?

this thread is now about pants.

My pants are blue, and covered in paint from work. They smell like ammonia.

 

[ShadowXP]

Mine are brown/green, covered in inkspots (broke a pen today) and massive amounts of dustbunnies (had to clean a computer. The bunnies had installed wall-to-wall carpets, and were in many cases already climbing up the walls. Had to kill them to not be overrun. Vicious buggers...).

 

[desertjedi]

Quotes from Steve Ballmer:

"Vista is a work in progress."

"Lessons we've learned from Vista - never wait 5 years in between OS releases."

Paraphrases from Bill Gates:

"We're trying to get Windows 7 out the door as soon as is possible".

Oh so we have to pay for M$ learning curve? I'm with you Trog, expecting and eventually forcing the entire planet to buy a new OS that essentially brings nothing new to the table is insane - especially the business community.

But let me put this whole thing in perspective. How many of you would continue to be M$ puppets if Linux gamed just as good as Windows?

::crickets::

And if you said yes, maybe I can help:

 

[FatForester]

Vista is complete rubbish. I have it on my laptop and I can't play shit for games on the damn thing. For a gamer XP is the way to be right now due to lack of vista driver support. I've also had SO many problems with nuissance popups with vista asking me if I want to make sure that I want to delete something pre-check bullshit, it just drives me nuts.

In other words. Roses are red, violets are blue. I'LL FUCK VISTA WITH A RAKE FOR YOUUUUUUU.

That post has got to be the biggest amount of fail I've ever seen on TPU. Banned after one post?? Anyway, disabling UAC is easy (msconfig / tools / disable UAC) and drivers aren't a problem unless if you're running legacy hardware. If video performance is a problem, then chances are your GPU isn't up to snuff in the first place.

 

[ShadowXP]

But let me put this whole thing in perspective. How many of you would continue to be M$ puppets if Linux gamed just as good as Windows?

If Linux had the same ease of use, ease of configuration, has the same level of hardware/driversupport and gamed as well or better than windows (without the use of WINE or other emulators), and could do fill all my other needs both as a home-comp and as a work-comp (i.e. run the same admin-consoles (SMS, MSSQL, Exchange, AD etc) as I do on my windowsbox, emailclient with full Exchange-support etc), then yes, I'd try it.

Until that day I'll stay a Lil'Squishy Fanboi.

 

[francis511]

Oh yes it is !

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I personally have run it on 3 computers and it has worked well. I ran it on my old AMD 3200+ @2.5GHz (2.6Ghz?), 1GB DDR400, BFG 6800GS (AGP) with a Gigabyte motherboard and all ran just fine (RC2 AND RTM). Then I upgraded to an Opteron 165 @2.75GHz 2 and 4GB of RAM, DFI LP nF4 motherboard with an 8800GTS 640MB (G80), and the current machine I am on. It has run the same amongst all machines very nicely. My brother even ran it on his AMD 3700+ @2.7GHz, 2GB DDR400, Abit baord and a 7600GT quite nicely. He had it for 120 days because i didnt have a key and i just kept rearming it.

Any BSOD's I have come across are because of my own expense such as overclocks. Thats to be expected. I did have it BSOD on me one time for faulty memory. Or so I thought. Come to find out, my motherboard wsa undervolting my RAM and i kicked it up a notch and it ran beautiful.

I tweak the hell out of any OS i use whether its 2000, XP, or Vista. Its pretty much essential for people like us so why bitch about doing it when you have to anyway?

Sure Vista uses a lot of resources, but when it comes down to it, whether or not you have the RAM to feed it is beside the point because Vista works with the amount of RAM that you have. The more you have the more it eats because thats what it is there for.

 

[DrPepper]

Any BSOD's I have come across are because of my own expense such as overclocks. Thats to be expected. I did have it BSOD on me one time for faulty memory. Or so I thought. Come to find out, my motherboard wsa undervolting my RAM and i kicked it up a notch and it ran beautiful.

Sure Vista uses a lot of resources, but when it comes down to it, whether or not you have the RAM to feed it is beside the point because Vista works with the amount of RAM that you have. The more you have the more it eats because thats what it is there for.

Well vista usualy releases those resources when they are needed which I didn't know and assumed it whored them and overclocking bsods i understand but tbh I don't remember getting a bsod when I've not overclocked.

 

[DrPepper]

Vista is complete rubbish. I have it on my laptop and I can't play shit for games on the damn thing. For a gamer XP is the way to be right now due to lack of vista driver support. I've also had SO many problems with nuissance popups with vista asking me if I want to make sure that I want to delete something pre-check bullshit, it just drives me nuts.

In other words. Roses are red, violets are blue. I'LL FUCK VISTA WITH A RAKE FOR YOUUUUUUU.

If this is what the internet is going to become ... I'l probably just ummm never go near it again.
That's the reason why I don't go on any forums apart from this one.

 

[kylew]

Quotes from Steve Ballmer:





Paraphrases from Bill Gates:



Oh so we have to pay for M$ learning curve? I'm with you Trog, expecting and eventually forcing the entire planet to buy a new OS that essentially brings nothing new to the table is insane - especially the business community.

But let me put this whole thing in perspective. How many of you would continue to be M$ puppets if Linux gamed just as good as Windows?

::crickets::

And if you said yes, maybe I can help:

*Bill Gates is on crickets trying to force vista DVDs down his throat! The don't install like that Mr. Gates!*

Sarcasm off, I don't see MS forcing people to install vista, otherwise they wouldn't be releasing XP SP3. They'd have discontinued XP a lot sooner if they wanted to force people to migrate. They're promoting their new software in favor of their old, nothing wrong with that really, pretty normal.

 

[kylew]

vista works quite well. never had a BSOD that wasnt caused by overclocking, or betatesting software (beta drivers, beta games, etc)

To be honest, its ignorant people who complain anyway - vista is blamed for everything. OMG NO POPUPS ARE BAD! XPSP2 firewall anyone? popups that broke games! oh noes!
Crashes? stop using cheap $15 hardware you got, and inserting the 5 year old XP disk and forcibly installing drivers!

Vista is a great OS, that needs faster hardware than XP does. Then again, XP needs the same over windows 2000, so who cares.

I don't think he realises that you don't build a PC with a hammer.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Well vista usualy releases those resources when they are needed which I didn't know and assumed it whored them and overclocking bsods i understand but tbh I don't remember getting a bsod when I've not overclocked.

The only time I EVER get a BSOD is either with faulty RAM or a bad oc. Thats it.

Usually people bitch about any OS if they dont know how to use it and they fuck something up along with not properly maintaining it.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

But let me put this whole thing in perspective. How many of you would continue to be M$ puppets if Linux gamed just as good as Windows?

And if you said yes, maybe I can help:

Me. Because I dont have the patience or the time to start learning Linux now. I have tried it, I dont like it, to much of a hassel to install shit. Not worth my time. Id rather have the simplicity of Windows.

 

[paybackdaman]

Eh. vista is an alright OS. I have it on the family computer and my grandma's computer (which is funny because she just got done learning how to use xp when she upgraded...). Neither of them are used for gaming, but for internet and documents. They do great for those things. But, I had one major problem...NETWORKING!! I couldn't get them to communicate with XP computers. I changed all to MSHOME network. Set up file sharing through vista and all the xp computers, but still "you do not have permission to access these resources. Please contact the network administrator". However, after a fight with all of them, and the help of SP1, I got them all to communicate and play nicely. Been printing on the family printer for a month now.

 

[saadzaman126]

the old vista sucked the new vista with sp 1 i hear is much better but i still hate it XP professional sp2 is the best

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

SP1 doesnt really improve all that much.

 

[saadzaman126]

really i heard it took out all the glitches

 

[spearman914]

pigs fly

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HERE YA GO:::!!:

 

[saadzaman126]

that was a useful post spearman

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

really i heard it took out all the glitches

Not all, but most. No piece of software is 100% perfect.

 

[saadzaman126]

yea i guess but thats kinda what i meant but xp was pretty close

 

[Fuse-Wire]

Vista runs fine on my PC, just need to upgrade the 768MB of Single channel DRR to 2GB DDR duel channel, apart from that i can play games such as Team Fortress 2 fine, touch wood at the moment but i have had no problems compared to XP witch was one giant failure for me from the start.
Good words of advice i think i heard from Liptons ice tea, "Don't knock it 'till you tried it"

 

[craigo]

I cant believe Microsoft and the hardware manufactures dirty underhanded tactics...they just change shit for no reason i mean look at the wallpaper in vista...fags i had to "hack" my install just to get it to work with the wallpaper i was accustomed to and whats with the nforce 4 not supporting 98 hey if i want to run 3.11 on my new hardware why should the chipset not support it....CONSPIRACY....damn the man...look what i had to do just so i was comfortable with my vista install

 

[saadzaman126]

failure how sp2 was like the perfect software