Have you moved to Vista yet?

PandaZ3 · May 25, 2008, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by khelben1979

My brother is probably going to buy one of these boards in a few weeks. What do you know about them? Here's a link to the one which seems interesting.

And if he wants to install Vista for DX10 he will need a separate Video card, but later if his video card gave up he could always fall back to the On-Board video

khelben1979 · May 25, 2008, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by temeteus82

If he isn't going to install newest gen core 2 then I think he is ok. It has Intel 945GC A2 as NB. ICH7 SB

And when you mention the newest generation I guess you mean the ones which is called Wolfdale, correct? I looked a little at this page: Intel Core 2 on Wikipedia.

**temeteus82** · May 26, 2008, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by khelben1979

And when you mention the newest generation I guess you mean the ones which is called Wolfdale, correct? I looked a little at this page: Intel Core 2 on Wikipedia.

Correct.

Longgshot · May 28, 2008, 12:49 AM

I moved to Vista x64 when it launched, noticed a huge performance boost when navigating around in windows, specially with several windows open, or in folders with lots of files.
And Dx10 rules

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And no sign of the supposed incompatibility issues people talked about

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grilledduck · Jun 3, 2008, 12:33 PM

I'll go to Vista someday
but now there're no Vista drivers for the hardwares I bought.

**temeteus82** · Jun 3, 2008, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by grilledduck

I'll go to Vista someday
but now there're no Vista drivers for the hardwares I bought.

Make a new thread and perhaps we can help you

Shaga · Jun 6, 2008, 12:34 AM

Windows XP SP3. I'm missing at least couple fps in every game when playing in Vista and that's not nice. I want to get all performance available so XP for me. In Assassin's Creed there's 10fps difference(Vista Ultimate 64 vs XP 32) which counts as 20fps vs 30fps<. I can't play with 20fps so no way I'm using Vista.

Excuse my blocky style of writing, I'm very tired.

I like the OS itself. It's faster for desktop use(...it doesn't mean XP is slow on desktop...) and more logical to me but I spent money on my pc for games

>GSXR<mrbusa · Jun 6, 2008, 03:35 AM

XP forever!
If I could run current games with a 50mb OS like Damn Small Linux then I would.

Customgamer1 · Jun 6, 2008, 04:47 AM

I just got Vista on my new PC and so far its great.

I have used it before and even now that I have it I see nothing wrong with it. I don't play many games and using firefox,aim,music,video's etc all seem to work and work well!

Markius · Jun 10, 2008, 12:22 PM

i voted yes, but its yes and no for me.
i have vista on laptop and xp on gaming machine

Customgamer1 · Jun 11, 2008, 05:47 AM

Ok I have used Vista for about a week now full time and I have to disagree with all these people saying that Vista blows. (not on driverheaven just in general)

The only problem that's not really a problem at all is that I had to run Teamspeak and Battlefield 2 in Admin mode for it to work online, but it was easy enough to not even care.

It runs my games fine and I am even on a laptop. It is SUPER STABLE. Sure some programs lock up but the fact that only the program does and not the entire OS is something that I love.

Also how quick it is just doing stuff on the OS.

I have SP1 and never used it without it so I don't know what it is like, but DAMN Vista is way way better than XP IMO.

There is 0 reason so far and I hope it stays that way for me to say I am switching back to crappy XP.

That's to bad Microsoft released Vista when it did to get the bad rep it did. If they released with all the features of SP1 I bet it would not have got half the shit that it does.

SSilence · Jun 11, 2008, 02:44 PM

Moved on Vista as soon as it was available, and installed the SP1 a week after it was released. I'm never turning back.

Syndicate2083 · Jun 11, 2008, 05:36 PM

Its also pretty sweet to use Ultimate and have a nice SCO dev shell. Compiling my code right in vista is good to me.

I love Vista so far, much better performance, and real memory management = good times.

Blazer · Jun 15, 2008, 11:06 PM

I have been using Vista 64 since before it's official launch, and have had no qualms about it to think of, with the exception of activation problems with various builds

dawgXdenta · Jun 19, 2008, 03:45 PM

Vista is so much fun especially for programmers/gamers like me. Its job and I quote "is to prance around gaily in its pretty little dress while you're trying to do your work" I have vista but I'm a programmer and I need my virtual mem for more important things like ripping my movies so I can have an extra copy(legally ofcourse). Using photoshop, netbeans 6.0, phptriad ....... Stuff I need for the office.

I guess if you want a dress for your computer, Vista is the OS for you, unfortunately my pc aint gay. So .....

xxs1nz · Aug 1, 2008, 05:27 PM

They should of had a Yes and No answer for the poll because I just bought a Fujitsu laptop and all new laptops have Windows Vista on them. Some features in windows vista are cool but they do not make up for all the downsides to the new OS. But I keep it on my laptop and just installed Windows Xp as well! I do not even run Windows Vista with all the shinny interface options I strip it back down so it looks and feels like Windows Xp but it still does not help in some areas such as playing games. So in the end I would still stick with Windows Xp if I had to choose a Miscrosoft OS.

PandaZ3 · Aug 1, 2008, 08:06 PM

Most OEM's are putting Vista 32 on the machines, and XP seems a better 32 bit OS for a lot of people. Vista 64 is generally better than most 32 bit systems ( I still use XP64 and think it is great) Unfortunately it seems that even Microsoft realizes that Vista 64 is Microsoft's future in the OS arena, and as such they seem to be focusing resources toward Vista 64. XP64 is not quite orphaned. 32 bit systems still have strong security support, but not to many "make it nicer" add-ons

I think Toshiba is using Vista 64 as of late.

Cannyone · Dec 26, 2008, 12:35 AM

Circumstances forced me to move to Vista. When I built my current system I moved 2 SATA ROM drives over from a system with an Intel chipset. I was using Windows XP MCE 2005 and almost immediately began getting BSODs that traced back to the Nvidia SATA driver. Fortunately I had a copy of Vista, which Microsoft was so gracious as to "give" me for actively participating in the beta. So I didn't have to spend a bunch on money to see if the Nvidia SATA drivers for Vista were better. The result is that I haven't had a BSOD since. I've had to replace several of my programs, because the older versions didn't work with Vista. But there simply wasn't any other acceptable solution at that time. Since then I've been progressively getting used to Vista... though I may not really "like it".

PandaZ3 · Dec 26, 2008, 01:58 AM

Without a doubt Vista is different, I don't think that people new to computing are having trouble, more the enthusiasts and tweakers, Vista just does not behave the same way as XP. If you are used to XP it takes time to warm up to Vista as it is so similar, yet different. I'm happy with Vista anyways.

tanka12345 · Dec 26, 2008, 02:48 AM

I would move to Vista, but my PC wouldn't be able to handle it, and if it could it'd be much slower than XP. I am trying to save up for a new PC, and I'll get Vista on that - although it'll take more than 3 months. I currently use Xp Home Edition SP3.

Gascogne · Dec 27, 2008, 01:36 PM

Moved over to Vista when it was released, start of 2007.

Bart1987 · Dec 27, 2008, 02:49 PM

I currently have a dual boot system with windows xp professional and windows vista business 64bit, but I prefer windows xp, I like a clean windows without all the gadgets and I don't like all the warning messages you get from vista when you try to change things. I'm sure you can change all that, but I can't be bothered right now, because xp works fine

**MIG-31** · Dec 27, 2008, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Bart1987

I currently have a dual boot system with windows xp professional and windows vista business 64bit, but I prefer windows xp, I like a clean windows without all the gadgets and I don't like all the warning messages you get from vista when you try to change things.

Those warnings you get can be disabled quite easily.It oly takes a few moments.

Goto the control panel and select User Accounts and you should see the option for Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off.It does require a reboot afterwards.

Bart1987 · Dec 27, 2008, 03:02 PM

I did that already, but still, I'm so used to windows xp. I guess I just need to use windows vista some more and get used to it.

**MIG-31** · Dec 27, 2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Bart1987

I did that already, but still, I'm so used to windows xp. I guess I just need to use windows vista some more and get used to it.

Ok... Im the opposite.I find Vista far better than XP ever was..So much clear and more modern..But i do think the 64Bit version is far quicker to use than the 32bit os.

Im not Knocking XP as that was a good os in its day..just difference of opinion.

PandaZ3 · Dec 27, 2008, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Gascogne

Moved over to Vista when it was released, start of 2007.

Welcome to Driver Heaven....

I guess I just feel the need to support Bill Gates Lifestyle

khelben1979 · Dec 27, 2008, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by MIG-31

Ok... Im the opposite.I find Vista far better than XP ever was..So much clear and more modern..But i do think the 64Bit version is far quicker to use than the 32bit os.

Im not Knocking XP as that was a good os in its day..just difference of opinion.

How can you find an operating system that needs 2GB of RAM to be modern?

PandaZ3 · Dec 27, 2008, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by khelben1979

How can you find an operating system that needs 2GB of RAM to be modern?

That was true of all Windows OS and to some extent Linux and the rest are not immune to bloat.

Windows 95 was suspposed to only need 8 Meg if I recall, but it really needed 32, XP was going to be fine on 128 but 512 became the new standard and many of us went to a Gig. So if that is true, then 2 Gig is okay with me (But I use 4) and I'll call it modern.

Bolletje · Dec 27, 2008, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MIG-31

Ok... Im the opposite.I find Vista far better than But i do think the 64Bit version is far quicker to use than the 32bit os.

How come? I'm using 32-bit at the moment and I have nog troubles at all. I can't imagine that is can even be a lot faster...

But maybe I could switch to 64-bit and get 4GB RAM (2 atm). Maybe that should be an improvement...

Knight_Breed · Dec 27, 2008, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Bolletje

How come? I'm using 32-bit at the moment and I have nog troubles at all. I can't imagine that is can even be a lot faster...

But maybe I could switch to 64-bit and get 4GB RAM (2 atm). Maybe that should be an improvement...

Well you are dealing with an operating system within X64 that is set to handle 4G of RAM or more. The 32 bit OS is set to utilize no more than 2.5G and with today's increasing requirements it might soon become a necessity and not just a choice.

I have had no OS run faster than Ultimate X64 and with I7 processors out and DDR3 RAM being utilized better I soon think 4G will become a minimum requirement with games and other software ...

Jun 6, 2008, 12:34 AM	#97
Shaga Intelligent Life Form Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Nordic Region Posts: 383 Rep Power: 46 System Specs	Windows XP SP3. I'm missing at least couple fps in every game when playing in Vista and that's not nice. I want to get all performance available so XP for me. In Assassin's Creed there's 10fps difference(Vista Ultimate 64 vs XP 32) which counts as 20fps vs 30fps<. I can't play with 20fps so no way I'm using Vista. Excuse my blocky style of writing, I'm very tired. I like the OS itself. It's faster for desktop use(...it doesn't mean XP is slow on desktop...) and more logical to me but I spent money on my pc for games __________________ Server: Currently Offline

Jun 6, 2008, 04:47 AM	#99
Customgamer1 Fell off the tech wagon Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,273 Rep Power: 72 System Specs	I just got Vista on my new PC and so far its great. I have used it before and even now that I have it I see nothing wrong with it. I don't play many games and using firefox,aim,music,video's etc all seem to work and work well! __________________ Asus Laptop: 2.5 Intel Core 2 Duo, 4gigs DDR 2, Windows 7 64bit! Windows 7 > OSX!

Jun 10, 2008, 12:22 PM	#100
Markius DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 2,350 Rep Power: 0	i voted yes, but its yes and no for me. i have vista on laptop and xp on gaming machine __________________ DriverHeavens Aussie... "Lifes tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Jun 11, 2008, 05:47 AM	#101
Customgamer1 Fell off the tech wagon Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,273 Rep Power: 72 System Specs	Ok I have used Vista for about a week now full time and I have to disagree with all these people saying that Vista blows. (not on driverheaven just in general) The only problem that's not really a problem at all is that I had to run Teamspeak and Battlefield 2 in Admin mode for it to work online, but it was easy enough to not even care. It runs my games fine and I am even on a laptop. It is SUPER STABLE. Sure some programs lock up but the fact that only the program does and not the entire OS is something that I love. Also how quick it is just doing stuff on the OS. I have SP1 and never used it without it so I don't know what it is like, but DAMN Vista is way way better than XP IMO. There is 0 reason so far and I hope it stays that way for me to say I am switching back to crappy XP. That's to bad Microsoft released Vista when it did to get the bad rep it did. If they released with all the features of SP1 I bet it would not have got half the shit that it does. __________________ Asus Laptop: 2.5 Intel Core 2 Duo, 4gigs DDR 2, Windows 7 64bit! Windows 7 > OSX!

Jun 11, 2008, 05:36 PM	#103
Syndicate2083 HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Framingham, MA Posts: 228 Rep Power: 23 System Specs	Its also pretty sweet to use Ultimate and have a nice SCO dev shell. Compiling my code right in vista is good to me. I love Vista so far, much better performance, and real memory management = good times. __________________ -Crash the silence for the sake of memory. Intrinsic Realities, Veteran-USN.

May 28, 2008, 12:49 AM	#94
Longgshot DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I moved to Vista x64 when it launched, noticed a huge performance boost when navigating around in windows, specially with several windows open, or in folders with lots of files. And Dx10 rules . And no sign of the supposed incompatibility issues people talked about .

Jun 3, 2008, 12:33 PM	#95
grilledduck DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Eating, Sleeping Posts: 5 Rep Power: 0	I'll go to Vista someday but now there're no Vista drivers for the hardwares I bought.

Jun 6, 2008, 03:35 AM	#98
>GSXR<mrbusa im a FREAK Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 2,107 Rep Power: 55 System Specs	XP forever! If I could run current games with a 50mb OS like Damn Small Linux then I would.

Jun 11, 2008, 02:44 PM	#102
SSilence DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Moved on Vista as soon as it was available, and installed the SP1 a week after it was released. I'm never turning back.

Jun 15, 2008, 11:06 PM	#104
Blazer Tweeker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kitchener Posts: 611 Rep Power: 61 System Specs	I have been using Vista 64 since before it's official launch, and have had no qualms about it to think of, with the exception of activation problems with various builds __________________ ASUS Maximus Formula, OCZ 780MXS ps, Core2 Duo 8400 @ 3.80GHz,Corsair Water cooling kit, 4x2gb Mushkin DDR2 8000, 5 hardrives totalling 1.75 TB, Sapphire Theatrix, SyncMaster 2343, Logitech MX-518, 2 Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Crossfired , running on Windows7 64 bit, all in an Antec P160w Case.

Jun 19, 2008, 03:45 PM	#105
dawgXdenta HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Gabz Posts: 1,988 Rep Power: 133 System Specs	Vista is so much fun especially for programmers/gamers like me. Its job and I quote "is to prance around gaily in its pretty little dress while you're trying to do your work" I have vista but I'm a programmer and I need my virtual mem for more important things like ripping my movies so I can have an extra copy(legally ofcourse). Using photoshop, netbeans 6.0, phptriad ....... Stuff I need for the office. I guess if you want a dress for your computer, Vista is the OS for you, unfortunately my pc aint gay. So .....

Aug 1, 2008, 05:27 PM	#106
xxs1nz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chicago Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	They should of had a Yes and No answer for the poll because I just bought a Fujitsu laptop and all new laptops have Windows Vista on them. Some features in windows vista are cool but they do not make up for all the downsides to the new OS. But I keep it on my laptop and just installed Windows Xp as well! I do not even run Windows Vista with all the shinny interface options I strip it back down so it looks and feels like Windows Xp but it still does not help in some areas such as playing games. So in the end I would still stick with Windows Xp if I had to choose a Miscrosoft OS.

Aug 1, 2008, 08:06 PM	#107
PandaZ3 HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cornelius, Oregon Posts: 417 Rep Power: 0	Most OEM's are putting Vista 32 on the machines, and XP seems a better 32 bit OS for a lot of people. Vista 64 is generally better than most 32 bit systems ( I still use XP64 and think it is great) Unfortunately it seems that even Microsoft realizes that Vista 64 is Microsoft's future in the OS arena, and as such they seem to be focusing resources toward Vista 64. XP64 is not quite orphaned. 32 bit systems still have strong security support, but not to many "make it nicer" add-ons I think Toshiba is using Vista 64 as of late. __________________ It has to be Plugged In? To electricity? Video cards in house, 5770, 4650, HD 3870, X1950 XTX, X1900 XTX, X1900 XT and X1900 Crossfire, 2 X1800 XT's, X850 Pro, X800 Pro, AIW 9600XT, 9600 Pro, 9550 SE, 9200, 7000. XFX 6800 GS

Dec 26, 2008, 12:35 AM	#108
Cannyone HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Albuquerque NM Posts: 85 Rep Power: 37 System Specs	Re: Have you moved to Vista yet? Circumstances forced me to move to Vista. When I built my current system I moved 2 SATA ROM drives over from a system with an Intel chipset. I was using Windows XP MCE 2005 and almost immediately began getting BSODs that traced back to the Nvidia SATA driver. Fortunately I had a copy of Vista, which Microsoft was so gracious as to "give" me for actively participating in the beta. So I didn't have to spend a bunch on money to see if the Nvidia SATA drivers for Vista were better. The result is that I haven't had a BSOD since. I've had to replace several of my programs, because the older versions didn't work with Vista. But there simply wasn't any other acceptable solution at that time. Since then I've been progressively getting used to Vista... though I may not really "like it". __________________ Eagles may Soar! But Weasels don't have to worry about being sucked into a jet engine...

Dec 26, 2008, 01:58 AM	#109
PandaZ3 HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cornelius, Oregon Posts: 417 Rep Power: 0	Re: Have you moved to Vista yet? Without a doubt Vista is different, I don't think that people new to computing are having trouble, more the enthusiasts and tweakers, Vista just does not behave the same way as XP. If you are used to XP it takes time to warm up to Vista as it is so similar, yet different. I'm happy with Vista anyways. __________________ It has to be Plugged In? To electricity? Video cards in house, 5770, 4650, HD 3870, X1950 XTX, X1900 XTX, X1900 XT and X1900 Crossfire, 2 X1800 XT's, X850 Pro, X800 Pro, AIW 9600XT, 9600 Pro, 9550 SE, 9200, 7000. XFX 6800 GS

Dec 26, 2008, 02:48 AM	#110
tanka12345 HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: New Zealand Posts: 441 Rep Power: 30 System Specs	Re: Have you moved to Vista yet? I would move to Vista, but my PC wouldn't be able to handle it, and if it could it'd be much slower than XP. I am trying to save up for a new PC, and I'll get Vista on that - although it'll take more than 3 months. I currently use Xp Home Edition SP3. __________________ My New Rig - Windows 7 RC Build 7100 Intel Core i7 920 OCed to 3.2GHz \| CoolerMaster V8 \| Patriot Viper 3x2GB DDR3-1333MHz \| MSI Eclipse X58 \| LG W2261V 22" 16:9 \| Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB \| MSI ATI 4870 1GB \| Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050W PSU \| CoolerMaster HAF 932 \| ASUS DRW-22B1LT Lightscribe \| Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme \| Logitech X-540 \| Razer Carcharias \| Razer Lachesis \| Razer Destructor/ Razer Goliathus Speed/ Fnatic SteelSeries Qck+ XL \| OCZ Alchemy Elixir

Dec 27, 2008, 01:36 PM	#111
Gascogne HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sweden Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Re: Have you moved to Vista yet? Moved over to Vista when it was released, start of 2007. __________________ "Some Bright Wizards have even been known to dabble in the healing arts, however cauterizing a wound with white hot fire is never a soldier’s first choice!" Asus P5W DH Deluxe, E6700 @ 3.5Ghz, Super Talent PC6400 4Gb, nVidia 8800GTX, Creative X-Fi

Dec 27, 2008, 02:49 PM	#112
Bart1987 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 634 Rep Power: 0	Re: Have you moved to Vista yet? I currently have a dual boot system with windows xp professional and windows vista business 64bit, but I prefer windows xp, I like a clean windows without all the gadgets and I don't like all the warning messages you get from vista when you try to change things. I'm sure you can change all that, but I can't be bothered right now, because xp works fine

Dec 27, 2008, 03:02 PM	#114
Bart1987 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 634 Rep Power: 0	Re: Have you moved to Vista yet? I did that already, but still, I'm so used to windows xp. I guess I just need to use windows vista some more and get used to it.