[gravesmeister]

I just want to give everyone a heads up on what Vista is like even with BADASS hardware. I just put 2000+ into this machine and vista brings it and me to our knees. I had so many issues I finally had to say screw it and go back to XP. XP is wonderful compared to the headache I had with vista. It cuts your gaming FPS down to about 1/3 of what it was in XP. I started having issues where my mouse would just start stuttering for no reason and I wouldn't be able to open programs. DVD or streaming video looked all funny. I would start getting weird green dots on my screen sometimes either in games or while watching video. The list goes on and on and on. I really wanted Vista to be everything I've always wanted in an OS and i think it will be eventually. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THIS: if your anything more than just a casual internet browser/email reader your going to have major upgrading pains. Heed my warning. LOL. I'm not a Vista hater I just want to spend more time having fun with my computer than wondering what the [bleep] is wrong with it. Have fun yall......lata!

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Vista is fine, as for games, drivers for hardware aren't mature enough, the FPS issue should be resolved in the coming month as software engineers become more knowledgeable about the coding of vista and as drivers become more mature before of this.
James

Edited by james_8970, 05 March 2007 - 08:24 PM.

[james_8970]

Vista is fine, as for games, drivers for hardware aren't mature enough, the FPS issue should be resolved in the coming month as software engineers become more knowledgeable about the coding of vista and as drivers become more mature before of this.
James

Edited by james_8970, 05 March 2007 - 08:24 PM.

[Jesse R. Bassett]

I've already submitted my request for Vista Home Premium. It'll be so spectacular on my laptop...

[warriorscot]

1/3 is pretty harsh from my experience its only a few fps at most, unless your system is new or fairly recent then using Vista is not advisable.

[gravesmeister]

Well I think January qulifies as pretty recent. You can even look at other benchmark reviews out there saying that with xp they were getting 120 FPS with quake 4 then with vista it dropped down to around 30-40. I just want to let people know that if they are gamers that vista may end up being way more trouble then it's worth for the time being.

[gravesmeister]

I've already submitted my request for Vista Home Premium. It'll be so spectacular on my laptop...

Well good luck with that. I actually hope it works well for you. It wasn't even really the way it ran. I couldn't even figure out how to get other players to play my dvd's. What a pain in the [bleep]. But be my guest. Have fun!

[macten]

gravesmeister.....I think you'll find this quite interesting:

[james_8970]

Your overexadrating things, you can't expect vista to run smoothly on a budget computer at this point in time, nor can you expect a OS that's only 2 months old to not have any bugs (which there are very few) and little support from other vendors at the moment. You took the leap for vista, if you wanted full support you should have taken the XP route. That being said the situation is only going to become better with every passing day and week.
James

[gravesmeister]

Budget system?? Let me see. AMD Dual core X2 5200+, 500 gig WD Sata 2 HDD, 2 gig Kingston 667 mhz ram, X1950XTX Sapphire Radeon 512MB, 22" Viewsonic vx2235wm LCD, MSI K9A Platinum mobo. Do you even know what your talking about?

[gravesmeister]

That doesn't sound like any budget system I ever heard of.

[james_8970]

I'm sorry I worded that wrong(don't even know who it came up), and for it I apologize. Yes I do know what I'm talking about, vista is a new OS and we are to expect issues.
James

P.S. This article may be interesting to you guys, vista and games

Edited by james_8970, 08 March 2007 - 09:39 PM.

[Commodore64]

Vista is running great on my system, i ran UT2k4 without a single problem all graphics options maxed out.

I run Vista on the following system and its super smooth :

AMD Athlon x2 4600+
2gig ram
ATI x1600 512ram
320gig SATA II

[happyrock]

I have 2 clients that called and are extremely disappointed with systems they just bought with vista installed on them..3 minute boot time and slow even after finally getting booted up..wanted to know if I had any speed tweaks for them....(turn off eye candy and add a usb flash drive to act as more ram)..they both want to go back to xp....
I'll wait until its up to Vista SP 2 to get it....

[cathudog]

http://www.extremete...,2096940,00.asp Here is a good article that has some facts and figures to back up any claims about XP or Vista and gaming performance read and enjoy.

[warriorscot]

Im still using the last RC(its a better build in some ways they had to go back to fix some compatibilty issues) and i have no problems on a much slower 2 year old system, it plays source games better than XP did and supreme commander runs fine it seems to be as much luck as anything else some people have no problems at all and others nothing but.

The 64bit from what ive seen is the most stable but has less driver support but the drivers it does have tend to work better.