How many Vista users here?

Liquid_Cow · Post by **Liquid_Cow** » 2008-03-02 20:55

I just got a new gaming rig and of course it came with Vista. And it took me about 2 weeks to figure out all the things I needed to do to get BF2 running in it.

Like it or not, Vista is the future of PC's (and I hate it). My undertanding is that as of Feb this year you can no longer buy a PC with XP preinstalled, and Feb next year XP will not be supported at all anymore. Further more, there are already products out there that cannot be used with any OS less than Vista.

I'm just wondering how many others are out there using Vista or are you using XP with a partitioned HD or perhaps you just tossed the preinstalled Vista and reformatted with XP?

If there are enough of us, is it worth asking for a dedicated Vista support forum here at PRM?

jOHNNYdOUBE · Post by **jOHNNYdOUBE** » 2008-03-02 21:02

Half.. Vista Ultimate 32bit for work/school/internet.
Half.. XP-Pro 32bit just for Bf2, old Mapsend software for a Magellan GPS, cakewalk sound recording and Videowave for video editing.
No anti-virus on XP partition.
It works fine.

DeePsix · Post by **DeePsix** » 2008-03-02 21:19

I will not be upgrading to Vista until a game requires me too.

Post by **Deadfast** » 2008-03-02 21:22

Ridiculous poll choices

There's no need to have Vista on a new PC. Just don't buy a pre-built.

Besides, you forgot Linux

Liquid_Cow · Post by **Liquid_Cow** » 2008-03-02 21:28

Deadfast wrote:Just don't buy a pre-built.

Not really an opion for a lot of people, I could have built my own, but for the money I found it was not worth it to get that extra 5fps out of a game. Beside, if you go laptop your choices are really narrow.

Besides, you forgot Linux

I knew there was going to be one ;P

LekyIRL · Post by **LekyIRL** » 2008-03-02 21:46

I have Vista 32 bit. I don't really mind all that much,you just have to fiddle with it for a bit.

drunkenpreacher · Post by **drunkenpreacher** » 2008-03-02 23:39

See ive been on XP for years n then i went n fried my motherboard one day n was without a pc for a while. Hell i even used a mac for 2months till i could afford to buy a new pc...i know its terrible but wat could i do.
I recently bought a new pc n have upgraded it with a nice nvidia card n some sound cards too. Its on vista os n it was my first time using it, even now im still fiddling with it to work out all the odds and ends to it.
It is a good package, but it just makes it alot harder to do what you want in terms of changing things like you could do so easily with XP.
I get the feeling we are all goin to hav to resort to it at some stage as im sure microsoft will want us to...

Nicolo_Tracchia · Post by **Nicolo_Tracchia** » 2008-03-03 09:10

I decided to embrace the future and recently installed Vista 64-bit. Luckily BF2 worked for me without problems, I don't see any notable performance difference too, and there are drivers for all my stuff, including the Copperhead :]. I keep a partition with XP just in case (like when recently I had to use the "testdisk" utility to fix something on another disk).

Makee · Post by **Makee** » 2008-03-03 09:59

Few days ago I've changed my rig and installed Vista 64 Ultimate.

Thanks to musp3r and his installation guide (https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... steps.html), I'm amazed with my new computer performance, as well as with Vista's features and capabilities.

Vista is, what I can see so far, one great OS for advanced users (who likes to setup every single option of his computer work in some intelligent and very detailed way) and "not so" advanced users which likes to see their computer being colorful and very simple to use.

I don't have any performance problems at all, my rig is simply flying

System specs:

Intel core 2 Quad Q6600 OC-ed to 2,7 GHz
2 x 2 Gb DDR2 800 MHz OC-ed to 900 MHz
MB Gigabyte P35C-DS3P
nVidia 7600 GT (have to wait few more days for 9600GT)

Post by **Rudd** » 2008-03-03 10:35

Makee wrote: I don't have any performance problems at all, my rig is simply flying

Vista has a lot of teething problems, but you are right that, once set up, it's pretty good.

We'll see what happens when SP1 comes.

Post by **Dunehunter** » 2008-03-03 10:38

Removed the bias, added options.

Vista btw, and it's working alright now for some reason. At one point, PR was unplayable, then a week later it worked fine.

Mora · Post by **Mora** » 2008-03-03 11:50

Windows Vista Ultimate 32. Works all fine to me. To me Ultimate is the same as XP i mean it only looks a little different the windows have a other color and so does the taskbar but everything else is just the same.. well, almost..

Alex6714 · Post by **Alex6714** » 2008-03-03 15:32

Vista ultimate 64 bit here. No problem with PR whatsoever, apart from Random CTDs every no and again. Have had very little problems, its my first own SO install and I prefer it over xp, also 4GB of RAM able to fully use is great.

Liquid_Cow · Post by **Liquid_Cow** » 2008-03-03 22:14

I have a hard time believing there is no preformance penalty with Vista, as it is so much larger than XP. I'm wondering if any of you dual booters have run a benchmark on the same machine to see if there's a difference. WIC Demo has a decent benchmark feature BTW, if you're interested in trying it with a free benchmark.

How many Vista users are running BF2 in XP compatability mode? I am, not sure if I need to.

[uKm]SCO/ENG-OLI123 · Post by **[uKm]SCO/ENG-OLI123** » 2008-03-03 23:24

im sure every1 will see visat in a different light when BF3 comes out nxt year and they are forced to by it to play BF3 . Dx10 only runs on vista!!!

Liquid_Cow · Post by **Liquid_Cow** » 2008-03-04 02:46

'[uKm wrote:SCO/ENG-OLI123;621564'] when BF3 comes out nxt year and

Don't know man, I (and a lot of other pleople here) was not the least bit interested in 2142, and PRM is not likely to move to that platform which would be the only reason I'd get it. I'm so sick of EA...

Post by **Rudd** » 2008-03-04 12:14

Liquid_Cow wrote:Don't know man, I (and a lot of other pleople here) was not the least bit interested in 2142, and PRM is not likely to move to that platform which would be the only reason I'd get it. I'm so sick of EA...

I am nauseated by EA also, but with the advent of dx10 all the game developers are gonna move over- not just EA.

"Upgrade or Die" has always been the reality of pc gaming, and always will be.

But I guess we'll see, it might not be financially viable given the market to move to dx10 yet- since gamers such as youself may want to stick with dx9 for a while longer.

Eden · Post by **Eden** » 2008-03-04 17:24

I run GNU/Linux. Gentoo with Gnome + compiz fusion + awn

http://binstar.org/images/Screenshot.png
http://binstar.org/images/Screenshot1.png

some of the features of compiz fusion for those who don't know YouTube - Compiz Fusion Development #2

Personally I think its miles ahead of vista, there attempt to bring 3d to the desktop is mediocre at best.

Runs games good as well, Doom 3, ET:QW, EVE Online, Darwinia and Defcon I have as well.

I can run BF2 on GNU/Linux as well but to be honest it doesn't run as well as other games.

How many Vista users here?

For new computer owners only (ones that came with Vista)

How many Vista users here?