aHandzProduction

OK so I haven't been on here for a few days and I have certainly missed out on a lot of good posts that I have to catch up to. Nevertheless lets get to the point. I was really excited about MS releasing Vista and was hoping for a somewhat stable OS when I installed it on my new build (St. Patty's day). My first bad experience was trying to install my network printer which runs off my old system which is now in the attic serving as a home server. It wouldn't let me install the driver for it. I went online found a few suggestions and they didn't really help (one of them was to run the installation as an administrator, which I did and it didn't work). The printer is not that new and I do plan on getting a new one soon, so I really didn't get stressed by it that much. Then came the part of installing a few programs which are fairly recent, and what do I get the blue screen of death. My first reaction was "***?" my second was Bill sucks D and then I was just like screw this I am going back to good old XP. I go back and install XP and everything runs fine. I was little sad though to go back to XP because I really started liking the Chess game that Vista had but when I saw that I got 207 fps in Counter Strike: Source's video stress test compared to 114 in Vista I was quite satisfied. Sure Vista "looks" a lot nicer but thats pretty much it, well I forgot DX 10 but I am not going back probably until after the Summer...I hope nvidia releases a stable video driver for it soon because I totally don't know how I get almost 100% more frames in XP....


The Vista I have is Home Premium Edition 32 Bit

IMO it was more hype than anything and I hope "Vienna" has something to offer that can really "wow" us

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grkgus

Well, i do get your point of certain programs not working and games being laggy but you can not blame Bill for this. I do not understand why everyone always blames microsoft.

Isn't the responsiblity of the software maker to produce a product for vista. Why would microsoft be responsible for other developers software. It does not make sense.

Vista is at its early stages and until developers produce program that run on vista you can not blame it on microsoft.

I also installed vista and was on it until certain things did not work for me. I dual booted and once the software that does not work vista works i will soon go over to it.

dhrandy

What programs were you trying to install. I haven't had any problems. I have everything running that I had in XP. I don't know if the vista version makes a difference. I have Ultimate.

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aHandzProduction

Alcohol 120%, Nero 7.5, etc.

But my biggest question is why do I get double the FPS in CS:S on XP than on Vista..are nVidias drivers for Vista that bad. I mean they were advertising such a great Vista experience with their products and then I get such a difference in Performance????

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Murlocke

Yes the drivers really are that bad, and to be honest with you, I don't think you will get near as well as performance as you did on xp even when they are improved.

Nero and Daemon Tools work for me in Vista x64. Both the latest versions.

If possible just dual boot with XP, make XP your primary OS and use vista for games that actually release for vista, like crysis.

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grkgus

If you got to the Nero website they have a free vista upgrade patch.