Vista Users

Business Edition

Still using XP (and SUSE 10.1) as ATI Radeon Graphics and sound drivers sucks in Vista. I'm more impressed with the new Linux SUSE as with Vista.
 
Trying Ultimate but its just not able to even run neck and neck with XP - will be a looong time before I delete the XP partition.
 
Have Ultimate but gona wait for SP1 for it cause performance in games sucks and sound drivers suck :P
 
S1ght said:
Have Ultimate but gona wait for SP1 for it cause performance in games sucks and sound drivers suck :P
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the performance in games is due to the current gfx drivers. Wait a few months and the drivers and performance will get better.
 
Andre said:
Ultimate. But gone back to XP for now.
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What process did you follow to do that. Format and re-install previous XP CD? Or is there a way to downgrade from Vista to XP?

Andre said:
since Nvidia and Creative's drivers suck so bad.
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What NVidia card do you have and what type of problems did you experience when using Vista with this card? What can't you do on Vista if using a NVidia card?

I'm getting an Acer laptop in a week or two that ships with an NVidia GeForce Go 7300 128MB graphics card and MS Vista Business Edition. By looking at this thread, I'm about to run into serious problems!? :(
 
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If the notebook comes with Vista pre_loaded then you will have zero problems. The spec and hard/software will be compatible as it is a new laptop.The supplier can get into serious trouble if it is not.
 
Ultimate - have absolutely NO problems, Graphic drivers (ATI) works fine, games run fine, sound & printer drivers work fine, resolved my bluetooth problems!. Can't go back to XP, been there, wore the t-shirt!.
 
Well, I did go back to XP. Waiting for the graphics drivers to improve :(

But Vista on it's own is very nice, just don't plan on playing any games until the drivers are fixed.
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
Well, I did go back to XP. Waiting for the graphics drivers to improve :(

But Vista on it's own is very nice, just don't plan on playing any games until the drivers are fixed.
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It depends from game to game. Certain games run fine and some totally suck on vista.

Like for Instance for me jade empire special edition,fifa 2007,dark messiah runs fine while games like nwn 2 and gothic 3 struggles. Not sure about oblivion since the drivers haven't allowed me yet to enabled both hdr and aa. There's only a leaked guru 3d driver which apparently allows this and I don't plan on installing leaked drivers. Just don't trust those drivers.

At the moment it's a game to game thing. It depends which games you like to play.

Personally sticking with vista.

The mayor problem really is with open gl games they do struggle allot. For many direct 3d games if you can get it to work in vista it will probaly run at a playable level.
 
EVERY game was struggling on Vista in my case.

Counter-Strike Source, Rugby2006, Half-Life 2, Half-Life, Warcraft 3, Unreal Tournament 2004, Empire Earth, Call of Duty 2 and Act of War (to name but a few) ran EXTREMELY slowly and stuttered like mad. To the point of making it unplayable.

Not to mention the 30FPS drop in framerates when the FPS wasn't 0FPS...

Basic Specs:
AMD 3800+ Single-Core (Socket 939) @ 2.4GHz
Gigabyte K8N-SLi-Pro
2GB Corsair TwinX XMS DDR400
Palit 7900GT 512MB (factory overclocked)
AOpen 450W PSU
Creative Soundblaster Live! (which isn't supported in Vista)

I expected a drop in FPS of about 5-10FPS, not 30FPS and a drop to 0FPS every now and then with some major stuttering. :(
 
PS - This has happened on my small fileserver as well which is running Vista Ultimate 32-bit. Any game, no matter the resolution or details, stutters every now and again. It has also seen a FPS drop, but only of 20FPS.

Seeing as these two PCs have entirely different specs, I can't blame the hardware.
 
some games were stuttering in the beginning, but after the initial update and latest graphic drivers - vista is purring quite nicely - so not sure what your pc's 'ick' is... Specs seems fine, perhaps because you're using Nvidia!.
 
Maybe I should go over to a version of Linux...

It's not a problem with Vista itself, it's a problem with the drivers not being developed properly. If they fix that then I'm happy.
 
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WKJ?:beanie said:
Maybe I should go over to a version of Linux...

It's not a problem with Vista itself, it's a problem with the drivers not being developed properly. If they fix that then I'm happy.
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see my link in the previous post. it will convince you. love the interface. :p
 
vista needs to do alot of work to be stable like xp , drivers wise and game wise
 
Vista isn't an easy OS to get to grips with. Its clearly better than XP in many if not all ways as an OS, but the drivers that manufacturers have provided are just taking a little bit longer than everybody would like.

Some manufacturers are just on the Vista bandwagon and blaming it for not releasing a driver while they haven't done so for XP either for years on end.

Others however have a genuine case for them in that they have (if they've been in the industry that long) been creating drivers in a very linear and similar manner for the last 10 years or more sometimes. Win'956 OSR2, Win'98, 98se, ME, 2000 and XP have a similar and familiar driver structure and work well in interfacing with the DX API be it for input, sound, video or graphics.
With Vista it usually if not always requires an entire driver re-write. With that you can't pull from 10 years of experience you are starting today with a clean slate. So it's a mixture of difficulty and laziness by some. Hopefully it'll come right within the end of this year...

I will continue to use Vista as my primary OS, keep it updated and keep sending error reports... I like it, but I know it can get better... By the time SP1 arrives drivers will have gotten better along with updates etc...
 
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