Vista and gaming

[brinstar]

I hear nothing but problems and headaches from people who are running Vista. Windows XP Pro has always been stable for me, and I never have problems with it.

same

i think i'll be able to get vista for $10 once i start school, but i will probably wait a while

[leah]

I haven't had any issues with it playing EQ2.

In fact I haven't had any Vista issues at all.

i'm kind of indifferent to vista. i have it on my laptop (when i bought it, vista was the only option offered for a new system) and i really don't have any complaints, although WoW runs kind of slow (or so josh says; i don't really have a frame of reference since i never played it on my desktop or any other desktop).

otherwise, meh. vista just isn't that big a deal imo. except in folder navigation--they don't have that green arrow to push to go in the next folder up anymore (if that makes sense).

[Tikker]

I just vista so unintuitive compared to XP

like, take your laptop over to someone else's place, and attempt to go find out how to join their workgroup

jebus that took us like 15 minutes to find (every time!)

[LostCause]

For some reason when new things come out people automatically trash the older model, sometimes the newer model isn't good...


XP is flat out better then Vista in everyway possible...the only thing I like about Vista is the sweet thing it does when you tab out of pages and when you put your mouse cursor over a tabbed page it shows you whats going on in there still...

[Naethyn]

I installed Vista and EQ1 did not work. I had to reinstall XP. A buddy of mine also has Vista and couldn't play for the same reason.

[Gidan]

I may not be a fan of windows in general, however there are some things that vista did well. For example, the way it handles weird hardware is much better then XP. I threw an ancient, generic tv tuner into a vista box, it found it, didn't have the drives build it, however it found the drives, told me the make and manufacturer for the card, the company web page and a direct link on that page to the drives I needed. XP told me I had an unknown device, it couldn't even tell me what kind of device it was.

[Durothil Skyreaver]

Fuck I hate trying to use Vista. Can't even update a fucking game without that goddamn user account control shit.

[Tossica]

Fuck I hate trying to use Vista. Can't even update a fucking game without that goddamn user account control shit.

Turn it off. If you turn off UAC on first boot, your Vista experience will be much better. SP1 has made it a much better experience as well. It's worth loading.

[Martrae]

SP1 out now? Thought it wasn't available for a couple more weeks.

[Durothil Skyreaver]

Fuck I hate trying to use Vista. Can't even update a fucking game without that goddamn user account control shit.

Turn it off. If you turn off UAC on first boot, your Vista experience will be much better. SP1 has made it a much better experience as well. It's worth loading.

I have turned it off now, much better. SP1? I wasn't aware it was out.

[Tossica]

SP1 out now? Thought it wasn't available for a couple more weeks.

Well, the version I am using is the real deal. I assumed it was out for everyone but maybe just MSDN or Technet or something. It's solid so far.