Vista users tell me your experience!

[spirex]

I have vista installed on my laptop (dell inspirion 6000d w x300 gfx) and it works fine but does seem more slugish than XP considering its a 2.13 pentium M, it has an experience index of 3.5, with the processor being the bottleneck

My biggest compliant is that my battery is old so it doesn't accurately gauge the remaining charge and vista goes into sleep mode even though the battery still last another half hour. XP had an option to do nothing when the battery got low and vista only has sleep, hibernate, and shutdown.

I only use the laptop for web surfing and viewing movies so it seems fine, but I wouldn't install vista on my desktop which i use for gaming and video encoding.

[DaMan05]

I'm mostly going to be using it for gaming and encoding movies I guess.

From what I've read on other forums, vista gaming performance is near piss poor for most people even though they have high end rigs. Others have had good luck with it, so all you can do is try it and see what happens.

hmm... i've pretty much ditched my computer gaming since i got my 360... but i did notice a performance difference in games... but im sure thats because the Vista driver do not support SLi for any GPUs other than the GF8 yet ... and right now, the $600 i spent on one of my 7900GTXs is pretty much going to waste...

[waardeloos]

vista is just a nice upgrade off xp nothing more an nothing less.
some minor things like playing games like battlefield 2142 not gona happen (jet) and my network card ceeps on crashing under vista

[DaMan05]

and my network card ceeps on crashing under vista

hey... same with me every once in a while!

[Shiranai_Baka]

and my network card ceeps on crashing under vista

hey... same with me every once in a while!

Whats the make of your NICS?

[mikechrobot]

Vista is the biggest bullshit ever made, it looks gay, the side bar on the right is only helpful with 16/9 screens cause with normal ones it just takes needed space, everything u do u need to confirm, no way to skip that, security not that much better than XP, maybe even worse, a lot of games don't work on it so u either have to get patches or live with it (and if the games are fake u can't get the patches to work correctly and no cracked patches are released cause supposadly the scene is boycotting vista). Overall, it's shit. Good thing I installed it on my other HD and tried it before updating from XP, couldn't live with having to use it

[DaMan05]

hey... same with me every once in a while!

Whats the make of your NICS?

D-link extreme something mobobber... dont want to check right now... dlink extremeG i think it is... with latest driver that windows update provided me.

Vista is the biggest bullshit ever made, it looks gay,

woah dude... its pretty nice... nicer than OS X

the side bar on the right is only helpful with 16/9

very true... dual monitors are good...

everything u do u need to confirm, no way to skip that

umm.... ya you can... turn off User Account Control... i did...

a lot of games don't work on it so u either have to get patches or live with it (and if the games are fake u can't get the patches to work correctly and no cracked patches are released cause supposadly the scene is boycotting vista).

what are you talking about? I'm a hardcore gamer and have 34 games installed rite now... all cracked and working fine... get your facts straight dude... maybe really really really really old games... the oldest games i have installed are CS and the orginal UT and those work fine

[mr. nails]

i've been running vista ultimate 64 for over 3 months now and it's perfect. games still lack in fps compared to xp, but that will get better. i've gotten ALL my programs to work and they work just as they did in xp. there are certain things xp had i miss and things that vista has over xp i like. that side bar u can disable. i leave it (24' WS LCD). meh, i just like seeing the widget for my cpu performance and the local temp when @ desktop. all-in-all, vista is still my default OS and i ONLY boot to xp when i wanna game. i think the only prog that does not work is peerguardian 2. awaiting the rc1 on that one, but my kaspersky pretty much takes care of what peerguardian did anywho. ccleaner works, but needs updated BADLY! my pc is mainly used for movies, anime, & world of warcraft. no complaints. amd939 3500, 2gb ram, 6800gtoc.

[Shiranai_Baka]

By the way guys. I installed it already and I have to say.. its pretty good and I'm learning how to use the new interface. Here is my config:

EVGA Nforce 590 AM2 SLI motherboard
AMD X2 6000+
2x(2x1) G.skill 4-4-4-12 Ram
Nvidia 8800GTS superclocked

Lets keep up the user experience stories for other people!

i've been running vista ultimate 64 for over 3 months now and it's perfect. games still lack in fps compared to xp, but that will get better. i've gotten ALL my programs to work and they work just as they did in xp. there are certain things xp had i miss and things that vista has over xp i like. that side bar u can disable. i leave it (24' WS LCD). meh, i just like seeing the widget for my cpu performance and the local temp when @ desktop. all-in-all, vista is still my default OS and i ONLY boot to xp when i wanna game. i think the only prog that does not work is peerguardian 2. awaiting the rc1 on that one, but my kaspersky pretty much takes care of what peerguardian did anywho. ccleaner works, but needs updated BADLY! my pc is mainly used for movies, anime, & world of warcraft. no complaints. amd939 3500, 2gb ram, 6800gtoc.

Peerguardian works for me. The forums said it works for Vista except for blocking HTTP doesn't work I believe.

[mbucari1]

game crashes cuz it uses too much ram