How many people are running vista?

Post by **DiscoDave** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:50 pm

Ivee got the Vista Business Disc burned, but lacking enthusiasm to try it out, mainly because the gaming performance hit.

Post by **Foo** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:53 pm

DiscoDave wrote:mainly because the gaming performance hit.

Hah, the irony.

Post by **Anhedoniac** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:00 pm

Vista (Ultimate) owns imo. I've never been this impressed with an OS from MS before.
(I scored 5 on the system rating and Aero and everything else I've tried so far runs smooth as silk.)

Edit: I have yet to try any games. From what I've read, I'm sure that will dampen my enthusiasm a bit.

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:38 pm

have you tried playing any legally-purchased HD or Bluray and found that you couldn't because vista didn't like your cable or the colour of your mouse or some dumb shit?

Post by **DiscoDave** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:41 pm

Foo wrote:
DiscoDave wrote:mainly because the gaming performance hit.
Hah, the irony.

:P

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:09 pm

seremtan wrote:have you tried playing any legally-purchased HD or Bluray and found that you couldn't because vista didn't like your cable or the colour of your mouse or some dumb shit?

vista supports hd dvd playback now?

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:22 pm

yes, it's also supposed to be cracked already or some shit

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:25 pm

yeah i saw the hd dvd story. but are people sure you can playback hd dvds on vista out the box?

Post by JB » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:27 pm

Doombrain wrote:build number you fuckin bullshiter!

i've got mine right here, latest build!

9A303

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:28 pm

ouch, that is old.

Post by JB » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:30 pm

well, late(ish) :P

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:33 pm

Doombrain wrote:yeah i saw the hd dvd story. but are people sure you can playback hd dvds on vista out the box?

apparently so. why would that be a shocker? doesn't xp run the 360 hd-dvd drive perfectly fine with good playback etc.?

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:37 pm

nope. there's no codec for hd dvd playback in xp. you can read the disk, but not play HD DVD video.

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:38 pm

i've got os10.5 9a343. it's still flaky

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:43 pm

well you got the drive right? plug her in to a vista install and lets see what happens.

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:44 pm

Post by JB » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:57 pm

Doombrain wrote:i've got os10.5 9a343. it's still flaky

343? I think the admins in my building run that. But i get the feeling that theyd rather be on 10.4. 5 is still far from perfect, and i dont think it ever will be.

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:01 pm

yep, thought so. you can't play hd dvd, only read the disk and see the files. it will install it from windows update.

Post by **dzjepp** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:11 pm

hmmm that could be since there is no proper driver out for the thing... but if you get one of those 'official' drives for burning they can playback, seems this dude here has done it http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120869

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:23 pm

drivers aren't the issue. drivers in vista are now sent via update and you can find them on the net for xp. there's no HD DVD codec at the mo, that's the issue.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:28 am

werldhed wrote:
Scourge wrote:Got my Vista Business disc today from that Power of Together campaign. Probably install it this weekend.
Same here. Haven't installed it yet, though. It's going on my desktop, not my macbook. No way I'm wasting my install on that piece of shit.

I went ahead and installed it last night. Running real smooth so far.

Post by **tnf** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:12 am

I didn't even know there was a 64 bit XP version. Would I notice any performance increase going to that OS with my AMD 64?

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:19 am

I ran the 64 bit release candidate for a little while. I didn't test it extensively but didn't really notice much difference from the 32 bit version. I'm sure you wouldn't unless you are running 64 bit apps or games. BTW, running an athlon 64 3400+.

edit: The vista business that I'm currently running is 32 bit only. With an option to upgrade to Ultimate for $139.

edit2: DOH!! XP. Ran that too, same results.

Post by JB » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:32 am

ah Vistas turning out to be not my sort of system. I think ill flipside my way back to XP. 10.4 seems to be more reliable these days too.

Maybe in a few months, when both systems are more stable.

Post by **Pete** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:50 am

If you already have XP ligit edition, how much does it cost to upgrade?