Windows Vista was not sprung on an unsuspecting NVIDIA last weekend. NVIDIA has known for a great while that WHQL Vista driver support is expected of them. They also know darn well that their enthusiast customer base will not find their current feeble attempts acceptable and that their self-stated ?world-class support? is worth very little right now in terms of Windows Vista.
Yeah, I gotta agree for the moment. I'm waiting at least six months.
As I said above about NVidia and Vista, I've been looking through the motherboards and graphics cards at Newegg lately and ran across many reviews that mentioned problems with Vista and graphics hardware. I should go back and try to wade through them and post them here. If time permits.
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Yeah, I gotta agree for the moment. I'm waiting at least six months.
As I said above about NVidia and Vista, I've been looking through the motherboards and graphics cards at Newegg lately and ran across many reviews that mentioned problems with Vista and graphics hardware. I should go back and try to wade through them and post them here. If time permits.
I'm waiting 3 years...Microsoft has publicly stated that XP will be supported for the next 5 years. Besides 5 copies of Vista Premium will set me back $1,000 and there ain't no way Billy-Boy is getting any more of my money
[MgA]RockCrusher wrote:I'm waiting 3 years...Microsoft has publicly stated that XP will be supported for the next 5 years. Besides 5 copies of Vista Premium will set me back $1,000 and there ain't no way Billy-Boy is getting any more of my money
I don't blame you. Sucks doesn't it? What you need is a site license. lol
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Well I'm not much of a debater nor do I believe in shoving my opinion down someones throat, so I'll keep my opinion about Vista to myself. For me and the PC's I service it was a smooth transition.
It would appear every ones made up there mind anyway!
[MgA]Shemp wrote:Well I'm not much of a debater nor do I believe in shoving my opinion down someones throat, so I'll keep my opinion about Vista to myself. For me and the PC's I service it was a smooth transition.
It would appear every ones made up there mind anyway!
I value your opinion. My guess is that alot of people who have problems and then post their pros and cons at places like Newegg aren't as savvy as they like to think they are and want to blame the equipment. I know that over the years I personaly have had little or no problems with most things.
So, are all your games running the way you want with the framerates you want with Vista? If so I'd like to know what video card you're using and how much system ram you have plugged in.
As far as going to newer OS's, I've always been slow to change. It took me a year to go from Win3.1 to Win95 and almost that long to go to 98. Went to 98SE right away. It took me awhile to go to XP and I even tried the beta version which worked ok for me. Go figure.
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I have a ATI/AMD X1950XT
2 gigs of XMS memory
AMD SD 3700
SB XFI
BFG 650W PS
To be honest, I understand everyones apprehension to Vista. Unfortunately I service quite a few PC's not to mention all the new ones I build, so I've had a PC with Vista on it from the first RC candidate.
I have the Ultimate version of Vista and so far its well worth the money I spent on it. I wont go into all the things I like about it since everyone interpretation will be different. Most of my clients have multiple PC's in there house. When asked I usually suggest getting Vista on 1 PC and take it from there. Framerates are the same as XP from what I can see. I have a few kinks to work out with Q3 and COD1/UO will not work on vista. COD2 rox tho.
Games I've tested so far
Doom3
Q4
BF2- smooth
WOW- not on my system but tested on another.
BF2142- not on my system but tested on another.
COD2- smooth
I'll probably upgrade my gamer, but it will be a new system with Vista already on it. I'll take a month to install and test all my suitcase load of games on it. Thanks Shemp for the feedback you've posted on the games you've already tested (it looks like the BF2/BF2142/CoD2 games will run great on it.
