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Vista - not so full of fail
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So, I've talked a lot of shit about Vista. It's a resource hog, full of bugs, etc, etc..

Well basically, I got my new laptop about 7 months ago and it came with Vista, but I ditched it and installed a pirated version of XP pro instead. Which was cool. Aside from it taking me almost 2 weeks to find and get the proper drivers installed. It worked pretty good, but I was pissed off I couldn't install certain updates and I kept getting weird errors and would have to restart whenever I unplugged my ethernet cable. Which was no doubt due to my pirated XP slipstream but I digress..

So I love XP, and I was vehemently against Vista.. especially in terms of performance. But I'd had enough of these stupid errors and unable to download certain updates, and I heard vista has been doing a lot better since SP1, so I decided to try and install it.

I like. Of course, I had to tweak the shit out of it, disable a bunch of services, edit some registry settings, etc.. to get it running at best performance. But it's pretty damn nice now. My laptop is far from "top of the line", but it's pretty good, 2gb ram, 2.4ghz duo core, 2x8600M GTs in SLi, and after a day, a bunch of tweaks and getting the latest drivers.. I have Vista running smooth as butter.
I must say I do like the new menus and whatnot, aero is pretty sleek.

So for all the shit I've talked about Vista, it's not that bad anymore. Sure, it had a lot of flaws a year ago.. but SP1 fixed a lot of issues and Nvidia is finally on the ball with drivers.
Now the true test comes in gaming performance. Let's see if my games will still run at the same FPS.. I just had to see what I was missing with DX10.


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Re: Vista [Re: Shroomism]
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Way to jump on the anti vista bandwagon without actually using it. :wink:


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Re: Vista [Re: mndfreeze]
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No.. I did use it when I first got my laptop... for about a week. I hated it. It ran slow as shit, I could barely even play my games on it.

I mean granted, I didn't try stuff like disabling sidebar and whatnot.. but out of the box after a fresh install with no bloatware it was running like shit and that was just unacceptable. I installed XP and even though it took me like a week to get it properly installed I didn't have any slowness issues.
I mean 4 GB of RAM would have helped, but shit, 2GB should be enough.
But at least it's running better now..


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Re: Vista [Re: Shroomism]
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After I installed SP1 Vista calmed down a little. But I don't think Microsoft put enough into it. They put the bare essential and removed many things they were talking about putting in and I think they could have done more to cover more of the compatibility issues it has. I'm waiting for SP2 before I say that I like Vista. Just like with XP vista won't be more reliable until the second service pack comes out.

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Re: Vista [Re: googlemeplz]
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All the hate for Vista.  :nonono:  I run it tweaked and have had it for... I'm not sure, at least a year, and I love it. I hear people complaining about it all the time and I don't try to argue anymore I just roll my eyes and let them bash an OS they haven't even used for more than a few minutes or hours.

Edited by never.never.land (06/29/08 06:30 PM)

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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Shroomism]
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strange... I have a version of XP that allowed me the 2 SP updates
and doesnt ask for authentication... I still dont run vista


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Re: Vista [Re: never.never.land]
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never.never.land said:
All the hate for Vista.  :nonono:  I run it tweaked and have had it for... I'm not sure, at least a year, and I love it. I hear people complaining about it all the time and I don't try to argue anymore I just roll my eyes and let them bash an OS they haven't even used for more than a few minutes or hours.


Ive had less problems with Vista on my new machine than with XP. Granted I have cut back on the downloading a bit but I have had no problems with Vista. :shrug:

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Re: Vista [Re: KillerPicklez]
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Vistas nice, but XP allowed me to do so much more in the way of getting things I had no right to have


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Re: Vista [Re: drok]
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lol


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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Shroomism]
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Vista is crap. Maybe after SP5 gets released... But I'll be looong gone.


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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner#1 said:
strange... I have a version of XP that allowed me the 2 SP updates
and doesnt ask for authentication... I still dont run vista


Maybe my version was fubared or something. I had SP2.. but I couldn't get any of the critical updates that required windows genuine advantage or whatever.


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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Shroomism]
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You suck at pirating.


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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Shroomism]
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Shroomism said:
Maybe my version was fubared or something. I had SP2.. but I couldn't get any of the critical updates that required windows genuine advantage or whatever.



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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Windows Vista has stopped working.


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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
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:shrug: I tried everything I could.. changing and cracking the activation key.. windiz.com, etc. etc.. I'm not a computer hacking expert.

But, not being able to update was not the reason I switched.. it was mostly that stupid error I would get whenever my internet would spike or something, which basically forced me to reset.. and it happened multiple times a day. It was most likely a bad driver or something in the install, but I reinstalled fresh about 6 times and it kept doing it :shrug:


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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Shroomism]
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eh it's all about the version you get - any XP with a volume license key is fine - I always get updates

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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Boom]
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Well if you guys have a super 1337 version of XP, hook a brotha up in case I decide to switch back :smile:


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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Shroomism]
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I like the sidebar in Vista. :shrug:

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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Shroomism]
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Shroomism said:
Well if you guys have a super 1337 version of XP, hook a brotha up in case I decide to switch back :smile:


lemme know when


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Re: Vista - not so full of fail [Re: Redstorm]
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I disabled the sidebar cause it eats up too many resources.. and I like my shit running as minimal as possible.. mostly so it doesn't effect my games. Maybe if I had more RAM and a faster processor it wouldn't be a big deal.. but it's definitely noticeable.

Anyway I'm sticking with Vista for now.. if it starts acting funky on me I'll probably go back to XP, but I kind of like it for now.


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