Are you using vista atm, or planning to "buy" when it comes out or just wont worry about it?
I'm going to install beta2 when i get home :D.
Are you using vista atm, or planning to "buy" when it comes out or just wont worry about it?
I'm going to install beta2 when i get home :D.
Vista...?? refresh my head...what is it?
The new Microsoft's OS.Originally Posted by LightWarrior
Windows Vista.
I've B1, but i like it... is not for slowest pcs :P
Oh well , it won't run on my pile of scrap metal, even if it will - most games\progs will be fucked
You need like 2.0ghz++ to run it well.. and 1gig+ ram. And 2gig+ ram to run games fine. Hum.
I'm happy with my current pc, P4 3.2ghz , 1.5 gig ram .... and games run perfect with a GeForce 6200 :P
Not bad, :D. What motherboard?
ill br running it fo sho :P
I just installed B2 for kicks. Wasn't to impressed with B1 as it was just XP with some fancy stuff. B2 on the otherhand is quite amazing. Grapically speaking it's beautiful. Feature rich, easy to install and just runs nicely on my computer (4800+ X2, 2gb RAM, SLI 7800GTX).
The bad things about it is the fact you have no control over the install. Which is great for first timers but for advance users it's a pain. All you have to do is put the cd in. Pick the drive. And then put the cd key in. That's all. Just go off and come back in an half hour and it's done. Noting to it at all. Which is a shame.
Then the second thing is the GUI is a major RAM hogger. Looks nice but at the cost of 800mb RAM on a fresh install. I use about 600mb on RAM having so much going on in the back ground (virus scanners, antispyware, control panels, messenger, and a few other stuff). If I were to do that on Vista it will surely be over a gig at idle. So if I want the same performace as I get with 2gb of RAM on XP I'll need 4gb of RAM for Vista.
Another thing that annoyed me is the fact it swaps drive letters around on you. With pasts windows if I install it to G then it says G and not C. So that confused the hell out of me. It swaped the C drive for the E drive. So I was looking around in the C drive for the boot.ini and it was in teh E drive. On the topic of boot.ini it configures it so it bypasses the older systems and wont let you select them from a list on a dual boot system. That really annoyed me and took an half hour to figure out how to fix that.
The last annoying this is everything is changed. The display pannel... The control pannel... The start menu (what's left of it)... The shutdown option... All of it changed and it's annoying since you can't go back to classic. Especially the shutdown option. INstead of bringing up a menu for you to select shut down, restart, or hibernate it auto selects hibernate for you. Which is annoying because now you need to click this arrow box not near the actually button to open a list to do thoes things. What a pain in the arse it is.
Anyways back to the topic. Will I be getting Vista when it comes out. The answer is mostliekly yes. But I'll be needeing to get a Conroe, 4 gigs of RAM, and a DX10 card before I do so. Otherwise I'm sticking to XP because I hate performance loss.
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I heard that Vista will be running on 64 processors only that true?
no theres a 32 bit option also.
32 and 64 bit ediitions are ready for download from the microsoft website.
Also, 800meg is crazy.. jeez i get annoyed when i have like 300meg usage :P
To those worried about Ram, with Vista you will be able to have USB Ram so you wont have to hassle over what kinds of rams will work etc. At least thats what Microsoft says.
I tryed a beta 2 moths ago, but I couldn't install my GeForce driver, and my comp was restarting after 15 min of running that OS... I like the grafic design but, I don think I'll try it again to soon.
I'll probably get it when I get another gig of ram and a 7900gt
wont ever get it.
lolz... wtf?! so much performance is needed to run games on it? T___T *goes stopping the download for beta2* stupid shit... ;___;"
hmmmm... is dual boot still enabled?
I find it pretty sad when a frikin' OS needs a gig of ram to run smoothly, I mean wtf.
hell no, 4 gigs of ram to run smooth, I mean wtf is that. no more then around 5% of the computer users has more then 2 gigs ram
4? Where's it say that? My comp needs a major upgrade -.-
I tried to but when i did it said 1/2 my drivers wouldnt work and id need to delete alcohol120 (which i was using to install the dam thing)
Maybe when i get a DVD+RW and drivers for it start being released?
I'm getting it as soon as an official release comes out, I don't like using betas, tbh.
I'd rather get a full out GUI hack for XP than get bulky Vista with its ghey security features for uber computer dumb asses. I turned off EVERYTHING in Vista and yet it was using ~400MB RAM with the classic Windows 2000 theme. My XP build (stripped some crap out) with FlyAKiteOSX uses about ~178MB when I'm sitting on the desktop (MSN, xfire).
I'm definitely gonna invest in Samsung and Kingston pre Vista final release.
Ditto :screama:
I heard Halo 2 for PC will only run on Vista so I'll probably have to get it.
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