What do you think of Vista?

[Cptn Vortex]

I'm running Vista Ultimate 64bit. Been using it about 2 months now, and I actually don't mind it. I mean, yes, I disabled all the fancy effects and visual themes....but it seems to be working fine for me. There are some apps which don;t work though, and it's pretty annoying. ATItool, nTune, Speedfan, and NVMonitor causes BSOD's, so I have no way of overclocking my Vidcard....

[Somed00d]

I tried vista ultimate 32bit on the rig in my signature last year and I had too many driver issues and couldn't use my satellite tuner. so i went back to xp pro. with all the guys modding vista drivers these days I can probably get it working if I try..

I just put vista ultimate 32bit on my turion TL-50 laptop and I love it. Sure you have to tinker with drivers until everything works good but who dosn't love tinkering lol. For some reason UAC blocks Notebook Hardware Control at startup so i disabled uac.

I am impressed by the wifi connection managment, On winxp I used wifi hopper but with vista I am happy with the built on connection manager.

[Thund3rball]

Originally Posted by Somed00d

I am impressed by the wifi connection managment, On winxp I used wifi hopper but with vista I am happy with the built on connection manager.

Ya I like this feature too. I never did wifi on XP so I can't compare but the wifi manager on Vista is actually really smooth. Good point

[Thund3rball]

Originally Posted by Cptn Vortex

I'm running Vista Ultimate 64bit. Been using it about 2 months now, and I actually don't mind it. I mean, yes, I disabled all the fancy effects and visual themes....but it seems to be working fine for me. There are some apps which don;t work though, and it's pretty annoying. ATItool, nTune, Speedfan, and NVMonitor causes BSOD's, so I have no way of overclocking my Vidcard....

Hmmm, might be something with 64? On my laptop I have Vista 32... I have nTune and NV Monitor and they work flawlessly. Yes you can OC a gfx card on a laptop ;)

[vdf22]

I have ATITool working fine on Vista 32. So it could be compatibility with Vista 64. I haven't tried the other programs.

[Scratch]

well as I posted after many different issues that just didn't seem to be resolving themselves I chucked Vista on both my pc's and now have WinXPpro SP3
I ran Vista for a year and honestly cant imagine anything that would make me return to it

[Jmac]

It's been smooth sailing for me since the summer of '07 for Vista and I've just about converted all my computers over to Vista now. The first several months weren't very smooth w/ Nvidia's drivers sucking ass on top of random program crashes; I had XP installed on it as well, so it wasn't a huge deal as I just mostly used XP during that time, anyways.

Vista has a ton of useful features that I sorely miss whenever I use an XP computer. Yes, you can get the same functionality out of XP using a bunch of 3rd party apps, but I'd prefer not to install a bunch of crap to do so (the same reason I use Opera instead of Firefox + a bunch of add-ons).

Using Vista Ultimate x86 on gaming computer and iMac, Home Premium x86 on laptop, will probably install Home Premium on media center computer at some point this year. I'm building a new gaming computer in April if everything goes as planned and I'll probably be moving to Vista Ultimate x64 w/ 8 GB of RAM.

[belgolas]

Burn My Vista

thats what I think of vista.

[Evilyeti]

I've been running Vista Ultimate X64 for quite some time now and i haven't had any problems with it yet.

The only problem i encountered at first was having games using the HL2 engine crash randomly, but than i found there was a Vista update i missed and it fixed it.

I didn't like Vista at all when it first came out, but now it doesn't bother me one bit.

[vdf22]

Originally Posted by Evilyeti

I didn't like Vista at all when it first came out, but now it doesn't bother me one bit.

That's (hopefully) how some of these other people will think in a year or so.