Vista has more controls than XP.
As for Hi definition sound, its just that Microsoft have decided to stop nannying soundcard makers by making the drivers and their APIs all work nicely together and forcing the sound card people to do what the rest of the hardware industry does, liek the graphics card and printer people.
There are drivers for those sorts of sound cards.
As for nvidia and ATI, they've had quite a long time to build their drivers, and the 8800 card is no exception. Ontop of that I and other have been reporting the same bug to nvidia for months and no fixes as of yet.....
Do you have a computer running Vista ?
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LathanStanley
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el_matarife
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I'm throwing in with AF, I think its a driver quality issue. After the Catalyst 7.3 fiasco causing huge amounts of BSODs on people including forcing me to do a system restore to get a working PC back I went ahead and bought an 8800GTS that should be here tomorrow. Nvidia is almost certainly ahead in OpenGL support which means I should be able to play Spring again.
Ok to the list of games that dont work with my 8800 reliably (driver crashes) I can add:
Supreme Commander
STALKER shadow of chenobyl
X3 Reunion
HOWEVER
I have noticed some things.
I can play Gundam 1.1Q Epic coms on altored divide for 40 minutes, but I can play tiny com on small supreme battlefield for 30 seconds.
Also when playing X3 reunion if ti crashes the game recovers and pretends nothing happened and I carry on playing, its just a 2-3 seconds black screen.
This momentary black screen happens in Supcom too and STALKER, but these two games also crash sometimes when it happens, its a roll of the dice.
Star Trek armada 2 (DirectX
works perfectly.
I have CC3 here to test sometime.
nvidia have a set of new 8 series cards coming out e.g. 8500 GTS, and they're not listed in the 100.65 drivers, so they need to release a new set of drivers soon for these cards other than the beta 101.41 I'm using (same results in 100.65 WHQL drivers). nvidia have ahd amonth to work on the 101.41 drivers to fix issues and I've been sending a torrent of complaints and bug reports to them over that time.
Also, Vista ppl with nvidia cards. When you want to change your driver, downgrade or upgrade, you have to uninstall the drivers first or they become unstable. This doesnt just mean running the nvidia uninstaller, it also means going into device manager, uninstalling the 8800 hardware and saying yes when it asks if you also want to uninstall the drivers that run it.
Overall Vista is more secure, stable, better interface all round (I aint talking about aero), and a lot of design silly mistakes in XP are fixed. My one and only qualm is nvidia drivers.
Supreme Commander
STALKER shadow of chenobyl
X3 Reunion
HOWEVER
I have noticed some things.
I can play Gundam 1.1Q Epic coms on altored divide for 40 minutes, but I can play tiny com on small supreme battlefield for 30 seconds.
Also when playing X3 reunion if ti crashes the game recovers and pretends nothing happened and I carry on playing, its just a 2-3 seconds black screen.
This momentary black screen happens in Supcom too and STALKER, but these two games also crash sometimes when it happens, its a roll of the dice.
Star Trek armada 2 (DirectX
works perfectly.I have CC3 here to test sometime.
nvidia have a set of new 8 series cards coming out e.g. 8500 GTS, and they're not listed in the 100.65 drivers, so they need to release a new set of drivers soon for these cards other than the beta 101.41 I'm using (same results in 100.65 WHQL drivers). nvidia have ahd amonth to work on the 101.41 drivers to fix issues and I've been sending a torrent of complaints and bug reports to them over that time.
Also, Vista ppl with nvidia cards. When you want to change your driver, downgrade or upgrade, you have to uninstall the drivers first or they become unstable. This doesnt just mean running the nvidia uninstaller, it also means going into device manager, uninstalling the 8800 hardware and saying yes when it asks if you also want to uninstall the drivers that run it.
Overall Vista is more secure, stable, better interface all round (I aint talking about aero), and a lot of design silly mistakes in XP are fixed. My one and only qualm is nvidia drivers.
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FuzionMonkey
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Vista is like XP ... it is for business only :D (few add ...)Caradhras wrote:I've got a question (to the ones who use vista and think its useful):
What does Vista better than XP?
I mean, they took five years to code it and there is not even a new filesystem!
If u buy a new CPU u can put Vista on it but it's really not necessary to change your XP for a Vista !!!
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Lindir The Green
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After my last post I changed my TDR delay registry key to 5.
I managed to play 4 GDI missions and 1 NOD mission before cc3 gave em ym first TDR related driver crash.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R shadow of chenoybl is also much more stable, and my main reason for crashing out of that now is not drivers at all but a bug in the game (installed patch).
I managed to play 4 GDI missions and 1 NOD mission before cc3 gave em ym first TDR related driver crash.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R shadow of chenoybl is also much more stable, and my main reason for crashing out of that now is not drivers at all but a bug in the game (installed patch).
