Do you have a computer running Vista ?

kuqa · Post by **kuqa** » 30 Mar 2007, 21:34

This is a simple poll to give us a clue of how many of you are runnin vista on any of your computers.

And by running Vista i mean that the computer has Vista as its primary OS

MAXDDARK · Post by **MAXDDARK** » 30 Mar 2007, 21:41

I can get is for free, but I don't want to waste a DVD for that

really, why would I want that buggy OS if I have Linux ? :D

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 30 Mar 2007, 21:52

this thread will go like this

Someone without vista : VISTA SUCKS
Someone with vista : NO its fine, infact quite spiffy.
Someone without vista : VISTA SUCKS I HEARD IT WHEN IT WAS IN ALPHA 1.0098209 WHICH NOONE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ANYWAY BUT NEVERMIND
Someone with vista : STFU NUB
Someone without vista : VISTA SUCKS COS I HEARD FROM A FRIEND SPRING WOULDNT RUN ON IT EVEN THO THEY DONT PLAY SPRING
Someone with vista : works fine for me
Someone without vista : SOMEONE TOLD ME A GAME FROM 1911 WONT WORK ON VISTA, I MEAN WTF IT SHOULD!!!!! I WANT TO PLAY DOOM STILL
Someone with vista : yes.....
Someone without vista : THE SAME PERSON WHO TOLD ME DOOM WONT WORK ALSO TOLD ME THAT IT USES MORE THAN 256 MB RAM, I CANT BELIEVE IT, MY PENTIUM 2 WONT WORK ANYMORE!!!! OneOneOne!11
Someone with vista : you suck

tombom · Post by **tombom** » 30 Mar 2007, 21:59

Nope.

1. I can't be bothered
2. Don't really need anything it offers right this minute
3. Want bugs to be ironed out
4. It would run badly on my computer

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 30 Mar 2007, 22:32

my money just went to some gundam reference material

LathanStanley · Post by **LathanStanley** » 30 Mar 2007, 23:03

iamacup wrote:this thread will go like this

Someone without vista : VISTA SUCKS
Someone with vista : NO its fine, infact quite spiffy.
Someone without vista : VISTA SUCKS I HEARD IT WHEN IT WAS IN ALPHA 1.0098209 WHICH NOONE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ANYWAY BUT NEVERMIND
Someone with vista : STFU NUB
Someone without vista : VISTA SUCKS COS I HEARD FROM A FRIEND SPRING WOULDNT RUN ON IT EVEN THO THEY DONT PLAY SPRING
Someone with vista : works fine for me
Someone without vista : SOMEONE TOLD ME A GAME FROM 1911 WONT WORK ON VISTA, I MEAN WTF IT SHOULD!!!!! I WANT TO PLAY DOOM STILL
Someone with vista : yes.....
Someone without vista : THE SAME PERSON WHO TOLD ME DOOM WONT WORK ALSO TOLD ME THAT IT USES MORE THAN 256 MB RAM, I CANT BELIEVE IT, MY PENTIUM 2 WONT WORK ANYMORE!!!! OneOneOne!11
Someone with vista : you suck

... /me with vista: upgrade.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 30 Mar 2007, 23:10

1: My comp probably can't handle it
2: My comp is perfectly fine as is anyway
3: Slightly put off Vista after reading this: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/p ... _cost.html

AF · Post by AF » 30 Mar 2007, 23:20

Vistais far from buggy, its the drivers for 8800 cards that're buggy.

Dont crucify Microsoft, crucify ATI and nvidia! Vistas fine, its the damned drivers the other people where supposed to make for it that they did a crappy job with that're the issue.

I have Vista on my new PC and it runs fine, just dont ask the 8800 to do any full screen graphics for hours on end or the drivers crash. Luckily Vista restarts the drivers and pretends nothign happened and shows a little info balloon, whereas XP or 2000 would throw up a BSOD and spend 30 minutes scanning the HD on reboot.

mehere101 · Post by **mehere101** » 31 Mar 2007, 00:25

The 8800 is a bleeding edge chip that must use a new driver design with a new Operating system while maintaining backwards compatibility. Could you make a new driver for a new card running on a new operating system that doesn't crash and supports Direct X 10 + 9 over the course of a year or two?

I'm not running Vista yet because I don't see a feature I 'need' enough to pay $150 for the upgrade. Once I decide to buy a new computer I'll probably use whatever OS comes preinstalled, which'll most likely be Vista.

LathanStanley · Post by **LathanStanley** » 31 Mar 2007, 00:44

FYI, vista has been running on my computer now for over 60 days, and frankly, it hasn't been crashed, ever.

its stable as HELL!, my current uptime is 32 days 4 hours and bla bla bla...
but yeah, I rebooted it with an update, and umm... that was it.

this OS is quite impressive.

I don't give a shit if it can't run any x16 software.. whopp deee do... get dosbox for it...

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 31 Mar 2007, 01:57

I won't be installing it in the next 12 months, and after that, we'll see. It doesn't have anything I need and it's full of some wacky DRM shit I don't want to ever see on my machine.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 31 Mar 2007, 01:58

I played around with vista in a local comp store... Just from using it for 15 minutes I can tell you I really like it. THing is, there are a lot of programs I use (Cubase SX, Acid, L3dt...) and many many others that I absolutely must have up and running, so therefore I choose to wait until everything has been ironed out and I have reports on whether these programs run on vista or not. If they don't, then I need to either hassle the dev of said programs or find an adequate replacement.

FFS, lay off vista, cry yourself a river. No one's put a gun to your head and told you to upgrade. Last time I checked XP still works.

Jesus, you guys whine too much.

malric · Post by **malric** » 31 Mar 2007, 01:58

It would be interesting for the server to report statistics for operating systems... Because there are quite a few out there and even if I think most are XP I am curious how many have other things...

iamacup · Post by **iamacup** » 31 Mar 2007, 02:03

Operating Systems (Top 10) - Full list/Versions - Unknown
Operating Systems Hits Percent
Unknown 5713063 65.9 %
Windows 2874010 33.1 %
Linux 66755 0.7 %
Macintosh 7922 0 %
BeOS 295 0 %
OpenBSD 9 0 %
FreeBSD 7 0 %
Sun Solaris 3 0 %
Symbian OS 1 0 %

OS stats on webservers suck badly..... mainly because most browsers hide them.

allthough the 65 percent unknown are most likely using windows....

AF · Post by AF » 31 Mar 2007, 02:23

cuppy, you should use google analysis, I get 5% Vista traffic at darkstars.co.uk

The "DRM shit" is a pathway to allow bluray and HD ray movies to play, and as such it lays dormant untill media player starts it up when you insert a HD DVD/bluray CD.

So the two tricks are:

never use media player for Hi-definition movies if you want to play Games and have a blu ray movie playign in a little box in the corner because teh DRM playing the movie will lag your PC to hell what with all the movie decoding and displaying and all and the Antialiasing of the game all at once

Or

dont be an idiot and spend ├é┬ú300 on a HD-DVD/blu ray drive

its like saying "oh noes theres a minesweeper.exe in *insert random folder path*, I wont buy vista because this program will lag md out and I dont want no nasty minesweeper game spying on me"

Remember guys, they said even worse about Windwos XP, and look what we're all using now.

zwzsg · Post by **zwzsg** » 31 Mar 2007, 03:19

AF wrote:Remember guys, they said even worse about Windwos XP, and look what we're all using now.

I'm using Win2000, and don't plan on installing neither XP nor Vista.

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 31 Mar 2007, 03:30

AF wrote:The "DRM shit" is a pathway to allow bluray and HD ray movies to play, and as such it lays dormant untill media player starts it up when you insert a HD DVD/bluray CD.

I know that. The problem is that MS had to give an arm and a leg for that - everyone with EAX-capable sound card knows that.

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 31 Mar 2007, 03:45

Vista is really good imo, the new explorer and features far outweigh the occasional bug.

Everyone who rags on vista always has handy biased links to post but no hands on experience actually using it.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 31 Mar 2007, 06:08

No.

I cannot trust my one machine to an operating system which I cannot control and do not know the secrets of. Besides, I get higher benchmarks with XP.

tombom · Post by **tombom** » 31 Mar 2007, 10:58

neddiedrow wrote:No.

I cannot trust my one machine to an operating system which I cannot control and do not know the secrets of. Besides, I get higher benchmarks with XP.

So you use an open-source operating system which you have read the source code to and know inside out?

Oh you use XP.

I'm a little confused.

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