Vista could potentially ruin PC gaming... it's so bad.

Now, as some of you may know, I love my PC games.

That's why I'm pissed at just how unimaginably stupid Microsoft was with vista.

Now, XP had it's share of problems when it came out, any OS does, but Vista is (at least as far back as I can remember into PC history) the absolute worst Operating System ever released.

It's not finished.

You know those programs you like? 99% chance they aren't compatable.

The Mac commercials weren't joking. Play around with setting all you like, you're getting an average of 17,600 prompts every minute. Cancel or Allow my foot up your $%^ Bill Gates?

This puts us at a problem: Many people just won't buy Vista, and since sooner or later they're gonna stop making games for XP and make them Vista only, it could put a hurtin on PC gaming.

Now, none of this is for sure, and I sure hope that M$ get's off their butts and fixes their broken OS, because I want to be able to play games on my PC in a couple years.

Hands held high in a world of tears I slowly drown.

My Vista runs everything , I get reasonable frame rates in DX10 games now thanks to the latest Nivida Beta drives (+ Digital Vibrance :D) ....

2 GB RAM does the job fine in anything, theres like a 5-10 FPS difference in STALKER at max.

Sorry, I think your jsut jumping on the sheepish "Vista sucks" train.

Much better than XP , I'm never going back to it.

Turn of User Active Control, that's what your problem is.

And Vista will get better eventually.

Mac rules! This is excatly why i have switched.... i just play on my console now :)Phantsy16

I use my PC for gaming and ironically SW:P I use my Macbook for pretty much everything else.

Cancel or Allow my foot up your $%^ Bill Gates?

Big_Red_Button

[QUOTE="Big_Red_Button"]

Cancel or Allow my foot up your $%^ Bill Gates?

Spartan070

Allow

Well, those Mac commercials are **** and Mac's suck..Sacred-Snow

My Vista runs everything , I get reasonable frame rates in DX10 games now thanks to the latest Nivida Beta drives (+ Digital Vibrance :D) ....

2 GB RAM does the job fine in anything, theres like a 5-10 FPS difference in STALKER at max.

Sorry, I think your jsut jumping on the sheepish "Vista sucks" train.

Much better than XP , I'm never going back to it.

Meu2k7

Mac rules! This is excatly why i have switched.... i just play on my console now :)Phantsy16

I have been using XP for a while and now it finally runs smoothly on my laptop, I am not getting Vista because of all the flaws. I have used it at school for one of my classes and man it sucks noodles, even the Home Premium does not run well on 512 MB's of RAM, same with XP though which people claim can run on 256 MB's but I have tried and it runs slower then a fat man being chased by a tiger. While Vista has potential, the hardware and software compatibility is terrible and all the promting crap just pisses me off. If they got rid of all the prompts or if you could disable them then I would not complain.DSgamer64

Prompts , I'm sure thats jsut somethng the school administration has done ... and running it on 512 isnt really a good way to judge Vista.

People ... Vista ... on gaming rigs, run perfectly fine.

Vista will never kill pc gaming, it's more like PC gaming will kill vista.
Anywaymostproblemspeoplehavewithvistaisduetofaultydriversor
userincompetence.

It'sprettysimpleifmostgamersstaywithxpthendeveloperswillreleasealltheirgamesforxp.

Infactthatiswhatishappeningrightnow,theonlygamesreleasedforvistaonlyarefromMicrosoft

gamedevelopers.

Andallthatcrapaboutdirectx10,justtellmehowmanygamesaredesignedfromthegroundfordirectx10 ,
yeahIthoughtso.

Now, as some of you may know, I love my PC games.

That's why I'm pissed at just how unimaginably stupid Microsoft was with vista.

Now, XP had it's share of problems when it came out, any OS does, but Vista is (at least as far back as I can remember into PC history) the absolute worst Operating System ever released.

It's not finished.

You know those programs you like? 99% chance they aren't compatable.

The Mac commercials weren't joking. Play around with setting all you like, you're getting an average of 17,600 prompts every minute. Cancel or Allow my foot up your $%^ Bill Gates?

This puts us at a problem: Many people just won't buy Vista, and since sooner or later they're gonna stop making games for XP and make them Vista only, it could put a hurtin on PC gaming.

Now, none of this is for sure, and I sure hope that M$ get's off their butts and fixes their broken OS, because I want to be able to play games on my PC in a couple years.

Hands held high in a world of tears I slowly drown.

Big_Red_Button

You do know that you can disable the UAC so you don't get those prompts right? Just go into the user account settings. I don't know why anyone would keep that on, it is rather annoying.

Also, there is a possible beta SP1 coming for Vista, this will hopefully address some of the bugs.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=559

As far as what MS had to do about security in Vista, I dont think they had much of a choice on the matter. Without SP2, XP is a OS open for infection from various means, there are so many security holes in it.

You do know that you can disable the UAC so you don't get those prompts right? Just go into the user account settings. I don't know why anyone would keep that on, it is rather annoying.

kazrium

*fan of Marathon series*musicalmac

Hey man, you may be happy to hear about this:D

My thread announcing Durandal coming to XBLA(with amazing new fully 3D pics!!!) :o

[QUOTE="musicalmac"]*fan of Marathon series*Spartan070

Hey man, you may be happy to hear about this:D

My thread announcing Durandal coming to XBLA(with amazing new fully 3D pics!!!) :o

[QUOTE="kazrium"]

You do know that you can disable the UAC so you don't get those prompts right? Just go into the user account settings. I don't know why anyone would keep that on, it is rather annoying.

musicalmac

Lol, I love that commerical, and the reason why it is so funny is because it's true.

I have been using XP for a while and now it finally runs smoothly on my laptop, I am not getting Vista because of all the flaws. I have used it at school for one of my classes and man it sucks noodles, even the Home Premium does not run well on 512 MB's of RAM, same with XP though which people claim can run on 256 MB's but I have tried and it runs slower then a fat man being chased by a tiger. While Vista has potential, the hardware and software compatibility is terrible and all the promting crap just pisses me off. If they got rid of all the prompts or if you could disable them then I would not complain.DSgamer64

Ubuntu 7.04 Server

Slackware

Arch

GNU/Linux in all it's many distrubutions is the best operating system I've used thus far. Vista is icky and Mac OS X, although aestheticly pleasing, is too closed off and felt like I was using a Fischer Price PC IMO. Besides, you can get all that pizazz in GNU/Linux if you know what you're doing.

With my PC, I get a free upgrade to Vista. I have XP right now that I play games on. it works just fine. When I get the Vista upgrade, I won't download it into my PC until all the bugs are fixed. As for the Macs>Windows thing, the only thing that PC is better than a Mac is for gaming.blizzvalve

[QUOTE="blizzvalve"]With my PC, I get a free upgrade to Vista. I have XP right now that I play games on. it works just fine. When I get the Vista upgrade, I won't download it into my PC until all the bugs are fixed. As for the Macs>Windows thing, the only thing that PC is better than a Mac is for gaming.Vandalvideo

[QUOTE="Vandalvideo"][QUOTE="blizzvalve"]With my PC, I get a free upgrade to Vista. I have XP right now that I play games on. it works just fine. When I get the Vista upgrade, I won't download it into my PC until all the bugs are fixed. As for the Macs>Windows thing, the only thing that PC is better than a Mac is for gaming.musicalmac

Dont you also get itunes for free with Macs?

[QUOTE="Vandalvideo"][QUOTE="blizzvalve"]With my PC, I get a free upgrade to Vista. I have XP right now that I play games on. it works just fine. When I get the Vista upgrade, I won't download it into my PC until all the bugs are fixed. As for the Macs>Windows thing, the only thing that PC is better than a Mac is for gaming.musicalmac

Dont you also get itunes for free with Macs?

blizzvalve

[QUOTE="Vandalvideo"] The best things in life cost money.musicalmac

Macs aren't free though...

:|

i'm planning to avoid vista as long as possible. :)CaseyWegner

I'm right with you.

My bro just bought this.

Click here.

50+ processes running in the background. I managed to get it down to about 40. Any more then the system seems not to work properly.

I upgraded his RAM too. So he has 2 GB. Still takes 6 to7 mins to fully boot into Vista (when you are in Vista it takes 5 to 6 mins just for all the processes to load).

XP is no doubt the best OS they made. I really wish they would have updated it. Instead of making a whole new OS that is a step back.

[QUOTE="musicalmac"][QUOTE="Vandalvideo"] The best things in life cost money.AnimeHendrix

Macs aren't free though...

:|

[QUOTE="AnimeHendrix"]

[QUOTE="musicalmac"][QUOTE="Vandalvideo"] The best things in life cost money.musicalmac

Macs aren't free though...

:|

My point is your point is invalid. You're paying for the software with Macs, it's just included with what your buying.

My point is your point is invalid. You're paying for the software with Macs, it's just included with what your buying.

AnimeHendrix

[QUOTE="musicalmac"][QUOTE="Vandalvideo"] The best things in life cost money.Vandalvideo

That depends on how good the food is.

[QUOTE="AnimeHendrix"]

My point is your point is invalid. You're paying for the software with Macs, it's just included with what your buying.

musicalmac

If you wanted truly free software with stability and eye candy, why not go with open-source?

[QUOTE="CaseyWegner"]i'm planning to avoid vista as long as possible. :)Truth_Hurts_U

I'm right with you.

My bro just bought this.

Click here.

50+ processes running in the background. I managed to get it down to about 40. Any more then the system seems not to work properly.

I upgraded his RAM too. So he has 2 GB. Still takes 6 to7 mins to fully boot into Vista (when you are in Vista it takes 5 to 6 mins just for all the processes to load).

XP is no doubt the best OS they made. I really wish they would have updated it. Instead of making a whole new OS that is a step back.

6 to 7 minutes!? What does he have starting up?

Also, does he have Norton or McAfee on the computer?

[QUOTE="musicalmac"][QUOTE="AnimeHendrix"]

My point is your point is invalid. You're paying for the software with Macs, it's just included with what your buying.

AnimeHendrix

If you wanted truly free software with stability and eye candy, why not go with open-source?

6 to 7 minutes!? What does he have starting up?

Also, does he have Norton or McAfee on the computer?

kazrium

Only bloat wear that was on his system was Norton and DVD software. I took them both off and that took about 10 processes off and saved over 100 MB of RAM.

[QUOTE="AnimeHendrix"]

My point is your point is invalid. You're paying for the software with Macs, it's just included with what your buying.

musicalmac

Mac's cost waaaaaaaaay more than PC's of the equivalent spec. That software isn't free, it is just added to the cost at retail.

Oh, and of course you pay for the err fancy case and lack of upgradability :P.

I tried my mom's brand new 07 laptop that has window vista (home) and when i compared to my 2004 XP (home) and it seriously is absolutly no better than Windows XP. It just looks different and has different sounds. Whats so great about it? Oh wait. Nothing...

Make something that is an actual improvement Microsoft.

I tried my mom's brand new 07 laptop that has window vista (home) and when i compared to my 2004 XP (home) and it seriously is absolutly no better than Windows XP. It just looks different and has different sounds. Whats so great about it? Oh wait. Nothing...

Make something that is an actual improvement Microsoft.

Cedmln

LoL what the heck... My bro just got a 2007 laptop with 2 GB's of RAM (Vista Home prem)and he has an old 2003 PC (XP sp2)with 1.5 GB's of RAM and it runs better then his laptop.