lol this thread has gone to complete and utter crap. Might as well rename it "What you think about Oblivion and ES series"

Can someone lock this thread? It's quite pointless as it currently stands.

How did this thread go from an informative post about an impressive mod to a troll-fest? Go away and lay someone else's poor thread to waste - let this one thrive troll-free if you would.

Anyone here actually tried this mod? Any suggestions? Im curious I shall admit

In it's current shape and form it's broken and not as stable as XP.

Bedhouin

You say it's broken and unstable, I completely disagree. You make a hard accusation and fail to provide any evidence or examples. What exactly makes Vista "broken" in your opinion? Give us some facts. It's one thing to say the moon is red and another thing entirely to prove it.

It's funny I remember seeing hundreds of threads just like this one several years ago when XP had just arrived. Just about anyone you would ask would tell you how horrible it was and that it was a piece of trash that needed to be scrapped. Sound familiar?

It still amazes me how ignorant some people can be when they trash Vista with so much zeal and so little knowledge. Installing Vista and toying with it for a few hours gives you no credit to say the operating system is beyond salvage, like most of the people out there trashing it. The same goes for those individuals who stop by their local Best Buy and purchase a PC filled to the teeth with bloatware and then go online telling anyone willing to listen how horrible Vista is and how much Microsoft had screwed up. Ignorance is running rampant everywhere I go and finding an honest opinion of what the real Vista experience is like online is neigh impossible.

Most people load Vista for the first time and are instantly appalled by the annoying UAC (User Account Control) that forces them to confirm just about every little thing you can possibly imagine doing (from renaming a shortcut to copying and pasting your documents). For thousands this was the end of their experience as they quickly uninstalled the "piece of trash" operating system in fustration and go online to voice their completely ignorant experience with Vista. Had these people taken two minutes to search the control panel most would have discovered that UAC is easily turned off.

Many others are shocked by how much memory Aero sucks up when they first load up Vista. For those that have under 1G of RAM Aero is a nightmare for anyone wanting to run Vista. Once again thousands of people rush to their online communities to complain about Vista and how much of a memory hog it is and that once again it's a piece of trash. I dont think it occured to any of these people that Aero can also be easily turned off by simply right clicking on your desktop and hitting display settings. Anyone complaining that Windows Vista as an operating system is beyond salvage because of it's memory usage better come up with a damn good argument because otherwise I will disgard you as ignorant, as 85% of Vista haters out there are. There are also those that take things WAY out of proportion. I cant count how many people have gone on forums complaining that they have 3GB of RAM and that it would barely be enough to run Vista. Unless you're running the cheapest PC3200 RAM that one can possibly fathom, 3GB of RAM is overkill for Vista, aero and all. 2GB of DDR2 memory is more than sufficient to run Windows Vista with all of it's bells and whistles enabled - and dont let anyone else tell you otherwise.

I will completely agree that gaming still isnt up to par with Windows XP. Anyone claiming that as their reason for waiting to upgrade is being a completely sensible person. Nvidia drivers are only now beginning to do what they should have done months ago, and DX10 games are still a few months away. All that being said, however, I honestly dont notice a single framerate of a difference when playing all my games in Vista over XP. Oblivion, F.E.A.R, Titan Quest, Rainbow Six Vegas, Half Life 2 - you name it. I play them all on my PC and have not noticed even a slight difference in performance for me to even begin contemplating going back to XP. Sorry to say but gaming benchmarks detailing the differences between XP and Vista mean absolutely nothing to me, although im sure this isnt the case for everyone.

I guess what im trying to say is dont listen to what ignorant people ramble about when forming your own opinions of Windows Vista. Sit down with it, turn off the annoying features that many use to boost their "Vista is Crap" arguments such as UAC and Aero if your computer cant handle it, and actually use the operating system for several days before forming your own opinion. Im not a Microsoft or Windows Vista "Fanboy" by any stretch of the imagination, im just being realistic. Many of you will completely disagree with what I have to say, many others will flame. So be it. This is my opinion and unlike most of you I've had months to form it.

For those wondering I bought Vista a few days after it was launched and have used it ever since. Im running an AMD FX-55 with 1GB of PC3200 Ram and a 7800GTX. I do indeed have Aero turned on and I have no complaints about performance.

Final Fantasy VII for me.

The depth of story in that game goes far deeper than many players, even fanboys, give it credit I believe. It's a game that you have to play several times over, catching certain details in different perspectives and putting it all together. Very few who claim they truly understand what's going on in Final Fantasy VII actually do, which makes it all the better IMO.

1.) Silent Hill + Hospital = soiled pants

2.) F.E.A.R - too many instances to name; doors slaming, Alma messing with ya, the damned office levels (those are scary)

3. S.T.A.L.K.E.R - I think the scariest part in that entire game is a small little village that is overrun by those invisible creatures (their name escapes me at the moment, Bloodsuckers maybe?) I stepped inside that village once and I jumped 10 times easily. You think you kill 3 of them and your adrenaline stops pumping. You reload, thinking everything is fine. Then you turn around and see tentacles ravaging your screen. I swear to god I never step foot within 1000 feet of that place ever again....

4.) Doom 3 - not the scariest game by any stretch of the imagination but if you have a good sound system or decent headphones (this is absolutely critical, otherwise it aint scary... period) and you play it late at night it definitely gets the job done