fro0ty Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Im thinking of installing Vista on my computer to see what its like, but before I do I want to know whenther or not the following application will work, they are what I most commonly use on my computer Photoshop CS2 Alias Maya 6 or 7 Adobe After Effects Steam Battlefield 2 MSN Messenger 7.5 Miranda RK Launcher MS Office 2003 FireFox Mirc Netlimiter Nero DVD Decrypter BitTorrent So could any people who have Vista installed tell me if they work or not? Also could you list programs that you have discovered that dont work on vista and anyother programs that do work. I think this thread might help others who are also thinking of installing Vista. thanks, -fro0ty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-scorpio- Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 I think they will work if u install on the partiton u have vista on ... becuase i tried to open word on vista by jsut clicking on the exe in c: but it didnt work but miranda, winamp, and mirc worked by just opening the exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code.Red Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Steam works, depends on who you talk to if the games work.. Firefox, Office 03, MSN Messenger 7.5, and BitTorrent work for me. The other programs I don't have, I would imagine Mirc, Miranda and Photoshop would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dL Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Battlefield 2 works? Offline only, or online too? What about CS:S online? dL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rbez Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 MSN Messenger 7.5 - works, but crashes when you try to exit Firefox - works mIRC - works Trillian - doesn't work at all, crashes on start up (due to ie7) AIM Triton - works Total Commander - works WinRAR - works I think thats all I've tried so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rbez Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Only game I tried was Far Cry. Had flashing graphics and no sound (because of the Audigy/Direct3D issue). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyyPunk Veteran Posted August 4, 2005 Veteran Share Posted August 4, 2005 the reason stuff like office 2003 doesnt work when you open it is because critical info for it to run is in the registry, and vista gets its own registry seperate from XP...and some files installed go to %systemdir% (which for xp is your xp system32 dir, and for vista is your vistas system32 dir...so my suggestion (what I do) is reinstall those programs OVERTOP the XP installs...then you get the registry stuff loaded, proper files in your win dirs, etc... only thing to make sure is you get it updated to near the same version you have on your xp install (assuming youre dual booting) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fro0ty Posted August 4, 2005 Author Share Posted August 4, 2005 ok thanks guys :laugh: One more thing, I have a BT Voyager 100 USB modem... will that work with Vista?... with the drivers that are out for XP :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockwiz Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 You can post them to this site to help keep track of them... http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Wind...patibility_List Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worfking Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 winamp 5.049 works flashget 1.65 works as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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