Danrarbc Share Posted February 8, 2007 I've got Vista on 3 systems and don't regret a-one. Link to post Share on other sites
martym Author Share Posted February 8, 2007 Thanks for your replies. I myself will wait until sp1 comes out, new drivers to be released, and finally when I hear that vista benchmarks in all games (old and new) exceedes that of xp. I just hope my computer can last at least another year. Link to post Share on other sites
Morpheus Phreak Share Posted February 8, 2007 Sub par video drivers. Sub par sound drivers. Relatively new hardware (6 months or so) isn't supported anymore. UI errors out the ass. Having to reactivate for just installing new drivers. I'll stick with XP. At least it works like it's supposed to. Funny, sounds like you're talking about XP. Era August 2001. Everyone talking about how relatively new hardware didn't work and how it was, "Windows 98SE or Win2k Pro Forever!!!" Those same people now say, "Windows XP Forever!!!" So funny how opinions change with time ;) i dont like the support and the issue with upgrades how you lose your xp cdley, and its head to reinstall if you dont have cdkeys You lost your XP CD-Key? Did it run off and get married while you weren't looking? I think you're extremely confused. Vista does not invalidate your XP CD-Key at all. Then again if you're a pirate I could see the issue since it would know that your key is invalid ;) On the other hand people with legal keys aren't affected whatsoever. Now on the other hand you might be confused and thinking of the Vista Anytime Upgrade program. With that program once you upgrade you lose the ability to use the original Vista key that you bought, however you are assigned a new one that works for the version that you upgraded to and it's stored in your digital locker so you can never truly lose it. Link to post Share on other sites
WarStorm Share Posted February 8, 2007 I dont regret it at all. Yeah it has some issues. Im currently dual booting xp and vista. I use vista for everything part from Watching tv. It seems to stutter terribly in vista but seems fine in Xp. I m not sure if its a codec problem, tv card driver issue or even a graphics issue. But yeah thats the only thing stopping me from removing xp from my machine. ^ he's talking about when buying an upgrade edition of vista. Once you upgrade your unable to go back to xp because it essentially invalidates for key Link to post Share on other sites
Lawliet Share Posted February 8, 2007 I regret a little because my newly bought iPod Nano refuses to work with Vista. But it's a small issue, I'll probably do a dual boot with XP this weekend. Link to post Share on other sites
Island Dog Partner Share Posted February 8, 2007 I don't regret it. I have it dual-booting both XP and Vista for work purposes. The only real issue I had was with my new video card, I had to get beta drivers to get Aero to work, but otherwise its been working great. Already tired of the Vista look though, at least I can change it with Windowblinds now. Link to post Share on other sites
SMELTN Share Posted February 8, 2007 I am having NO issues with mine. Guess I should knock on wood. I was one of the lucky ones.. Installed flawlessly and ran great since first reboot. I even have a Logitech G15, which has 0 drivers for Vista and it works great, LCD shows perfectly. Soundblaster Audigy 2 works great now also, I do notice random crackles about 1 time a day with the sound but thats it. 10/10 Link to post Share on other sites
tomasarson Share Posted February 8, 2007 i don't regret it but i think i'll re-install xp in about a week. i'm actually glad i installed vista as soon as it showed up on my door step. it's a lot more stable and a lot faster than i expected. it runs like a dream. (5.3 score in vista) i think ms did a great job on vista so my reason for going back to xp isn't there fault. it's nvidia's. write a better driver for vista nvidia and fast! it's the only thing i found wrong. Link to post Share on other sites
Vykranth Share Posted February 8, 2007 I have some small regret because I expected my machine at home to have a better performance index (only 3.5). The graphics are slower but the drivers will get better over time (I hope) Link to post Share on other sites
freak_power Share Posted February 8, 2007 If you have a high end machine...Vista is a terrible platform to do any gaming on it. It's not only drivers but overall compatibility with games and software as well. I say Vista will be gaming ready platform by end of this year. If you own 8800GTX SLI or any other SLI/Crossfire system or even single high end card, wait till service pack release (December). My only reason to eventually move to Vista is DX10.0. Other then that XP is just damn fine OS and it does everything, and there is nothing Vista can do more.... Link to post Share on other sites
dh5 Share Posted February 8, 2007 yep me!.. went back to XP in a day. +1 Link to post Share on other sites
daniel_rh Share Posted February 8, 2007 With BETAS I had installed XP and Vista, I always switch back to XP by problems with IIS, MySQL and games... Since RTM I'm a Vista only user. Link to post Share on other sites
JK1150 Share Posted February 8, 2007 believe it or not no. i just need to reinstall some programs that i'm too lazy to install. Link to post Share on other sites
iSimx Share Posted February 8, 2007 In the beginning when I installed vista, I couldnt get anything to work - at that point I was regretting getting vista. Now, I'm making progress and things are working out now. Just installed TweakVI and optimised it. So everything is faster and more secure. I'm not going back to xp now - partly because its a great system secondly, I'm not wasting the money. Link to post Share on other sites
laz45 Share Posted February 8, 2007 No regrets here :) I've been using it since November and its wonderful because it integrates really well with my xbox360. Link to post Share on other sites
Innuendo Share Posted February 11, 2007 If you own 8800GTX SLI or any other SLI/Crossfire system or even single high end card, wait till service pack release (December). Maybe if you have a single high-end Nvidia-based card you should wait till service pack release, but my single high-end ATI X1900 XTX is performing without a problem. Well, other than the one initial irritating problem of having to disable UAC to get the dang Catalyst drivers to install in the first place, but once I did that it was smooth sailing in the land of Aero. Link to post Share on other sites
LewisBraid Share Posted February 11, 2007 i was at first but after getting to use all the new features it really is worth it. just cant wait to get some new hardware and have a fast system. Link to post Share on other sites
1759 Share Posted February 11, 2007 No, I dual booted XP and Vista for a couple of days, before dumping XP, as Vista was working fine. Link to post Share on other sites
Aero Ultimate Share Posted February 11, 2007 Well, as I wasn't that stupid to upgrade XP to Vista, I don't need to go back to XP but use them side-by-side. Since I don't have the upgrade version, I can fully legal do this. Link to post Share on other sites
BoDEAN Share Posted February 11, 2007 In the beginning when I installed vista, I couldnt get anything to work - at that point I was regretting getting vista. Now, I'm making progress and things are working out now. Just installed TweakVI and optimised it. So everything is faster and more secure. I'm not going back to xp now - partly because its a great system secondly, I'm not wasting the money. I hear that program is "evil!" Link to post Share on other sites
Aero Ultimate Share Posted February 11, 2007 I hear that program is "evil!" Huh? Now why would that program be considered "evil"? :huh: Link to post Share on other sites
iSimx Share Posted February 13, 2007 I hear that program is "evil!" damn straight that program is evil - and so is vista. I've had so many problems ive just formatted and going... back to xp. I thought I would never go back.... but "wow" - what a disappointing operating system. Link to post Share on other sites
Brody McKee Share Posted February 13, 2007 In answer to the original question - no, I don't regret going to Vista. I now cringe when I look at an XP machine. Link to post Share on other sites
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