Fusion3k Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 So i was thiniking of isntallign vista (again) now that most of the drviers are out but i was wondering what the people who use vistas general pc specs are? also has any one been able to play games on vista with less then 2gb or ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRmpls Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 (edited) So i was thiniking of isntallign vista (again) now that most of the drviers are out but i was wondering what the people who use vistas general pc specs are?also has any one been able to play games on vista with less then 2gb or ram? I've got 2 machines running Vista without issue. 1. A7N8X-E Deluxe Athlon XP 3000+ 1.5GB PC3200 (DDR400) 2x 120GB HDD (RAID 0) Radeon 9800GT There is no official Vista support from nVidia for nForce2 series boards, but a little research and some digging around got this rig up and running just fine. (www.nforcershq.com) FTW!!! 2. A8N32-SLI Athlon 64X2 4800+ 3.0 GB PC3200 (DDR400) 4x 250GB HDD (2 RAID 0 sets) 2x GeForce 7600GT The new nForce4 Driver (v15.00) sucks ass. The only worthwhile driver is the SMBus ... the others cause blue screens and LAN slowdowns. I also built a box for my brother similiar to my Athlon 64X2 machine. Other than the HDD (he only has 2 in RAID 0), and the RAM (he only has 1.5GB) they are identical. He runs Vista Ultimate x64 just fine. My 2 boxes are running Ultimate (x64) and Business (x32) just fine. Vista LOVES RAM ... but it does fine on less than 2 GB. As for gaming, some games are just fine, others I've noticed minor slowdowns. Some games argue with Windows about what sort of permission they need to run properly... and i've heard stories of people not being able to play some games (Half-Life2 pops to mind tho I've had no problems on my Ultimate box). But mostly the issues people are running into are driver related. The only thing I couldn't find a driver for was my printer (Lexmark P915), but other than that i'm not complaining. :) Good Luck to ya! Edited February 22, 2007 by JRmpls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshBluebird Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 am I the only person who hasn't had problems with an nforce 2 board on vista? lol. Runnung ultimate here on; Athlon XP 3000+ Albatron KM18G Pro Micro ATX Socket A motherboard 1GB PC-2700 RAM 160GB HDD with vista on a 35GB partition Nvidia 7600GT Not many issues. Games run a bit worse than XP, but thats probably more to do with Nvidia's crappy drivers than it is to do with vista. Tbh, since installing vista I've been addicted to half life, so all I know is HL:source, HL2 and HL2:episode 1 works lol. Oblivion is installed, and I've had a quick go, I did have to reduce the settings a bit, but I was running the drivers that came with vista. I'm assuming the current drivers would be better (as they are in HL). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betasp Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 2.8 GHZ Dual Core Intel Intel MB (3) 160GB SATA II RAID 0 2GD Dual Channel RAM (667) SB XFI Platinum BFG 8800 GTS I play some Rainbow 6 and some BF2 slower than XP but acceptable. Nvidia drivers do suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLien_0 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 1.8ghz centrino 2gb ram 60gb sata hd nvidia geforce go 6600 128mb and vista runs fine waiting on my toshiba external 5.1 card drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun N. Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I play everything on the specs in my sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bOingball Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 [My main rig] Vista Ultimate 32-bit Semperon 64 3200 (2.2Ghz) 1.0Gb RAM SoundBlaster X-Fi Fide1ty 250Gb SATA HDD AGP GeForce 6800GT 256Mb Ram ASROCK VIA800KM Chipset [My Brother's computer] Vista Ultimate 32-bit Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0Ghz) 1.0Gb RAM (DDR 266Mhz) Game Theater XP Pro 120Gb IDE HDD AGP ATI x1600 Pro 512Mb ASUS Nvidia nForce 2 [My Dads rig] Vista Ultimate 32-bit Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz @ 1.9Ghz 1.0Gb RAM (DDR 333Mhz) SoundMax onboard sound 70Gb IDE HDD AGP ATI FireGL 8800 128Mb Ram // AGP GeForce 6200 128Mb (128-bit version - coming soon) Intel 845GL Chipset All have 1.0Gb Ram, all again play games fine. (I've just been playing UT2004 / HL2 / CS:Source) bOing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xirtam Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 using vista x64, specs are in my sig! Only one game im having any trouble with and that's Supreme Commander, getting low framerats some times as low as 7FPS :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper101 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 2.4Ghz intel celeron 1GB DDR Ram Vista Home Premium OEM 80GB HDD AC97 compatable Soundcard (Onboard) 256MB Radeon 9500 gfx card ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BALDheadedGRL Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 asus p4c800-e dlx mobo P4 3.0c@ 3.3Ghz 2gig corsair ddr 400/3200 audigy 2 zs w/breakout box 9800pro agp plextor 48/24/48 pioneer 107d siig firewire card 76gig WD Raptor 2x500gig hitachi serial ata 2xWD mybook 250gig epson r340 printer dell 2407 monitor ms 4000 keyboard and wireless mouse all runs fine except for the crappy creative drivers causing a lil bit of stuttering from time to time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepakman11 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Asus A8n-SLI (nforce 4) A64 FX-55 @ 2.8Ghz Audigy 4 (lol, i'm the only person in the world to have bought one :p) 8800 GTS 640MB 4gb DDR 400 (i do 3d modeling and i play games) ATI HDTV Tuner Linksys wireless G adapter Seagate Barracuda 320GB (7200 rpm, 16mb) x 2 Emprex 8x Dvd +/- RW :pinch: Acer 1916W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 MSI 815EPT Pro (Intel 815EP chipset, 133MHz, AGP4x) Intel PIII Extreme @ 1.4Ghz Integrated audio (2-channel) Asus nVidia Geforce 6200 w/128MB (AGP4x) ADMTek AN983 10/100Mbps network adapt (needs manual driver install) Maxtor Diamondmax (i think 8), 30GB, 7200RPM (15Gig for Vista) 512MB SDRAM PC133 (2x256) LG CD 52x LG DVD read speed unknown LG CD-RW 48x Boring isn't it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmin Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Nvidia drivers do suck. Now for Vista . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted February 22, 2007 MVC Share Posted February 22, 2007 Intel CoreDuo 1.6ghz (T2300) 1.5GB RAM nVidia GeForce Go 7300 128MB Vista runs flawlessly, though I've not yet tried to run any games on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo11883 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 CASE: AMS Gmono Silver ATX Mid Tower PSU: Enermax Noisetaker 495P (485W) MOBO: GIGAByte K8NS Ultra-939 (nForce3) CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (2.010 GHz) RAM: 2GB OCZ Performance PC3200 GPU: PNY GeForce 6800 Ultra (AGP) ODD: Plextor PX-716A DVD-R/RW (DL) HDD0: 80GB Maxtor PATA HDD1: 400GB Western Digital SATA SND: Auzen X-Meridian SPK: Logitech Z-5300e 5.1 THX Certified DISP: Samsung 997DF 19" CRT CAM: Logitech QuickCam Fusion Vista seems to run well most of the time. When playing audio through foobar2000, WMP, MPC, and high CPU usage, the sound clicks and skips. Very annoying. Gaming performance is crap compared to XP on same hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIE Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Running Vista Ultimate x64, specs are in sig, runs great. What i do find hard to beleive though is the fact that some of you people have "paid" for Vista Ultimate considering how poor your PC specs are, take that how you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudie32 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I have 2 computers running vista. Main Desktop... AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ MSI K8NGM2-L 2.00 GB DDR RAM Radeon X1300 w/256 MB 250 Gig sata hard drive (w/80 + 250 gig ide extra drives) And a Laptop Acer Aspire 3613lci Celeron M 370 1.5 GHz 40 gig drive 2 Gig DDR2 Memory Intel 910 Graphics card w/192 MB Shared video memory It runs pretty well on the laptop. I was surprised. Pretty speedy. No aero, even with 192MB of memory. (adjustable via bios) Might lower it. Any noticeable difference between 128MB and 192MB Video memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjbeckwith Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I have 2 running Vista: Vista Business Athlon XP 1700+ w/ 1GB memory 128MB Video Card 60GB IDE HDD Vista Score of 2.0 Vista Ultimate Athlon 64 x2 4200 2GB DDR2 memory 256MB nVidia 7600GT 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA HDD Vista Score 5.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baskingridge Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Dell Latitude D610 Score: 2.0 Vista Business Runs Aero perfectly Intel 910 does not support Aero so adjusting VRAM isn't gonna do anythin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice @ ~2.4Ghz 2GB DDR-400 256MB X850 XT @ stock 540/1080 80GB SATA II 160GB SATA II Score of 4.2 with CPU being lowest as it's only single core. overall runs vista better then XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashel Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 (edited) As far as memory goes, the same games that liked 2GB under XP sill like 2GB. At the 1GB mark it becomes a little more noticable than under XP and at 512 big differences. Your mileage may vary. I have installed it across many laptops and desktops up to about 3 years old with the 512MB machines with VIA chipsets giving me the only grumbles. Course most can't run Aero without a new grafix card but hey. Core2 with a x1950 at home purrs. The funny thing about Vista and games is that now if you start running low on RAM it keeps you at a black screen till it catches up so you don't have the 'paint in' factor of XP after a long session. Edited February 23, 2007 by Dashel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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P4Power Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Running Vista Home Premium. Pentium 4 HT 3.40C GHz Northwood 3GB of DDR400 in DC 120GB 7,200RPM BFG GeForce 7800 GS AGP 256MB Not a single problem, performance is no different from XP from what I can tell. Games all run the same. Actually seems to multitask better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InternalStorm Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 (edited) Runs smooth like butter. Better multitasking and resource management than XP, and it is smart in that it memorizes things to store in memory which makes booting fast and opening programs quick! Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 3.0GHz 2GB DDR 2 500GB and 250GB WD SATAII Drives Asus X1600XT Fanless GPU Oh ya, at 5.3 score right now. The hard drive and graphics card is basically holding me back. Joy! Edited February 23, 2007 by Internal Storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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