64Bit Vista is great

[okstatefan69]

I have been using 64Bit Vista on and off since it came out but since I slipstreamed SP1 into my setup thanks to nuhi @ msfn.org it has been completely stable for me I am a firm believer in it now.

 

[toadeater]

Ok that's nice.

 

[Aberforth]

I've been using it since Jan 2007, till now i have had only minor issues with it but No re-installs. Very few problems compared to XP when it came out. I think 64bit is going to be mainstream in a couple of years.

 

[nerp]

I moved to 64-bit when built my intel rig and I'm very pleased with it. I'm still running two copies of 32 on my older Opteron boxes. I haven't had any issues with 64 at all. The only driver issue I was anticipating turned out to be a non-issue because HP has 64 bit drivers for my LaserJet.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Nothing really wrong with it except my windows update is FUBARed beyond belief. Oh well. Yea, Vista isn't bad like people make it out to be.

 

[pugh]

agreed.. 64bit is nice

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
Nothing really wrong with it except my windows update is FUBARed beyond belief. Oh well. Yea, Vista isn't bad like people make it out to be.

Really? How so? I haven't had a problem with mine or anything else in Vista 64.

 

[SickBeast]

I recently made the switch from 64-bit Vista to Ubuntu 8.04 and have been quite happy with it so far. Now I just run my games in Vista (which is why I bought it to begin with, then DX10 turned out to be a bust).

Vista is incredibe bloat compared to linux. With numerous apps running, I only use around 400mb of RAM. With Vista I needed at least 3gb of RAM for equivalent system responsiveness. Ubuntu also boots up and shuts down faster, never needs defragmenting, and does not need a virus scanner or all of those annoying security features in Vista.

Just my opinion as a user that has switched.

There have been some downfalls, but overall I'm happier with Ubuntu than I was with Vista.

 

[Mucker]

nuther nod for x64. 2 gaming machines running great :thumbsup:

 

[desolate]

I have to agree, I love Vista 64-Bit. With 6GB of memory it flies and I have never had a software or driver issue. I use my Vista 64-Bit rig primarily for web development and gaming.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I recently made the switch from 64-bit Vista to Ubuntu 8.04 and have been quite happy with it so far. Now I just run my games in Vista (which is why I bought it to begin with, then DX10 turned out to be a bust).

Vista is incredibe bloat compared to linux. With numerous apps running, I only use around 400mb of RAM. With Vista I needed at least 3gb of RAM for equivalent system responsiveness. Ubuntu also boots up and shuts down faster, never needs defragmenting, and does not need a virus scanner or all of those annoying security features in Vista.

Just my opinion as a user that has switched.

There have been some downfalls, but overall I'm happier with Ubuntu than I was with Vista.

The main reason why I use Vista or you could say a Microsoft based OS is because of gaming,I don't find Vista bloated to tell you the truth ,its fast and runs all my games just fine,as to DX10 well its still early days yet and we all know DX technology will improve with time,just like graphics cards and software game companies will also take more advantage of the new and latest DX features with time,I think a lot of people expected too much from the initial release of DX10 and the first DX10 graphics cards.

 

[Muadib]

My only issue was with my old Visioneer scanner. There was no driver, and Visioneer said they weren't going to make one. I can't complain though, because I more than got my $25 out of it.

 

[NetGuySC]

I have been running Vista 64 on 1 gig ram for months now. It is a great OS, I really like the way Vista makes it very easy to run as a limited user. Yes I will add another gig shortly.

Vista 64 has my vote as the absolutely best OS by far.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Well, ok, the updates will download but not install. My error has no information what so ever (0x80004005) that would help me. When I re-register the DLLs for windows update, it fails with (0x80070005) or something like that. When I try to reinstall the update agent, it fails mysteriously because it trys to extract to a non-existant directory. At least I have SP1 so I don't need a lot of updates.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I recently made the switch from 64-bit Vista to Ubuntu 8.04 and have been quite happy with it so far. Now I just run my games in Vista (which is why I bought it to begin with, then DX10 turned out to be a bust).

Vista is incredibe bloat compared to linux. With numerous apps running, I only use around 400mb of RAM. With Vista I needed at least 3gb of RAM for equivalent system responsiveness. Ubuntu also boots up and shuts down faster, never needs defragmenting, and does not need a virus scanner or all of those annoying security features in Vista.

Just my opinion as a user that has switched.

There have been some downfalls, but overall I'm happier with Ubuntu than I was with Vista.

Wait until a kernel update breaks Ubuntu and come back and tell us how satisfied you are.

Ubuntu has way too many little things that drive me nuts for it to be my main desktop. Setting up Ubuntu to burn MP3's at an acceptable bit rate requires editing a damn string instead of simply clicking a button with your mouse.

I'm not putting down Ubuntu, just pointing out it has it's flaws too.

 

[turrican2097]

Originally posted by: desolate
I have to agree, I love Vista 64-Bit. With 6GB of memory it flies and I have never had a software or driver issue. I use my Vista 64-Bit rig primarily for web development and gaming.

With 6GB of memory it flies...

6GB ...

*sigh*

 

[coreyb]

Flies with 4Gb as well. Which isn't much $$ these days.

I used to run linux back in the win95 days because I had so many problems with it. However, I have no problems with windows these days and linux is way too much work for the regular user. I couldn't tell you how much reading I had to do to get my linux distro running properly, I'm way too lazy for that these days!

 

[Doomer]

Somebody please let me in on the secret. I just loaded Vista x64 on a system that was running XP flawlessly and I have opened up Pandoras Box. I'm getting program crashes out the ying yang. Rainbow Six Vegas causes a blue screen dump and won't run period, even after it updated itself. I imported my emails from OE 6 and every time I try to access the imported folders, blam, it crashes Windows Mail. It does this evey single time. I've had tons more problems and at this point I don't know whether to go back to XP or give 32bit Vista a try.

System Spec -

Athlon x64 5200+
Gigabyte M57SLI-S4
4 gig RAM
Geforce 7900GS
Plus the rest of the trimmings.

I've run Diags on the memory and HD's and they come up clean.

btw: This is Vista x64 sp1 I'm running.

 

[turrican2097]

Originally posted by: Doomer
Somebody please let me in on the secret. I just loaded Vista x64 on a system that was running XP flawlessly and I have opened up Pandoras Box. I'm getting program crashes out the ying yang. Rainbow Six Vegas causes a blue screen dump and won't run period, even after it updated itself. I imported my emails from OE 6 and every time I try to access the imported folders, blam, it crashes Windows Mail. It does this evey single time. I've had tons more problems and at this point I don't know whether to go back to XP or give 32bit Vista a try.

System Spec -

Athlon x64 5200+
Gigabyte M57SLI-S4
4 gig RAM
Geforce 7900GS
Plus the rest of the trimmings.

I've run Diags on the memory and HD's and they come up clean.

btw: This is Vista x64 sp1 I'm running.

Don't spend more money, ignore Vista 32. Stick with XP and V64 dual-boot. Then once a month or so, boot Vista and let it do the Update thing, download new drivers, etc...

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Doomer
Somebody please let me in on the secret. I just loaded Vista x64 on a system that was running XP flawlessly and I have opened up Pandoras Box. I'm getting program crashes out the ying yang. Rainbow Six Vegas causes a blue screen dump and won't run period, even after it updated itself. I imported my emails from OE 6 and every time I try to access the imported folders, blam, it crashes Windows Mail. It does this evey single time. I've had tons more problems and at this point I don't know whether to go back to XP or give 32bit Vista a try.

System Spec -

Athlon x64 5200+
Gigabyte M57SLI-S4
4 gig RAM
Geforce 7900GS
Plus the rest of the trimmings.

I've run Diags on the memory and HD's and they come up clean.

btw: This is Vista x64 sp1 I'm running.

Did you do a clean install of x64?

 

[Baked]

I ran Vista Ultimate 64 for a few months. It's nice if you only use it to surf the net, check email and play/run current games and programs. Once you start getting into freeware, open source and older stuff, you run into problem w/ Vista. There are a number of software I use that were written for XP and haven't updated to Vista due to one thing or another, such as license fee to access a certain Vista execution file. I also don't like the nagging window that pops up on everything I wanna do anything. I'll probably have to run 2 systems w/ 2 different OS and a KVM. Missing a CPU to get a 2nd system running, so that will just have to wait. Happy w/ XP right now.

 

[hans030390]

Originally posted by: Baked
I ran Vista Ultimate 64 for a few months. It's nice if you only use it to surf the net, check email and play/run current games and programs. Once you start getting into freeware, open source and older stuff, you run into problem w/ Vista. There are a number of software I use that were written for XP and haven't updated to Vista due to one thing or another, such as license fee to access a certain Vista execution file. I also don't like the nagging window that pops up on everything I wanna do anything. I'll probably have to run 2 systems w/ 2 different OS and a KVM. Missing a CPU to get a 2nd system running, so that will just have to wait. Happy w/ XP right now.

I've not found anything that doesn't work with Vista x64 yet...but then again, I generally only use more recent programs.

But, about the "nagging window that pops up on everything", it's called UAC, and you can easily turn it off. (Of course, it catches most, if not all, rootkits and such)

 

[okstatefan69]

Originally posted by: hans030390

Originally posted by: Baked
I ran Vista Ultimate 64 for a few months. It's nice if you only use it to surf the net, check email and play/run current games and programs. Once you start getting into freeware, open source and older stuff, you run into problem w/ Vista. There are a number of software I use that were written for XP and haven't updated to Vista due to one thing or another, such as license fee to access a certain Vista execution file. I also don't like the nagging window that pops up on everything I wanna do anything. I'll probably have to run 2 systems w/ 2 different OS and a KVM. Missing a CPU to get a 2nd system running, so that will just have to wait. Happy w/ XP right now.

I've not found anything that doesn't work with Vista x64 yet...but then again, I generally only use more recent programs.

But, about the "nagging window that pops up on everything", it's called UAC, and you can easily turn it off. (Of course, it catches most, if not all, rootkits and such)

yeah me to i haven't found anything that wont run on it either. The only thing they need to do is get a 64bit Flash Player and it will scream

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: soonerproud

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I recently made the switch from 64-bit Vista to Ubuntu 8.04 and have been quite happy with it so far. Now I just run my games in Vista (which is why I bought it to begin with, then DX10 turned out to be a bust).

Vista is incredibe bloat compared to linux. With numerous apps running, I only use around 400mb of RAM. With Vista I needed at least 3gb of RAM for equivalent system responsiveness. Ubuntu also boots up and shuts down faster, never needs defragmenting, and does not need a virus scanner or all of those annoying security features in Vista.

Just my opinion as a user that has switched.

There have been some downfalls, but overall I'm happier with Ubuntu than I was with Vista.

Wait until a kernel update breaks Ubuntu and come back and tell us how satisfied you are.

Ubuntu has way too many little things that drive me nuts for it to be my main desktop. Setting up Ubuntu to burn MP3's at an acceptable bit rate requires editing a damn string instead of simply clicking a button with your mouse.

I'm not putting down Ubuntu, just pointing out it has it's flaws too.

Ubuntu has made up for its lack of polish with its solid stability and super-fast performance.

I've lost count of the Vista BSODs I've seen on my system.

The difference I notice is that in Ubuntu I'm forced to learn a bunch of stuff, and the overall setup just takes longer. That said, my OS is far more customized that Windows ever could be.

I guess Vista is OK for people who know little about comptuers, and just want something simple that works out of the box.

Personally, Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows 2000 are my two favorite OS'es of all time. If Macs weren't prohibitively expensive, I'd probably just go with them. :beer:

 

[n7]

LOL.

What were you doing to provoke BSODs in Vista x64?

There's no BSODing on a properly set up Vista x64 system, sorry.

*Properly setup means no nVidia graphics cards though, at least till recent driver updates