Windows Vista

[Bluhman]

Vista sounds and looks cool, but the OS change does NOT cater kindly to old programs, as seen in RMXP not working, and I've heard various reports that Oblivion crashes a bit on Vista as well.

[Osmose]

I ran Oblivion on it fine - with a bunch of mods. I did not play it extensively, however.

[Trevlac]

With every OS there is a "he said, she said" concerning program compatibility. I'm sure there are XP machines that crash Oblivion too. I beta'd Vista for 5 months. I honestly cannot say why I did for so long.

Let me give a big piece of advice to those thinking of upgrading to Windows Vista. You need at least 1GB of RAM. I know that a lot of machines are coming with 512, and they seem to run Vista fine. They don't. 512 is how much you really need for XP, but with the Aero Glass interface you need 1GB and a hossed graphics card.

[Archem]

Originally posted by Trevlac
...I'm sure there are XP machines that crash Oblivion too...

*admits to it*

[wildguy3922]

Lol, funny to see this topic here. I'm doing a research paper on Vista in my operating systems class in college. Vista is FULL of bugs. The biggest problem I see people complaining about is USB's. Many games crash on it. It runs slower so it can look prettier. Security is better, but just by a small portion. Search engine on it is pretty neat. I can't wait to try out it's movie maker. But, I'm probably not going to get it for a year.

But I would definetly not recommend this to users. If you want reasons, look back at XP. When it came out, it was very new, and people hardly knew what to do. Lots of errors. Microsoft doesn't want to spend too much money on testers, so they release it early to hear the problems with it so they can fix it then. PLUS, they also have people out there that are skilled with it, and Microsoft uses their methods to save themselves money. I kid you not! Stick with XP until the complaints start disappearing.

I know lots of people who have it, and I hear nothing but complaints from them.

[Bluhman]

Originally posted by Trevlac
...I'm sure there are XP machines that crash Oblivion too...[/B]

Well, yeah. But people who once played Oblivion just fine on their XP found that it didn't work as intended when they upgraded to Vista.

You pretty much summed it up, Trevlac man. And you too, wildguy.

[charaman]

Originally posted by Osmose
I've never seen a Mac program that did not have a Windows version or an alternative that ran on Windows. Besides, the 20% that Windows can't run are usually Mac-specific versions of programs that are already made for Windows.

Logic?



oh and you can skin osx with shapeshifter. so uh, yeah

[Osmose]

Charaman: FL Studio.

All I can say is that I hear a lot of people complaining about it, but all I've seen with my own eyes and experienced myself is good. I'm sure there's some merit to all the complaints, but I've had no problem with Vista and enjoy it very much, especially considering how new it is.

[DragonBlaze]

Oblivion runs fine with vista, at least it does for me. However, when I try shutting oblivion down, sometimes I have to push ctr alt delete, and shut it down that way. But actually playing the game it works just fine.

[wildguy3922]

Shutting down Oblivion with ctrl + alt +delete is the same way with XP. I personally think Oblivion runs slower on Vista because some of the speed is taken away from the graphics of Aero, if it's on of course.

[Bluhman]

Originally posted by wildguy3922
Shutting down Oblivion with ctrl + alt +delete is the same way with XP.

Really? Never happened to me.

What? On topic? Oh, right.

Uh... I'll get Vista after it gets some sexy games. Not literally sexy.

[MrMister]

Originally posted by Bluhman

Originally posted by wildguy3922
Shutting down Oblivion with ctrl + alt +delete is the same way with XP.

Really? Never happened to me.

What? On topic? Oh, right.

Uh... I'll get Vista after it gets some sexy games. Not literally sexy.[/B]

Shadowrun..