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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Hardware / Software - Is Vista really worth it? |
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Tanks Spiny                     Since: 06-19-06 From: Eagle Land Last post: 6293 days Last view: 6293 days |
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| I got the evaluation ISO and burned it to a dvd. I put it on my laptop because it won't work on my desktop due to norton not being able to uninstall(problem #1). It took almost all night to switch the OS and the next morning I find I can't play Halo,or any other online capable game (problem#2) (other Wolfenstein ET thank God). So my question is, do you think Vista is really that great? I think its cool in some ways but If microsoft won't provide the updates to play my games, I don't think I'll even bother with it.
PS It even says its possible to play games orginally made for earlier systems (Dating back to 3.1 i think. Clarification will come soon)... yet Halo won't even work! |
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Xkeeper Took the board down in a blaze of glory, only to reveal how truly moronical ||bass is. Since: 11-17-05 From: Henderson, Nevada Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| Vista isn't even done yet, quit basing decisions on an unfinished version | |||
neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day  Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6293 days |
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| once vista dominates the new PC market at retailers, then probably by then it will be a good time to switch, if you do really want vista. Otherwise, you probably could get by on WinXP/Win2K from now until the next operating system microsoft spits out. | |||
Darkdata   980  Since: 02-25-06 From: Newfoundland Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6293 days |
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Yeah I will probally stick with XP untill the OS after vista, or untill the first service pack  |
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Tanks Spiny Since: 06-19-06 From: Eagle Land Last post: 6293 days Last view: 6293 days |
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I think I'm gonna just switch back to XP and beef it up with some the Vista Transfomation pack. I got my friends to think I actually had Vista that way. Then I thought, what If I really did have Vista, so I updated and now Im a little annoyed. Then again, I think I'll keep my laptop with Vista and just play my games on my desktop with its shity graphics card  .(edited by Tanks on 09-19-06 08:42 PM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| Crazy system requirements and DRM out the wazoo are two reasons I'm not getting Vista. | |||
SuperLuigi64 Snifit  Since: 07-22-06 From: TN My PC Specs Last post: 6387 days Last view: 6387 days |
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| I blow the requirements out of the water, even for Ultimate. Whether it is as much as Wikipedia is saying is differant. I like the way it looks, which could have been done on XP Media Center. Some of the stuff in Vista is stupid, steaming heaps of stuff thats been recycled from XP, like Movie Maker (by God, if I get a completly new OS and it still doesn't work, screw movies). | |||
Black Lord + Flurry Since: 11-17-05 From: Where indians still roam... Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| If they release anything similar to what RC1 is like, I'm not touching it with a pole spanning from Nebraska to China, I'll just leave one partition with XP Pro, and the rest with various linux distros. | |||
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Tanks Spiny Since: 06-19-06 From: Eagle Land Last post: 6293 days Last view: 6293 days |
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Originally posted by SuperLuigi64 Your gonna' be really pissed... I don't know how to tell this to you but even with my ATI graphics card... it can't run movie maker. Lets all just live with XP and then when our computers die, buy a computer made for vista, not just vista compatible cause that means they can just get by and not be able to run vista at full performance. |
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l0rca Since: 07-23-06 Last post: 6373 days Last view: 6316 days |
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Originally posted by Black Lord + Oh, do tell what.  |
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Black Lord + Flurry Since: 11-17-05 From: Where indians still roam... Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6296 days |
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Originally posted by l0rcaOriginally posted by Black Lord + What linux distros I run??? Ubuntu SuSE Fedora Whatever one I'm testing out at the moment (happens to be Arch Linux) if that's not what you were asking for... then I don't know what you could be asking for, unless you wanted to know what RC1 is like, in which case, I'll tell you it's a resource hog and a piece of crap of an OS. Windows XP is resource intensive enough the way it is. Not that it matters. And I thought maybe the 64-bit support would come around... but I don't see that happening anytime soon (although it will probably come around for Windows first), my Athlon 64 is crying because he is not used to his full potential. |
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Sukasa Birdo Not quite as active as before. Xkeeper supporter Xk > ||bass I IP Banned myself! Twice!  Since: 11-17-05 From: Somewhere over there Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6293 days |
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| *Sukasa wields his copy of win98SE*
Yeah, XP would likely get you by. Heck, Win98SE worked when I was running stuff designed primarily for modern computers (Soundblaster Live! 24-bit), and I still use it. Considering Xp's age, it'll likely be supported by microsoft for a good long time, so no need to upgrade (apparently, no want either  ) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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Originally posted by Tanks I've found the problem with Movie Maker isn't that it's hard on the system... just that it's potentially the buggiest program Microsoft has ever made, crashing literally 80% of the time I try to save and at other random intervals. (And of course only supporting WMV.) |
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Tanks Spiny Since: 06-19-06 From: Eagle Land Last post: 6293 days Last view: 6293 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHackerOriginally posted by Tanks This is the new one. Think a plie of crap now covered with more crap. This movie maker probably supports the 3D spinning windows or something. But any way, it won't run and I'm switching back to XP soon though I'm a little addicted to the game ink ball. I'll post some screens of it just for the hell of it. It's really fun! |
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Black Lord + Flurry Since: 11-17-05 From: Where indians still roam... Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6296 days |
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| Inkball is the only good thing coming out of Vista as of this moment. | |||
paulguy Paragoomba Since: 06-29-06 Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6294 days |
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| I'll probably end up staying with XP for a while. I'f I need to change for whatever reason, I will. By then there should be enough tweaks and shit to make it not suck ass and rip out much of the DRM crap. HOPEFULLY I can get classic windows style because Aero Glass is uuuuuuugly. Also, by then I can just run my old Win98 games in an emulator. | |||
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Tanks Spiny Since: 06-19-06 From: Eagle Land Last post: 6293 days Last view: 6293 days |
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Presenting... INKBALL! The greatest game that looks like it should be on a PDA and not on vista! But I don't really care cause its fun!
The object of the game is to draw out lines to knock the colored balls into there respective holes. Put a different colored ball into a different colored hole and you've lost! I wish this game was available for XP users. I tried to extract the vista ISO to find the game but I couldn't find anything. Anyone who thinks they can do it should try and get the game. It would be great to be ale to pla it on XP,then I can erase vista from my laptop. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6294 days Last view: 6294 days |
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I imagine it has some sort of coding to prevent it running on older versions. But expect many people to write open-source clones soon enough.  |
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Tanks Spiny Since: 06-19-06 From: Eagle Land Last post: 6293 days Last view: 6293 days |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker I think it might be possible through future emulation or if I can find the right .dll file I think I can get it to work. The moment I played Inkball i was like, I can smell a good flash game brewin'. |
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FreeDOS + Giant Red Koopa Legion: freedos = fritos  Since: 11-17-05 From: Seattle Last post: 6293 days Last view: 6293 days |
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| Inkball reminds me of those old Windows 3.1 games, eh
Oh, and some of you might have guessed my impression: Based on previous Windows releases alone, I have no faith for Windows Vista at all. |
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