> -----Original Message----- > From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 8:00 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why Vista makes me want to jump off the roof... > > Vista just isn't ready for primetime. Whether you say that is the > fault of Vista, or whether you go with it being the hardware and > software developers moving too slowly to produce Vista drivers is > immaterial when trying to get your system to work with existing > software and hardware.
True - but neither is it uncommon. Vista is at least as good as XP or OS X was in the same timeframe - you have to release the thing then wait for vendors to catch up. > I've noted that gaming now seems to be just a few frames behind XP in > Vista with Nvidia's drivers in most major gaming titles. However your > chances of experiencing gaming hiccups is still much higher in Vista, > and much, much higher in Vista 64. What card are you using? I've got a 7900 in my rig and with the latest drivers Vista is faster than XP by about 4-5% (at least in the Source torture test). Nothing to write home about of course, but it is working fine. (Again the only thing I really tried is Source games... but that's all I really care about right now anyway.) My problem is more with the amenities. nVidia still hasn't added the desktop color wizard back into the drivers which annoys me for example. > I'm getting excited again to dual boot to Vista, but then when I think > about the possible problems I grit my teeth and decide it isn't worth > the possible frustration when my XP system is actually stable. If XP is working fine then you may not want to upgrade. I did, but I didn't _need_ to. I've been loving Vista myself. The problems, as we've been talking about, are vendor related. For example I'm pretty at Ahead that they've released a "Vista Certified" version of Nero which lists ImageDrive as a feature when ImageDrive itself is NOT compatible with Vista (this is almost impossible to fine on their website). I also had more trouble that you'd like to know about getting Java Installed (run anywhere my ass). But then again Java has succeeded in spite of Sun's poor handling of the website and versions of it (it always amazes me that it's so difficult to figure out what you need to "do" Java). But on the plus side I've been LOVING Office 2007 - for me it's worth upgrading to Vista just use that masterfully designed piece of interface art. ;^) Vista itself is subtle. It looks better but (once you get used to it) it really does work better. The unified search which creates a quasi-command-line interface is addictive and the media features are pretty sweet. There are a 1000 little things that I appreciate but nothing that I would say is a "must upgrade for" feature. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235598 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
