the most recent thread i could find was from march

should i just skip over this and check out windows vista?

9/21/2006 7:34:23 PM

i just installed it a few days ago and its running fine, most everybody makes programs that work with it, if not they will work in x86 mode, the only things that i use and couldn't get to work are diskeeper, any of norton shit, avg antivirus will work if you have full version, and you gotta do some sweatin to make nForce work if you have it. other than that it's fine. and oh yea, ultramon doesn't like 64 too much but it works ok.

9/21/2006 7:38:58 PM

Make sure your printer will work with it... can be a problem... And the original Oregon Trail won't work on it.

9/21/2006 8:14:13 PM

yea i forgot, my printer dont work with it either

9/21/2006 9:04:43 PM

most webcams don't have 64 bit drivers.

9/21/2006 9:29:37 PM

jeff, just sign up and download Vista RC1 64bit. it runs great on my machine and its free until June 2007. Almost everyone has driver support except for Creative and Linksys.

9/22/2006 12:36:17 AM

will games run alright on the vista beta?

9/22/2006 12:45:30 AM

yup...i have been playing Steam (DoD source, CS: Source), Company of Heroes, flight simulator X currently on this setup and have had no problems.

9/22/2006 12:52:36 AM

i tested my machine and it said it would work fine

does alcohol 120% not work with it?

anybody have vista that also plays albatross18?

whats some good antivirus shit to get with vista...since it says pretty much all my antivirus stuff isnt going to work

9/22/2006 2:37:07 PM

^ http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=SUNA,SUNA:2006-25,SUNA:en&q=vista+antivirus


so why are you guys running x64? Besides the benefit of being about to run >4gb (which i wouldnt' even really call a benefit for 99.99% of people) whats the reasoning...what 64b applications are that important to you? or is it a "i just want to play around with it" kind of thing?

9/22/2006 2:45:54 PM

well for me running Vista 64bit started out as

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" "i just want to play around with it" kind of thing? "

then when i realized photoshop opens up in less than 6 seconds and dreamweaver opens up instantly. i figured i was better off running 64bit for work purposes.

9/22/2006 4:36:40 PM

i cant get windows xp pro to recognize my 400 GB HDD

im running windows xp pro 2002

no matter what i do nothing will work...theres a two page thread about it and nobody has any idea what to do

so i figure vista will recognize it so why not...plus upgrading my computer for free cant hurt right?

i eventually want to max out the RAM (4GB) in this thing and have tons of storage space as well

i really dont care about needing it or whatever because the extra 100 something dollars it will be for 4 GB of RAM over 2 GB of RAM is like nothing to me

im not rich or whatever but i just dont spend a lot of money on a lot of stuff so blowing 100-150 dollars to never have to upgrade my computer again and to be able to run whatever the fuck i want to run however i want to run it is well worth it to me


plus everyone can get all mad when i list my specs in some random thread for some random reason

and thats always fun

9/22/2006 5:16:47 PM

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"so blowing 100-150 dollars to never have to upgrade my computer again "

did you really just say never

9/22/2006 5:45:12 PM

^^ go to your HD manufacturer's website and download the tool to make it show.

9/22/2006 6:32:04 PM

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"did you really just say never"

Tell me when the fuck im going to have to get more than 4GB of RAM?

You didnt honestly take that statement that literally did you?

^ theres no such thing

9/22/2006 8:43:57 PM

thats just an expression i've never seen before, i was shocked that someone would say that

9/23/2006 11:50:04 AM

yea i just looked at your other thread....your computer needs about $4,000 put into it before you can even think about posting your specs, and with your computer knowledge, you'll never be able to build a system yourself, so you'll fry everything, (i mean for christ's sake, you dont even know what a pci slot is), so you'll have to pay somebody else another 5 grand to build you a computer and oh yea, about the "never" part, 3-5 years and your super machine that you just put 9 grand into is going to be obsolete. so shut up and stop making stupid threads

9/23/2006 1:41:15 PM

yeah, saying you're never going to have to upgrade again is pretty ridiculous.

9/23/2006 2:21:11 PM

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"yea i just looked at your other thread....your computer needs about $4,000 put into it before you can even think about posting your specs, and with your computer knowledge, you'll never be able to build a system yourself, so you'll fry everything, (i mean for christ's sake, you dont even know what a pci slot is), so you'll have to pay somebody else another 5 grand to build you a computer and oh yea, about the "never" part, 3-5 years and your super machine that you just put 9 grand into is going to be obsolete. so shut up and stop making stupid threads"

see youre mad already

and you totally missed the point

i was simply talking about the "4GB of RAM" part of the specs

nowhere did i mention any other aspect of my computer

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"thats just an expression i've never seen before, i was shocked that someone would say that"

again im shocked you took it that literally

but please feel free to predict when exactly in the future i will be requiring more than 4GB of RAM

especially considering all i do is type papers, play games, and get on the internet



anyways you all have ADD

this thread is not about RAM or specs or flexing nuts on the internet

its about xp x64 and windows vista

so if you have some knowledge, drop it

9/23/2006 8:52:53 PM

well here is my .64 experience. i'm running it now as primary system and i'm not too thrilled with it. i haven't noticed any performance gain only problems and missing drivers

9/23/2006 11:46:27 PM

much appreciated

i think im either going to stick with xp pro or do a quick trial of vista

its not dramatically different is it?

9/24/2006 3:16:44 AM

all i gotta say is "moore's law"

9/24/2006 1:46:36 PM

idk i've been trying to get a copy of vista for months now and i have no luck at all

9/24/2006 3:50:53 PM

you can get it for free from microsoft

i downloaded the 4 GB file in like 4 hours

9/25/2006 12:38:38 PM

I have Vista on disc. Got it from a tech demo show. 64 and 32 bit versions... sitting at the bottom of my trash bin right now.

A lot of my drivers won't work. Can't get HP 64bit printer drivers to work. Can't get Radeon 64bit drivers to work correctly. Most of my games don't work and those that do just crash after playing for a few minutes. Blue screened on me if I let computer idle after a few hours. I can't even get it to dual boot correctly. Tried VistaBoot, bootcfg edits, fixboot, all the boots you'll ever need, etc...

After a whole night of messing with it, I blew everything away and went back to XP.

No real performance gains from Vista. Aside from the eye candy, it's just a big PITA. Wait until they get all the bugs out.

9/25/2006 2:39:46 PM