Windows Vista is already in use by businesses all over the world, but it won't be available to the rest of us until January 30th, 2007. That didn't stop us from testing it though. Today, we will show you what Microsoft has improved since our Vista Beta 2 review. Is it everything that Microsoft promised it would be? We will see... Link : Microsoft Windows Vista Final Review!
Some of the stuff in the article is wrong on page 7.. Nero 7 works fine in Vista, i have had it installed for a week and works without a problem. It even says Vista compatible in the release notes. I have NO problems running movies on Vista, full screen or not with 97.74 drivers for 7600GT card. This driver brings performance close to winxp sp2 performance it is not even noticeable diffrence anymore in games. Lost Coast benchmark i'm within 5fps diffrence now than winxp SP2 score with Aero running. You could also try the 97.75 ones released for laptops but modified for even better performance increase, i could not use them cause messed up bf2 textures, some report fine though.. http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12058&pid=44315&st=0&#entry44315 1. download driver extract to dir 2. downloaded modded INF file and extract to same directory overwrite the exsisting one. 3. Install. The only sure thing wrong with vista currently is lack of good soundcard drivers for Creative cards.
Sounds to me like your video problems lie with the amount of RAM you have to support the video card. I had an FX5200 and ran it with .5G, 1 G then 1.5 G. It wasn't until the 1.5 gig lvl that the card gave peak performance. Ditto with install of a new mobo and processor 9 asRock Dual VSTA and Intel Pentium D 2,8ghz. the mobo wouldn't take more than 1 gig of my existing ram (2*256 and 2*512), The new GT6600 just limped along and wouldnt even load Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. I dumped in 2 Gig of DDR and problem fixed, once and for all. I now have zero video issues.
A lot of changes under the hood. I was pretty skeptical when I first installed RC2, but I can't go back to XP Vista just feels and looks so much better. I had so many annoying little things that bugged me with XP, but vista I can't find any for the last couple months. Of course I love Vista just because I won a free copy, a $300 value from Microsoft
Long to go, and it would be insane for game developers to jump to DX10-only straight away, killing themselves. How many home users have DX9 cards today? Not many...
Yeah, plus it is just an operating system... Add in the new applications you will need to buy... And they (the software) will cost a LOT more than the PC itself!
yea softwares are now more expensive that the hardware i'll be getting the express upgrade to vista business what business am i doing ?
LOL! That's just what they call the Vista's version of XP Pro. Were I to upgrade to Vista, I would go for that edition.
i want ultimate edition hahahahah .. buts its super expensive.. OEM edition *hint* *hint* should be half the retail price
OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer That means you're supposed to be a computer builder that sell it to consumers. - You provide the technical support. - The license is by clause tied to the (individual) motherboard, so you may not use that license to install the program on another computer nor re-install it if you replace the motherboard. The retail version come with some sort of support deal, and you can use that license for any one computer at a time. If you get a new rig you can still use your old license provided the OS was removed from the old rig. /Olle