hmm Vista

batfink · Post by **batfink** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:32 pm

Peaches wrote:It's shit for games, i've also heard it's shit for Reason too.

Reason maybe... but games? Not true.

Go look here:

Crysis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nzMdPwO ... ed&search=

alan Wake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x1WX16vgf0

Bioshock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTWu6xZHAg8

Crysis looks far too good.

owengriffiths · Post by **owengriffiths** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:32 pm

I would not recommend Vista at all, it is an unfinished program. Backwards compatibility is a fucking joke. Thankfully it's let me install Office 2000, but Works 2005 (which came with the new PC) is rejected because it's 'not compatible with the operating system'.

Works 2000, which has some nice programs like the World Atlas and that, also stops running a couple of seconds after you've begub to install it. My Broadband modem canot be installed properly, and the drivers BT Yahoo (the service providers) give you to remedy Vista being a tnuc dont work. So my Broadband is running at 1/5 of the speed of dialup. I have had to return to my old XP PC.

On one funny occasion I put in a CD of a cracked music software program. I can understand it not being compatible, because Vista is meant to be well geared up to stop piracy, but it didn't even recognise that a cd had been put in at all, it couldn't even read the attached word file.

Some things work, some things dont. I cant get my head around it. A PC that relies on you installing updates (that may never be made availiable for many old programs) to get programs working is a broken PC, simple as. With a little bit of effort Microsoft could have made it backwards compatible. I am unbelievably shocked at how badly they have treated people by putting this thing on the market ages before it has been finished. I've spent 700 quid on a PC that cant be used for my work.

If you want Vista wait 6 months or a year or two until they've actually finished making it.

boomting · Post by **boomting** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:17 am

LUCKY_STRIKE wrote:its a bad copy of osx i think

yeah my bro has it on a laptop. it was in french when i used it so it was a bit crazy, but it's just xp made to look a bit like os x.

windows is (and always has been) dogshite

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:04 am

cure wrote:
Shonky wrote:
cure wrote:
LUCKY_STRIKE wrote:
cure wrote: We dont have any UK offices yet... When i said London I mean London, Canada...its out side of Toronto... confuses the hell out of everyone in UK lol... I might be able to get you in with our Indaba group...but im not sure if they are doing anything outside of North America yet bro.
if u kno of anything in the uk bro it would be great.
no worries man...if anything comes up Ill holler at you
Sorry, not really that interested in the IT thing, but thought I'd see how thin we can get the writing in the middle with numerous quotes within quotes. I'll stop now. I like it though, it's quite geometrically pleasing

The last time I tried it there was a severe ticking off, so don't do it Ok
why stop now.

this quote within a quote thing pleases me. this is what happens when i spend an entire sunday hitting the bong.

echo wanderer · Post by **echo wanderer** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:31 am

ThinKing wrote:my mate who's a network engineer for the Beeb says it's a steaming pile.

I hear the EXACT same thing!

LUCKY_STRIKE wrote:its a bad copy of osx i think

Considering that the concept of Microsoft Windows was actually stolen from Xerox's "X-Wndows",I'd believe that to be pretty true.

sapphic_beats wrote:
cure wrote:
Shonky wrote:
cure wrote:
LUCKY_STRIKE wrote:
this quote within a quote thing pleases me. this is what happens when i spend an entire sunday hitting the bong.

timmydnb · Post by **timmydnb** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:36 pm

Peaches wrote:i've also heard it's shit for Reason too.

yup. fuck vista. total pain in the a$$.

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:39 pm

sapphic_beats wrote:
cure wrote:
Shonky wrote:
cure wrote:
LUCKY_STRIKE wrote: if u kno of anything in the uk bro it would be great.
no worries man...if anything comes up Ill holler at you
Sorry, not really that interested in the IT thing, but thought I'd see how thin we can get the writing in the middle with numerous quotes within quotes. I'll stop now. I like it though, it's quite geometrically pleasing

The last time I tried it there was a severe ticking off, so don't do it Ok
why stop now.
this quote within a quote thing pleases me. this is what happens when i spend an entire sunday hitting the bong.

Ah, bless. It goes proper wrong if you continue trust

unlikely · Post by **unlikely** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:08 pm

haha maybe if we're really skilled with the quote within quote thing it will turn into a working spectrum copy of "elite"

batfink · Post by **batfink** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:48 pm

owengriffiths wrote:If you want Vista wait 6 months or a year or two until they've actually finished making it.

there are lots of probs. And infuriating hardware support is just one. I do like some aspects of it, not least it being more responsive than XP.

but for production stick with XP. It works nice.

for games stick with XP until the Vista Directx 10 games are out. That could be some time.

but it'll be worth it for graphics that make game characters look this realisitc:

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2139 ... e1awq2.jpg

http://www3.incrysis.com/screenshots/cr ... ck-guy.jpg

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:54 am

Vista seems a spin on i-Mac os like Lucky said, system spec is quite high but works well imo.

Make sure your soundcard brand support Vista for drivers.

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:12 am

yeah just got new laptop today which has vista. bits are cool, bits are fucking irritating especially system settings etc - it seems designed not to want to give you the information you want. It looks nice enough tho so i'll give it the benfit of the doubt so far...

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:43 pm

vista is big on/off road. if you sticking with windows the it's better than xp

hmm Vista

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