Don't you mean 'overtly'?

Hey, I've just started playing Half Life 2 again - it still bloody rocks!

I've installed Vista on just over 25 machines so far. Lot of the misconceptions and near slander are in the reports above, that my client had.

Mine is the only one thats been a REAL problem (x64 vista on 12 of the machines btw, including mine).

on mid range (P4 2.2 to P4 3.2ghz HT version) with mid range DX9 graphics cards its incredible. Not a big performance hit in apps and a nice install with nearly all drivers (including speedstep) sorted.

on high end PC's (surprisingly) it's shat. Here's my list of problems.
x6800 will not go over 60% utilisation without power management cutting it right down, even though its been modified to use 100%
ATI Crossfire X1800's don't work in crossfire properly at all.
3gb of physical memory results in Vista using 1.9GB physical at boot! not so big a problem I hear you say, well yeah, if that didnt mean a 5gb page file that hangs the disk on boot being created/deleted.

The licencing thing only applies to OEM as far as I am concerned, which locks it to your BIOS version! Upgrading BIOS means no OEM install! there's a million other options and gotcha's with OEM.

In a nutshell, Vista (IMO) is great... really great.. Media Centre and meeting space are hot.

A LOT doesn't work... theres a lot of missing pages in control panel applets and stuff. 3rd party support , from my experience just is not there.

the only reason I upgraded is due to my software assurance licence and if I could snap my fingers back to XP64, to be honest, at this stage; I would.

Some other bits and bobs about vista.

Data transfer over USB or burning CD/DVD's is allot faster within vista.
I had a dead hard drive that xp could not see, but vista fixed the MBR and got the hard drive working which allowed me to remove the data needed before the hard drive died completely. (and saved a £1400 ontrack bill)

Has anyone got the creative X-FI game pro fatality to work with Vista yet? More to the point, the MIC as it shows the mic to be not available. This is a bummer because you cannot play the likes of BF2142 or use SKYPE etc. The latest driver on the creative website hasn't cured anything really yet!



Croooooky AKA []DAU[]_

From what I remember this is down to the Vista DRM management module. The drivers have to be ratified by Microsoft before the mic will work in order to negate the possibility of using the anti-feedback routine to rip DRM content.

That damn DRM has a lot to answer for..... I suppose it’s there for a reason but it makes life in the world of Vista Compatibility a bit unbearable

The reason it's there is to get in bed with the movie studios, nothing more.


/me feels dirty for ever working for Macrovision