To run vista you will need fairly high end hardware, is your machine good enough now? - Page 6

CDsDontBurn · Jul 14, 2006, 12:39 PM

it's worth a shot to try out or experiment with. if you don't want to have it as your main OS, then run a smaller partition just to see what's all the fuss about for yourself. I'm planning to run Vista for this school semester, and switch back to XP once the semseter is over.

BWX · Jul 14, 2006, 12:43 PM

Oh yeah definitely cool to play around with, I am just talking about when I might actually buy it.. Seems like it it just needs a lot of refinement and optimization still from what I have seen.

CDsDontBurn · Jul 14, 2006, 12:45 PM

i actually like the way it is.....except for the memory hog part, lol. but then again, i've only been using vista for about 12hrs. so i still haven't come across any issues yet.

~~Alien1~~ · Jul 14, 2006, 12:49 PM

What about drivers

Are Windows XP drivers compatible with Vista

CDsDontBurn · Jul 14, 2006, 12:52 PM

the only winXP driver i've been able to use were those for my RAID controller. aside from that, the gfx driver is specifically for Vista, and i'm still looking for an audio driver for my audigy sound card. apparently, the winXP driver isn't supported

CDsDontBurn · Jul 14, 2006, 02:39 PM

now.....what about daemon tools? i went to their site to check to see what the latest version is, which i already had (v4.03), and it supposedly works w/vista, but it doesn't. can anybody help me out w/that? i need daemon tools!!!! lol

Al_Vampyre · Jul 14, 2006, 05:00 PM

Hope so, can't afford to upgrade anytime soon, except for a new DX10 gfx card when they come out

big_D · Sep 17, 2006, 04:55 AM

I've been beta testing Vista on an Athlon XP2000+, 768MB RAM and FX5900XT, runs like a complete dog, but I'm guessing my Athlon64 3500+ will be powerful enough.

That said, I use the same test machine for SUSE beta testing. I have the latest Alpha of SUSE on it, using more advanced fancy 3D settings than Vista uses, it flies in comparison, booting up about 5-7 minutes quicker than Vista (booting to a usable desktop, as opposed to desktop first appearing), and loading applications like Office is a complete pain in Vista, compared with SUSE. Opening an Email in Kontact takes around 0.25 seconds in Kontact, whilst it takes 15 seconds in Outlook 2007.

Given that these are both brand new operating systems, it shows that Microsoft have used the plot, when an old clunker like this can be used effectively for day-to-day activity with fast 3D effects, it is very disappointing that Microsoft can't produce the same level of tight coding as a open source projects...