Just shifted to Vista. Now what?

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i just installed ultimate x64 and liking it a lot too... aero glass looks very nice. bootup and shutdown really fast. vmware server is one app that doesnt work for me. so using vmware workstation and virtualbox.

games? you might be in for disappointment... crysis which used to give me about 25-30 FPS in XP has dropped to about 10 FPS :D
 
^Are just posted to show its possible..:ashamed:

I didnt even know abt this feature until i tried ati tool, which installs custom driver..:lol: Wonder why they added such a lame feature..:@
 
Party Monger said:
^Are just posted to show its possible..:ashamed:

I didnt even know abt this feature until i tried ati tool, which installs custom driver..:lol: Wonder why they added such a lame feature..:@

stability re :P windows is unstable enuf as it is ;)
 
It's much faster than XP.

Wait for a few weeks, maybe a month :ohyeah:

And I only hope you do not use network drives (esp. for media storage), from the way you are gushing over Vista, I am guessing you don't :P
 
superczar said:
Wait for a few weeks, maybe a month :ohyeah:

And I only hope you do not use network drives (esp. for media storage), from the way you are gushing over Vista, I am guessing you don't :P

Know something the rest of us dont, do you? How bout a link? :)

Hope its not something similar to the home server bug which hit MS recently? :O
 
Know something the rest of us dont, do you? How bout a link?

No links, just personal experience

When I first started using Vista (legal BTW), it started off well..

Other problems set aside, here is what I faced with networked media:

The first hint of trouble came within a few days when I had to transfer some of my media files over to a Samba NAS server

A sub 1 Gig transfer first took a huge amount of time to start , then took inordinately long to get done

Adding my media repository (~5K songs which may not be small, but isnt too huge either) to the media player took ages to complete

Shifting , seeking between songs was amazingly painful

Videos were even worse, networked Videos (even SD) would often stutter, forget HD content

Mind you, all this while, my OS X mac and XP desktop were happily handling all of this over the same network and same Samba and AFP shares

Even USB external HDD transfer of media files would sometimes randomly slowdown

Apart from the nightmware I face with my media setup, other tasks within the OS started off decently well but then I started experiencing random explorer shell crashes and other freeze issue within a few weeks.

Also, the system in question was a C2D with 2GB of RAM so even though not top of the line, but not a slouch either

I still don't know what was in the innards of Vista that cause all of this, perhaps some weird DRM check that would happen each time media files were transferred?
 
superczar said:
The first hint of trouble came within a few days when I had to transfer some of my media files over to a Samba NAS server
A sub 1 Gig transfer first took a huge amount of time to start , then took inordinately long to get done

Apart from the nightmware I face with my media setup, other tasks within the OS started off decently well but then I started experiencing random explorer shell crashes and other freeze issue within a few weeks.

Also, the system in question was a C2D with 2GB of RAM so even though not top of the line, but not a slouch either

I still don't know what was in the innards of Vista that cause all of this, perhaps some weird DRM check that would happen each time media files were transferred?

Sp1 fixed most of the above problems..the filetransfer issue is 95%solved..
i get almost same speed that i get in xp.

Also, try network setup with sp1..way better according to me..

Windows media player is for basic use..used it with 2.9k songs..was decent..but tag edit dialogue takes ages to appear:lol:

The random explorer crashes, i can say with certainity were due to nvidia and not due to vista..got the latest drivers and the problem was gone..:)
 
No probs here too on SP1 x64. All media files on the network and no lag or stutter even with HD files. Getting almost the same transfer speeds that I used to get on XP with jumbo frames enabled. Only, in Vista, I can't get the network to work when jumbo frames are enabled. Anyways, not much of a drop in speeds. Average transfer rates of 21-25 MBps is enough for me.
 
Sp1 fixed most of the above problems..the filetransfer issue is 95%solved..

i get almost same speed that i get in xp.

Also, try network setup with sp1..way better according to me..

Windows media player is for basic use..used it with 2.9k songs..was decent..but tag edit dialogue takes ages to appear

The random explorer crashes, i can say with certainity were due to nvidia and not due to vista..got the latest drivers and the problem was gone..

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I guess with enough time to devote searching for troubleshooting tips on countless bulletin boards, I would have been able to sort out most of the problems I had...

In fact I'd have loved fixing these issues up when I was in college

Only hitch is with whatever limited time I get for myself, I'd rather have something that works straight out of the box without me having to waste my time on making esoteric registry edits or hunting for beta drivers and/or latest hot patches

(which is why my OS of choice is Leopard followed by XP...Vista is a very distant third..and even though I love Ubuntu as my server OS for its stability and the sheer breadth and quality of webapps that can run on a LAMP setup , using it as my desktop OS is still far away because of the amount of time that goes into researching ways and methods to make things happen)
 
superczar said:
I guess with enough time to devote searching for troubleshooting tips on countless bulletin boards, I would have been able to sort out most of the problems I had...

In fact I'd have loved fixing these issues up when I was in college
Only hitch is with whatever limited time I get for myself, I'd rather have something that works straight out of the box without me having to waste my time on making esoteric registry edits or hunting for beta drivers and/or latest hot patches
(which is why my OS of choice is Leopard followed by XP...Vista is a very distant third..and even though I love Ubuntu as my server OS for its stability and the sheer breadth and quality of webapps that can run on a LAMP setup , using it as my desktop OS is still far away because of the amount of time that goes into researching ways and methods to make things happen)
Fair enough..

Just wanted to tell that all the creases have been ironed out..:P
 
Just wanted to tell that all the creases have been ironed ou

Only hitch is it still requires an industrial heavy duty press and Iron hands to remove those creases :rofl:

On a side note, I have nothing against Windows...

I realize the fact that it is infinitely more complex to ensure quality control and uniform user experience when you need to ensure that the OS runs equally well across a near infinite number of hardware combinations people would run the OS on

Fixing kinks will atke its own sweet time and the level of stability XP has acquired over the years is nothing short of amazing

On the other hand, Leopard (or Tiger or whatever) is designed to run onky on predefined Apple hardware which makes the coders and testers task far far easier

Having said that, from an end user's perspective (and a user who wants things to work effortlessly without the need for that proverbial Iron to clear those creases), it's just that Vista still falls short of expectations
 
^ nice reply..

Actually that iron is sp1 itself..:lol:

Ofcourse if you need to craft it to your absolute liking, you wil need more tools..

Having said that, from an end user's perspective (and a user who wants things to work effortlessly without the need for that proverbial Iron to clear those creases), it's just that Vista still falls short of expectations

Absolutely..But lets not forget xp was in the same place a few years ago..Million of lines of code doesnt loose all the bugs in one day..or for that matter a year..:lol:

Right now its a trade..if one thinks the features are worth changing over then they hav much to gain over a small loss in performance..But for those who want pure performance(benchmark freaks) and are totally satisfied with xp, theres no reason to change over..As one of the thread said "Why fix it when it aint broken:P"
 
Yes I got my tablet PC (Vista Home Premium 32bit) just before SP1 came out and I noticed the gradual performance improvements with every windows update and the final arrival of SP1...

Then I installed Ultimate x64 SP1 on my desktop and it works smoother than XP.

Just gaming performance has gone down the toilet thats all :D
 
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