Vista RC1: Software Compatability Thread

[Gabbiani]

Anyone adding to this thread, please specify what problems you ran into with software that does not work

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Working:
-Acrobat Reader
-ATI Tool (need newest Vista/ATI drivers and .25 Beta 16 tool)
-Avast AntiVirus (newest beta version works with RC1, please update)
-AVG Free Anti-Virus
-Battlefield 2
-Clone CD
-Firefox
-HDTach
-Live for speed
-OpenOffice.org 2.0.3rc7
-Power ISO 3.3
-Quicken 2007
-Sun Java has a little issue, but it still works.
-SuperPi
-Teamspeak
-Thunderbird
-Warrock
-WinDVD 7
-WinRAR 3.5
-World of Warcraft
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Not Working:
-ACDSee Pro 8.0.6
-Mcafee Viruscan 8.0 (Instant blue screen after logging in)
-Nero 6 Ultra (going to get the 7 trial later, may be my MB drivers, sees burner, but errors out immediatly when burning)
-Nero Premium 7.2 (No info yet)
-Partition Magic 8.05

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A few things have been mentioned in other threads, so I thought it would be nice if we could compile a list of things working/not working so far in RC1. (I only speak for 32bit, gave up on 64bit drivers for time being)

I hope to expand on this list ALOT this weekend.

* All software versions are current unless specified.
**Credits go to all who post in this thread, OCForums, and from personal testing.

[liftedcj7on44s]

So far i have had pretty good luck most of my games work
HL2
Warrock
Battlefield 2
Live for speed

one program that you do not want to install is the EzTune LCD software. upon rebooting after installing my lcd went haywire and the computer locked up, had to boot into safe mode and delete the program.

[TazExtreme3]

I've had problems with Avast. The new beta fixes it though, and that can be found here (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=23424.0)

[hotrod469]

subscribed

[nikhsub1]

If this is kept nice and orderly - perhaps with the OP updating the first thread I will make this a sticky ;)

[Gabbiani]

If this is kept nice and orderly - perhaps with the OP updating the first thread I will make this a sticky ;)


Well, if it grows much I will break down into catagories and do some color coding etc. I am at work right now so I will do a cleaner job at home.

[Evnas]

This is what Ive run into problems with so far.

ACDSee Pro 8.0.6
Nero Premium 7.2
Daemon Tools
ZoneAlarm (the free firewall version)
Partition Magic 8.05
Rhapsody music service

Programs that have worked for me so far are:

Power ISO 3.3
AVG Free Anti-Virus
WinRAR 3.5
WinDVD 7
Lastest Acrobat Reader
Sun Java has a little issue, but it still works.
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3rc7
Quicken 2007


*note* Adding more as I think about it/come across them

[Audioaficionado]

Working Buggy

Spybot - Search & Destroy
AVG Free
cpuz
FreeRAM XP Pro
Ad-Aware SE Personal
Convert
Pegasus Mail
aida32
Everest Home Ed
EMIII
Belkin Bulldog Plus UPS Monitor
yats32
JS Color Finder
Stats 2000
md5 summer
WinRar
EAC
LAME
WavPack
MBM5
RivaTuner v2.0 RC 16
Serious Samuriz 1.63 (1.64 doesn't)
Desktop Sidebar
CoverDownLoader
GB-PVR
Winamp
ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 14.0
RegScrub-XP
IrFanView
Bittorrent
7-Zip
Stardock
Weather Watcher



Not working

Hauppauge WinTV2000
Perfectdisk 6
Gibson Research 'Wizmo' Monoff function

Will add more as they come to light.

[nvidiaOCmaster]

I couldnt get Rivatuner to work.

Everything else was flawless.

[Audioaficionado]

I couldnt get Rivatuner to work.

Everything else was flawless.Try the compatibility tab.

[Sneaky]

steam working?

[Rattle]

steam doesnt even work on xp home/pro lol

[harakusara]

steam doesnt even work on xp home/pro lol

what are you takling about yes it does work in xp

[liftedcj7on44s]

steam worked better for me in vista for about 3 days and then all of a sudden everytime i tried to launch a game i got that stupid old "the game is currently unavailable" bull crap!

[K15]

So far I haven't run into any problems with software, but I haven't installed all that much yet. One problem though. When I tried to shut down the other night, it froze up at the desktop. The taskbar was gone and all icons were gone (just that period after that and just before the spash screen with the "shutting down" message.)
I had to reset and then shut down again. No errors given or anything, so that was weird.

Working

AVG
LimeWire
Firefox
Quicktime
Winamp

Something I was very happy about was drivers. Every driver worked properly right away. My audio drivers didn't install at first, but windows update provided them within minutes after installing. I was especially happy that my wireless card driver was available, I was worried about that. I got the 32 bit version BTW, though I may try the 64 bit one just to see how that goes.

[Audioaficionado]

Since all versions of Nero are a no-go, what software will burn an ISO image on Vista?

Windows will burn copies of files but not a bootable ISO image TTBOMK.

[Ge|atinousFury]

Since all versions of Nero are a no-go, what software will burn an ISO image on Vista?

Windows will burn copies of files but not a bootable ISO image TTBOMK.

I'd try PowerISO v3.3. It's a pretty decent program and it's declared working in the original post.

[inkfx]

what are you takling about yes it does work in xp
I think he is refering to how poor of a program Steam is and how many errors and things it always encounters.

[Xenocide]

Since all versions of Nero are a no-go, what software will burn an ISO image on Vista?

Windows will burn copies of files but not a bootable ISO image TTBOMK.

im using a copy of nero 7.2 lite, works fine for me

[itshondo]

Working-

AdAware
Spybot Search & Destroy
Brutus Logoff
Office 2003 (MS Update updated Office as well, nice)


Did NOT Work

Norton ANtivirus 7.6 (Unable to start Navace)
Sygate Personal Firewall (unable to start the engine)
Opera Web Browser

Funky Ops-

Firefox

[Cheator]

x64 version of RC1:

Working- IMGBurn, Steam,World of Warcraft
Not working - Grisoft AVG, Antivir

[tenchi86]

Kaspersky IS would not install for me, though I did not mess with it very much it said that it was blacklisted.

[Oroka Sempai]

I read somewhere someone got Acdsee 8 working with the Device detector not installed, but didnt help for me :/


Working:
eMule v0.47b
Bearshare 5.2.4
WinAmp 5.24


Not sure if this is related, but I can not access my online banking in IE7, the Vista version. Works fine in IE7 XP, not in the Vista version.

[billb]

Good:
Ultramon
Paint Shop Pro 7.02

[Oroka Sempai]

Works
Acdsee 9

[telexen]

NO DAEMON TOOLS...BAD!

Seriously...what is their problem. Why not just let the program go and see if it works with Vista - rather than putting an error message in when someone tries to install it saying it's not supported. Let MS work out their bugs.

[orion25]

Graphical version of Folding at home 5.03 works!!!

I will keep vista up for now since I can fold with it.:santa:

[orion25]

Since all versions of Nero are a no-go, what software will burn an ISO image on Vista?

Windows will burn copies of files but not a bootable ISO image TTBOMK.

Not sure what you are asking but I burnt my Vista ISO using Nero in Win XP. As far as using Nero or another burner in Vista I have no idea.........

Never Mind, I re read your post........ :rolleyes:

[orion25]

If this is kept nice and orderly - perhaps with the OP updating the first thread I will make this a sticky ;)

Gabbiani, please keep the origonal thread up to date. This would be a great sticky until March 07, when my key runs out...........

[Audioaficionado]

im using a copy of nero 7.2 lite, works fine for meInstalled and working in Vista? How?
I couldn't get it to finish registering the components and it kept dying during the installation phase. With or without the compatibility switch.

[Gabbiani]

Big update needed on this thread. I spent a large part of my weekend with Vista blue screens on boot. Again, this may be part of MB/Chipset/Etc drivers. Don't know.

Problem was with the media sharing. I have used Media Player 11 for a couple of weeks now with no problems. The other day it decided to detect my 360 as a medai pc. Ok, so I click on the bubble and set it up. Cool, it loads just like media edition on the pc. Reboot, blue screen. Safe mode still boots.

Turns out, with media sharing enabled in the OS, everytime I was running MP it was adding c:\program files\windows media player\wmpncfg.exe to my startup. If I removed it via msconfig etc it would boot fine, but appear again after running MP. I believe this only happened after it detected my other media devices and started trying to share.

[Audioaficionado]

Vista boots just fine for me but it takes a long long time to load.

XP seems so much faster you'd think it was DOS loading up in comparison :p

I'm taking a Vista vacation while I'm setting up my fresh XP install.

XP's installer sux while the Vista installer is very polished.

Update: Raxio has a new Vista beta version of it's Perfectdisk 8 up for a free 30 day trial. I'll let you all know how it works.

Latest Update: Perfectdisk 8 for Vista beta actually works on Vista. I just did an off line boot system file defrag and now I'm doing a smart placement defrag. Nice bonus is that the trial period is 150 days instead of the normal 30 days.

Hmmm... I wonder if this will install on XP? Once the XP Perfect disk expires, I'll try the Vista one LOL.

[TheNewbie]

I agree the Vista installer is very automated justl ike 3 setting you have change.
Ps. trend micro has a free beta PC-cillin version 14.56 for Vista that works pretty good.

[Xtreme Barton]

i must say... this is running soo slow compared to xp. i would not reccomend this for older computers. i even tried turning everything i could off and it still is slow...

[Oroka Sempai]

Well, didnt the min requirements for Vista double that of XP? Pretty much anything under 1GHz is too slow for minimum Vista settings. I wouldn't touch Vista with less than 512mb of ram.

[Xtreme Barton]

im using it on my lappy

1.9ghz cpu 1gb ram 7200rpm drive

[TheNewbie]

What kind of video card does your laptop have?

[dicecca112]

McAffee Antivirus 8.0i the enterprise version doesn't work either. Same as the normal 8.0 version blue screen.

[Xtreme Barton]

What kind of video card does your laptop have?
radeon 7500 mobility ..but all visual stuff was turned off in xp that i could find

[medo145]

clockgen works (have to run it as admin in the options) not sure if u have to do the compability thing too

[updawg]

Oblivion Works
CCleaner Works
Foobar Works
Itunes Works
Gaim Works

[Dermen]

I'm using Vista X64

Doesn't work:
NOD32

Works:
Avast Anti-Virus
Ventrilo
X-Fire
FireFox
Deer Park 1.6
Logitech Setpoint Drivers/Configuration

Thats all that I didn't see already. Are you going to seperate x86 and x64?

[meionm]

I gave up on Vista once it constantly started crashing with this error sys32k.sys. So I installed windows xp and windows vista trasformation pack. I liked gui from vista.

[medo145]

i get sys32k.sys error when oc too high on xp. vista seems pretty stable at this point. only issue i have is that i can't install the printer drivers for my printer. thats why im still on xp otherwise i would have moved on to get used to the new os. btw is there a way to disable windows defender, or at least stop it from asking u for permission every time you run something.

[elec999]

Daemon tools doesnt work. Nod32 doesnt work.
Thanks

[Audioaficionado]

It looks like I'm going to be reinstalling Vista soon :D

vista_5728.16387.060917-1430_x86fre_client-LRMCFRE_EN_DVD.iso

I got a link to a good Bittorrent and it should be finished tomorrow.

Once I confirm the md5 checksum, I'll burn the iso.

[dicecca112]

supposedly the size requirements for that build are lower. The ISO itself is smaller too. I might download it, but on this college connection it could take no lie a week.

[Dermen]

btw is there a way to disable windows defender, or at least stop it from asking u for permission every time you run something.

Open 'Security Center', go to 'Other Security Settings', the turn off 'User Account Control'

That will get rid of all those stupid pop-ups asking for permission to do things.

[Audioaficionado]

supposedly the size requirements for that build are lower. The ISO itself is smaller too. I might download it, but on this college connection it could take no lie a week.Maybe the iso is smaller but the install was size was the same. ~9GB

[eaglescouter]

Origional post needs updating please.

[Rattle]

speaking of compatability

anyone with my board in sig get vista to take the raid drivers when trying a fresh install.

i wanna try the newest version but I dont wanna wipe xp pro just to find out i can use raid 0 in vista.

[Audioaficionado]

Is it possible to get two spare drives you can set up RAID 0 ?

That's about the only way you could test it out yourself without losing your tweaked XP installation. I know I would be reluctant to do this for a beta OS too and I'm only running single drives for the OS partitions. My RAID mirror array is for data only so hopefully it will be above the fray when playing with OS installations.

Hopefully some one else will bite the bullet and give it a whirl.

[Rattle]

yeah I was actually thinking of ordering 2 more perp drives...

[medo145]

Open 'Security Center', go to 'Other Security Settings', the turn off 'User Account Control'

That will get rid of all those stupid pop-ups asking for permission to do things.

thanks

[ALiEN2953]

atitool does not work with the 96.33 drivers on x86 with my 7900gt and i really need a program to OC my card..

[Rattle]

use rivatuner, worked for me in vista with my 1900

[ALiEN2953]

doesnt for me...

[Rattle]

use XP compatability

[smoorman]

I have a Gateway 6425 laptop with
Turion 64 bit 1.8 Ghz proc
1 gig ram
5400 HD
ATI200 graphics

It gives me a rating of 2 out of 5 because of the low powered graphics card.

Seems to take a little longer to load but the performance is perfectly tolerable.
The existing audio drivers don't work but Gateway said new ones will be available soon.
I'm fairly impressed with Vista so far. I have'nt had one problem.

[ALiEN2953]

ok so riva tuner works in compatibity mode but it is missing the driver options so i cant OC...What gives

are there any settings for Core and mem clock in the poweer user controls?

[Audioaficionado]

ok so riva tuner works in compatibity mode but it is missing the driver options so i cant OC...What gives

are there any settings for Core and mem clock in the poweer user controls?It's not rivatuner but a nvidia driver issue. The driver doesn't have the OC controls enabled.

[ALiEN2953]

damn that sucks

[Audioaficionado]

damn that sucksBe patient. nVidia is sure to come out with a more complete driver now that Vista is programmer stable.