Windows Vista Ultimate x64

[MERKiN]

Well, here we are, vista is out there for the picking... and as a lot of us know there are driver issues (from what i have seen). Now, i am wondering if anyone has heard of any fixes for this, i have the drive kit as well from M$, and i will play with that later. My main main question is whats going to happen to the coolbits and other such utilities we loved so much? I cant get my refresh rate overclocked anymore That, and I'm seeming to have issues with OpenGL and Vista, for some... odd reason i cant run my lovely old game TFC, it gives OpenGL errors. Anyone heard anything on that? Other than that, i love the OS, despite how much ive bad mouthed M$ in the past, I'm liking the feel of this.

Thanks Guys!

-MERKiN

 

[MERKiN]

bump.... anyone?

 

[Phrenetical]

If you search around there is a website/forum where people are listing and catalouging all the Vista incompatibilities, when i looked at it i was shocked.

Seriously, nothing runs on Vista, 90% of third party software, doesn't run correctly on Vista, you just have to wait for the authors to rewrite their programs.

MS only focuses on their own products they couldnt care less about small software writers like those from coolbits or coolmon, MS only released development API's to the largest software vendors like Adobe to get their products to work on Vista, small and medium software vendors have been shafted form vista hard.

Then again even big companies are having issues, Creative for instance still hasn't released Vista X-fi drivers far as i know.

 

[Shell]

If you search around there is a website/forum where people are listing and catalouging all the Vista incompatibilities, when i looked at it i was shocked.
Seriously, nothing runs on Vista, 90% of third party software, doesn't run correctly on Vista, you just have to wait for the authors to rewrite their programs.
MS only focuses on their own products they couldnt care less about small software writers like those from coolbits or coolmon, MS only released development API's to the largest software vendors like Adobe to get their products to work on Vista, small and medium software vendors have been shafted form vista hard.
Then again even big companies are having issues, Creative for instance still hasn't released Vista X-fi drivers far as i know.

You seem to be the one with compatability issues.

I run 3DSMAX, MAYA, Source Engine games, Oblivion... Starcraft... Windows 95 games... X-COM UFO Defence(Windows 3.1) everything I have works just fine on Vista by simply using compatability mode... The same old freeware DVD drive emulator that I've been using ever since Win2000... I could make a very large list.

Drivers are a different story however... but if there are Vista drivers out for your hardware... or at least Win XP x64, you'll be just fine.

But there's no real use for Vista yet, not untill D3D_10 games and such come out.

 

[MERKiN]

Thanks, yeah I havent had too much Incompatibility issues so far, only thing i saw was my sparky utilities for TFC Didnt work, but thats fine, it needed to be updated. that and Alcohol Clone CD 120% doesnt feel like installing. Other than that its running like a champ. I have managed to force some drivers in from other boards that have the same chipset, but different installs (some how, i dont know why) and they go in for the most part. No blue screens or anything. I just want to refresh rate hack this bad boy rofl. I was so used to my CRT @ 100hz, now i have this huge LCD and the highest is 75hz @ 800x600... but it'll only do like 60 normally. I dunno, i'll just wait a lil longer and see whats going on. And, yeah i saved my XP Partition, so im good. Thanks