schild
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XP Decided to shit the bed and frankly, it was time to upgrade. Got Home Premium. We'll see how long I last in Aero.
Thus far, it's been pretty easy.
Also, having 120GB of installed games all fit into the recycle bin is pretty weird.
Oh and RAM++.
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schild
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Oh sweet. Firefox 3 doesn't render the f13 frontpage correctly. RAD.
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Furiously
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I'm doing some playtesting at Microsoft tomorrow, so I fully expect to able to install Vista at home tomorrow.
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schild
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Hm?
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Trippy
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They like to give out software at those sorts of things. Back when I worked for a big company that was partnered with MS everytime they came down to visit they'd bring a big box of software with them to give out.
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schild
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Well yea, I was just wondering what he was playtesting. At CompUSA I always made sure I'd go to one of those when a new revision of windows or Office had come out.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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People really don't learn, do they?
How many threads have we had on Vista 64 that end in tears and regret?
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Pennilenko
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People really don't learn, do they?
How many threads have we had on Vista 64 that end in tears and regret?
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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schild
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Every game and program I've installed has worked perfectly. Except for fucking PowerDVD, but it's not vistas fault. They took out HD-DVD support in 8 and now I'm left looking for a program that supports HD-DVD playback.
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schild
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Nevermind. Someone backwards engineered the 8 release to let HD-DVD work in it from the beta. Word. No problems anymore.
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Yup, had it for months and never had a problem.
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Viin
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Anyone know if your 32bit Vista key works on the same version for 64bit Vista? I'm thinking of switching to 64bit and getting some more RAM to go with it ..
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schild
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If it's a retail key, it should. OEM won't.
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Mrbloodworth
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Every game and program I've installed has worked perfectly. Except for fucking PowerDVD, but it's not vistas fault. They took out HD-DVD support in 8 and now I'm left looking for a program that supports HD-DVD playback.
90% of my development tools won't run. Games, sure they run, with 2x the ram. Web browsing/MS word works great! |
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schild
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Games, sure they run, with 2x the ram. Web browsing/MS word works great! Say hello to my computer? |
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NiX
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Locomotive Pandamonium
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Is the 2x ram a requirement because of Aero or just Vista itself?
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schild
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You don't upgrade to vista unless you really want to run the RAM you can run in Vista.
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Yegolev
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Yep, I feel that you move to 64-bit because you want to use some more RAM. It's all about address space. Since XP 64 is balls, that leaves Vista 64. So far I don't have any memory issues, and Firefox 3 is much less of a hog, so I'm still OK with XP. Possibly a different story in twelve months.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Ookii
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Vista runs fine on 2gb of RAM, even better if you have a crappy flashdrive you can stick in there for readyboost.
I AM HIJACKING THIS THREAD. I want to know what x64 software you guys out there are using for various things. I'm having a hard time tracking down x64 programs for certain tasks, for instance I would like to install an x64 image viewer (like acdsee) to browse my awesome pictures.
What are you guys using that is 64bit?
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rattran
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Fuck readyboost, just upgrade to 8gig and tun the pagefile down to 16mb. Everything runs better so far.
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Nija
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Let me know when Cisco makes a VPN client that works on Vista 64.
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Ookii
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Let me know when Cisco makes a VPN client that works on Vista 64.
That's why your work should give you a laptop, like a normal company. |
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Viin
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Let me know when Cisco makes a VPN client that works on Vista 64.
Aha, I didn't even think of that. Not that I use my home computer .. We now use a web-based java VPN (I think it's Cisco) but it doesn't work on OS X, so I'm stuck using the deprecated version. |
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schild
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SmartFTP is the only native 64-bit piece of software I grabbed. But then, not much else I need on the machine. Cept Photoshop and CS3 works fine.
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schild
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ACDSee Pro 2.0 works under Vista 64 and utilizes multiple cores.
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Nija
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That's why your work should give you a laptop, like a normal company.
Actually my company only uses Laptops - and the new ones are Vista. But at the same time we use something different for VPN. The Cisco stuff is for my Other Crap(TM). |
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Lt.Dan
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Oh sweet. Firefox 3 doesn't render the f13 frontpage correctly. RAD.
Frontpage? What's that?  |
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Furiously
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Well my trip to Microsoft was full of  and it was , the was interesting and . I would definately do it again. |
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Ironwood
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Illuminating.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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photek
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How is AoC running in Vista VS XP ?
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away"
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schild
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It runs better. Shockingly.
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craan
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What are your machine specs?
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PWYWWYFSWLSOCA
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schild
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Q9450, 4GB DDR2-800, 8800GT, P5KC mobo, external X-Fi/USB, Seasonic 600 powersupply.
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photek
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I just installed Vista 32-bit with SP1 and it works great. Its stable, fast, runs AoC just as good as XP SP3 and it uses all my 4GB ram. I thought it was only 64-bit OS supporting 4gb, but SP1 sorted it.
This rig btw : X38-DQ6, 8800GTX 768mb, Core2Quad 2,4ghz, 4gb ram.
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away"
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Furiously
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Yea - Newegg just got a bit more of my money so I can go from 2 to 4 megs of memory. Thankfully memory is cheap nowdays.
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