_Ray Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) I personally give it a 3/10. I Love the 32-bit compatibility of the x64 version, and the classic theme. I HATE it because it's corrupted itself on me twice within a week (Stopped Internet and ODD recognition), it uses lots of memory, crashes frequently, tells me 'OS not found' every other time I try to boot, and it just has so many other problems. Long story short, it pretty much sucks, and if you're getting a 32-bit OS, get XP SP2, and if you want 64-bit, wait for Windows 7. Edited July 10, 2009 by Raybob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 I voted 3/10 just because it started up and I could do stuff. Not very easily, but I could do stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charger Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 9/10. But after the SP2 update, I give it a 3/10. It fucked up all my drivers, and I have no idea how to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 SP2 fucked up some things to me too. Overall: 9/10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 7/10 - Vista x64 Ultimate - Has run flawlessly and never once have I had any sort of a problem using it. There's just some things it doesn't do very well, hence the loss of 3 points. Windows 7 improves performance, look etc. so I'll be upgrading to the final version immediately. I'm not happy with Vista and as I just said it runs flawlessly for me. I couldn't even begin to imagine using a problematic machine. @Raybob: You love the classic theme? WTF, that sucks ass, it's just grey. Unless you're colour blind I cannot see how anyone can find that appealing, especially if you use the computer for long periods of time everyday, like me. It's awful. Dullest computer OS theme ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Ray Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 (edited) SP2 fucked up some things to me too. Overall: 9/10. That's much of the reason I turned Auto Updates completely off. Also because my internet stopping and my ODDs not working seemed to occur after the updates. (Not driver update problems, because reinstalling the original drivers didn't fix it.) 7/10 - Vista x64 Ultimate - Has run flawlessly and never once have I had any sort of a problem using it. There's just some things it doesn't do very well, hence the loss of 3 points. Windows 7 improves performance, look etc. so I'll be upgrading to the final version immediately.I'm not happy with Vista and as I just said it runs flawlessly for me. I couldn't even begin to imagine using a problematic machine. @Raybob: You love the classic theme? WTF, that sucks ass, it's just grey. Unless you're colour blind I cannot see how anyone can find that appealing, especially if you use the computer for long periods of time everyday, like me. It's awful. Dullest computer OS theme ever. The beautiful classic theme: Oh yeah, and you'll love it when I say that I strongly considered keeping the entire plain blue background. And I like it because it's simple. Although for mostly everything else I enjoy complication..... EDIT: On my wonderful new PC, with everything on the absolute MAX in FSX (Had to go into custom settings to acheive this) I get a steady 15-18 FPS. Not too great, but it looks AMAZING. And for those that said FSX needed the i7, my CPU rarely gets above 50% during FSX. Edited July 10, 2009 by Raybob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Ray Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 Lol, I just noticed how even though I'm running SP1, SP2 isn't in Windows Update..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherman Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Out of the 5 mins I've been on my new laptop, it's pretty decent. Looks different than XP... combined with the whole new scroll thingy, it's just different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Ray Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 Out of the 5 mins I've been on my new laptop, it's pretty decent. Looks different than XP... combined with the whole new scroll thingy, it's just different. Mine's been corrupting itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate10 Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 8/10 - I use Vista Home Premium SP1 and it hasn't fucked up at all so far. Have Home Basic SP1 on the family computer, don't really like it but then again the specs on that computer suck anyway. I have no idea how to rate OS's really, but it seems fine to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 @Ray: According to Microsoft, service packs only appear in Windows Update 1/2 months after the release and its size will be tinier as most of the updates are including separately. @On-topic: LOL, actually I also like somewhat the classic theme. Remembers me of the first time I upgraded from 3.1 to Windows 95 and from 98 to XP... (All using the upgrade function, never lost any data). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damjan Posted July 10, 2009 Share Posted July 10, 2009 Meh, 5/10, the look is the only thing that's good, faster than XP, but none Windows is faster than Ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Ray Posted July 10, 2009 Author Share Posted July 10, 2009 @Ray: According to Microsoft, service packs only appear in Windows Update 1/2 months after the release and its size will be tinier as most of the updates are including separately.@On-topic: LOL, actually I also like somewhat the classic theme. Remembers me of the first time I upgraded from 3.1 to Windows 95 and from 98 to XP... (All using the upgrade function, never lost any data). I was only surprised because I had seen it when I first got the PC, then installed it. But when I reinstalled the OS as SP1, it didn't reappear. And Computer>Properties tells me I'm still using SP1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huckleberry Pie Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 On my wonderful new PC, with everything on the absolute MAX in FSX (Had to go into custom settings to acheive this) I get a steady 15-18 FPS. Not too great, but it looks AMAZING. And for those that said FSX needed the i7, my CPU rarely gets above 50% during FSX. FSX only churns out 15-18FPS on a GTX? Lulz, I guess I need a NASA server for that to run on straight 60. As for my Vista experience, it does perform rather anemic on low-end systems (to think that some OEMs bundle Vista on a Celeron rig), but give it lots of horsepower like what Chris said, and it'll run rather decently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 9/10 Very, very happy with it. Really, forget XP. Vista works great. SP2 didn't make a difference at all though.. at least, nothing that I can see. Runs stable as hell btw. Never have gotten it down until now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustADummy Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 @Ray: According to Microsoft, service packs only appear in Windows Update 1/2 months after the release and its size will be tinier as most of the updates are including separately.@On-topic: LOL, actually I also like somewhat the classic theme. Remembers me of the first time I upgraded from 3.1 to Windows 95 and from 98 to XP... (All using the upgrade function, never lost any data). I was only surprised because I had seen it when I first got the PC, then installed it. But when I reinstalled the OS as SP1, it didn't reappear. And Computer>Properties tells me I'm still using SP1. Alternatively you could do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Ray Posted July 11, 2009 Author Share Posted July 11, 2009 @Ray: According to Microsoft, service packs only appear in Windows Update 1/2 months after the release and its size will be tinier as most of the updates are including separately.@On-topic: LOL, actually I also like somewhat the classic theme. Remembers me of the first time I upgraded from 3.1 to Windows 95 and from 98 to XP... (All using the upgrade function, never lost any data). I was only surprised because I had seen it when I first got the PC, then installed it. But when I reinstalled the OS as SP1, it didn't reappear. And Computer>Properties tells me I'm still using SP1. Alternatively you could do this. Not interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girish Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 Awesome. 9/10. I have Vista Ultimate x86 SP2 and I haven't had a single issue with it or any applications or games ever since I installed it back in November 2008. There's no reason for me to go back to XP or even try Windows 7, ATM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damjan Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Just an addition to my post: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Love Vista even more. So for the first time ever, I had fucked my PC. I was messing around a lot, but didn't realize I really was fucking it. Turned off the system by simply cuting the power. Something must have gone wrong... Point is, it started up. Took a long time.. Went is some weird half safe-mode. Well, it booted into a temp account and notified me of the fact that something had gone wrong (I had about my first ever BSOD with this system. Don't think it was OC related) and assured me that all will probably be fine after a restart. I restart, it takes some time and then everything is back to normal, HURRAY! Now it's running like a breeze again. Now one could argue that Vista should have prevented it from going wrong it the first place and yes, I guess you'd be right. But every single time I've fucked my PC up, Vista automatically fixes it for me. It amazes me. I didn't see XP help me that much when I had a problem. In fact, XP wouldn't do a single thing. Vista actually gives some information and will, at least in my cases, simply fix it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM™ Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Vista works like a new born baby, every time I turn my PC on. Nothing has happened to my PC or anything. The design I believe is professional enough, but from what I heard people are saying Windows 7 is better, from what I saw, it doesn't look that good (This is just my opinion). Unless I try it out for myself, my opinion might change eventually. I'd give it a 8.5/10, it was completely hard to get use to, especially the start menu, but everything else seems okay from what I've gone through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRX22B1998 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Vista works like a new born baby consistently crying whinging and needing to be fed XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I don't like Win 7 really. Can't get used to the new Dock'ish taskbar. I hate apple's dock. Why did MS have to copy that part of OSX... Well maybe it works with MS's twist to it. Haven't used Win 7 all that much. Installed it. Played around. Deleted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaz The Great Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I'm not sure how you could praise Vista and not like 7. The only reason I took the hard drive with 7 on it out of my PC is because I couldn't connect to the internet and I needed important files off of a third hard drive and didn't want to risk plugging in three hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 I didn't fiddle with it for long. Didn't even install all the drivers and stuff. But my first impression just wasn't all that great... Might be because I simply was expecting more after it was praised to the sky. Only thing I did really like was how fast all programs would start up. It's really instant. Click, bam, it's there. But I just can't get over the new taskbar... I'll upgrade later on.. at SP1 I think. Or when I'm doing a major upgrade, as Vista is going to bitch about the sudden hardware changes and will want me to either call Microsoft or buy a new license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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