Welcome to Windows Vista Ultimate where you drop 20-50 IQ Points
Yes, I am now on Microsoft Windows Vista the Ultimate edition. Why I went with Vista? Lets see… I was stuck on a 32-bit OS on a system that’s meant to run in a 64-bit system is a start. Anyways, I picked up my copy after work in the day it was released (I mean, come on, how many people do you expect to buy Windows Vista by itself? Most consumers would just buy a new computer/laptop with vista already on it), moved files from this one drive over to another drive to free up this drive and install vista on this one drive.
I have to say that I’m surprised that the installation didn’t crashed on me because when I tried to install Beta 2 and RC1 they just crashed (one of which made me format a perfectly good hard drive with XP installed on it). Then again, I think it also helped that I disconnected all the USB devices and plugged my keyboard and mouse in the standard PS/2 ports.
You remember when installing XP it asks you to set up your keyboard, your languages, network settings, etc.? Will… installing Vista is just a click of a few buttons. Read the license agreement, put in the CD key code, chose the drive you want to install vista on, and sit back and watch (or take your shower like I did). Once Vista is installed, it will then ask you to set up a user profile and setting up the timezone.
Luckily for me, Vista had no problems finding generic drivers to use for most of my devices. I still went online and got the drivers for my keyboard and mouse, web cam, and even though Vista comes with a pretty good driver for my video card, I still downloaded and install the video card drivers for my card. Only a few items that I had problem with. Vista didn’t knew about my sound card until I installed it after downloading the driver from the manufacture site (big surprise there) and that the manufacture of my printer didn’t released drivers for Vista for my parture model (although they do have plans of releasing a driver for it, I just don’t know when). For the mean time, I get to see Vista opening up that add hardware thingy and be like, “yes, you have a printer epson r220, what would you like to do?” That’s another thing that kinda drive me crazy is that Vista knows what kind of printer my printer is, but it doesn’t have driver support?
I’ll give you a more in depth details about Vista once I’ve explored some more ^^;;
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I know this is old…
and I’ll probably be the only one to comment, I installed Vista on an older PC went smoother than my typical XP installs.
I installed Vista on my gaming rig and I had 3 total HDDs (SATA) Vista didn’t like that… it didn’t like a whole lot! but I could keep my kb/mouse plugged in though I had to disconnect all but one drive (the install drive obviously has to stay)
Little did I know there was a RAM issue complicating the issue… but it didn’t prevent installing. I wanted to play flight simulator and other games on Vista, only to be disappointed with the way it handled graphics. I was using DX10 (that explains why MSFS didn’t work partially properly) but I also noticed that Vista/certain games don’t like it when I have dual monitors (but other games ran fine on dual) so I went to XP to solve that problem.
Here’s the catch, you can install DX9 on Vista, but you’d be stupid to… the problem is games like MSFS 2004 ACOF does not support DX10 whatsoever and you cannot get Anti Aliasing because it uses a different core. You cannot install both DX9/DX10 in fact if you install dX10 it uninstalls DX9