Vista?

Well I am getting a laptop soon, and i keep on hearing vista is crap and such or i cant run photoshop or c4d

I just wanted to know who here has had problems with vista, if their is a lot then I will just tell them no vista put XP

 

Photoshop works on Vista. I just upgraded my laptop a couple of days ago and everything's working just fine. The only problem I've had is that some of the videos I try to play in WMP have distorted color lines running through them (the same videos never did that in XP). Aside from that, everything's real nice

 

the only thing wrong with Vista is drivers for Nvidia cards..

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the only thing wrong with Vista is drivers for Nvidia cards..

 

Phooshop and C4D works good , but c3D don't work on it .

 

course, thats probably too old for it..

 

I upgraded my laptop to vista about a month ago
and as far as I am concerned, I haven't found any problems with it
except for about 2 programs that dont work...

 

unless you're going for a 2GB+ RAM system, XP is optimal.

either that or tweak the hell out of vista disable superfetch and a lot of miscellaneous services.

 

thanks guys

and what do you mean xelink, I am getting 2GB ram and 256 MB gfx card is that bad for vista

 

he means that Vista runs alot of programs in the background, so you need alot of ram.

 

as for what I meant, Vista is a very aggressive OS when it comes to memory caching, you basically want a TON of RAM if you're using Vista. 3GB is the new 2GB.(and 1Gb is the new 512mb)

and master it doesn't really run a lot of programs(well technically it does but ehh) it just preloads a lot of programs(which is why people say things tend to open faster under vista.)

if you rate card by MB then boy are you sad...

you should rate them primarily by the processing power fo the GPu, the memory interface and the memory speed.

example given a 320mb 8800GTS can beat a 7950GX2 even though it technically has 1024mb vRAM.

the last few years there has been a marketting gimmick where manufacturers stick ona lot of vRAM to cheap crappy cards and then sell them at a premium. The cards perform like ---- and most of the vRAM goes unused(the card isn't powerful enough to play at settings that require a lot of vRAM)

 

I have installed Vista recently no problems at all runs PS CS2 fine dreamweaver flash etc etc runs them all fine even MSN tat the wizard they sujested to run said taht wouldnt work ... works lol