-- Posted by amanitta at 3:07 am on Aug. 23, 2008 Is it that Vista continues to enjoy a bad reputation? Undoubtedly, at least with a slice of the population which continues to emphasize the old ghosts who were born at the exit of the OS and that can be found in Apple's Mac commercials. Devil Mountain Software says that according to its statistics, 35% of new PCs shipped with Vista are demoted to run XP. -- Posted by The Last Magister at 3:08 am on Aug. 23, 2008 I downgraded. Vista sux. -- Posted by i r sekz at 3:08 am on Aug. 23, 2008 Whats your point.  Vista is a dead OS.  I will run XP till 7 is released. -- Posted by mcodeath at 3:08 am on Aug. 23, 2008 Quote: from TheLastMagister at 5:08 am on Aug. 23, 2008 I downgraded. Vista sux. QFT -- Posted by its only me at 3:09 am on Aug. 23, 2008 i heard it sucks, but my dad has it and he loves it -- Posted by ashleigh04191988 at 3:09 am on Aug. 23, 2008 vista sux ass.... sooo slow -- Posted by BLUEAUTOMATIC at 3:09 am on Aug. 23, 2008 I don't really know much about platforms, but I just run my Vista basic, and my computer is pretty fast. I'm pretty sure though, that a lot of people say Vista is crap just to fill a bandwagon. -- Posted by Zlog at 3:12 am on Aug. 23, 2008 You guys are all idiots. Vista runs amazing on a computer that is designed for it. Vista had some problems in the first month or two of its release, and most of those problems were actually 3rd party drivers (nVidia, ATI, creative, etc). Not microsoft's responsibility. Most people who dog on Vista are too stupid to know why they hate it, and its usually because they dont hae a computer that meets the requirements to run it. -- Posted by Chevy Jackson at 3:16 am on Aug. 23, 2008 Vista's bad reputation isn't really well deserved. At least not anymore. I had vista on my laptop when I bought it, and I dual-booted with XP as soon as I could. But after a few months, (and a few updates) Vista runs much smoother, and I find it much easier to use than XP. Not to mention that Vista is quite a bit more stable than XP, and more secure. As far as system speed goes, when I first tried running Half Life 2 on my computer under Vista, it was almost unbearably slow even on the lowest settings. It averaged about 8-10fps. On XP, it was delightfully quick, running at about 30fps on average. Just a few days ago, I tried it again on Vista, and I was averaging about 25-30fps, so there was little to no difference in system speed at that point. However, it is true that older hardware will not adapt well to Vista; anything less than 2gb of RAM will be sluggish at best. -- Posted by Zlog at 3:24 am on Aug. 23, 2008 Chevy, the issues you had with half life were almost definatly problems with the video drivers, again those are supplied by ATI or nVidia, and not a fault of vista. People act like XP was like getting sucked off by an angel from day one. It was the same thing. Everyone hated XP because it was apparently a total resource hog, and had too many features, and bla bla bla. Time to move forward people. You can buy a sub-$900 computer with 6GB - 6,000 megabytes - of system memory. A $499 system will get you 2-4GB depending on sales. Fucking upgrade your old ass hardware, or if your new hardware is slow, you've likely got spyware/virus/fragmentation/temp files holding you down. -- Posted by NZ Guy at 3:33 am on Aug. 23, 2008 Vista got its rep from before it was released. I have been running vista since the RCs (the testing releases), which were really buggy and slow, but the retail release made it a lot nicer to use, and Service pack 1 fixed up the rest of the small issues. Vista is designed to be run on current hardware, someone that just installs it on their 5 year old computer and complains it runs slow isn't really doing any justice to it. Its like running XP on a computer that was designed for Windows 95, it will run it, but really badly. I have a Duel Core laptop with a GeForce 8 and 2gb of ram running Vista Home Premium, I love to use it. I also have a desktop computer with Duel Core 6200+ and a GeForce 9800GTX+ running Vista Business, its amazing, infact it runs vista faster than it can run XP. -- Posted by Zlog at 3:43 am on Aug. 23, 2008 Exactly. My laptop is gaming spec, 2.4Ghz Dual Core, 4GB RAM, 200GB HDD, nVidia 8800m GTS and Vista Ultimate x64 just screams. I would never go back to XP. Further more, My friend games on a middle-end dell inspiron and he can play COD on lower settings just fine, and WoW runs great. -- Posted by osmoticdespair at 7:41 am on Aug. 23, 2008 I just don't like change. 3.1 ftw. Or at least windows 2000...