18 months in. Why arent you on Vista?

I am curious for the reasons people are not using Vista.

I myself am still running XP and for the foreseeable future I wont be getting Vista.

My reasons are price, compatability headaches, ease of use, games benchmark worse on vista than XP, game requirements being higher because Vista is a system ho.

Really, I probably wont get Vista until the big players drop XP support for their products.

XP is very familiar to me, it functions very well and I can run absolutely every single game I want to run. All I see from Vista is compatability issues and steeper hardware requirements. Doesn't seem worth it, somehow.

If many games went Vista exclusive, I would consider changing to Vista - after all, my PC is primarily a gaming machine. So far it seems that the only Vista exclusive that interests me is Alan Wake, and I'm currently expecting an XP fix, just like there's been for all the other Vista exclusives.

I was like that.
I wanted to stick with XP, but when I got my new rig, I upgraded to Vista, and I'm glad I did.Doom_HellKnight

I am curious for the reasons people are not using Vista.

I myself am still running XP and for the foreseeable future I wont be getting Vista.

My reasons are price, compatability headaches, ease of use, games benchmark worse on vista than XP, game requirements being higher because Vista is a system ho.

Really, I probably wont get Vista until the big players drop XP support for their products.

bonafidetk

Same reasons here.

I've used Vista x64 Ultimate since launch (on the pc i built for vista).. and its by far the best OS ive used, would never go back to XP.

As long as you have a good system, Vista shines bright. (This is why alot of people downgrade to XP, off-the-shelve PC's still arent designed for vista, there generally just higher-end XP systems with 3gb ram insted of 2. (I run 8gb)...

For those wanting to goto vista, i reccomend to have atleast a E6600 processor / 4gb ram & use 64bit version of vista. (32bit has ram a 3gb RAM cap[those who say it doesnt, are very wrong.])

Theres no point for me, DX10 alone isnt worth it IMO.

plus Vista is slower, and for a mid-range gamer like me it would kill my performance.

Because the good things about Vista are largely negated by the bad things, making what is overall a slightly better OS than XP. As a general OS, it has some small advantages over XP. But as a gaming OS, it's easily disadvantaged. Faster launch times and DX10 just don't make up for many compatibility issues and slightly lower performance. I could just use a dual-boot system like my father does, but, egh, I just don't have any real need to. XP does everything I really care about as well as or better than Vista, and Vista has a bunch of minor advantages otherwise that are neat but that I just don't care enough about. I'll probably just end up dual-booting XP and Windows 7 - depending on what that's like a little while after it's come out - skipping Vista altogether. We'll see.

I've been using Vista since the early RCs and haven't ran into very many problems at all. XP had a MUCH worse launch as far as compatibility/security and stability went. The only downlside to Vista IMO is how resource intensive it is...especially when concerning ram. Then again, you can get 4GB of ram with moderate latency for around $100 these days.....

Overall I just hate being limited to my gaming options. I would much rather sacrifice a few FPS in certain games instead of having to say "damn I can't play this game because it's Vista exclusive" or "I can't enable these effects because XP doesn't support it". I guess that's just me though.

1. Not able to run my old games on vista. So i went back to XP.

2. Vista sucks for new games.

3. Lots of errors i had to resolve when i got it.

4. I continue to get lots of vista errors that never happen on XP.

Vista is just a total mess.

Vista is a system ho.

bonafidetk

Ya, what a HO! :)

But seriously, I run Vista and given the choice between the XP and Vista, I would stick with Vista. But honestly XP is a great OS to stick with it too.

Overall I just hate being limited to my gaming options. I would much rather sacrifice a few FPS in certain games instead of having to say "damn I can't play this game because it's Vista exclusive" or "I can't enable these effects because XP doesn't support it". I guess that's just me though. SuperBeast

So, what game is Vista exclusive?

the question for me is...why would i upgrade? XP is ticking along very nicely for me...solid as a rock. games look very perty and run nicely. it boots fast enough too. so im happy with XP.

im not saying vista is terrible (though i had a terrible experience with it initally..but id imagine thats all sorted now) and if i was getting a new computer then i would get vista for it. but the only reaosn i can think of for upgrading to vista now is DX10 but theres 2 problems with that

1) my hardware isnt even remotely close enough to make DX10 run properly. id have to knock most games back to DX9 levels. the API just eats hardware for breakfast.

2) DX10 support from developers is woeful to say the least. with multiplat becoming the norm, fewer games are pushing the boundaries. with the consoles being basically at a DX9 level, developers are just not interested in supporting DX10 (not that im blaming consoles...thats just the way it is).

besides that...vista offers nothing that im interested in.

so for now..im indifferent to it.

Vista takes a load of memory and RAM

Incompatible with old games

Too many bugs

it sucks

XP is very familiar to me, it functions very well and I can run absolutely every single game I want to run. All I see from Vista is compatability issues and steeper hardware requirements. Doesn't seem worth it, somehow.

If many games went Vista exclusive, I would consider changing to Vista - after all, my PC is primarily a gaming machine. So far it seems that the only Vista exclusive that interests me is Alan Wake, and I'm currently expecting an XP fix, just like there's been for all the other Vista exclusives.

fatshodan

Pretty much...THIS^

I run Vista (and XP on dual-boot, or rather I was until a long complicated story involving accidentally wiping both hard-drives and then getting annoyed that I couldn't turn on PAE), and it works fine for me.

And honestly there's very little in the way of compatability issues anyway (aside from really old games), so I don't hit many problems at all in general day to day use.

That being said, I could also run XP if I wanted and have the same end results.

about vista eating up HDD space, make sure you have limited how much the auto system restore uses, b/c this is a common problem that if you leave itas unlimited it just eats up your space..

anyway, vista is great, never going back to xp

about vista eating up HDD space, make sure you have limited how much the auto system restore uses, b/c this is a common problem that if you leave itas unlimited it just eats up your space..

anyway, vista is great, never going back to xp

Manyac

Because xp is a party, and vista isn't invited. but really, xp seems to be more stable. i have vista on my school laptop, and when it works it's fine, but it seems to screw up a lot. it just seems slower and more frustrating to work with. so far every vista exclusive has been cracked for xp, and almost all dx10 effects have been enabled in xp through tweaking. if your willing to go behind the law, there is really no reason to spend money on vista. unless you have a thing for suck. with_teeth26

(This link shows: XP faking Dx10 VS Vista Dx10)

http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15652

Sorry bro, Shader Model 4 is vista only :3

Because my gaming PC is also the family's PC, so not all of them are ready to jump into Vista. I use Vista on my weaker college PC, and though I found it to be quite stable these days, it has some issues with older softwares, games like Max Payne and all.

[QUOTE="with_teeth26"]Because xp is a party, and vista isn't invited. but really, xp seems to be more stable. i have vista on my school laptop, and when it works it's fine, but it seems to screw up a lot. it just seems slower and more frustrating to work with. so far every vista exclusive has been cracked for xp, and almost all dx10 effects have been enabled in xp through tweaking. if your willing to go behind the law, there is really no reason to spend money on vista. unless you have a thing for suck. DeadMann420

(This link shows: XP faking Dx10 VS Vista Dx10)

http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15652

Sorry bro, Shader Model 4 is vista only :3

The only difference between Vista and XP very high there that I see is slightly better shadow shaders and possibly a slightly greater draw distance on Vista, and they're barely noticeable.

XP is very familiar to me, it functions very well and I can run absolutely every single game I want to run. All I see from Vista is compatability issues and steeper hardware requirements. Doesn't seem worth it, somehow.

If many games went Vista exclusive, I would consider changing to Vista - after all, my PC is primarily a gaming machine. So far it seems that the only Vista exclusive that interests me is Alan Wake, and I'm currently expecting an XP fix, just like there's been for all the other Vista exclusives.

fatshodan