Simviation Forum - Should I buy Vista?

Feb 13^th, 2007 at 11:49pm

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I am throwing money at my computer lately. I have a new 3800+ chip on order, pumped up my RAM from 1536 to 2048 Mb, will soon order the video card ctjoyce recommended in the Hardware forum (can't remember its designation right now), have my eye on a new WD 320Gb hard drive and I saw FS10 Deluxe Edition in Best Buy at $70 the other day. What with such upgrades, I am thinking I should go Vista and FS10. Yea or nay?

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Reply #1 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 11:53pm

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Should you buy vista? Yes.... I think you should at some point... but not at this exact moment in time, your PC is very close to mine, and I am putting vista on it eventually when I replace the GPU with a mid range DX10 card, a new PSU and add another hard drive (which is on my floor at the moment) So yes you should get it!

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Reply #2 - Feb 14^th, 2007 at 1:45am

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I would only buy Vista once you get a Direct X 10 card. Grin

Well, that's what I'm doing.

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Reply #3 - Feb 14^th, 2007 at 10:06pm

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My advice is to wait until better driver support is available, apparently it is hard to find good drivers for your components. If XP is working fine then there is no reason to upgrade to vista just yet, just let the bugs get worked out on vista before you buy Wink

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Reply #4 - Feb 15^th, 2007 at 3:14am

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after looking at the forum in the screenshots section about the guy who did tests with a clean install of vista compared to xp i would most certainly wait until dx10 comes out

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Reply #5 - Feb 21^st, 2007 at 3:26pm

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For what it's worth, I have upgraded to Vista Premium Home edition. I can't really say I've seen much in the way of improvements in performance for SimX or FS9.

The only reason I would recomend getting it is "Familiarization". Learning how vista works and working with it. The filing system is very different than XP. Learning to work with it now would give you an edge up with experience on Vista. If you get how it works now you'll be better equipt to handle issues with the system - both now and when making the move to DX10 later. For those who are computer experts that have worked with Windows OS's since Windows 3.1 it'll be an easy transition, but some who have only minimal exp or are new to working with pcs IMHO better to get in now and learn as the system becomes more widely used by everyone.

Just my $0.02

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Reply #6 - Feb 25^th, 2007 at 8:22pm

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Vista? Not just yet. Yes I've been testing ever since Candle was here (the one good thing he did do), and I must say that I do really like vista. Infact I have my copy of ultimate installed onto my second drive where RTM 600 used to be, but I don't use it as a gaming OS by any means. There aren't any performance drivers out for Vista just yet. End of March, early april, thats the time to do it.

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Reply #7 - Feb 25^th, 2007 at 10:22pm

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I'll suggest that if you want to buy Vista at lease 6+ months. the price will go down and the bugs will also. i myself will stick with the system that i know best Windows XP.

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Reply #8 - Feb 25^th, 2007 at 10:30pm

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Price will go down? HA!!! XP has yet to come down in price for retail. Sorry bud, but its never going to happen.

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Reply #9 - Feb 25^th, 2007 at 10:33pm

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bbstackerF wrote on Feb 21^st, 2007 at 3:26pm:

For what it's worth, I have upgraded to Vista Premium Home edition. I can't really say I've seen much in the way of improvements in performance for SimX or FS9.

The only reason I would recomend getting it is "Familiarization". Learning how vista works and working with it.

That'sssss what thrills me Undecided

, I'm afraid that I will have trouble with all my softwares ,Not just Games as FSX/9 ,I mean video capture (I work sometimes capturing weadings,birthdays partys etc, In VHS or sony video 8 into DVD with menu and stuff like that) also I work In desigh making airplanes , and many many other things , like in decompile file to another formats ,XML,C++ , etc...what if I throw my money into the garbage and this VISTA made what Windows ME did once to me ? I mean I still don't know how this Vista works ,But I can still open things as DOS in xp ...

I been asking this question many times and seems like everyone is afraid to answer....

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Reply #10 - Feb 25^th, 2007 at 11:11pm

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a1 wrote on Feb 25^th, 2007 at 10:22pm:

I'll suggest that if you want to buy Vista at lease 6+ months. the price will go down and the bugs will also. i myself will stick with the system that i know best Windows XP.

Or by then the bootleg version should be out. Grin

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