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Vista64 and driver compatibility
Shoegazer:
All,
The discussions I've seen on this board lately have gotten me very interested in using Vista64. However I am curious to know how many of you have had issues with driver compatibility? While I realize most large companies may have the time/resources to dedicate teams of people to write printer, soundcard, network etc. drivers, I'm not sure if the vendors that service our hobby have equal time for this. For example, Ultimarc has beta Vista64 Ipac drivers - how much luck have people had with them? Also, I didn't see anything for the U360 joystick at all. Ultimarc's has a great reputation with high-quality products and service, so I'm not too worried there, but I'm curious nevertheless. Thoughts, anyone?
Shoegazer
divemaster127:
I have just finished setting up Vista 64 on my mame, it was a breeze, the new arcadevga vista driver works perfect. The current ipac drivers also works perfect in vista 64. I have no issues at all works like a charm.
dm
TimmyB:
I just started setting my my 64bit Vista machine and ran into a problem with the UltraStik 360s. Vista sees the it as a generic HID-compliant game controller. MAME works fine with it in analog mode. But the Ultramapper and FE plugin can't find the devices.
I have a support request into Andy and expect to hear form him shortly on the issue.
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: Shoegazer on November 28, 2007, 08:06:51 am ---The discussions I've seen on this board lately have gotten me very interested in using Vista64.
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Why!! Vista, regardless of any 64bit performance improvements is a piece of total junk.
Benchmarking Vista in all round performance against Windows XP with the new service pack 3 installed. Shows windows XP on the same hardware litteraly running twice as fast as Vista. So the performance gain from Vista64 is actually completely destroyed by the performance loss of the OS.
Vista is (at the moment) a slow over bloated, bug ridden, crash everything, compatibility failure.
It's going to be one to two years before Vista gets fixed and is a genuinely viable option. By which time, the REAL new Microsoft OS will have been released and Vista will become more of a laughing stock than it is now.
Look at vista as the equivalent of Windows ME. It's a stop gap OS that will not be the actual Microsft OS for very long.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
divemaster127:
How did you get service pack 3 already.
dm