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bvicarious:

I had the same problem you did at first, Fozzy. The OS would bluescreen, lock up, reboot, and operations would generally take a long ass time to complete. At first I thought it was the fault of Vista 64 bit, but after the same thing happened with the 32 bit version, I discovered that the hard drive I installed it on was laden with errors. I checked it out with SpinRite (awesome program for hard drive diagnostics btw) and I was getting read errors, write errors, IDE cable errors.. the works. No amount of recovery/correction could fix that, so after installing it on a fresh drive it worked like magic. Since then it has been pretty solid. I see the same stuff being said from many different sources too, which is why I was persistent in this thread. There is plenty to bash about Vista without resorting to stereotypes.

Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: bvicarious on January 30, 2008, 07:59:45 pm ---I had the same problem you did at first, Fozzy. The OS would bluescreen, lock up, reboot, and operations would generally take a long ass time to complete. At first I thought it was the fault of Vista 64 bit, but after the same thing happened with the 32 bit version, I discovered that the hard drive I installed it on was laden with errors.
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Well, possibly that could have been a reason. But I didn't have the option to change anything out on a machine that was just hours old and I couldn't just change out the HD as it was a pre install with the recovery on the HD itself and no backup master disks.

Talk about saving me time.... I might as well have built the damned thing myself anyway. I did in the end. But it has a stable WinXP SP2 installation on it.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

ahofle:

This may be slightly off topic, but has anyone compared Taz's benchmarks with a 64 bit version of XP?  I really can't see any reason why 64 bit Vista would perform better than 64 bit XP, but maybe it does.  Driver compatibility would probably still be an issue, but at least it's a bit more mature than Vista.

2600:

Aaron did I believe.  XP was about 10-15% slower IIRC.

A lot of people like to think that the only difference is the eye candy, but it just isn't true.  Also, driver compatibility I believe is somewhat worst on XP 64 then on Vista 64.

phil_p3:

Hi there,
Personally, ive had a love/hate relationship with vista (64). I built a quad core/ dual sli and i kept on getting graphics driver failures (nvlddkkm), which never sorted itself out- so i decided to install xp on another hd so i could have a dual boot. Eventually i sorted out the driver issues by fully formatting the vista hd prior to doing a fresh install.

For anyone who is having probs with vista even after reinstallation- don't be dense like me, format the hd first otherwise vista keeps the old files... (i reinstalled vista 3 times with the same problem) until i saw that that all my old files were still there).


I do love the way vista looks and for 4 months it hasn't given me any issues (aside from sharing folders on my home network), but i do have xp too- as it is still an early os (remember how temperamental xp used to be).  Mame-wise, vista works great- i've had no issues since the graphics problem, and i can honestly say- i haven't used xp for ages.

And after all this Crysis runs like a pig....

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