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Vista64 and driver compatibility
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Jdurg on January 30, 2008, 01:53:12 pm ---I'm sorry fozzy, I don't know if it's just your personality or you are actually trying to be abrasive in your posts, but that's how it comes across. Ask ANY person on these forums.
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Fozzy and I don't always see eye to eye (I am really enjoying Vista), but we're both Muppets (tm) and I'll ask you to refrain from speaking for me as I fall into the category of 'ANY person on these forums'.
LOTS of the people come across as abrasive in any forum, depending on the topic, the mood and the time available to post. You need to look beyond the few posts that rub you the wrong way and see what else is there. There are lots of "fuzzy" members who don't have much to add and lots of "rough" members who have plenty to add. And all sorts of other folks in between.
You may find it hard to believe, but some people find my posts abrasive. :dizzy: Can you believe that ?
--- Quote from: Jdurg on January 30, 2008, 01:54:55 pm ---If you are getting your software from torrent sites then of course it will be illegal. In that case, I could say ALL software is illegal if you find it on a torrent site.
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I'm not sure what to make of this ... were you trying to be sarcastic ?
There are those who do distribute legitimate software/content via torrent.
Not trying to pick a fight, just confused by the statement.
bvicarious:
I still haven't heard what program incompatibilities Vista has, or in what circumstances it gets completely locked up.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: bvicarious on January 30, 2008, 04:13:25 pm ---I still haven't heard what program incompatibilities Vista has, or in what circumstances it gets completely locked up.
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That one I can't really answer ... I have blue-screened it once and definitely have come across some incompatibilities (mostly older software or drivers).
It does seem to run MAME and DAPHNE just fine. ;)
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: bvicarious on January 30, 2008, 04:13:25 pm ---I still haven't heard what program incompatibilities Vista has, or in what circumstances it gets completely locked up.
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The copy I had was locking up on a regular basis randomly with anything.... Even with just its own components. This even after several run throughs of the full recovery.
Now, while it seems that my experience is not typical in the forum. I will concede that it could therefore have been a hardware issue. Even though there were no reported problems.
The difficulty I have with believing that, is that I keep hearing the same thing about it from lots of different sources. Which certainly suggests that Microsoft have got it wrong. There's no point in releasing an OS which is incompatible with the majority hardware out there. So as far as I'm concerned, the fault still lies with Microsoft and the OS. Which as I said, I don't believe is actually ready for mass adoption "yet"....
Like I said.... Service pack 2 or 3 under it's belt and it might be a viable option. But by that time Microsoft's genuine new 64bit OS will be out and not this stop gap windows ME type release.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
CheffoJeffo:
Around the time that W2K came out, I upgraded the OS on some machines and swore an oath that anytime I wanted to upgrade a consumer OS, I would wait at least 6 months and buy a whole new machine when I did. Anything else gets W2K, W98 or some flavour of Nix.
I haven't had a bad OS upgrade since.
I no longer surf the bleeding edge with my gear, but it all seems to all work relatively nicely (except for some legacy stuff, but hey ...)
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