Microsoft Windows Vista and you? And Me?
Upon the arrival of Microsoft Windows Vista last year many people were either scared or just plain not ready for it. If you ask me they released the software way too early for their own good. Just when Windows XP was getting good and stable they want to throw a rather non stable power hungry monster on us. This Operating System(OS) relies upon a heavy processor and at least 2 gigabytes of Ram to run applications smoothly.
Above: Vista Ultimate Retail Version
Upon the release of Service Pack 3 on XP they were just getting ready to release Service Pack 1 for Vista. Why you ask? Let me preface by saying that I have been running Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate since it’s inception so I have some background on it. Let’s just start with some of the initial problems with Vista…
1. 4 GB sticks of Ram would crash my start up screen, yes you guessed it… as soon as I made it only 3 sticks it ran just fine.
2. Don’t even try to run SLI with Vista, because it will not work! Huh!? Are you kidding me? For all of us gamers and heavy graphics users this is a must. I have to be able to run my 8800GTX cards side by side to hit over 100 fps on most games and graphics apps.
3. A lot of games were not compatible with Vista… They are now coming out with more and more patches for these games but when it first came out, good luck with playing a lot of em.
4. Heavy, Heavy processor useage! My processor was running so hot you could fry an egg right on top of it!
Above: A screen shot of Vista using Aero
These are some of the things I ran into but I’m sure there are and were many more. The service pack did not fix all of these issues either. All in all Microsoft pushed us too hard and too fast onto Vista. I think I’ll stick with my other 3 machines running XP in the house until it is no longer supported or the machines die. Whichever is first.