Vista alternatives

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:07 pm

We need to get a few alternatives for apps for the vista users, like myself. I miss being able to use the uberscreenshot tool.

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:12 pm

You poor, poor dial-up user...
Ahem, uh, anyway, I completely agree. I'm about to get Vista installed on every comp in my house, so I don't know how I am going to live with myself.

Btw, does Entity work on Vista?

SuperCommando · Post by **SuperCommando** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:21 pm

Have you tried using the XP compatibilty? might work...

edinajughead · Post by **edinajughead** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:21 pm

Just dont use vista, Its really nothing special, and a lot of programs wont work with it.

deathbysn00sn00 · Post by **deathbysn00sn00** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:35 pm

edinajughead wrote:Just dont upgrade and live in the past, Its really only going to take us to the next level in PC gaming and improve your over all system performance, and a lot of programs will run better with it in time.

*fixed

SuperCommando · Post by **SuperCommando** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:43 pm

deathbysn00sn00 wrote:
edinajughead wrote:Just dont upgrade and live in the past, Its really only going to take us to the next level in PC gaming and improve your over all system performance, and a lot of programs will run better with it in time.

*fixed

good job too.

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:33 pm

bibbit wrote:You poor, poor dial-up user...
Btw, does Entity work on Vista?

Yes it does and i would also like to say im now officially on DSL.
I only have vista because it came with the new comp. Ill have dual boot in about 3 weeks. But i do miss being able to use the internalizer programs.

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:43 am

I have Vista HP and I've yet to have problems with any applications (save for one game, but it was due to its exe protection, which needs to gtfo anyway). But I also run it Win2k style because its the best.

blackdiamond · Post by **blackdiamond** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:52 am

i HATE VISTA and my dad wont get it off

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:52 am

your just scared

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:05 am

Vista requirements:
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

512 MB of system memory

20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space

Sure PCs are getting more powerful, but that shouldn't give M$(or anyone) an excuse to bloat their OS. I mean, what does it do to necessitate such high minimum requirements. Keep in mind, too, that since it needs those specs as a minimum, it's gonna have that much less resources to devote to your apps/games etc...

Anyway, just my rant about how, IMHO, an OS shouldn't have to list it's min requirements(look at linux, it can run on an old 386 33Mhz, not with all the abilities a faster PC would allow, but the point is it'll run...)

And having said all that I use Windows XP

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turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:29 pm

so far i cant get milkshape to work either.

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:15 pm

And Microsoft said... "Vista will be backwards compatible with everything that Windows XP was compatible with"

and what do they do...... lets see, 90% of games don't work attall and if they do its usually at 1 ~ 2FPS.... and that's on top of the line pc's....

so i say.... WHY IN GODS NAME UPDATE TO VISTA ANYWAY?

That's like updating to a Calculator...... if that.

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:22 pm

dazzajay wrote:And Microsoft said... "Vista will be backwards compatible with everything that Windows XP was compatible with"

and what do they do...... lets see, 90% of games don't work attall and if they do its usually at 1 ~ 2FPS.... and that's on top of the line pc's....

so i say.... WHY IN GODS NAME UPDATE TO VISTA ANYWAY?

That's like updating to a Calculator...... if that.

A calculator with a video card

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turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:29 pm

OK i got my enclosure early since they were on sale. Does anyone know how to set up a computer to use duel boot from and external HDD?

dazzajay · Post by **dazzajay** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 3:40 pm

Vista will overwrite the boot sector on load..... and also..... your bios has to support booting from a usb / firewire device (or however the hdd is externally connected)

wich is rare.

kornman00 · Post by **kornman00** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:22 am

dazzajay wrote:And Microsoft said... "Vista will be backwards compatible with everything that Windows XP was compatible with"

and what do they do...... lets see, 90% of games don't work attall and if they do its usually at 1 ~ 2FPS.... and that's on top of the line pc's....

so i say.... WHY IN GODS NAME UPDATE TO VISTA ANYWAY?

That's like updating to a Calculator...... if that.

Umm, I play the following games at highest detail on my Vista laptop with hardly any FPS problems: HaloPC\CE, Joint Task Force, GRAW, SimCity 3000, ST:Legacy, and a bunch of unknown-to-most-people games.

All the applications that I used on my Win2K machine work fine in Vista. I can't stand using WinXP on my main machines (note, its just because I don't like it). I don't know what the fuck your talking about, where the hell you got those statistics for the games or the FPS (asshole most likely). Probably just regurgitated propaganda.

My laptop isn't even top of the line compared to whats out there. But it is the best MacBook Pro you can get

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:37 am

well i figured out the dual boot, now to get my XP disc back. I also got milkshape to work....sort of.

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:47 am

Isn't there anyway to view screenshots without the UberScreenshotTool? It would make it a lot easier for Vista users.

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:58 am

Just saying that games now probably would run better on a WinXp machine than a Vista machine since it's obvious that vista will designate more resources to itself than WinXP would, therefore allowing more resources for programs.

However, I'm sure that games in the future will be designed to require Vista(a la Halo 2 PC) and so we'll have to get vista to run those games at all.

Also, people like to exaggerate for emphasis on points they're trying to make...

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Anyway, this is Offtopic. I was in a ranty mood for the first post. Sorry bout that.