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Anyone running Vista Ultimate 64-bit?
Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket. I haven't seen a more unstable OS since 95 (probabaly ME, but I skipped that). Granted, I'm not running top hardware, but it's no slouch (2GB of RAM, A64X2 4600+, 750Watt PSU, 8800GTX, nearly 2TB, of storage), and since i upgraded it's been nothing but a headache. I'm currently booted on XP SP3 and all that instability is gone.
Couldn't play CoD4 without BSOD'ing. A program crashed, it locked up the whole shell (for an OS that doesn't run anything as admin, I thought it'd be way more stable than XP), I can't even kill it from the Task Manager which crashes as soon as it comes up. Is anyone having these problems? That's $280 bucks down the drain, for some eye candy that crashes all the time.
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Sounds about right...
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06-18-2008, 12:28 AM
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What about Windows Vienna?
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06-18-2008, 08:14 AM
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(look out though - a stray mom joke fired from a distance can still be lethal...)
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06-18-2008, 08:51 AM
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I've been running Vista 64-bit since release day without issue. Sometimes driver issues can be a hassle if you are adding something, but that's about the only gripe I have. And your machine has more processing power and twice the RAM. Not sure what to tell you.
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Funnily enough, I haven't had driver issues at all. What I have problems with is IE hanging, or Opera hanging, or trillian locking up, then I bring up the task manager and THAT opens up, but it is locked up already, so I can't end any processes. CoD4 crashing after a few minutes (almost seems like overheating, but I haven't added any heat sources since I switched over a month ago, and it never did that before on XP). This stuff flummoxes me, I can usually solve most things that go on with the computer, but for now I'm just going to be on XP for a while til my anger subsides. I didn't even remember what BSOD's looked like!
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06-18-2008, 11:26 AM
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Yeah I haven't seen a blue screen in a long time. Neat trick to get Vista to do it...I'm running Vista at home, but not Ultimate...haven't had too many problems with it. Just some permissions stuff and minor driver issues.
I wouldn't run it at work though, even if I had the choice. Still running XP professional and server 2003 on all my machines at the office.
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06-18-2008, 11:55 AM
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