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I need to know everything about Windows Vista, good and bad, give me information
By koikoikoi
@koikoikoi (1246)
United States
May 29, 2007 10:30am CST
I need to know everything about Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (or in general Windows Vista) that I should watch out for. Are their things that are not compatible with it? Will my computer games work properly on it? What about my video card? Should I get a Windows Vista ready video card? When I get the Vista Ultimate I will want to change some things, the processor, the memory, ram, and anything else to make it able to load things fast and not freeze during any occassion. One more thing, what processor, memory size, and ram do you suggest I buy for a computer mainly to play computer games and online games?
2 responses
@ocalhoun (199)
• United States
29 May 07
I would say it's not time to upgrade to vista yet, if ever.
It has 'improved' security, which basically means it will ask you to confirm every action you take in triplicate. Also, some legitimate software (the ones that haven't paid Microsoft lots of money) may not be installable.
Are there things that are incompatable with vista? Surely. Any older hardware, for starters.
Should you get a new video card for it? Probably. It's unlikely that your current card can handle some of the trickier things vista does with the graphics.
Upgrading the OS is overrated. I'm still running great by dual booting windows 2000 and linux. The only problem I've had with 2000 is that there is one game (AOE III) that refuses to run on anything less than XP.
Take a rational look at upgrading to vista:
What will you gain? Very little, besides some fancy graphics.
What will it cost? A lot, especially if you have to upgrade the video card.
@shakeroo (3986)
• Malaysia
29 May 07
I have been using Vista Ultimate for about a month now. the good thing about it is the tighter security and some cool user interfaces but the not so good part is also the tighter security where you have to manage your files and folders and the installation size that ate up the hard disk. I am currently running Intel Centrino Core2 Duo processor with 2GB RAM and 120GB Hard Disk and so far the performance and speed is great.
