Windows Vista! Gobbler, floppydisk, what's it like?
#1
Posted 14 March 2007 - 06:15 PM
What is it like?
-John Carpenter's They Live
"God help us...in the future."
-Plan 9 from Outer Space
nooooo
#2
Posted 14 March 2007 - 11:59 PM
It's basically just a better looking XP, with some new programs and improved functionality here and there.
The driver support right now might give you some headaches, though. If you've bought a Creative card like the Audigy 2 which I own, then you might consider waiting a little longer 'till you switch. Even the newest X-Fi cards aren't fully supported as of yet, which has to do with Vista's (current) biggest drawback:
No HAL (meaning no Hardware Abstraction Layer) anymore. That means no more support for DirectSound and all the fancy things that came with it, which ultimately means: No EAX right now. I don't know what they've been thinking, but it can't be much.
I got a friend who's working for Creative Labs as an application developer and hell, they're going crazy with the implication of their biggest technology going down the drain just like that. They're now working on something called ALchemy, which aims to make all those neat "old" EAX sound effects possible using the OpenAL interface, which is also one of Creative's (lesser known) projects, that luckily still works in Vista. Might take a lot of time till that's functional though.
Here, I made some screenshot of what it's looking like right now, it ain't sayin' much, but hey, you asked...
Umm... yah, that's about it for now. Questions so far?
This post has been edited by Gobbler: 15 March 2007 - 12:00 AM
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Posted 15 March 2007 - 12:30 AM
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#5
Posted 15 March 2007 - 01:55 PM
Yeah, I've got Vista too. Main reason I got it is because XP will not run Direct X 10, which I want so my games will look sexy. I'd have to get it eventually, so I just got it now. Main problem for me is that I need RAM. At least 1 Gig. 512 is just too damn slow.
This post has been edited by floppydisk: 15 March 2007 - 01:56 PM
#7
Posted 15 March 2007 - 04:37 PM
Sure, all those Linux distributions got to come from somewhere.
Aye, the system itself likes to occupy most of that memory when set to normal. 1 Gig helps, 2 help more, but wait a lil' before buying, prices are about to drop a little more in the next two months.
Actually, I couldn't care less about DirectX 10. Wouldn't notice the difference anyway, I guess.
Yes and yes.
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#9
Posted 16 March 2007 - 09:11 AM
Is there an option to get rid of that? I am making sense, right? lol.
Other than that, Vista seems nice enough. I'm going to wait until it supports more hardware before I get it, however.
#10
Posted 16 March 2007 - 09:19 AM
And if that doesn't suffice, then you might wanna take a closer look at this.
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#11
Posted 16 March 2007 - 09:26 AM
And if that doesn't suffice, then you might wanna take a closer look at this.
Ahh, thank you. There is hope afterall. lol.
Using the demo instore and seeing the Start Menu turned me off -- thanks for renewing my faith. lol.
#12
Posted 16 March 2007 - 08:02 PM
Aye, the system itself likes to occupy most of that memory when set to normal. 1 Gig helps, 2 help more, but wait a lil' before buying, prices are about to drop a little more in the next two months.
I'm only going to buy 1 Gig for right now. I'll buy more later on after I get a better processor. I think I'll probably also have to get a new motherboard...
#13
Posted 20 March 2007 - 11:58 AM
No HAL?! WTF?! Do we somehow have to write some assembly to read in our sound files and pass the bits into our soundcards manually one by one now? I think my head would explode if I didn't have DirectSound to keep my buffers in check.
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Posted 20 March 2007 - 12:04 PM
#15
Posted 20 March 2007 - 12:29 PM
Aye, that about sums it up. Wouldn't wanna be assigned to the ALchemy project right now for all the riches in the world, what with all the fanatic audiophiles (like me) sitting in their neck raging.
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