The HUGE BIG-BIG Windows Vista Thread

[Guest erico]

Some really good info from member "Pyr0"

 

 

 

Programs:

Note: Many of these will require Driver Signing to be Diabled. See above.

 

x86

 

Works:

 

A64Info

A64 Tweaker v6.0 (with driver signing disabled)

Ad-aware SE Personal 1.06

Ad-Aware SE Plus 1.06

Adobe Acrobat 3D

Adobe Creative Suite 2 (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)

ATI Catalyst Control Center x86 - 2.0.2320.28349

Avant browser 10.02.52 (Latest build): Installs, works, BUT no glass AND unable to save anything to "Favorites"

BitComet 0.63

Bon Echo (Firefox) alpha 2

CCleaner

ClamWin Free AntiVirus

CHMOD-Win 2.3

Divx Codec/player

eTrust Antivirus (run in 2k3 compatiablity mode and install updates from website)

eTrust EZ antivirus

Everest 2.8

Filezilla

Flashpeak Slimbrowser 4.06.025(Latest build): Installs, works, BUT no glass

Guild Wars

Ipswitch WS_FTP Professional 9

IsoBuster

ITE SmartGuardian

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

Macromedia Flash Player

Macromedia Studio 8

MBM5

McAfee's Virus Scan 8.5i Beta

MediaMonkey

Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP1

Microsoft Math Beta 1 (16.0)

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta & TR1

Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.2

Nero

Nero 7 (May not work for unknown reasons for some)

NOD32

Opera 9 Beta

PE Explorer 1.98

PHP (slow load)

Startup2Service Beta 2

Steam

Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 14

Trillian 3.1 Pro/Basic

UltraISO

VistaBootPRO 1.0

Visual Studio .Net 2005

Visual Studio Express Edition

VLC

VMWare Workstation 5.5 (really slow initial start)

Winamp 5

WinRAR

Windows Live Messenger BETA (no glass)

Microsoft WGAPlugin (For Gecko Based Browsers)

Xitami

 

Doesn't Work:

 

Acronis True Image 9

AIM v5.9

Apache (Command line window closes after couple of seconds)

E Policy (disables sidebar and hogs cpu)

McAfee's Virus Scan 8.5i Beta (doesn't work with Office 07)

Norton Internet Security Suite (2003-2006)

ZoneAlarm

 

 

x64

 

Works:

 

3DMark 01, 03, 05 and 06

7-zip

A64Info

A64Tweaker (if Driver signing is disabled)

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Ad Aware version 1.06

Avast! AV 4.6 (disable driver verification)

Avery Label Pro

Battlefield2

Bryce 4

Call Of Duty 2

CPU-z (if Drive signing is disabled)

Day Of Defeat Source (worked, but textures were messed up)

eTrust Antivirus

Form Doc designer and filler version 7

F.E.A.R. - worked

F-prot Antivirus 3.16d

GTA San Andreas

Half Life 2 (worked, but textures were messed up)

Hitman: Blood Money Demo

ieSpell

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.53

Logitech setpoint 2.60

Macromedia Flash Player

MagicISO 5

Motherboard Monitor 5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.2

Motherboard monitor 5 (if driver signing is disabled)

Need For Speed: Most Wanted

Nero 6.6.14

Nvidia Purevideo 1.02-196

O&O Defrag 8.0

Office 2007 Beta 2

Omniform 5

Omni Page 12

Orca

Painter 8

Qimage Pro (serial input not working and no startup menu entry made)

Registry Mechanic 5.1.0.224

Skype

VistaBootPRO 1.0

WinRAR 3.60 beta 4

xvid codec

 

Doesn't Work:

 

A64Tweaker

Adobe Premiere Pro (Version 1.5)

CPU-Z

Daemon Tools 403x64

Diskeeper 10

Light wave 7.5

Nero 7.2.0.3

Nikon Capture 4.3

Nikon Capture 4.4

Peerguardian

Perfect Disk 7

PowerDVD 6.0

 

Big Hug to Pyro

 

x64

works

Far Cry w/ AMD x64 patch

 

not working:

IE7 x86

NOD32 antivirus

 

I have had Vista x64 installed for only 28 hours and will try to help update the list you have started.

[ReelFiles]

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not working:

IE7 x86...

 

Your 32bit version of IE7 is not working? It worked fine for me and others in x64. Might be a botched install.

 

 

Hybrid HDDs Requried for Vista Premium Laptops

 

http://gear.ign.com/articles/712/712600p1.html

[axy1985]

wow!

thats prolly the reason of why i'm not going to install Beta 2 now...

BTW, if it is a BIOS issue (wich i've never heard that an OS would write to), you can get a brand new BIOS chip from DFI, install it, and done. but that's odd....

[jadit2]

Note: after going to www.microsoft.com/directx and downloading the updater, I found a new version of Directx for my Vista x86 Beta 2. It may fix some of the texture problems people are experiencing.

 

Can anyone tell me if there is a general OS performance boost with the x64 vs the x86?

[ReelFiles]

That's for DirectX 9, Vista has DX 10..........

 

[ollietwinam]

Apparently the Vista rating is just based on your weakest piece of hardware, so you could get a 5.9 or something for everything but your small hard-drive and get knocked down to a 3 or a 4.

That kinda sucks!

Apparently it's to help consumers figure out where their PC is weak, so that they can upgrade accordingly

[ReelFiles]

Apparently it's to help consumers figure out where their PC is weak, so that they can upgrade accordingly

 

Figure out....right, more like confusing naive users. I think it might be based on a sliding scale, ie your graphics card can outweigh the rating of your CPU, or the rating of your memory matters more than available hard drive space.

 

 

Vista will recover applications from shutdown, crashes

 

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/14/teched20...s_from_crashes/

 

Microsoft To Ship SMS 2003 R2, Vista Feature Pack In August

http://www.informationweek.com/windows/sho...on=Product+News

 

See a Flash presentation about Vista

 

http://www.seewindowsvista.com/

 

Last Edit;

 

I dropped my CpU Mhz from 2.7GHz (270x10) to 2Ghz (200x10) and my RAM from 270Mhz to 200Mhz to see how it would affect my rating.

My CPU rating went from 5.3 to 4.8 actually 4.46 rounds to 4

My RAM rating went from 5.9 to 5.5 actually 4.68 rounds to 5

My overall rating remained the same (3)....so much for the rating system. eh?

[Devon]

i just installed windows vista 32bit and i cant get my 7.1 surround working. is there any drivers that i can get for my dfi board that will work???? it is the onboard sound

 

also the smart guardian wont install. how can i get that to work.

 

and last for now a friend told me that vista bet2 will only work until july 2007 is this true???

[ReelFiles]

Post # 212

 

I used the 88.61 graphics drivers and the latest Sil3114 Non-Raid drivers for XP. You didn't instal the Sil3114 drivers? Or do you mean the nVraid drivers? Are you planning on using Raid-0? It seem to be a hit or miss getting it to work optimal.

 

Beta Driver - nForce – Windows Vista x86 Beta 2

 

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_download..._x86_beta2.html

 

Sil Download Center

 

http://www.siliconimage.com/support/downlo...rs=1&sataraid=0

 

The Audio drivers are included in the nForce driver package, you have to manuall install them using Device Manager. You can use Windows Update for the Audio drivers as well, which leads me to your last question. If you used a legit Product Key from Microsoft you can activate your copy of Vista indefinately, as far as I know.

 

Edit;

The expiration for Vista beta 2 and RC1 seem to be June 1st ,2007.

 

Smartguardian installed fine for me using XP SP2 compatibility mode, but you might have to ok the program to run every time you start it.

[ReelFiles]

From Windows Help

 

What is the Windows System Performance Rating?

 

The Windows System Performance Rating measures the capability of your computer's hardware configuration and expresses this measurement as a whole number. A higher performance rating means your computer will perform better and faster, especially when performing more advanced and resource-intensive tasks, than a computer with a lower performance rating. You can use the performance rating number to confidently buy programs and other software that are rated to match your computer's performance level. For example, if this computer has a System Performance Rating of 3, then you can confidently purchase any software designed for this version of Windows that requires a computer with a rating of 3 or less.

...

The rating system is designed to accommodate advances in computer technology, so the standards for each level of the rating system stay the same. For example, a computer rated as a 4 should remain a 4 unless you decide to upgrade the computer's hardware. As technology continues to improve, additional System Performance Ratings will be introduced.

 

So I guess Software will be branded using this rating number, kind of similar to TV ratings. I wonder if it will catch on, seems kind of flawed if you take my previous results, when I slowed down my PC drastically, into consideration.

[dr_bowtie]

Post # 212

If you used a legit Product Key from Microsoft you can activate your copy of Vista indefinately, as far as I know..

 

If you use the product key MS emailed you... they state once activated it's good till june2007....and each key is good for 10 activations...

 

EDIT: you can also get to the performance and reliability monitors by going to the performance and ratings utility and clicking the advanced tab...it's in there...

[ReelFiles]

I googled it, and it looks like you are right, june 1st 2007. Apparently that applies to RC1 as well.

 

I had to switch to the normal forum text editor, as the advanced editor seemed to have several issues with the new Internet Explorer; trying to select single words for hyperlinks or trying to change font color of selected text. Does anyone else have those problems?