Why, Vista, why?

[almostwitty]

Appropos of nothing, I ended up upgrading to Windows Vista last night. (well, rather, my new swanky laptop which I got for a ridiculously cheap price arrived).

Straight away ran into a few problems. All the fancy graphics are nice, but don't actually amount to even a ramp of beans, let alone a hill. The much-vaunted security issues seem positively annoying when you're trying to set up a new laptop.

The worst issue is that my favourite game in the whole wide world, Civilisation 4, refuses to run on Vista. I've tried running patches, installing DirectX, uninstalling and reinstalling and each time various little bugs come up. including that it can't find the DVD - even though I ran it from the DVD in the first place.

Which wouldn't be so bad if ... half the reason I upgraded was so that Civilisation 4 could run comparatively smoothly on it instead of crashing when my old laptop would overheat.

Have you used/tried Vista in earnest and anger? Would I really be sad if I resorted to trying to dual-boot it just so I could run a game?

Comments

[rarahursty.livejournal.com]

My new laptop came with vista and i had one go on it, wowed at the graphic factor and then asked a friend to downgrade it back to xp lol!

I really don't like vista at all!

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[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

I've heard that..
Vista doesn't play well with others - or with much of anything including itself
Downgrading ain't gonna happen. It won't like it and will cause all sorts of trouble. A total drive wipe will be required.
A few people I know haven't managed a dual boot. Others have but with much snarkiness
your new shiny fast laptop will probably play Civ 4 (ain't it nice?) just fine as it is faster etc etc etc
um.. more after I have some orange juice and breakfast. maybe

don't rip your hair out. Bill's got enough of you already.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I needed to upgrade a driver before I could run Civ 4. But I'm using Vista Home Premium and Civ runs fine.

[kawaiinoir.livejournal.com]

Vista has been the cause of many a tantrum for me over the past year. I'm still not used to it :(

[fantasyrealist.livejournal.com]

Both J and I *hate* vista with a passion we put up with it for about 3 months and then we just reformatted back to XP. Vista still has so many kinks to be worked out! I hope you solve your gaming crisis soon, i'd be lost without access to mine!

[babyraven.livejournal.com]

As a tech support person, let me confirm for you -- Vista is useless. You would be better off going back to XP, if you can. There's nothing Vista can do that XP can't do better and faster, and there's a good deal XP can do that Vista won't.

Bin it.

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

That shiny new laptop that I bought (I believe I had just got it when I met you at Marylebone) was running Vista. It was, as I say, shiny and new, and yet running Vista it felt like using a PIII with XP. Running Linux, of course, it flies.

Vista is good for nothing, and I agree with you about AeroGlass - it adds nothing to the experience. At least with Aqua or Compiz on Linux, it feels flash and pretty. AreoGlass is just boring. Except it's boring and transparent, instead of boring and opaque.

[grahamwest.livejournal.com]

Vista's a load of old toss. Figure out all the drivers you need for that laptop, download them and install XP on it.

[choirgrrl.livejournal.com]

Does anything really run on Vista? (Not from my experience!)