Anyone playing with Vista?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:47:40 Post Subject: Anyone playing with Vista?

Who's running Vista right now? I'm thinking about swapping out XP x64 for Vista.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Yup.

Biggest issue I have is with games, the copy protection they put on them doesn't like Vista.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:17:03 Post Subject:

Interesting. Does it stop the game from working? And is there a "normal" work around?

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

It fails to read the "security" information on the CD. So the games don't even start.

Some have said a firmware upgrade on the drive allows it to work. But havn't gotten it to work on 3 different drives yet.

The only work around is to use a no-cd crack or something like Alcohol 120 (if that works with Vista).

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:22:50 Post Subject:

Thanks for the info... sounds like I might wait.

OO Is that on 64 or 32 bit OS?

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

64-bit

Tried 32-bit, and still had the issues though.

mrweasel · Posted: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:21:20 Post Subject:

I have similar issues, excpet I had to Right-click and run as admin to get most of my stuff to work...what a POS!

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

I didn't have that issue with the things I tried. What software was it?

I wouldn't say it's a POS, just things are different, not what we are used to. I think in time it'll be a great OS. Just like it took time for XP to get better than it's initial version.

edvallie · Posted: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:18:29 Post Subject:

I plan on trying it when it gets on MSDN, but so far they still only have the beta Sad

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

It's on my MSDN Razz