It just hogs so much space and lets not forget that it has its own special wishes at first i had written around 2-3 pages on this blog that made my feelings for Vista overly clear. The reason i posted this on this forum is because I just lost a lot of work because vista suddenly decided it hates my RAM and more specifically hates my frigging PC :P
i cannot install vista 64 bit when i have 4 gigs installed on my machine it will always crash at the same point when i remove 3 gigs it works fine. If i install XP 64 bit it wrks fine with the 4 gigs installed. I never seen something this dumb in my entire life why would something like XP64 install it flawlessly the RAM goes through the Vista RAM test its corsair and hell any memory test i chuck at it it works fine.
Vista is slow it requires 4 gigs of ram because it eats 2 gigs just so it can give it to people begging for it. You cannot even turn off the hinderance called Virtual Memory because Vista WILL crash if you turn it off even with 4 gigs of ram installed. In XP i could get away with it and it just meant my HD was less stressed.
DirectX10 I would love to learn it it was my main motivation for trying it but hell i was so busy at my internship that i had barely any time to work on it.Now Vista took a crap on it corrupted the files because my PC crashed while using Visual studio 2005 well THANKS! If i wanted chinese symbols in my source code i would install the chinese version of Vista because thats part of the ultimate package :).
The eye candy and the small tweaks in Vista made Vista pretty good in the sense it had a few good things. But come on the following things are just too glaring:
1. UAC
no need to explain it but lets just say BSOD has a new friend just as anoying.
2. Networking
Whoever thought it was good to make changing network settings in such a way it takes me longer to find my IP settings and longer to change something or heck when i go out of hibernation the damn thing crashed and i need to diagnose my network connection. Lovely!
I been using Vista for nearly a year now and I stayed with it through the bad and the good in the hopes microsoft would improve on it but sadly thusfar they are just hiding their fixes for SP1 and its dissapointing. I think i am going to give Vista another try in 4-6 months whenever SP1 is out and i can slipstream it to my DVD so the damn thing works.
And PLEASE do somehting about the performance the indexing right now is a performance hog and in the end its just slow at times and some games notice a framedrop of 10-20% :(
Either that or wait till i have barcelona with new RAM and hope it works then!.
Sadly most of my work including the work i was doing for the bank is gone now and its pretty depressing to say the least.
Wijnand
