Windows Vista upgrade guide, part 3: will it blend?

Well, we've covered XP and Vista from a software and features angle, and we've helped plot out your upgrade decisions from a hardware standpoint, but now we're turning the upgrade guide over to you: the early adopter. You're already running Vista Ultimate (hell, you've been running the RTM since the day it leaked, er...) and you've gotten acclimated to the ins and outs. So we want to know, will it blend? In other words:

• Does all your software work like before?
• Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
• Is it integrating with your network alright?
• Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
• What kinds of bugs are you seeing?

Let us know how Vista's doing for you; let your fellow Engadget readers gain from your wisdom, be the first on the internets to gripe about early Vista release problems, let it all out.

P.S. -Mac nerds, please stay out of this one -- the Windows nerds have a mission to complete.

See also: Windows Vista upgrade guide - part 1: software, Windows Vista upgrade guide - part 2: hardware

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 17th 2008 1:08AM]

I have vista and have had multiple problems with it recignizing any game that wasn't already installed. I can't play SWAT4 or the expansion, Battlefield2142, and others. The only game that I have gotten it to run without runtime errors is SIM City 4..... Any help??

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 2:49PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
WS_FTP Doesn't work.. Wi-Fi needed a firmware update to work.

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Yes, 2 GeForce 8800's working smooth...

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
Aside from a necessary firmware update on a Linksys Wireless-G router, everything went fine.

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
Nope

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Crashing on movies loading in a pictures/movies setting, Aero not remitting after coming out of photoshop- needs a manual reboot.

Otherwise, looks good.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 12:39AM]

It looks like Windows 95 all over again.... crash...... reboot...crash...bsod....

[kyleballard Posted Jan 30th 2007 2:54PM]

As a developer, I'm deeply concerned about the number of compatibility issues with both Visual Studio 2003, and Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Microsoft is going as far as claiming Visual Studio 2003 (.NET CLR 1.1) is not supported in Vista.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa964140.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa972193.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb188244.aspx

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 7:02PM]

Yeah - this and apparent incompatibilities with SQL Server 2005/Express did in Vista for me. I live in those apps, and if I can't run them safely - well...

Also, Vista breaks many ISO image mounters. Nero released a 'Vista Compatible' version which was rendered compatible mostly by the removal of ImageDrive. VirtualCloneCD is free - and it kinda works in Vista - but it's not nearly as stable as it is in XP.

[Reginald Posted Jan 30th 2007 8:19PM]

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb188244.aspx

From the Visual Studio .NET 2003 on Windows Vista Issue List:

"While Visual Studio 2003 is not supported on Windows Vista..."

That is teh suck! Well I guess I won't be installing Vista on any of my developer machines.

What happened to the minimum 10 years of support for Business and Developer products?

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:03PM]

Does all your software work like before?
Pretty much everything works fine, only program so far that hasn't been fixable is G-Spot codec information program

Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Yes, apart from drivers for my Bluetooth Dongle, although they were a bastard even in XP.

Is it integrating with your network alright?
Yup, got it on my home network fine, and I can print to printers attached to XP PCs.

Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
I don't have one

What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
only crashed once, trying to play Transport Tycoon online with OpenTTD. It is a game from the early nineties though, so not all that surprising.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 2:55PM]

I've had it on my laptop since November. (this is Vista Enterprise, which was released mid Nov. 2006)

1)All of my software works fine. Haven't tried the games yet (firefox, Office 2007, Adobe Acrobat work just fine)
2)Well, I have it running on a MacBook Pro, and it running very well. If it can run the Mac Hardware, it can certainly run hardware that is "Vista Ready"
3)No problems with the network, whatsoever.
4)Haven't tried joining a domain.
5)None so far. Just make sure you look at the power options and customize those.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:16PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
So far, yes.
* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Dell Latitude D610 - Everything is working perfect. Windows Update had new drivers for most of my hardware. Haven't tried the Verizon card yet.
* Is it integrating with your network alright?
No issues. The network, however, cannot perform to the speed of Vista. Gigabit networking has been 'fixed' and I have transferred files from one Vista machine to another at 82MB/s.
* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
No problems.
* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Explorer has crashed a few times while trying to access the Internet from the address bar in a Windows Explorer window.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 9:50AM]

I've had a very smooth transition. The only piece of hardware that it didn't automatically detect or the auto updates didn't provide a quick driver for was the internal SD card reader in my laptop. The only piece of software that doesn't work properly for me is Cisco's VPN client. I have one issue where it says that the TDI and NDIS drivers for Symantec aren't compatible but the software seems to be working just fine nonetheless. Other than that, my business edition of Vista is working perfectly. I had to make sure that I downloaded BlackBerry Desktop Manager 4.2 though. The 4.1 version didn't detect my device. The 4.2 version works just fine though.

[darth vader Posted Jan 30th 2007 2:57PM]

does anybody remember that Power Together Campaign Microsoft did a few months back. well they said you'd receive Vista in "4-6 weeks" but I got it today! Damn microsoft is good at impressing its 'valued' customers by delivering their brand new product the day its released! now if only i had a PC that wasn't 4 years old to run it....

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:26PM]

Yeah I remember the Power Together campaign too. I received my Office 2007 pro Saturday (1/27). I thought it was funny how they included an invoice and branded sleeve without the disc. Instead they had my download it from http://www.officepro2007download.com/. It was sweet to see an offer like this actually made good on. Just wish I had a business tax id so I could have done the Vista one as well. Oh well. Take and learn.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:01PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
nope. While some "not so legal" software worked on XP, it no longer works on Vista. international software has bugs across the board. drivers that i got for hardware in japan and taiwan and turkey (i travel a lot) also don't work.


* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
meh. kinda. I have hardware from different countries... including 3 versions of XP... they don't talk well with the main vista machine... which is also the central computer. once the 64 bit vista took over the printer... no other 32bit xp machine could use the printer!!!

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
absolutely... maybe. i use ultimate... i can read files and edit them from shared directories, i can do remote desktop with XP pro sp2, but... printers, and shared drivers don't work.


* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
not really. worked well.

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
crashing on apps it doesn't like. I CAN'T update the REGISTRY!!!! if you try to import a backup of the registry... it cannot do it... COMMON!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 2:58PM]

So I've been eyeballing the Dell XPS 1715 notebooks, the powerhouse for gaming, etc. As SOON as they only gave Windows Vista as your only OS of choise, they took out the "Sound Blaster HD Internal sound card" option, and left it with "internal sound" only. However, their "help me choose" section STILL showed the Sound Blaster HD card.

They said it is because Windows Vista isn't compatible with Sound Blaster, and that option won't be back for a few months. Dag nabbit!!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 4th 2007 11:22AM]

Two things: avoid Dell until they fix their cust service probs and soundblaster tends to be buggy. I could rant on and on about Dell and the cheap sonic drive they put on my system last year, but i wont. I run Photoshop, mostly and Windows Media center does a pretty poor job of running it with frequent crashes and lock ups with 1 gig of memory. Prob would have to add another gig to keep Vista happy. So i would steer clear of ultimate until I'm sure they have fixed ALL the bugs in the media center interface that they used us XP ME people as involuntary testers to develop. Just think of all those crash msgs that came off my computer lol. BTW media player 11 DOES NOT support anything except jpegs when burning discs.
It is NOT for the pro or serious photographer. I would go with vista business just for the stability to run photoshop, lightroom, etc. That's why MAC's overpriced computers sell, because they DO listen to pro photogs and their stuff really works well with really big and complex images with alot of layers, etc.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:00PM]

All my drivers are actually easier to install (most install automatically) than xp. All hardware is functioning great. All applications (All adobe creative suite, sketchup, corel painter and etc) work just fine. Games are a bit troublesome. FlatOut2 is easy to get running, NFS MW and Call of Duty 2 have some artifacts, Rainbow Six: Vegas runs with less quirks than XP. Aero never has been a problem since beta 1 days (on FX5900XT and FX7900GT).

Overall satisfaction is great. The only problems arise from games.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 8:02PM]

Limewire doesn't support the Aero interface. If I scroll once, Aero is temporarily disabled. Typically, I will queue up everything I want to download (during which time Aero turns off, and then close Limewire (at which point Aero turns back on), and then minimize it to the tray. It does its work, and I continue to enjoy Aero.

I never was able to get My Logitech MX 5000 desktop bluetooth dongle to work. I ended up switching to a MS dongle I had sitting around with the Logitech Keyboard/Mouse.

I have an IOGear bluetooth print adapter (You connect your USB printer to it, and then connect to it via bluetooth from your PC to print) that has yet to work properly. I can pair it, but it only exposes a COM port that I have to manually setup my printer (HP Deskjet 9650 - No Vista Drivers) to print to, and it just prompts me for a security key as though I were pairing it all over again. (No key works, the device doesn't use a key.)

No adequate drivers for my Lexmark X7350 all-in-one printer/scanner/fax machine. I can print, but shared devices on my network cannot print to it as a shared printer. Scanning is terrible - While it has an automatic document loader, none of its special functions/buttons work at all, and I can only scan one document at a time from my scanning software of choice.

That's all I can recall off the top of my head. There are some other machines I have that never got the Vista upgrade because they had key hardware (like USB Sound Card from Turtle Beach) that never got Vista drivers.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:12PM]

Been running vista Ultimate from MSDN since it became available. Running a clean install on one PC, Upgrade on the other. Clean install has had very few issues performance or software wise. Upgrade has had all sorts of performance and compatibility issues, including the dreaded COM Surrogate needs to close error. VERY happy witht he clean install, no so much with the upgrade froom Xp Sp2

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:06PM]

> Microsoft is going as far as claiming Visual Studio 2003 (.NET CLR 1.1) is not supported in Vista.

I think it would be like with DOS/Win16 apps in WinXP: some OS functionality would be disabled for the apps.

IOW, you can't develop full-featured apps for Vista with vs2k3.

Reminded me of ever boasted Apple's Cocoa portability: Cocoa integrates with applications not down-to-top (iow it is not simple library of calls for app to use) but top-to-down: newer Cocoa versions can replace standard menus in existing applications for it to blend in into whole whole environment seamlessly. All thanks to flexibility (programmers read: weak typing & message oriented arch) provided by Objective C. Since M$ is all into dev tools sales, such miracles aren't expected to realized under Windows any time soon. Even QT4 decided to go M$/Windows way - abandoning all the utility, flexibility and portability provided by QT3 in favor of tighter integration (programmers read: recompile all the time) with host OS.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:11PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
Phooshop cs and ill. cs startup a little weird, doesnt look like the alpha channels work in startup. Mcaffee antivirus was "not comptibile"

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
No, Wi-fi card didnt work, got a belkin and it worked fine. geforce 7900gt works perfecto

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
just a little problem with the drivers in my old wireless card, nothing 30 bucks cant fix

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
Nope

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Ha, got hosed when the boot loader crashed, that was amazing because it wouldnt regonize hard drives, said "they didnt meet vistas requirements". So i had to re-format my main HD and load XP, then load vista back on ... fantastic

other than that it looks perfect on my two 20 inch monitors.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:13PM]

When i upgraded about two months ago it broke my Madden07. On kickoff the game would freeze and would only unfreeze if i alt tabbed out then back in. Anytime the kicking meter came up such as punting/field goals/kicking off. It also broke some of my simple .NET based programs such as iART

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:18PM]

alchol 120% causes a BSOD when you install a virtual cd rom drive, and since it keeps trying to reinstall this virtual cd rom drive... in all forms of safemode, i reformatted. i suppose a rollback might have worked, but at this early a stage, why really get into it?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:11PM]

Does all your software work like before?
For the most, yes, if it runs. Some software I can't get to run (games and for some reason folding@home)
Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Newer stuff yes, and it was all automatic (including RAID drivers, very nice). Older stuff, sometimes, I can't find drivers for some of my off brand older items (Do you really need that crap anyway?)
Is it integrating with your network alright?
A snap, although just a home network.
Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
N/A
What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Nothing not mentioned before.

Overall, there's no way I could go back...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:12PM]

Out of the box, Vista supports all of my hardware perfectly. Windows XP SP2 claims it cannot install these devices: PCI, SM Bus, Unknown Device, Video Controller.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:12PM]

Does all your software work like before?
All the ones I've tried, yep.
Starcraft works fine on my GMA945
So do the Japanese games I got from Japan

Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Not all of it. I'm on a sony laptop and some of the "sony stuff" isn't exactly working, like some of the hotkeys and the touchpad slide-scroller. I hope the SZ4 series will get drivers out for vista reeeal soon

Is it integrating with your network alright?
No issues at all!! =D

Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
Nope!!

What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
None really. IE7 crashed once in the 3 weeks I've been using Vista (Enterprise), the only hiccup thusfar.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:14PM]

first off, I got the free copy of Vista Business for doing that 'power together thing' on the web a while back...

Can't upgrade from MCE 2005 to Vista Business... So I lost all my programs.
Reinstalling was a breeze. Installed MUCH faster and with a lot less hassle than any XP install I ever did (not to mention Win 95!)
Many programs could not be reinstalled b/c they weren't compatible. Namely my digital camera software. Also, many of my videos didn't work anymore and the codecs wouldn't install correctly. Even when I downloaded and installed the ones that WINDOWS recommended in order to make the video play, it still said that it couldn't find the codec during playback.

I love the transparent windows and new interface. The indexing search is VERY useful, and I really like the ReadyBoot (for those who are lucky enough to have a fast thumbdrive or SD card).

I also can appreciate the new security measures (as should the Linux community). Only an indiot/(isolated ship wreck victim) should ever log in normally as administrator (root) on a linux box. You're just asking for problems. I do not like how installs 'seem' to go correctly in Vista, but then you run the app and nothing happens. Then you get a popup which says, "The program may not have installed correctly, would you like to install it correctly this time?"

Anyone want to trade a copy of Home Premium for my copy of Business? I want the media functions.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:15PM]

first off, I got the free copy of Vista Business for doing that 'power together thing' on the web a while back...

Can't upgrade from MCE 2005 to Vista Business... So I lost all my programs.
Reinstalling was a breeze. Installed MUCH faster and with a lot less hassle than any XP install I ever did (not to mention Win 95!)
Many programs could not be reinstalled b/c they weren't compatible. Namely my digital camera software. Also, many of my videos didn't work anymore and the codecs wouldn't install correctly. Even when I downloaded and installed the ones that WINDOWS recommended in order to make the video play, it still said that it couldn't find the codec during playback.

I love the transparent windows and new interface. The indexing search is VERY useful, and I really like the ReadyBoot (for those who are lucky enough to have a fast thumbdrive or SD card).

I also can appreciate the new security measures (as should the Linux community). Only an idiot/(isolated ship wreck victim) should ever log in normally as administrator (root) on a Linux box. You're just asking for problems. I do not like how installs 'seem' to go correctly in Vista, but then you run the app and nothing happens. Then you get a popup which says, "The program may not have installed correctly, would you like to install it correctly this time?"

Anyone want to trade a copy of Home Premium for my copy of Business? I want the media functions.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:34PM]

*Does all your software work like before?
Yep. Office, Itunes, Picasa work fine. VLC needs to be set to GDI mode or you get shockingly bounced into "Aero Basic Mode".
Gaming is a big letdown as Nvidia Drivers are anywhere from 15-50% slower than in XP. Nvidia owners should NOT be using Vista for gaming, period. I haven't tried my emu games yet.

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Yep, but I had to use the XP driver for my Epson scanner.

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
Yep, that works fine.

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
NA. No way businesses should be using this over XP at this point.

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
No showstoppers so far.

* Overall
Neat but not necessary. Horrendous Nvidia performance means you literally won't be able to go full-time to Vista yet without having performance issues. I'm bummed I have to continue to use XP because Nvidia STILL hasn't figured out how to write a decent driver for Vista.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:22PM]

My brother has been running WoW on his machine with Ultimate RC1 for some months now. All of his games work. His game programs work. So, before you're skeptical of games, it works fine. He's never had a problem with the OS crashing on him at any time.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 7:46PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
No. Many games do not function.

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
No, some vendors have not released drivers for Vista yet (Razer especially)

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
Sure

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Nothing serious yet.

Overall, I feel it's nice, but there's no significant difference over XP for me. Especially with the hardware and software incompatibilities, I can't use this as my main OS yet.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:55PM]

I recieved a copy of Vista Business in the mail from Microsoft and was reluctant to install at first. Well, I decided to go ahead and do it. First impression is wow. Then I installed some games.

COMPATIBILITY ISSUES---------
Quake 4 runs like a dream on my PC in XP. In Vista it is like running in mud with weighted shoes! This is the only game that I have installed so far and I am already considering wiping Vista and reinstalling XP! After my disappointment with the horrible Open GL support which equals no Quake 4, Doom 3, or Prey, I decided to continue on with Vista and give it a chance to redeem itself. It doesn't.

There are just no drivers out yet. Half of my hardware is nil due to Vista. X-Fi is not yet working fully. My 7600GT's fan never powers down, the fan stays 100% all the time! Some of my peripherals do not have support, yet. The Griffin Powermate, a handy device that I love, doesn't work unless you know how to hack it to work and even then it is not 100%. Game performance, over all, went down significantly across the board. I was very excited to hear about Vista and how it was supposed to bring about a gaming revolution on the PC, but now I'm very disappointed. I finally decided to go back to what works. I installed a fresh copy of XP media center and NOW I can use my computer. The Vista OS itself was beautiful. The applications that I use the most just don't work well with it, yet. I'm waiting and I hope every PC Gamer waits. The support just isn't there for most titles or hardware.

BUGS-----------
One very interesting thing was that occasionally my mouse would scroll in reverse of what I was scrolling inside a window. I use a wireless MICROSOFT optical 2.0 mouse!

CONCLUSION------------
I want this to work. Until it does I will stick with XP. What are the advantages of using Vista? None, so far, but it is early.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:30PM]

Does all your software work like before? (Nero and my Merc Gaming Keyboard software don't work.)

Does all your hardware still function perfectly? (Nvidia's Vista driver bundle doesn't include drivers for my 5900 Ultra, so I had to download some hacked version, which seems to work well enough.)

Is it integrating with your network alright? (No problems here.)

Did it put up a fuss joining your domain? (Nope.)

What kinds of bugs are you seeing? (No bugs, really. Just lots of annoying pop-ups when I try to install or change anything. Does this really make it more secure?)

FYI, I did a clean install (tripple boot MCE/Vista/Ubuntu Edgy) since I'm running MCE2k5 and installed the free Vista Business, though I plan to upgrade to Ultimate later tonight, pretty much just for the Media Center.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:30PM]

- Does all your software work like before?
- Yup. All of it. Even my OS 9 apps still run in Classic.

- Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
- Indeed it does.

- Is it integrating with your network alright?
- By the time I logged into my account, it was already back on my wireless.

- Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
- No muss, no fuss, hopped right on.

- What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
- None!

Oh wait, this is about Vista, not back when I upgraded to Tiger to get Widgets and Search and stuff... sorry, got confused there...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 4:44AM]

installed vista 64 on my htpc and i am going straight back to xp.. vista 32 has the drivers for my hardware but i can't be bothered, i wanted to do a proper next gen upgrade. I am going to wait for hauppauge & technotrend to sort me out.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:45PM]

60% of my software didnt work,

my hardware was bogged down and started erroring out badly.

Sometimes it didnt boot.

It would NEVER wake up from sleep

All in all Ill stick with XP, when the days comes I HAVE to switch linux here i come.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 8:29PM]

Sorry for this on but I got to know.

Will it run on my macbook

Has anyone installed it on one yet and will boot camp do the trick?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:36PM]

VISTA SUCKS

I cannot get my SMB network to work. And I will downgrade back to XP if I can't figure it out

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:40PM]

Anyone else disappointed at the lack of a "Will it blend?" video, involving that random old bloke?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:40PM]

Got Business edition from my university:

* Does all your software work like before?
Yes but I cant get the K-lite mega codec pack and the broadcomm wi-fi utility to work....
* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Since windows is controlling my wi-fi device I have some knack with the wireless...
* Is it integrating with your network alright?
No problems so far.
* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
Nope
* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Firefox hanging when playing wmv or laptop stuck on the dark screen where the orange uac promt appears..... I'll try to see if it works better with a clean install.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:42PM]

I have an ASI laptop:

Pentium M 1.73Ghz
2 GB Ram
SATA 80 GB HDD
nVidia 6600 Go

I purchased my laptop in April 2005. It was awesome back then, and it runs Vista well. I upgraded the nVidia drivers, and it is humming along.

I get:
3.6 Processor
4.4 RAM
3.8 Graphics
3.7 Gaming
4.2 HDD

1. Does all your software work like before?

Yes. Trillian has not been optimized for Aero, so Aero defaulted back to Windows Vista Home Basic Layout.

2. Does all your hardware still function perfectly?

Yeah, mostly. My custom laptop buttons and function buttons don't work. Plugging in a mouse doesn't disable the track pad though...grr.

3. Is it integrating with your network alright?

Heck yeah! Network finds other computers WAY faster than My Network Places. VPN installed setup and seemlessly. Internet downloads seem to come twice as fast! No joke. I have 3 Mbps at my house, and I am getting 350KB-515KB downloads. It rocks.

4. Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?

Nope

5. What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Random lags, but I have a little bit older computer.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:47PM]

I got my free copy of Vista Business and Office 2007 from the Power Together promotion and installed both on my Mac Pro on it's own hard drive. It all works perfectly. I only have one device in device manager that isn't identifiable. I get 5.5 as the lowest on the Vista rating thing. Most are 5.8-5.9.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 3:49PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
More or less. Some stuff I had to install in compatibility mode. I'm having to use a beta client of the Nortel Contivity client, but that's hardly MS's problem.


* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
More or less. Need updated drivers for uli southbridge. Creative needs to get their ass in gear and get drivers together for Audigy soundcards and their webcams. I have beta drivers for the Audigy. No complaints, but I would prefer non beta.

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
Yes.


* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
Nope.

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
None with Vista itself. More old drivers. The uli southbridge drivers tend to stall my computer now and again for a couple minutes or so. Asides from that, smooth sailing.

I've been using it since october (various betas, rc's and the rtm. No complaints. Me likes.

Beef

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:34PM]

The SATA raid controller on the Asus A8 board (Nforce 4 chipset) I have Vista running on isn't detected, and as a result neither of my SATA drives works. Hooray for new technology.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:51PM]

I've had Ultimate installed for a couple weeks and have noticed quite a few issues with Media Center. It crashes frequently when browsing video folders. Also if I fall asleep while watching something in Media Center, I'll wake up the next morning and my computer will either be frozen or restarted.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 3:35PM]

erm for me vista has been pretty good.

i had rc1 which the only two issues with that were it didnt have drivers for my audigy digital 2 sound card and the wireless networking was iffy at times

but with the full release the soundcard problem is gone and the only problems now are becuase of the rubbish BT home-hub router that doesnt work well with any pc in my house.

i have only install a couple of game like company of hereos, dawn of war, half life 2 and i havent had any problems with them.
and except the install going a bit dogdy at one point (the cursur just turned into many lines anfter 10 mins it went to normal again) i havent had any problems

vista i think is pretty good and i prefer it much more the xp any day!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:06PM]

I've used Vista Home Premium (not activated, waiting for my copy to arrive) for about a month now, and just upgraded my work laptop to Vista Business. Here are my answers:

* Does all your software work like before?
Pretty much, yeah. (software being dreamweaver, photoshop, sony vegas, lightwave...and so forth)

What doesn't work as it used to is VLC player. (pixelated output) But I could just as well use media player classic for my exotic video needs.

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Yes. Vista Business recognized the wlan adapter wrong on a Amilo Pro V8010d laptop, but after few reboots it started working.

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
Network works better than in xp - it's faster and more easier to control. Also, wmp11 media sharing is pretty nice if you happen to use wmp.

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Not sure if it's a bug, but pictures look different in the Photo Gallery than in a Web browser, for example. I think it has something to do with Color Profiles, but I'm not sure if the Photo Gallery is wrong or right. If anybody figures this one out, please email me!

All in all, works bloody well for me. There could be a bit more support in the way of drivers and applications made for Vista, though.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:08PM]

Sorry, not trying to start anything here, but it would be intresting to see how intel macs run XP Vs. Vista...seperate post and all that, but I think people might want to see how it comes out. Oh, and BTW, this mac head can't afford it :-)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:14PM]

Also, despite what the Upgrade Advisor said to me about Daemon Tools not working; It works without any problems.

Oh and one more thing. The Vista original drivers for my 7900 GS seemed a lot better than what nVidia had to offer on it's website. Those crashed a game once or twice, so I just went back to using the standard one and games seemed to work just fine. (R6: Vegas, Oblivion...)
But what I don't have is the control panel for the gfx settings... although that's probably a matter of nvidia updating their drivers.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:11PM]

On My Toshiba Satellite p105-s6014, It didn't recognize my sound card, fingerprint scanner, or internal SD card reader. The sound card and SD reader just needed the drivers reinstalled, but their is still no solution for the fingerprint scanner.

The biggest problem is that QuickBooks 2006 doesn't work, and Intuit is not offering an upgrade price for 2007. Also dual-booting worked with Beta 2, but now requires a third party application.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:16PM]

Will it blend? That is the question!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 3:45AM]

Windows Vista...hmmm I LOVE IT. It's soooo eye candy. I once had my eyes wandering at the apple store, now my eyes wander no more. BUT there is a big huge BUT. When I play counter-strike...yes its the best pc game over so don't flame me for my old game on my new OS. Anyway...when I play counter-strike, Vista won't let it run on OpenGL mode. And if you've played counter-strike before, you know its very sluggish in DX or Software mode. It only runs smooth in OpenGL. Well, OpenGL is not supported. I play counter-strike daily, and as much as I love the eye candy...ill have to revert back to windows xp to play my game. So until Vista fully supports OpenGL, then I won't be on it. If only they had counter-strike for mac =p

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 13th 2007 3:29PM]

chris! ever heard of mandriva linux? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6vq7OXudbY
check out that video, its quite eneugh eye candy to blow windows vista clean out of the water.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:11PM]

Does all your software work like before?
No, the Sygate Personal Firewall did not work, in lieu of that I tried ZoneAlarm which did not work either. AVG AntiVirus did not work, I eventually resorted to using McAfee which works fine under Vista and I get it for free through Comcast anyway. Diskeeper version 9 does not work, at all. The built-in defragmenter is too dumbed down to be of any real use except to just defrag your hard drive but you can’t monitor what it is doing.

Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Yes and no. I’ve had a few issues. First, the WiFi card in my desktop did not want to work but I was expecting this having run the Vista upgrade advisor, I eventually got the XP drivers working for it in Vista but the installer for that crashed… it still installed, it works and I’m happy. A similar situation with my Lexmark X2350 printer, it did not want to work so I had to force the XP drivers on it.

Nvidia does not have SLi drivers for Vista yet so I have one unused graphics card in my system, if they aren’t ready soon I’m going to get a more powerful single card.

Is it integrating with your network alright?
Yes, after getting the drivers installed it functioned fine, I don’t user any wired connections at all, I am all wireless.

Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
No problems there.

What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
iTunes will sometimes stop outputting audio when you switch source lists, but I suspect that is a bug in iTunes rather than Vista iself (still, this did not happen under XP).

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 7:15PM]

I'm running Ultimate on a seperate partition on a Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz clocked to 3.36 with 2GBs of RAM.

* Does all your software work like before?
Yes, mostly atleast. I have experienced some trouble with programs such as TeamSpeak and Ventrilo. Ventrilo works best of the two, in TeamSpeak the codec doesn't work.

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
No. I have a 2 year old motherboard (Asus P4P800 Deluxe) and the audio driver can't be installed because of compability issues, so instead of 5.1 sound i get 2.0. My graphics card (GeForce 5700FX) is not included in the Vista driver from Nvidia so I get a score of about 3.1 in the Vista thingie.

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
Nope, and I have both Macs and PCs in it.

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Got the bluescreen when i unplugged my webcam and plugged it into another USB socket. Internet Explorer has crashed 2 times when showing movies in quicktime.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:31PM]

I've been running Vista Ultimate ( legally ) since mid November, and use it as my primary OS at work and at home. Here's what I've seen:
Hardware: No problems with basic drivers, but many ( especially video cards ) are a far cry from optimized. RAID drivers are out there, but not plentiful. The closer you are to a 'standard' equipment set, the better you'll be. I know it says 512 minimum for RAM... yeah, okay. 1 gig minimum for decent ( not great ) performance, 2 gigs for the real deal. I have a 1 gig USB stick in the back for a 'readyboost' drive. Does it help? Yes. Does it help a lot? No. Keep your expectations low for now with performance increases from the readyboost system.
Software: Over stability has been good, I've only experienced one BSOD ( yes, they still exist in Vista ) so far. Hiberation works well, but a reboot is still necessary if I hibernate with Outlook open due to noticeable bogging down of the system once it wakes back up. Aero... you know, it's cool, but not that cool. The cosmetics of Vista work in that they don't become irritating ( at least so far) in day to day work, but it's not eye-candy-el-supremo. I was hoping for more... IE 7 and all the security ( protected mode, UAC and so on ) built in to Vista is more irritating than useful if you have some decent experience with computers. If you're a noob than cool, they will serve you well and save you from some ugliness, at least until the first exploits come down the path. No problems with Office apps, Anitvirus ( AVG! ) and most common apps. The new Windows Media Player is a giant poter for URGE, and it's bloated and chocked-full of DRM crap. Grab a third party media player with a smaller footprint and you'll be happy. no problems with networking, domains and so on. Wireless is beautifully easy to set up. I *hate* how Vista buries the guts of the networking settings, but change is change and they're all still there, you just have to wade through a bit to get to them. the new control panel is too busy... too many icons, too close together. Yuk.
Overall: I'd agree that Vista is the best Windows so far, easily beating XP for day to day useability once I got most of the annoyances turned off and things set up the way I like them. Avoid upgrading from XP at all costs... anyone who has been through an OS change from MS can tell you a clean install is the ONLY way to go. Trust me, it's woth the money. I don't play games on my PC, so no comment there. Media Center is very good with Vista, though they still use that ridiculous drv.ms format... dumbasses. If you have a XB360 the Media Extender is really good and well worth the time to set up.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:21PM]

First time posting, I got the free Powertogether Vista Business last Friday and tweaked with it all weekend plus yesterday.

- Vista didn't like having to look at multiple hard drives during installation, I had to unplug all except the one I was installing to.
- Vista is much nicer w/ default drivers than XP was, the rig was quite runnable after a fresh install.
- Most software work well out of the box, they're even good enough use the new directory structure (e.g., C:\Users\NewUser\Documents and C:\Users\NewUser\AppData\Roaming\Profile).
- Alcohol 120% has a HUGE problem that causes BSoD's on startup.
- Most media players seem to have some sort of trouble (VLC, foobar w/ extensions, Winamp, BS Player), so I'm forced to use WMP11 for now; it is very well integrated into the OS, however.
- nVidia's new drivers make things better, but there are still times on my 7900GT when the screen goes to white/green snow.
- UAC is truly annoying, grab TweakVI to turn it off.
- Most programs, even Microsoft's own, has problems with an admin + regular user setup, when it'll allow you to try to update programs as the reg. user but will silently fail as you didn't have admin. rights to install them.
- Windows Sidebar has no customizability and has a pretty sad library, although that'll certainly improve in time.
- There are a LOT of popups dealing with security, asking you and reconfirming that you really want to do what you're about to do. Having to click "OK" on 3 dialogs to install a Sidebar widget is stupid.
- Right now a lot of drivers are still in beta, these impressions are certainly premature and I expect to see improvement in the months ahead.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:48PM]

Does all your software work like before?
Yes and no. My games don't work well most of them. WinAce doesnt work. Office 2003 does work so im gettin 2007...

Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Yeah all of it works. Only had to install one driver total

Is it integrating with your network alright?Works pretty damn good. wireless worked as soon as i installed. i was surprized.

Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
saywa??

What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
hmm.. no logo on the boot screen. thats about it so far..

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:02PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
- Had problems with Nero 7 but found solution: rename %program files%\common files\ahead\dsfilter\NeVideo.ax to NeVideo.ax.bak
- Outlook 2007 Freezes once and a while. Just have to "End Process" to all Outlook.exe and Winword.exe
- Limeware decreases you screen resolution and disable Aero for some reason (I don't really use it anyways)

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Problem installing Dell Bluetooth 355. Could not find solution yet

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
Working great.

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
Also working great.

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
I had 3.7 Windows Experience Index. Updated my ATI driver from windows update and now I can't get an index anymore. Tried to run it 3 times already.
Moved all my User Folders to a different drive but still see duplicated entries of "Desktop" and "Contacts". You can set them to hidden if you want but since I need to see hidden files, this is useless for me.
Still have problems shutting down the machine (usually when running on battery). But 80% of the time I shut down it does ok.

** OTHER COMMENTS **
Anti-virus I tested and worked fine: OneCare and Avast Free Edition
File operations seems to be a little bit slower than xp (copy/delete/move).


MY RECOMMENDATIONS:
If you can, perform a FRESH install instead of Upgrade.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 4:52PM]

Got my version of Business free on Friday the 26th from the Power Together Promo:
* Does all your software work like before?
IVT Bluesoleil causes BSOD, Cisco VPN won't work, and the beta versions for Vista break my internets, Citrix ICA no worky, and Abit uGuru isn't stable, VLC doesn't do Aero when playing.
* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Boo to Lexmark for not having drivers for 95% of their printers ready, no support for my bluetooth dongles but that has more to do with ITV.
* Is it integrating with your network alright?
No problem except with the VPN above.
* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
Nope
* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Wakes up slow from Pictures screen saver, takes longer to wake up from default low-power sleep then actually shutting the thing down, random software things, but that'll come.

Overall I like it but hope that the software companies start catching up.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:28PM]

A few hassles getting going. Most significantly, one of my HDs was a dynamic disk - which Home Premium doesn't support. I had to reinstall XP and copy my files off the HD, reinstall Vistas and convert the HD to a basic disk. Eesh.

Once got that squared away, I had some bizarre issues with Adobe CS1. I think they were related to some bad graphics card drivers. One more clean install, and I was set.

Otherwise, it's been smooth. Love the way newer hardware works right off the bat.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:06PM]

I'm running an HP dv2037us and have been running Vista Business since November.

Besides the multiple minor issues, HP's built-in webcam doesn't want to work with Vista, iTunes requires extra effort to get it up and running, you have to change a setting or two to make it work with Clean Access, bridging networks has been a mess, compatibility with aspects of WMP and the Zune aren't perfect, and the default admin settings are kind of ridiculous.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:41PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
- So far so good, I've been running Vista Business for the past week and haven't had many problems with programs not working

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
- No. On my laptop the headphone jack and the SPDIF don't work, I've downloaded the latest drivers from the manufacturer and am still having problems.
- Had to update some drivers out of the box to get the rest of my system running, but it was a lot smoother than my last Windows Upgrade

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
- No problems yet

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
- Nope

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
- I think others have mentioned this, but it switches my color scheme to Vista Basic when I open up an older app, and then it never switches back to Aero without a reboot, or manually changing the setting.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:37PM]

I don't know how much they've put into fixing compatability issues, but I tested the latest BETA version that came out (5744 64-bit (I think it was Ultimate too?)), and I had quite the frustration. Many of my most-used programs wouldn't install. My Photoshop installer wouldn't even show up - just a white screen. I also encountered some frustration with my computer locking up and Windows showing the loading ani-cursor for a good five minutes before the system thawed out. This problem was rare though. It happened mainly when I first set the sytem up. After that, it seemed to adapt and fix itself... which I liked a lot. Aside from the bugs with Vista, my main annoyance was that stupid prompt asking me to 'OK' basically EVERYTHING I changed on my computer. I see that Microsoft is trying to show their determination to improve Windows security, but it's a bit much. I actually find the precautions Vista takes more annoying than the unwanted changes that malware would do. I'm an adult... I don't need a 'virtual nanny' pestering me every fifteen minutes. Other than those problems, everything else about Vista was amazing. I wasn't so fond of the HD space it required, but the core comes with the apple I guess. The GUI itself looked beautiful... enough so that my frustration with forementioned concerns went away just by looking at the sheer beauty of it. But unfortunately, that effect went away fairly quickly. The new features (such as Aero, the side nav menu for my favorites, previews, soo many to name (the things from Mac OSX)) really made me more comfortable using the OS. I eventually, however, got fed up with having less programs to run than I would on a Mac, and decided to revert back to XP Pro. The problems are few with Vista, but they are BIG ones. I'm certain though that the problems will diminish as time goes and newer software is designed to work with Vista and as the average computer's hardware steps up. Yes, I know my 'review' was a bit long and I went on about more than what was asked of me, but you'll live and hopefully learn from my experiences. :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:18PM]

The only problem I've had is it doesn't see my IDE RAID controller. :( It's a few years old, Adaptec 1200A or something, so I couldn't install it on my 200GB RAID. I installed it on an 80GB standalone drive and everything's been fine so far.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:28PM]

* Does all your software work like before?
Yes, with the exception of a few windows cleaning utilities, gotta wiat for the new versions. Also, cannot get output on movies to play in 5.1 on my receiver as I did wit XP, possible cause (see below)...

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Everything except my older Turtle Beach Catalina Sound Card. The drivers from their site will not install at all, I had to find the drivers for the chip and use those, severly lacking ont he features side of the sound card i had with xp. Sometimes the digital out will work, sometimes it wont and I have to reinstall the AC3 codec. Otherwise, sound is in stereo for the simpsons and the like, and winamp plays fine. My 7800gt's, RAM, X2 4400, sata and ide drives are all playing nicely together with the os. EVGA does not have the drivers out forvista yet, I would like them to tweak the cards again.

* Is it integrating with your network alright?
Went in nicely (using wired LAN)

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
No

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Movies are being wierd (see above), havent tried any games yet (sure there will be problems), and the sound card drivers.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:09PM]

Vista had issues joining our domain and I am a domain admin.

Aim pro will not work on it.

Altiris Juice is marginal at best.

I can not create a good VM ware machine of vista either.

Lenovo seems to be down and I am unable to get vista drivers.

[wooties Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:24PM]

I've done all the betas and am running different installs on 2 home computers and my laptop. Overall, i like it. .. but i'm pretty peeved about certain hardware that worked in previous betas but now are somehow not compatible.

Namely, TV tuners. ATI HDTV Wonder used to work, now has driver problems(hopefully it's just drivers, i can deal with that)

Nvidia NVTV tuners that were made specifically for MCE 2k5 are deemed obsolete, with no support for Vista. .. These cards worked Awesome in MCE2005.. now it seems i'm forced to buy new tuners.

/le cry

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 5:31PM]

everything seems to work fine so far.

I never expected certain programs to work as the are too tied-in to the central OS structure (most tweak apps, nero, daemon tools, alcohol 120)
but this was expected because these require access to fundamental parts of the operating system and/or drivers so they obviously won't work without a new version. (and anyone who says they should work on completely re-written code is talking BS)

all games work fine, office 2007 is a major time-saver, VLC has to be set to run in compatibility mode currently until a new version is released.
even iTunes works well.

all hardware has driver support, no network issues at all (it actually cleaned up a few issues)

Install was a breeze, even with the 3ware RAID card.


system: (all WC)
Intel QX6700
ASUS Striker Extreme
4GB OCZ Flex-XLC RAM
2 8800GTX's in SLI (BFG WC)
Creative X-Fi Elite
Nvidia Dual-TV
3Ware 4-port RAID (PCI-E)
2 WD Raptors (RAID 1, Run drives)
4 Seagate 7200.10 750's (RAID 10, storage)
Dell 30"

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:36PM]

Dell 820

Most things worked fine. Naturally antivirus and Cisco VPN didn't work (but these seem to break on every upgrade).

I tried one game Age of Empire III and it didn't work at all.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:19PM]

Been running since RTM and within 4 days I would never go back to xp. Everything for me is flawless, games are great, network is great, bootup time and shutdown time are excellent, hardware compatibility is perfect (600 watt power supply almost tapped out).

When I got it I started adding up the bonuses against the negatives and decided I would be willing to pay 250$ for vista. Then I checked the prices and found the upgrade would be closer to 150 so its a no brainer for me.

[VanillaSpice Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:19PM]

I don't remember Engadget telling "Windows nerds" to stay out of the discussion relating to any Macintosh posts - it would have been nice to have had a pleasant, constructive dialogue on those posts instead of seeing lots of "UR fanboy lozerz" comments. Is this a new thing? Will Engadget be asking for the anti-Apple crowd to stay out of the discussion of, say, new Mac, OSX, and iPod releases?

I'm not trying to be glib, I really do hope that you do it. The lack of "Macs have done that for years" comments on these three posts has made the comment sections an informative read, and I'd love to see that civility on Mac posts, too.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:25PM]

I am a help desk technician for DeVry University - Phoenix. We have been testing Vista to see how it would work in our environment and so far I haven't had too many problems with windows vista, it runs most of my applications just fine.
Some of the things that concern me is the fact that visual studio has compatibility issues, and some of the network analysis tools that we use do not work such as wireshark and cain and able.
Probably the biggest problem is that Windows Vista will not connect with our wireless network on campus. Other networks work fine like my network at home but the connection at the University, running WPA - TKIP will not connect. The server seems to grant access to the computer, but windows still says that it cannot connect.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:27PM]

I have heard some of my friends say they will never install vista at all because of all the problems they hear about with gaming (compatibility, performance).

I have installed several dozen current gen games and have had no problems with anything. Framerate is high and no unusual lag.

examples:
Battlefield 2, 2142
Oblivion (maxed out with enough 4096 texures to share with everyone)
WoW
GRAW
X3

using 2 BFG 7900 GTX with sli
AMD 3500
4g RAM

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 7:16PM]

The latest version of Alcohol 120% works fine for me in terms of imaging software. Maybe you should try that.

Overall i haven't had any real issues with vista (its more crash proof than XP and if it does crash revoring usually fixes things)

The only issue i have is ATI's Catalyst Drivers (i have dual Radeon X80GT's) there were bugs while testing in RC2 and RTM. Since ATI released their updated drivers things have been stable.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 12:31AM]

Deamon tools words fine too!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 12th 2007 11:42AM]

I see Vista as a real alt ernative for those seeking a state of the art operating system. I guess its time they sorted the mem from the boys. No?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:59PM]

Everything I have works fine - ATI AIW 1900, HP 4730 scanner, Audigy sound card... but I'm VERY frustrated that Konica Minola won't upgrade their 2300W drivers to support Vista 64-bit.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 7:16PM]

i had a lot of problems installing vista home premium on my desktop. although im pretty sure that it had something to do with the fact that my windows xp pro was a pirated copy...
it worked fine after i did a clean installation with a LEGIT copy of xp home, then upgraded vista over it.
everything else works fine. found all the drivers, updated my computer in a matter of minutes. and i havent had any compatability issues per se...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 11:25AM]

Does all your software work like before?
For the most part, yes. I had to uninstall an old version of Nero. All essential software and games run just fine.

Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
Yes, with the exception of my Presonus Inspire 1394, which Presonus claims will have drivers soon.

Is it integrating with your network alright?
Network setup was painless and swift. No problems at all.

Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
No domain here.. yet.

What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
Occasional random glitches in the taskbar, mostly.
Other than that, it's smooth.

I used RC1 for a month, and was actually sad having to return to XP due to some hardware issues. Now I'm back, and I love it. only XP box in the house at the moment is the MCE machine, my Desktop is Vista, and my other boxen run Linux since they're too slow for anything else :p

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 8:19PM]

No problems with my network. All my hardware is still working fine. All software is still seems to be working fine except for flashpaper 2 :-S

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 30th 2007 9:30PM]

Wow! This is bliss. finally an engadget forum i can peacefully share with other windows users.

I will throw my thought out when i pick up my copy of Ultimate tomorrow. Had to wait for my 2gb ram to arrive first.

I really recommend 2gb ram for vista. it rocks alot with so much smoothness in the RC2 beta.

The beta so far works great, with only a few incompatible apps and a flash drive. Its basically just for manufacturers to catchup with the necessary drivers.

so far so good. A worthwhile upgrade for me.

thanks engadget for this oasis of calm.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 4:14AM]

Try sharing a printer with Vista and print from an XP machine. Go on. I dare ya. Didn't work for me either.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 12:31AM]

My Vaio is not 100% happy. my soft buttons for the volume doesn't work.

Also, I tried installing driver software from sony for other bits and pieces but the software is blocked from loading on start up.

I can't seem to get it to let it startup on boot.

Hopefully sony will release some Vista specific software installers...

I noticed that after the launch, some updates were released, and after installing them my system has been running much better! the CPU was always at around 60-80% when i wasn't doing anything, just have a browser open. But now it sits at about 5%.

Anyone else notice that?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 12:31AM]

Oh, software wise, WMP sucks! When I play videos (divX) the sound loses track with the video. I have to use windows media player classic (which I love) but that is incompatible with aero. But that isn't too bad as vista turns off aero automatically when I load a video up.

I saw the Sony Vaio UX50 with GPS and 3G built in last night running vista! it was sweet, just 150,000yen. looks like its time to go shopping soon.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 6:54PM]

* Does all your software work like before?

I initially had problems with XnView & O&O Defrag. Both have since released new versions that work in Vista, and I'm sure that all other software that is still being updated will be much the same - it it doesn't work, new versions will.

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?

Yes.

* Is it integrating with your network alright?

Yes.

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?

No.

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?

Bugs are few and far between. Some programs seem to crash on close, to me they close normally, but then Vista throws up a "this program has stopped responding" dialog, where you can choose to end the task or wait.

So my experience with Vista over the past couple of weeks have been so-far very positive.

[RichyS Posted Feb 1st 2007 7:57AM]

Mostly worked fine. I've installed on a couple of Dell C521s -- one with the integrated Intel GMA (950 or 955 -- forget which), and Aero worked fine. The other has an ATI X1300 card. This causes a couple of problems when rebooting from hibernate. The screen won't display, other than the pointer. Makes logging in a little tricky! Works fine with all media centre stuff (remote & keyboard) from XP MCE; though the media centre itself can be a little flakey (was inexplicably crashing my PC every time I browsed to 'My Music'); but seems to have stopped now.

Main issue I currently have is that the Logitech Wireless DJ isn't Vista compatible; though a Beta is promised by Logitech in the next few weeks.

I've not tried any games or old software; and haven't yet attempted to hook it up to my Maxtor NAS (including attached printer). Oh, and the Belkin wireless drivers are causing the PC to not play nice with other (Centrino) laptops in the house -- if I want to connect the Dell to an Internet via my Belkin router, everything else gets chucked off. Not sure yet if this is Vista's fault though...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 10:50AM]

Appach, VMWare Workstation, Zend Studio demonstrates unstable work (or sometimes not working at all...)

And also - on my MB Asus P5AD2 Deluxe built-in wi-fi not working as an Acess Point.

But no any other problems yet)

Alcohol 52% or 120% causes BSOD if trying to install old version :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 11:02AM]

I can't get my ATI All In Wonder Radeon 9600 series card to work for Sh!T! The tuner is not recognized by the Media Center in Ultimate. Any Hacks out there yet for this?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 11:30AM]

Vista sucks. Msft should have open sourced it and charged for support. They have enough money and they OWE us for the crappy software they released in the past.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 5:10PM]

Does all your software work like before?
Nope, most of it does, but i have had to update all the latest versions and a crapload of other stuff, its realy annoying
Does all your hardware still function perfectly?
My X-FI soundscard isnt able to use its software it comes with, so im sitting here and waiting for a patch. My 8800 GTX though works fine
Is it integrating with your network alright?
Its working perfectly, keep in mind in just connected by ethernet
Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?
not in a domin, but joined my workgroup fine
What kinds of bugs are you seeing?
the one bug that is realy killing me is when i click on those links that tell you like "what does disk defragmenter do to help you" it tries to connect to the Microsoft site, and just says it cant find it

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 9:01PM]

Ive been a tester for Windows Vista for about 6 months. I have been running Enterprise and Ultimate editions without any issues at all. AGP support for Vista has been a dream with no recorded issues at all. All current XP Software will work without major glitches (excluding minor visual tweaks). Drivers have been the biggest issue until now and with the release two days ago of the retail editions we have seen many of the issues evaporate after windows update kicked in and we downloaded newer releases.

With Gaming I was running Prey, BF2 as well as UT2004, CS Source and many other new games without difficulty. Biggest catch were drivers but with vista ready drivers we had no issue.

Application side of things went smoothly as well. No issues at all with Creative Suite 2 Premium or any other Adobe products for web authoring. We have not tried Visual Studio in any way shape or form so are unable to say anything there. However I found a nice list of software that has been collected and used by myself and others with widespread success:

AntiSpam & AntiSpyware

* CA eTrust PestPatrol Antispyware v4.4.4.81 (32-bit)
* EMSI Software a-squared Free v2.1
* FireTrust MailWasher Pro Ver. 5.3 (32-bit)
* Javacool Software SpywareBlaster 3.5.1 (32-bit/64-bit)
* Lavasoft Ad-aware SE Personal v1.06 (32-bit/64-bit)
* PC Tools Spyware Doctor v4.0.0.2620 (32-bit)
* Pyrenean eDexter v1.42 (32-bit/64-bit)
* Spybot Search & Destroy v1.4 (32-bit)
* Trend Micro Internet Security 2007 (32-bit/64-bit)
* Webroot Spy Sweeper v5.3 (32-bit)

AntiVirus

* ALWIL Software avast! v4.7 Home Edition (32/64-bit) (28 language versions)
* ALWIL Software avast! v4.7 Professional Edition (32/64-bit)
* ALWIL Software avast! Virus Cleaner Tool - version 1.0.209 (32-bit) (Czech)
* ClamWin portable v0.88.5
* ESET NOD32 v2.70.16 or newer (32/64-bit)
* Etrust Etrust EZ CA Antivirus v8.2.0.13 (32-bit)
* Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition v7.5.441 (32-bit)
* Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus Professional Edition v7.5.441 (64-bit)
* Kaspersky AntiVirus 6.0.2.614 (32/64-bit)
* Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0.2.614 (32/64-bit)
* McAfee AntiVirus 8.5i (32-bit)
* McAfee Secturiy Advisor for IE or Firefox (32-bit)
* McAfee Stinger v2.60 (32-bit)
* Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 1.5 Beta (32-bit)
* Norman Norman Virus Control
* Symantec Norton Antivirus 2007
* Symantec Norton Internet Security 2007
* Symantec Norton 360
* Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition v10.2.224
* Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition v10.2.276-
* Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security v14.57 (32/64-bit) and v15.3 (32/64-bit)

Audio

* Apollo v3.7zy
* Apple Quicktime v7.1.3 (32/64-bit) - installs as 32-bit app under 64-bit Vista
* Apple iTunes **** latest version
* Apple iTunes Library Updater 1.22
* AtomixMP3 DJ: Virtual DJ v2.0 and AtomixMP3 v2.3
* Audacity v1.3.2-beta (32-bit)
* Audioactive Production Studio 1.05
* CoolEdit Pro 2.0
* Creative Tools: Creative AudioHQ, Creative Recorder, Creative Mixer etc...
* Foobar2000 v0.8.3, v0.9.4.1 and v0.9.4.2
* Free Easy HI-Q Recorder 2.0
* Fruity Loops 6.0.8 (32bit) - works great, performance slightly sub-par
* FXsound DFX Audio Enhancement v8.0 for Windows Media Player & Winamp
* GoldWave v5.17 (32-bit)
* Jetaudio v6
* Magix Music Maker 5 a bit older version, but still, not the oldest (32bit) - Working Fine!
* Media Monkey latest Version (note old versions have not been tested)
* musikCube v1.0 RC2 beta (32-bit)
* mp3tag v.2.37a (newly added Vista Support, v.2.36a and below simply crash)
* Rhapsody v4.0.850
* Sonic Foundry Sound Forge 6.0
* Sony Acid Pro 6.0d
* Sony Sound Forge 8.0d
* Winamp v2x and v5x (32bit) - DRM Problems

Backup

* Acronis True Image Home v10.0.4871
* NovaStor NovaBackup Maintenance Release v7.5.2.1
* Paragon Drive Backup Personal v8.5
* Vision Backup Home, Pro, Server & Server w/MS SQL & Exchange

Browsers

* Avant Browser 11 Build 25
* Browzar 1.2.0.1 (32-bit) (Do NOT use this! It´s a fraud, a SCAM!)
* Deepnet Explorer 1.53 beta (32-bit)
* Flock 0.78 (32-bit)
* Maxthon 1.5.9 build 30 and 2.0
* Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 (it has several incompatibility issues) (32/64-bit)
* Off By One 3.5.d (32-bit)
* Opera 9.xx (32-bit)
* Portable FireFox 1.5 (32-bit)
* Torpark 1.5.0.7a (32/64 Bit)

CD/DVD Authoring

* Alcohol-Soft Alcohol 120% 1.9.6.4719
* Ashampoo Burning Studio 6
* Burn4Free CD and DVD v2.6 - NOTE: Prior (v2.x) versions of Burn4Free sometimes crash under Windows Vista. Windows Vista recommends upgrading to the latest version to solve the problem.
* CyberLink PowerDVD Copy (may have problem during installation but if you keep trying it will run fine).
* DeepBurner 1.8 - (32 Bit)
* DVDLAB Pro 2.2
* DVDFab Platinum 3.0.5.2 beta
* DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0
* DVD Rebuilder Pro 1.20.5
* ImgBurn 2.1.0.0 (32/64bit)
* ImgTool Classic 0.91.7
* MagicDisk 2.5 Build 074
* MagicISO 5.3.221 - 32/64 Bit
* Nero Premium Reloaded v7.7.5.1 - NOTE: Thumbnails (avi&mpeg) engine now fixed that was previously broken in v7.5.7.0
* PowerISO 3.4, 3.5
* PrimoDVD 2.1 for Disc Publisher (Bravo II CD/DVD Duplicator & Printer)
* RipIt4Me RipIt4Me 1.6.4.0
* SilentNight Microburner v5.0.0.26 (32-bit)
* Slysoft AnyDVD 6.1.0.4 - (32-bit)
* Slysoft CloneCD 5.2.91 - (32/64-bit)
* Slysoft CloneDVD2 2.9.01 - (32-bit)
* Slysoft CloneDVD 3.9.4.0 - (32-bit)
* Sony DVD Architect 4.0a
* Super Clone Dvd 5
* Ultimate CD/DVD Burner 2.0 - (32-bit)
* UltraISO 8.5.1.1860 (32-bit)
* VOBEdit 0.6
* Vso-Software ConvertXtoDVD 2.1.5.173- 32/64 Bit

Codecs & Converters

* 3ivx
* Advanced Vista Codec Package 4.2.0
* Combined Community Codec Pack With the Quicktime and RealPlayer alternative codecs you can play just about everything and includes Media Player Classic
* Electronic Cosmo's MPEG Suite 1.5 (32bit)
* ffdshow (use Celtic Druid's (x64)
* K-Lite Codec Pack v2.8 / K-Lite Mega Codec Pack v1.61
* Real Alternative [latest version]
* StormCodec6.10.00
* XVid 1.1.2
* X Codec Pack. v2.1.2 or newer

Compression

* 7-Zip (32/64-bit)
* Advanced RAR Password Recovery 1.53
* IZArc 3.6
* PowerArchiver 2006 Version 9.64
* TUGZip 3.4+
* Ultimatezip 2007 (ver 3.1) 32-bit
* WinAce your archiving companion WinAce 2.5, 2.65
* WinRAR 3.4 (installs/runs fine as user, just asks for permission), 3.51, 3.60, 3.61 and 3.62 (32-bit) (must be run as Administrator)
* WinZip Pro 10.0 (build 7245) and 11.0 (build 7313) (32/64-bit)

Corporate Records Management

* Metrosharp IMS Express 2007 (AKA Identity Management System for USC 2257) (32/64 bit)
* Metrosharp IMS Professional 2007 (AKA Identity Management System for USC 2257) (32/64 bit)
* Metrosharp IMS Small Business 2007 (AKA Identity Management System for USC 2257) (32/64 bit)
* Metrosharp IMS Enterprise 2007 (AKA Identity Management System for USC 2257) (32/64 bit)
* Metrosharp Migrate for IMS 2007 (32/64 bit)
* Metrosharp OpenIMF (AKA Open Identity Management Framework for USC 2257) (32/64 bit)
* Metrosharp Retroact for IMS 2007 (32/64 bit)
* Metrosharp SteelSafe 2007 (32/64 bit)

Customization

* Samurize v1.64.2 (to install, set compatibility to Windows XP SP2)

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Databases

* Microsoft Access 2000 (32-bit)
* Microsoft Access 2003 (32-bit)
* Microsoft Access 2007
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 & x86 (needs SQL Server 2005 SP2 installed to run best in Vista)
* MySQL Administrator
* MySQL Query Browser
* MySQL Community Server 5.0.27
* Oracle 10g Express Edition
* Quest Toad for MySQL
* Quest Toad for Oracle

Defragmenting

* Ashampoo® Magical Defrag
* Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.0
* Diskeeper® Corporation's Diskeeper® 2007 (32/64-bit) (Requires a free update which is expected to be available by the first part of 2007)
* Golden Bow Systems VOpt 8.08 (32-bit)
* O&O Defrag V8.6 Pro (32/64-Bit)
* Raxco Perfect Disk v8.0 v8.0 build 35 beta (32-bit only), build 46 (32/64-bit), build 48 (32/64-bit)

Development

* Crimson Editor 3.70 Release
* ConTEXT v0.98.5 (32-bit)
* JCreator Pro
* JDK v1.5
* JDK v1.6
* Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (32-bit) (use the SP1 for Vista service pack for optimal Vista compatibility)
* Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005 (32 Bit) (Compatibility warnings, but works)
* Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions: Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (32 Bit) (Compatibility warnings, but works)
* Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Professional Edition (32 Bit) (Compatibility warnings, but works)
* Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition (32 Bit) (Compatibility warnings, works poorly)
* Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0
* Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 (16-bit abandonware, but runs on RTM 32bit version)
* Netbeans IDE v5.5
* Eclipse 3.2.1
* Notepad++ v3.9
* Programmers Notepad 2 (32-bit)
* Sun Java Runtime 6.0
* UltraEdit v10.10a and higher (32-bit)
* Vim v7.0 (32-bit)
* vlite v0.5 beta
* WinHex v12.0 SR-1
* WinMerge v2.3.10.0 (32-bit)

Download Managers

* Download Accelerator Plus 8(DAP)
* Download Master
* FlashGet 1.73 Build 128 (32/64-bit) and 1.8 Final (32-bit)
* Free Download Manager
* GetRight 6.1
* HiDownload 6.95
* Internet Download Accelerator
* Internet Download Manager 5.06 beta
* Leechget 2006
* Limewire PRO
* Microsoft File Transfer Manager
* RapGet 1.26
* ReGet Deluxe 2.6

Email

* Chaos Software Group Chaos Intellect 3
* IBM IBM Lotus Notes 6.55
* Incredimail Xe Premium NL 2529
* Microsoft Outlook 2007
* Microsoft Outlook 2003 (32-bit)
* Microsoft Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta (Build 8.0.1172)
* Mozilla Thunderbird v1.5.x
* Mozilla Thunderbird v2b1 (32-bit)
* PoP Peeper
* Portable Thunderbird v1.0.7 (32-bit)
* Qualcomm Eudora v7.1.0.9 (32-bit)
* TheBat 3.71

Emulation

* Daemon Tools 4.08HE
* MAME32 (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)
* ScummVM 0.5.1
* UltraISO 8.6.0.1936

Encryption

* Ashampoo® Magical Security
* File Securer Version: 3.95
* Tropical Software Stealth File Encryptor 6.0
* TrueCrypt 4.2a (32-bit) (on x64 Vista: press F8 during boot and select "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement - ATM you have to do this everytime you boot!)
* ZDNet's Password Pro 32 (encrypted password database)

Financial

* Quicken 2007 R2 (32-bit)
* Quicken 2005 R6 (32-bit) (Install hiccupped but program is fine)

Firewalls / IDS's

* JeticoPersonal Firewall v.2 beta jpf2beta
* Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0.2.614 (32/64-bit final version)
* Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 1.5
* Symantec Norton 360 beta
* Symantec Norton Internet Security 2007
* Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security v14.57 (beta) and v15.3 (32/64-bit)No they aren't compatible. The firewall component can't be started!

FTP

* Filezilla (32-bit)
* FTP Navigator 7.5 Small and simple ftp client (32-bit)
* GMail Drive Shell Extension 1.0
* GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP 4.2
* GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP 8
* iniCom.Networks FlashFXP
* Rhino Software FTP Voyager
* UtraFXP Nice, simple ftp client (tested on 32bit only!)
* Visicom Media FTP Expert 3.70.3 (French) (32-bit)

Games

* Aliens versus Predator 2
* Americas Army 2.7 (32-bit) - you have to manually update punkbuster then run as admin
* Anno 1701
* Age of Empires and the Rise of Rome expansion
* Age of Empires II and the Conquerors expansion
* Armed and Dangerous
* Arx Fatalis
* Baldur's Gate (32bit) (Polish version, English should work well too)
* Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (32bit) (Polish version, English should work well too)
* Battle for Middle-Earth 1 & 2
* Battlefield 2 & Special Forces (Run BF2.exe As Administrator.)
* Battlefield 2142
* Blood II The Chosen (It rarely crashes, but this was happening under XP too.)
* Broken Sword: The Angel of Death
* Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
* Call of Duty & United Offensive
* Call of Duty 2 (run cod2mp_s.exe in XP SP2 compability mode; SP fine.)
* Civilization III (run as administrator, XP SP2 compatibility mode)
* Cobra 11 - Nitro (StarForce protection vista-update required)
* Command & Conquer: Generals
* Commandos: Beyond The Call Of Duty
* Condemned - Criminal Origins
* Continuum
* Counter-Strike 1.6
* Counter-Strike Condition Zero
* Counter-Strike Source
* Cricket 07 (Australian version - works on both x86 & x64)
* Darwinia
* Deal or No Deal
* Delta Force Black Hawk Down & Team Sabre
* Deus Ex
* Diablo I
* Diablo II - NOTE: For best results, set Compatibility Mode for application to Windows XP SP2 in the shortcut's properties and run as Administrator. This should allow all features of game to work properly, including LAN and Battle.Net play.
* Doom 3 (Requires working OpenGL support)
* Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (Requires working OpenGL support)
* Doomsday 3D Engine v1.9.0 Beta 4
* Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition with all Add-Ons (for Windows Edition; not original 16-bit MS-DOS) (This game works slowly with too low performance if you don't install the driver of your graphic card manually although Vista automatically recognizes and installs the drivers of your graphic card and DirectX.)
* Duke Nukem 3D High Resolution Pack (HRP) (also External Release (XTR)) v1.0
* Duke Nukem Manhattan Project
* Dungeon Keeper
* EA Link for EA Games
* Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
* Everquest
* Everquest II
* F1 2006 (Win 98/Me Compatibility Mode)
* Flight Simulator 2004
* Flight Simulator X
* FBI: Hostage Rescue
* F.E.A.R
* FIFA 07
* Football Manager 2007
* Freelancer
* Flatout 2 (European with Starforce update)
* Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
* Gothic 3 (Windows Vista wont allow 2 files to install in system folder(64 bit))
* Grand Prix 4
* Grand Theft Auto II
* Grand Theft Auto III
* Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
* Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
* Guild Wars: Factions (German)
* Gun
* GunBound WC
* Half Life
* Half Life 2 & Half Life 2: Episode One
* Halo: Combat Evolved(need a patch windows tel you about it)
* Halo: Custom Edition(needs a update tho download http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=1884)
* Hitman: Blood Money
* Hitman: Contracts
* Hugo: The Evil Mirror
* KISS: Psycho Circus The Nightmare Child
* Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Legend
* Lego Star Wars II (64-bit)
* Max Payne 1.01
* Max Payne 2
* Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault Installed MOHAA Ver1.1 on 32-bit Ultimate, plays fine with no problems at all, multiplayer untested as yet.
* Klotski (and Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1991)
* MU Online
* Need for Speed (32-bit)
* Need for Speed III: Hot pursuit
* Need for Speed Most Wanted
* Need for Speed Carbon
* Neverwinter Nights 2
* NHL 06
* NHL 07
* Outrun 2006
* Pariah (With 98/ME Compatibility mode)
* Pacific Warriors
* Phantasy Star Universe
* Prey (Requires working OpenGL support)
* Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
* Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Starts Windows MCE upon exit?)
* Pro Evolution Soccer 6
* Psychonauts
* Quake 2
* Quake 3
* Quake 4 (v1.3)
* Race - The WTCC Game
* Ragnarok Online
* Rainbow Six: Lockdown
* RollerCoaster Tycoon [With the Loopy Landscape Add-On] (Vista 32-bit)
- Add the "Windows 95" compatibility mode for the file "rct.exe"
- Add the "Full control" right to "Everyone" for the folder of RCT and its subfolders.
* RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 [Original and all Add-Ons] (Vista 32-bit)
- Add the "Full control" right to "Everyone" for the folder of RCT2 and its subfolders.
* RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 [Original and all Add-Ons] (Vista 32-bit)
* Rome: Total War
* Second Sight
* SimCity 3000 Unlimited (32-bit)
* Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
* Splinter Cell: Double Agent
* Star Wars Galaxies
* Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds and Clone Campaigns
* Starcraft
* Super Mario Forever (After starting the game, the mouse cursor of Vista still appears on the screen. Ignore it.)
* SWAT 4 & The Stetchkov Syndicate (32-bit)
* The Simpsons - Hit & Run (32-bit)
* The Sims 2 [Original and all Add-Ons] (Vista 32-bits)
* The Sims 2 [Nightlife, Pets] (Vista 64-bit)
* Titan Quest
* Train Simulator (Microsoft) (Vista 32-bit)
* Unreal Tournament 2004
* Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
* Warcraft 3 & also The Frozen Throne(With 98/ME Compatibility Mode)
* Warhammer Mark of Chaos
* World of Warcraft
* World Racing 2 (StarForce protection vista-update required)
* Worms 4: Mayhem
* Worms Armageddon with latest patch (32bit)
* Worms World Party

Graphics/Design

* AAA Logo 1.22
* Architectural Desktop 2007
* Adobe Creative Suite 2
* Adobe Macromedia Studio 8
* Adobe PageMaker 7.01 - 32bit
* Adobe Photoshop 5.0 - 32bit
* Adobe Photoshop 5.5 - 32bit
* Adobe Photoshop 7.0 - 32bit
* Adobe Photoshop CS - 32bit
* Adobe Photoshop CS2
* Adobe Photoshop CS3 BETA
* Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition 3.0 - 32-bit (DL and install the "EPS Parser" if you like)
* Ashampoo Photo Commander 5 (v5.10, 11/06/2006)
* AutoCAD 2007
* Bryce 6.0 By DAZ
* Corel Graphics Suite X3
* CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 11 (Corel Corp. says that this version should not work under Windows XP SP2 but I have tryed it on Vista, works OK)
* The GIMP
* Google Sketchup
* Google Earth 4.0.2416 (beta)Build Date Oct 31 2006
* GTK Radiant 1.4.x, 1.5.x (+latest q3map2)
* IconCool Studio 3.30 (build 70116)
* Irfanview v3.99
* Jasc AnimationShop 3
* Jasc PaintShop Pro 7
* Jasc PaintShop Pro 9
* Jasc PaintShop Pro 10 (ITS NOT MADE BY JASC ITS COREL)
* JOCR (Image Capture and Character Recognition) v1.0
* Lightwave 3D 9.0
* LEGO Digital Designer 1.6
* Macromedia Fireworks 8
* Mediachance RealDraw Pro 4.0
* Microangelo Toolset v6.03 (Icon editor. Works with Vista's new icon formats perfectly.)
* Paint.NET 3.0b2 (32-bit)
* Quake4Edit
* SureThing 4.3
* Ulead COOL 3D Studio 1.0 Full Version
* Webshots Desktop 2.5
* Winamp Skin Maker 1.2

Internet Tools

* AI RoboForm Roboform v6.8.4
* SawMill v7.2.8 (32-bit)

Media Center Plugins

* Mobilewares Big Screen Weather
* Mobilewares Big Screen Photos

Messaging

* AIM 6.0.28.1 / Aim Classic 5.9
* Google Talk
* IBM/Lotus SameTime Connect v7.5 (32-bit)
* ICQ 5.1
* ICQ 6 Preview Version
* mIRC
* MySpaceIM
* MirandaIM 0.5 Unicode
* QIP (Quiet Internet Pager) 7990
* Skype (Disable Aero)
* Teamspeak 2 RC2
* Tlen
* Trillian Pro 3.1
* Windows Live Messenger 8.1 (32-bit)
* X-Chat
* Xfire
* Yahoo Messenger

Network

* AccessDiver
* Ethereal 0.9.9.0 (32 bit)
* Hamachi 1.0.1.1 (32-bit)
* Intel PROSet 11.2 (32-bit)
* Metrosharp XDNS 2007 (32 bit)
* Packet Tracer by Cisco Networks
* Putty
* Sam Spade v1.14 (32 bit)
* Shiva VPN Client
* WinPcap 3.1
* WinPcap 4.0
* Wireshark


Office Tools

* Adobe Acrobat 3D v7
* Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 (x86 only)
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0.8 (32-bit), 7.0.9
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
* Adobe Acrobat Reader Pre-Release 8
* Chaos Software Group Chaos Intellect 3
* Chaos Software Group Time & Chaos 7
* ClarisWorks 5.0 for Windows
* Moffsoft Calculator 2
* Microsoft Expression Web
* Microsoft Money 2005
* Microsoft Office 2000
* Microsoft Office 2003 SP2
* Microsoft Office 2007
* Microsoft Office XP
* Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006
* Microsoft Works
* OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 (32-bit)
* OpenOffice.org 2.1.0 (32-bit)
* ScanSoft (Nuance) OmniPage Pro 15
* ScanSoft (Nuance) PaperPort 11.0.6225.1
* ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 4
* Stamps.Com Stamps.Com 6.0.4 (Build 1521)
* Sun StarOffice 8

Other

* ASP Dictionary - in Slovenian (32bit)
* Launchy works under Vista Business.
* Microsoft Student 2006 and 2007 - works great
* OpenAFS 1.5.14 - compatible with Vista
* StarDock ObjectDock (32-bit)
* Widcomm Version 5.1.0.2700 (works perfectly fine in vista RTM (32-bit)
* WPE Pro 9.

PDA & GPS

* Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center (Beta 3) - WMDC replaces ActiveSync
* Nokia PC Suite 6.82 (with Nokia Connectivity Cable Driver and PC Connectivity Solution; all Nokia mobile synchronization functions work)
* Palm Desktop 4.1.4E (Shipped with most Palm PDAs or downloaded from Palm)
* POIedit v4.5.1 (may need to be restarted once POI's have been sync'd with master servers. Use Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) for PDA sync with Windows Mobile 2003 & 2005)

Peer to Peer

* Ares 1.9.5, 1.9.9
* Azureus 2.5.00 or newer(32-bit)
* BitComet 0.77
* BitTornado
* DC++ v0.698
* DC++ RevConnect
* eDonkey2000 1.4.3 Lite
* eMule 0.47x with a lot of modes (32-bit)
* FrostWire 4.13.1.4 Beta (clone of LimeWire PRO and uses Java like it, but doesn't disable Aero)
* LDC++ 1.0 2a
* Limewire
* Limewire PRO
* LimeWire Acceleration Patch
* Lphant v 3.00 B5
* myTunes Redux
* Neo Mule 4.25 (32-bit)
* Pando -- ultima version
* Shareaza 2.2.3.0
* Soulseek 156c
* uTorrent 1.6

Remote Control

* 3am Labs LogMeIn - Installs and runs fine. Cannot wake screen up after a remote session has been used, the machine must be put to sleep and woke up again to wake up screen.
* RealVNC - Works fine, closes connection, when UAC Warnings Appear.
* Symantec pcAnywhere 11.0.1 32 bit (Vista reports this as v12 - and states that there are known compatibility issues - I have used the Remote Control and File Transfer sessions without experiencing any issues. OS is Vista as Remote, XPHome as Host) Feel free to move this to another section if you experience issues with it.

Screen Capture

* Ashampoo Magical Snap (v1.10, 05/08/2006)
* HoverDesk HoverSnap v.08 beta
* Hypersnap Hypersnap (V6.12.01)
* MWSnap
* beepa Fraps (v2.8.3)
* TechSmith Snagit 8
* Camtasia Studio Recorder 4

System applications

* 2BrightSparks SyncBack v3.2.14.0 (32-bit) (minor problem first time running, had to kill the application and then re-run it)
* 8rdavcore - NOTE: Must be run as the Administrator
* A43 v2.49 (32-bit)
* Acer Launch Manager (laptop utility)
* Actual Window Manager v4.3
* Advanced WindowsCare PRO v2
* 2BrightSparks SyncBack SE v4.1.0.161 (added - See Minor Issues below)
* Acronis True Image 9 Server/Ent (Note: Incremental backups work if Vista's auto-defrag is disabled)
* Acronis True Image 9 Workstation (full backup only, incremental backup does not work)
* Acronis True Image 10 Home
* Ashampoo UnInstaller Platinum 2 (2.5, 08/29/2006) [4]
* AutoHotkey v1.0.45.04 and v1.0.46.00 (32/64-bit) (runs as 32-bit app under Vista x64)
* Belarc Advisor
* CCleaner v1.36.430 (32-bit)
* CPU-Z v1.38
* Dexpot v1.4 (32-bit)
* Final Recovery v2.1 (tested in 64bit only)
* FolderShare (32-bit)
* Fraps 2.8.1+
* Futuremark 3DMark05 1.3.0
* Futuremark 3DMark06 1.1.0
* Futuremark PCMark05 1.2.0
* GameXP 1.6 - NOTE: It shows "Windows XP 6.00.6000 Professional" in the operating system information line/
* Genie-soft Genie Backup Manager Pro 6.0 (32-bit) office 2007 not supported
* Total Commander v6.55 and v7.0 Beta 2 (32-bit)
* Indigo Rose AutoPlay Media Studio v6.0.4.0
* Lavalys Everest Ultimate Edition v3.50.761
* MarcSpruIT Consultancy AutoBackup 3.2 (32-bit)
* Microsoft (formerly Sysinternals) Autoruns v8.54 (32-bit) (must be run as the Administrator in order to delete entries from the registry)
* Microsoft (formerly Sysinternals) Process Explorer v10.21 (32-bit)
* Microsoft (formerly Sysinternals) Process Monitor v1.01 (32-bit)
* VisionWorks Solutions Inc. Vision Backup Home, Pro, Server, Server + MS SQL/Exchange.
* Piriform CCleaner v1.36.430
* RegCleaner Simple Registry cleaner with many useful functions.
* Raxco DiskState v3.21 (runs as 32-bit app under Vista x64)
* RegSeeker 1.52 - NOTE: A few cleaning functions may not work and registry keys backed up before deletion cannot always be restored!
* Registry Workshop V 3.0.0
* SlickRun v3.9.4.1
* Restoration v3.2.1
* SpeedFan (32-bit only)
* Startup Organizer 2.8.275
* System Information for Windows v1.65 (32-bit)
* System Mechanic 5.5 Professional
* Taskbar Shuffle v2.0 (32-bit)
* TreeSize Professional 3 and 4.1.1 [5]
* Unlocker v1.8.5 (32-bit)
* WinDirStat v1.1.2.79 (32-bit)
* Windows Washer 6.05
* Your Uninstaller! 2006

Video

* 1 Click DVD to DivX AVI
* Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
* Adobe After Effects 7.0
* Adobe Premiere 6.5
* Pinnacle Studio 9.3
* AllPlayer
* Amadis iPod PSP 3GP MP4 AVI Video Converter
* BS Player 2.11.940
* ConvertXtoDVD
* Cyberlink PowerDVD 6
* Cyberlink PowerDVD 7
* DVD Shrink 3.2
* DVDMaestro_v2.9.2915a (needs to be run as administrator - works, but Cinemaster playback drivers fail)
* Fake Webcam
* FastStone Image Viewer 2.8
* GOM Media Player
* Intervideo WinDVD 8.0.6.101 (both Gold and Platinum versions)
* JetAudio 6
* Logitech QuickCam Fushion ver 10.4.0, build 1401
* Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0
* MPlayer[6]
* Nokia Multimedia Player v6.82 (in Nokia PC Suite pack)
* Real Player
* Sony Vegas 7.0d
* Techsmith Camtasia Studio v4.0.0 (Full Program)- "Grate funtionality"
* Tivo Desktop 2.3a (Cannot see Tivo devices on the network)
* TMPGEnc-2.59.47.155-Plus(must be run as the Administrator)
* Total Video Converter
* TVUPlayer 2.3.0 (32-bit)
* Ulead DVD Movie Factory x86 & x64
* VDownloader 0.3 (also, extension of this program for Firefox)
* VirtualDub
* VirtualDubMod
* VirtualDub MPEG
* VSO ConvertXToDVD v2.1.4 Build 162
* WinAVI Video Converter V. 7.7
* Xilisoft Video Converter 3.1
* Zoom Player 5.0

Viewers

* ACDSee™ Pro 8.1.99 Photo Manager
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
* Adobe Flash Player 9.0.28
* Damn NFO Viewer 2.10.0032 RC3
* IrfanView v3.99 (Need to install as Administrator)
* Klipfolio 3.1
* Picasa

Virtual PC

* Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 RC
* Microsoft Virtual PC 2004
* Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 (need to install and run as Administrator, and install IIS manually)
* Parallels Workstation 2.2
* VMware Player v 1.0.3 (accept driver-warning during install / tested on Ultimate German)
* VMware Server v 1.0.1 (install/run as admin - mouse pointer doesn't point to correct locations if Font Size DPI has been resized away from the default of 96 DPI under Display preferences)
* VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client 2.0.1 (tested on Ultimate German)
* VMware Workstation 5.5.3
* VMware Workstation 6.0 Beta, Build 36983 (32/64 bit)

Web Development

* Bradbury TopStyle Lite 2.1 - Installs fine as user but must be run as administrator or it will crash.
* CreamSoft Pajaczek NxG 5.6.1
* Macromedia Homesite 5 - Installs fine as user but must be run as administrator or it will crash.
* Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0.2 - Installs fine as administrator and runs under user account with no problems.


Web Servers

* Abyss Web Server (version 2.4)
* Purplenova


Has problems, but they can be solved / minor unsolved

* Some of these programs may not have been tested in Windows XP compatibility mode-try it.


Academic

* Maple 9 - Successfully installed using Windows 2000 compatibility mode. When selecting network install and choosing a location for user preferences try typing in the network path manually. Still need to test full functionally of software but so far it starts up.


Admin

* Advanced Security Level 5.3 -- Not all options work, must be run as administrator


Audio

* Winamp v2.03 (in x32: config screens don't display correctly if Font Size DPI is set higher than the default setting)
* Winamp v5.32 (in x64: 5.1 Surround does not work, annoying Sonic Engine [PX.dll] message, DLL must be manually copied to progdir)


Backup

* SyncBackSE v4.1.1.0 32-bit. Minor issues with UAC and scheduling - workarounds available at their website FAQ's ( http://www.2brightsparks.com )


Bluetooth

* Toshiba Bluetooth Stack -- lots of security prompts during installation. Couldn't get Bluetooth Stereo (A2DP) working.
* BlueSoleil 2.3 VoIP Edition -- BSOD, Vista crashed at first start of program


CD/DVD Authoring

* Ahead Nero 6.6.1.4 (32-bit) (installs if you ignore Vista warnings but also causes Explorer crashes when viewing directories that have video files in them, as well as file copy/move operations - the Explorer crashes (COM Surrogate failures) can be corrected by making modifications to Nero specific merit values using DirectShow Filter Manager 0.5 (freeware) but the file copy/move operations cannot - surprisingly, a better solution is to install Nero inside a Windows XP virtual machine (ie. using VMWare Server) and let Nero burn discs from within the VM using the burner residing outside the VM in Vista - suprisingly, this works perfectly)
* UltraCopy 9.5 Premium Edition -- During the files are saving to system, an error message "FM20.dll, DllRegistryServer unsuccessfull, code 0x8002801C, accessing OLE registry" is received. Click "Ignore". The setup finishes and program works perfectly.


Developer Tools

* Cmenu 2.6 -- Must be installed/run as administrator
* PSPad editor v4.5.2 (32-bit) (you can download the latest BETA from the Developer Forum too)
* TortoiseSVN v1.4.1 (32-bit) (Overlay icons in explorer does not work)


Disk Management

* Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 Build 2117 (64-bit) - Driver signing enforcement must be disabled and must be run as the administrator


Email

* Last freeware version of Hotmail Popper
* Current version of YPops. Has issues with Yahoo verification but can work as long as it's not left resident in the System Tray.



Firewalls / IDS's

* COMODO Firewall Pro 2.4.5.111 BETA (32-bit) -- Seems to work fine despite warnings from Vista to the contrary during installation. Setup EXE file must be run in Windows XP compatibility mode.


Games

* Albatross18: Realms of Pangya (disable Application Compatibility Engine to run as game is still blacklisted by MS database; artifacts with nVidia display driver)
* Civilization IV (32-bit) - add "d3dx9_26.dll" to the install folder
* Flyff v1.3 (32-bit) - You need to run as admin.
* Maple Story (32-bit) - GameGuard Error 360: Right-click and choose Run As Administrator.
* Microsoft Best of Entertainment Pack (32-bit) - installation will crash, but all files do install and work properly without any further problems
* Max Payne v1.00 (This game sometimes cannot work/start the first level/open main menu under Windows XP and Vista. When Max Payne is loaded, the game crashes with an program error before main menu/before starting first level. But, this problem can be solved. The intro movie file of Max Payne " intro.mpg " is broken. Rename a .mpg file as " intro ", then copy it and overwrite with normal " intro.mpg ".)
* NCSoft City of Heroes - game installs and updates correctly under Vista X64 with nVidia v97.34 drivers, but no cursor is displayed with the mouse
* Sid Meier's Railroads! v1.1 - Game installs and runs but will frequently crash out to the desktop without warning. It is playable if you have patience with the crashes, and save often.
* Need for Speed: Carbon (With 98/ME Compatibility mode, must change compatibility for 2 files, NFSC.exe and Need for Speed Carbon_code.exe. Still crashes now and then for some people, EA yet to release a working patch for Vista, otherwise you can delete the MOVIES folder to run it without problems & without movies :D)
* SimCity 4 w/ expansion pack - some users reported this not working at all. (Note: A graphics card with pixel shader 2.0 and 64MB or higher memory may be necessary for this to function.)
* SouthPark Super Mario v2.1 (32-bit) - You need to disable the 'shift' sticky-key
* SpaceCowboy v0.3.3.44 (32-bit) - you need to run as admin
* War Rock (32-bit) - you need to run as admin


Graphics/Design

* Autodesk 3D Studio Max v9.0 (64 Bit) - Run with OpenGL as DirectX has issues rendering in viewports, Must be run as administrator and DDS issue :dxdds.bmi failed to initialize. Error code 998
* Corel X3 -- Can be installed as anyone, must be activated (first run) as administrator
* Jasc Paint Shop Pro 6.02 -- Installs without issue; however, upon starting, an error message stating that Windows "could not write to the registry" appears twice, and then the program runs normally.


Network, web servers, etc

* Apache 2.2.x + PHP 5.x and install with this instructions


Other

* Foxit PDF Reader v2.0 (32/64 bit) - printing under 64-bit causes immediate crash & You need to run as admin to run updates.
* MediaMan XL (32-bit) : go to the install directory and assign "run as admin" for the two .exe files. (MediManXL.exe & SreamloadService.exe)


Video Editing

* Subtitle Workshop v2.51 - The program exiting on video loading (some versions of directvobsub filter have compatibility issues, newest at least should work with subtitle workshop)


Viewers

* ACD See 9 - program launches correctly, but can't recognize new user document folders structure.

Path "C:\Users\Username\Pictures" is not recognized and nothing is shown. On the other hands, folder "C:\Documents and Settings" is still listed in folders view although is not present in Vista anymore. Pictures in another folders are shown correctly, so seems there is some hard link for user folder that can't be addressed properly.

Web Servers

* Apache Tomcat 6.0

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 6:11AM]

@Andrew Robinson
Thanks for the info but couldn't you link to this list? That's a shit load of scrolling.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 10:42PM]

My first impression of the Upgrade version of Vista is terrible!!! In previous versions of Windows you used to be able to use a so-called Upgrade version for a clean install (re-format the hard drive) of the new software simply by verifying that you owned a copy of the previous version through inserting that versions CD at the time of installation. The new requirements are that you must have the previous version installed in order to use the upgrade CD. Following is my personal experience.

My existing system had XP installed on a FAT32 partition. Vista required the partition to be NTFS formatted so I backed everything up and reformatted the drive using NTFS. Once I started the install of Vista, the software warned me that my product key was only good for upgrades, but still allowed me to proceed without the code. I figured I would get a chance to verify with the XP CD after install was done so proceeded with the installation. Once I got Vista installed and tried again to activate it, I got the same message saying that my code was only good for upgrades. I called tech support and they basically told me to go jump in a lake. The options they presented to me were to pay another $200 for a new activation code for the full version or; reformat the drive, install XP, install XP Service Pack 2, install upgraded version of Vista.

Basically, if you buy the Upgrade version of Vista and you need to do a clean install of Vista for any reason, you will be forced to... Install XP then Install XP Service Pack 2 then Install Vista. No more going from a newly formatted hard drive directly to the latest version. You can count on spending an extra hour or two to get Vista installed in this manner. WOW!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 31st 2007 11:52PM]

Audio driver is glitchy.
Graphics driver does not work.
Geforce 6200 AGP does not work properly.

USELESS! Damn I'm pissed.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 12:07PM]

* Does all your software work like before?

Yes. I'm already used to tailoring software for Windows Server 2003 so the odd issue was expected (e.g. Cygwin's sshd requires a different setup procedure to XP, as it does on Server 2003).

Game performance is mostly the same with the ones I've tried: GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, Quake 4, Half Life 2.

* Does all your hardware still function perfectly?

Yes. I was particularly impressed that my graphics drivers were updated and used without a reboot - a first for me on a Windows machine.

I was impressed by the number of devices that "just worked" when I plugged them in - e.g. an automatic process with Windows Update and drivers installed for me. Much more than with Windows XP.

I've already had the misfortune of a burn out in a Vista RTM box (took out graphics card and motherboard). I put the HDD into a new machine and watched it reinstall all the new drivers for me. The reinstallation process involved one reboot.

* Is it integrating with your network alright?

With other Vista and Windows XP Pro machines, yes. I'm having issues with a Samba server right now though - it hasn't been a high priority so I don't yet know how big/small the issue is with it.

Printing has been trouble free so far.

I haven't installed it on a laptop yet, so I can't comment on mobile networking.

* Did it put up a fuss joining your domain?

Haven't tried yet.

* What kinds of bugs are you seeing?

I've been using Vista in full anger in a production environment since early December (Visual Studio, Office 12, Cygwin, Java) and I haven't seen any issues with moving over to Vista.

Oh, I found a spelling mistake :)

--

One more measure of Vista is how my XP Pro laptop feels to me now. It feels empty and lacking in comparison.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 3:01PM]

Just installed 64bit Vista Ultimate last night. Install was quick and smooth, took about 30 minutes. I had C: Win Pro x64, D: DVD-Burner & E: 32Bit Win XP Pro. Formatted C: and instaled Vista there hoping the installer would see 32bit XP and automagically setup a boot menu like XP x64 did. It didn't. SO I will try and fix that tonight.

All hardware was automatically found except the onboard sound. I applied the current set of Windows Updates and 109megs later, was running smooth. WIth various patches it also installed some ATI drivers and the driver for my sound card. I download the latest Catalyst drivers from ATI and installed them. At first I was having trouble getting my 19" LCD to run at native 1280x1024, but found it was cloning the display to my HDTV (attached via DVI). Turned off the clone and waqs good to go.

It did not detect DDE correctly on my 32" LCD TV, but ATI Control Center worked great in forcing it to 1360x786 and it looks great. Moved Media Center over to that TV and set it up, it works very well.

I did find that is slugged a little bit here and there, but nothing too bad. I think I am going to have to upgrade the RAM for sure. I have 1GB right now. Gonna wait for my taxes. This computer is going to be mainly used for Media Center and to play games on. XBOX360 USB controller worked fine, XBOX HDDVD also worked, but I do not have any software to play HDDVD's yet. I do not think my computer is fast enough to chew on VC1 codec.

Anyway for day 1, so far I am very pleased. Kudo's to microsoft. Tonight I am going to see what games work and don't.

Specs: (Nothing overclocked)

AMD Athlon x64 3500+
nForce 4 MSI K8N Neo4-F Mobo
PCIe ATI Radeon X1900XT
2x512 (1GB) DDR400 ULL CAS 2,2,2,5
Seagate SATA "Cuda" 7200.7 160GB system drive
+ WD 250GB UATA,
+ Seagate Cuda 80GB 7200.7 &
+ New Seagate Cuda 7200.10 SATAII 300 installing tonight.

- Kiteless

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 9:06PM]

My Plextor TV-402u NA Video Capturing Device does not function in Windows Vista :( There are no drivers for this to make it work in Vista :(

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 9:07PM]

My Plextor TV-402u NA ConvertX Video Capturing device does not work in Vista and there are no drivers available for it :(

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 9:07PM]

My Plextor TV-402u NA ConvertX Video Capturing device does not work in
Vista and there are no drivers available for it :(

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 1st 2007 10:33PM]

With a few minor exceptions, all of my software works as it did under XP. I was even pleased that my Microtek i900 scanner and my old Olympus P-400 dye-sub printers came through unharmed as well...despite being labeled 'incompatible' by the Upgrade Advisor.
The only piece of hardware that I particularly bought for Vista was my graphics card. I wanted something to take advantage of the new graphics environment and so I got the ATI All in Wonder X1900...which is the same as the Radeon X1900 except that it has a TV tuner. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that the TV tuner is not recognised by Vista's Media Center...or by the actual ATI TV software either any more. All ATI could tell me was "All-In-Wonder boards operate with AMD's Windows Vista-Ready display drivers under the Windows Vista Operating System.
However there are currently no software applications which provide TV/Capture functionality for All-In-Wonder Boards under Windows Vista." Thanks a bunch for not telling me BEFORE I bought an expensive video card that was labeled as Vista compatible. I had an old ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 adapter which is recognised by Vista as a TV tuner but is incapable of producing viewable video or audio. I am told that there will be no software to correct this until at LEAST mid-2007. This is the fault of ATI...AMD...rather than Vista however.