Vista Users: How has stability been? | The Coffeehouse

tgraupmann
tgraupmann

I read on the MSDN subscription page that Vista SP1 will be available in Q1.

typemismatch

I did go ahead and upgrade - inplace, no choice really - it fixed my bsod problems but the overall process took some 12+ straight hours of upgrading/patching/finding drivers etc.

Now I'm in a update loop. Since I had .NET 1.1 - the SP1 for that won't install but it forces updates on reboots/shutdowns and for some reason will bsod after about 5-10 minutes of trying so I had to disable updates otherwise I blue screen on every reboot heh ... yay

oh and you can't uninstall .net 1.1 - pretty pathetic that its still an issue.

dentaku

All my hardware was found and it's all worked fine since I installed it this Summer. I haven't seen a blue screen in Vista and I don't remember the last time I saw one in XP either. My biggest stability problems have been with DVD Maker and Media Center crashing when opening DivX files but un-installing DivX and using FFDSHOW instead fixed that.

It feels weird when I use XP now because it just seems old fashioned.

typemismatch

I would like to add that Vista is nice and smooth under load compared with XP. I like clicking on windows and they just appear no matter what.

kettch

typemismatch wrote:
I would like to add that Vista is nice and smooth under load compared with XP. I like clicking on windows and they just appear no matter what.

Indeed. I didn't used to be able to push XP as far as I can Vista. I often find myself running 4+ instances of Visual Studio 2008, IE, Outlook, etc... and it still hums along. This all on an AthlonXP 2800+ and 2 gigs of ram. I think the ram helps a lot, because the processor isn't doing my any good.

leeappdalecom
.nettter

I got my first blue screen last night while resuming from sleep Sad

dentaku

Another thing I noticed right away with Vista is that I can download multiple large torrents and it doesn't slow down anything. In XP the torrents will eat up all my bandwidth after many hours of downloading no matter which torrent client I use.

harumscarum
out of memory

I recently upgraded back to XP from Vista. I plan on going back to Vista after sp1. Games play much better now on XP then they did on Vista.

tgraupmann
tgraupmann

My stability improved 100% after I messed with the BIOS ram timings.

2 operations per clock cycle was the big important one, for some reason...

I have not experienced a BSOD in 24 hours.

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tgraupmann
tgraupmann

Update:

I have not experienced a BSOD in 16 days.

I'm using Vista Ultimate 64-bit. And it is nice.

My original issue was BIOS configurable ram timings and voltage.

How can an OS detect misconfigred options like this? (auto) settings are bad.

cescotto

leeappdalecom wrote:
I got my first blue screen last night while resuming from sleep

In real life they we call them 'nightmares' [6]

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

My friend got one of those $700 toshiba laptops (core 2) from Best Buy the other day. I was not expecting much as I have used vista before at work (have not converted my laptop yet because of HD space - I need to clean up). However, it blew me away how responsive and snapy it was and was still only 1gb ram. Naturally it was new without a lot of crud installed yet. core 4 with 2gb ram, 10K rpm HDD and Vista will be my next purchase for sure.

Kevin Daly
Of course it *looks* like my nick is just my name, but actually, well, it's just my name.

Mine's been fine.

tgraupmann
tgraupmann

I finally figured out my Vista Ultimate 64-bit networking issues.

Apparently, the netgear app that manages network connections is bad. I disabled it and let Vista manage the network connections.

And now I can remote desktop from afar into my Vista desktop.

With the netgear software running, it was disabling the network connection.

Quite handy when I'm 29 miles away and cannot access the box.

So just as similar stories have cropped out that 20% of Vista issues were because of NVidia drivers, I'd say a big percentages of my issues were because of Netgear.

wisemx
Live it

Works perfectly for me.
As I stated in another thread here the only problem has been my Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic card.

alwaysmc2
It's not stupid; It's advanced!

I'll just add my vote that it has been great. I have a custom-built desktop and an HP tablet PC.
I love the great driver support. I can plug just about anything into a Vista machine and have the device work, usually without even the machine consulting Windows Update.