Windows Vista

plusEVdg · #1 04-09-2007, 03:36 PM

I am in the process of building myself a PC and I found myself able to get a free copy of Windows Vista Premium. If I had to buy an OS, I would stick to XPsp2.

If I go with Vista Premium, should I expect any problems with:

Poker Tracker/PAHUD
Poker Stars
Party Poker
Full Tilt
iTunes/iPod
Downloading pirated movies or TV via Torrent software

Anything else I should be worried about? I'm kind of poor, but if any of these are going to show real problems, I'll just pay the $135 for XP media centre...

Thoughts please

Split Suit · #2 04-09-2007, 04:10 PM

no real issues with other programs. however, the OS uses more resources than XP, so make sure u have lots of RAM. other than that...decent OS overall. just as long as u turn off that UAC crap

plusEVdg · #3 04-09-2007, 04:30 PM

Oh, for the record, this is the system I have priced out for myself - is a pentium D good enough to handle everything??

CAN Pentium Dual Core Elite System Adjust System
$645.14 $645.14
Intel Pentium D 915 2.8GHz Dual-Core Skt 775
ASRock 775i65G LGA 775 Core2 Duo Intel 865G Dual Channel DDR400 AGP 8X Motherboard
Advance 2GB 667MHz PC5300 DDR2 DIMM Dual Channel (2x1GB)
Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA-2 Hard Drive 7200RPM 16MB Cache
LG GDR-8164 16x DVD-ROM Black
LG GSA-H50N DVD Writer 18x +/- DVD-RW Black OEM
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9250 256MB DDR Dual Dis TVO 128-bit AGP8x
6 Channel Stereo audio on-board
CAN 1285B ATX Case w/ 450W PSU Black
Full Assembly, Torture Testing, 1 year Parts & 3yr labour System Warranty

Split Suit · #4 04-09-2007, 08:32 PM

sry, i dont kno enuff about the actual nitty-gritty of it to give good advice. gl with it tho

PerDoom · #5 04-10-2007, 08:17 AM

If you use ahk scripts, don't get vista.

johnnyrocket · #6 04-10-2007, 11:20 AM

o god, i hope u didnt get vista yet. I turned off everything with it and talked forever with customer service for windows and they finally told me its just not compatible with pokerstars and so long story short i cant downgrade, u need to wait a new version and i cant play stars on it, super beat. If somehow u are a computer god who got around this let me know.

plusEVdg · #7 04-10-2007, 12:02 PM

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they finally told me its just not compatible with pokerstars

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WTF can anyone else confirm this?

muxplust · #8 04-10-2007, 01:54 PM

stars told me they are compatible with vista

BradleyT · #9 04-10-2007, 03:50 PM

Stars works fine on vista.

Makemegood · #10 04-10-2007, 03:58 PM

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If you use ahk scripts, don't get vista.

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why not?? It works.......... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]