Thread 107094578

Windows Vista 32-bit was not useless at least.

Scenario: got some rare components with up to no good XP drivers. Then there will be Vista drivers. Concerns hardware made only through 2007 to 2009 because in 2010 the manufacturers started to go for Win7 and started to support XP again after seeing Vistas failure in marketshare.

Okay but what about software?

Games.

All Windows games from 2005 to 2010 will run great. If games have DVD ROM copy protection scheme and if you have the original DVDs to play it, Vista is your platform.

Windows 10 DOES NOT support DVD SECUROM protection. Games will not work. You need to find patched or re-released games who lost their SECUROMs. Most games did, probably.

With Vista you run any 32-bit Windows XP software unless it needs XP specific drivers.

64-bit Vista is a disaster though, don't try it.

i did for a while because a prebuilt family came oem vista
it worked fine for most software from what i remember
didn't use for very long though, installed slackware on it
slackware was cool back then

we had a windows xp at home that I played lots of games with, but some would run poorly, like the nintendo ds emulator, then my mom got a windows vista laptop from her work, and she let me use it to see how it is, but not install new games, just play the ones that are already there. I played that cake making game a little, then made a hidden folder with the ds emulator, so I'd sneak in and play on it while she was sleeping, I played a lot of animal crossing and a bunch of random roms i downloaded. I had an actual ds but I didn't have a flashcard, so testing games on emulators before buying was a good strategy.
I know everyone remembers vista as being a shit OS, but I still have fond memories of it being fast and futuristic. I think I still have that laptop somewhere around here.

>>107094578 (OP)
I remember installing it back in a day just to revert back to XP.
It did not do anything meaningful XP couldn't do, but was chomping quite a bunch of system resources and more hard drive space. I also vaguely recall some vendor GPUs having driver issues on Vista, although I was not directly affected, it did scare away quite a bunch of people.
It probably does not deserve all the hate it got, but at the time the hardware encumbrance it was giving simply outweighed any potential benefits. Plus Win7 launched 3 years later properly addressing all the negative feedback and by that time the hardware performance also caught up to handle Aero properly.

>>107094578 (OP)
Used it, loved it. Having hardware accelerated GUI was an incredible step up from the tearing crap that was the win95 - winxp GDI based UI.

At launch Vista had some retarded bugs, like file copying having abysmal speeds, but it got ironed out quick. Used to dual boot but then I realized I'm no longer using XP so switched to Vista full time.
Had to deal with nVidia not releasing nForce3 chipset drivers for Vista, so Socket 939 boards bluescreened on the performance test during install. You could kinda sorta get it working if you forced the WinXP drivers on, but if you used a Radeon card or a dual core CPU, it perma bluescreened even then. Which sucks because the top of the line setup at the time was S939 A64 X2 + Radeon x1950 Pro. Had to get a Via chipset motherboard so I could use it, but it was worth it.

Later on I had to deal with the fact that you couldn't straight up upgrade from 32bit to 64bit Windows, you had to manually migrate your account data if it was possible.

>>107095013
>I also vaguely recall some vendor GPUs having driver issues on Vista,

Nvidia had shit driver support at the beginning, they advertised having the first DX10 cards, they just didn't ship with Vista drivers.

>>107094578 (OP)
Vista, XP, 98. Used them all
t. Gen Z chad

vista sp0 on fujitsu siemens laptop, sp1 would not install at all

>>107095038
What's with these 2IQ poojeet marketing shills trying to shoehorn in their project placement into unrelated threads? For instance, some retard will start babbling about how his 8th gen system felt sluggy in a retarded "b-but muh babyducks", "b-but muh updooter" shitflinging thread about which version of Windows is best, just to end it with "maybe I'm just used to my <marketing name for a crapple product>"

We all know nvidia wasn't the first to market with scuffed drivers. Ignore the first to market given a new API statement, who exactly does "rushed" and "broken drivers" bring to mind? Which vendor is infamous for shitty drivers that never work as expected? Who exactly was first to market with D3D10 and D3D11 cards again? How much of a success was the HD5870 at launch given a minor version bump to FL10_1?/11 What was its' issues again? How did the first FL10_0 card ~HD2000 run compared to the GT 8800?

We're still not buying your $140 APU, pajeetria. Fuck off.

>>107094578 (OP)
I used it even after Windows 7 released, dunno what all the hate was about, I still have it installed on an old laptop used for old games.
But then again, I used Windows 8.1 as well and liked it, I still think 8.1 clears W10, W7 and W11 in terms of raw speed.
Maybe there's something wrong with me idk

>>107094578 (OP)
I used Vista SP1 in 2008 with a Core 2 Duo and 8800 GT.
It was actually perfectly fine. What I don't remember is if it was 32 or 64 bit version. In any case I did upgrade to Windows 7 later and it was also fine. But I didn't understand why people thought it was so much better. It was more of the same.

>>107094578 (OP)
used xp,vista,7
have really fond memories of vista or vista themed XP
so much so i themed my win10 to be vista beta

Nobody wants to play the orignal discs, NoCD patches are like 20 years older than vista

>>107094578 (OP)
Vista was fine on SSD. On spinning disks it sucked, hard.

>>107095241
8/8.1 were slimmed down to run on slow tablets. It caught shit for forcing a retarded tablet UI on everyone so people downgraded to Win7.
With a different UI I suppose it's a good gayman OS for an oldish clunker.

>>107095810
Not true, i've seen it on laptops with crappy hard drives and it was fine
It's with 10 that windows became unusable on spinning drives

>>107094578 (OP)
It was great on modern (for the time) hardware. The Vista hate comes from dipshits upgrading their XP machines to it and people who didn't like how aggressive UAC was in the beginning (that one's valid.) Windows 7 was just Vista SP3 and it's loved.

>>107094578 (OP)
No, that's the only Windows version I never installed for whatever reason. Went straight to 7 from XP once I built a new PC.

As a kid.

every OS i've ever used has been shit and garbage and i've used damn near all of them. as for vista, windows has always been the same consistent level of infuriatingly sucky. any more stupid threads and discussions you all want to have?

vista wasn't that bad and I used it for years. same with windows 8
honestly the only os I regret being early on was windows 10, I reverted back after a while because it was so buggy and even used linux for a while

>>107096215
My old laptop runs like ass on both W10 and W7 so I use 10 anyway.

Vista was the transition point from 32-bit to 64-bit for the vendor and users alike. XP did have a 64-bit version but driver availability was very sparse, only during Vista's core years did most manufacturers start issuing 64-bit drivers, and even then it was common to have 32-bit installs with 4Gb of memory that could only actually see ~3.5Gb of it.
IIRC Vista was the first time there was a hardware 3d requirement (to use the aero interface) and that was pretty popular bling for vendors to support so a lot of shoddy barely-capable 3d hardware was included on units.
Windows consumer OS line has been following the Star Trek movie rules for a long time. 98 was great, ME sucked, XP was great, Vista sucked, 7 was great, 8 sucked, 10 was great, 11 sucked

>>107094578 (OP)
Used a pre-built that came with Vista, it was just bad. Much worse than my XP experience.
Eventually installed W7 on it. Which was really mid - much better than Vista, but still not a good OS.

>>107094578 (OP)
yeah, I did, it was cool but by the time I started using it I had already being caught by loonix

>64-bit Vista is a disaster though, don't try it.
It is not, Vista was made from the ground up to support 64-bit. Driver support was just not there yet as most vendors only supported 32-bit

>>107094578 (OP)
I liked Vista, I had dual AMD K8 2.7GHz and 4 gigs of RAM and crappy integrated graphics but the aero ran.

Yeah. Was beautiful, with plenty of BSODs. Got killed by my antivirus software. Good times.

>>107097588
you are the most retarded person in this thread

>>107094578 (OP)
that nail looks painful

Vista just worked if you had a WDDM capable GPU and updated drivers. Most normies had pre WDDM GPU and the default Windows Update drivers were meant for XP.

>>107094578 (OP)
I only installed it for this shit back in the day

>>107094578 (OP)
I did and it was great. If you had what was modern hardware at the time, Vista worked great.

>>107096215
Win 10 runs better on a HDD than win 7 ever did.

I used Windows Vista on an Acer Aspire 5315 and it ran fine with full Aero.
I used Vista all the way up until 2010, when I upgraded to 7, then 8.1 in 2014.

Vista and 8.1 remain my favorite Windows versions post 2000 and NT4.

>>107097647
>Windows consumer OS line has been following the Star Trek movie rules for a long time
how convenient of you to skip 8.1
11 OOTB is garbage if you're using the consumer versions. If you're using the LTSC Enterprise ones then it's fine, mostly. Still a resource hog compared to 10, but 10 in and of itself was also a resource hog.
>>107103334
what is the point of lying about things as trivial as this

>>107094578 (OP)
Yeah, it was pre-installed on the Toshiba satellite I got for my birthday one year.

Worked fine, used that laptop for 8 years trouble-free until the barrel charger just wouldn't connect at any angle. I have very fond memories of Vista, even as I was using it alongside my Win7 tower towards the end.

I'm sure it was more frustrating for people who upgraded with hardware which couldn't run the GUI.

>>107103334
why the fuck would you even care or run windows on a hdd

>>107103334
Maybe if you only use one application at a time, otherwise it would always trash the hdd and lock-up on every computer i've seen

>>107095018
Classic windows was hardware accelerated, Vista actually removed the hardware acceleration from the GUI.

I remember the trial version. You could only have 4 windows open, as in, 4 instances of the file explorer open, at any given time.