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Miss Anthropy
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Posted - 2007.07.01 18:44:00 -
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Edited by: Miss Anthropy on 01/07/2007 18:43:55
As far as I can tell, Vista behaves differently on everyone's computer. For example; DVD's (bog standard ones, not Blu-Ray or HD-DVD) are grainy when I play them on Vista if I use them on anything other than Media Centre. I've tried playing them on PowerDVD, WinDVD and Zoom Player and they always look pixelated and grainy. This was actually my main reason for switching back to XP. No one else I've spoken to has had this problem. I'm guessing Vista probably thinks my 19 inch CRT monitor isn't good enough for it.
MP3's on the other hand, played fine on my Vista install. Your best option is to hunt around on tech forums to see what you can come up with.
NERF AMARR!
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Miss Anthropy
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Posted - 2007.07.01 22:28:00 -
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 Originally by: Reiisha
The problems you are experiencing are caused by the Vista copy protection services and programs...
DVD's are grainy on anything else than Media Center because 'Vista can't insure they're genuine, so it downgrades the image'. MP3's might be skipping a lot because Vista is trying to check whether the file is 'genuine' or not.
In short:
Congratulations for buying Vista! Have fun with your piece of junk while Microsoft installs yet another golden toilet in their offices.
So basically Microsoft have put all DVD Decoder programs (such as WinDVD, Cyberlink PowerDVD, etc) out of business with Vista. If I was one of them I'd sue Microsoft. They've put yet more competition out of business. Of course, they'll use Hollywood pressure as their excuse.
NERF AMARR!
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Miss Anthropy
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Posted - 2007.07.02 13:05:00 -
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Originally by: Spaced Skunk
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Just upgrade to Windows XP, that'll solve your problems generally.
Biggest upgrade ever. 
I've had Vista, and upgraded to XP. Lost like 50, 60% of my fps in games, even on DX10 card.
Only realised other day Microsoft expect Vista only gamers to subscribe to the Microsoft Live service, the one on XBOX360.
I'm pretty sure that PC Gamer did a write-up about this a few months back saying that there would be two types of Microsoft Live membership (Silver and Gold, or something like that). One option is free and the other isn't. The only difference between the two is that you can play rated tournaments on the paid subscription.
Still, it doesn't bode too well. Multiplayer gaming use to be exclusively free (not including MMOG subscription based games of course). Now Microsoft wade in and, as usual, feck things up and try to make a profit to boot.
NERF AMARR!
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.07.03 07:15:00 -
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Originally by: cRaNbErRy MuFfInMaN
vista and eve with teamspeak dont work for a corp m8 of mine so he uninstalled.
Uninstalled what? Vista or EVE?
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.07.03 20:41:00 -
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Originally by: Cypherous
Not had any issues not even with my "questionable" music collection everything played fine, you do meet the minimum reqs for vista i presume?
I would recommend 2GB of RAM at the least for vista as its a tad bloated :P
They're selling some laptops in PC World (UK) with as little as 512MB of RAM; and these are Vista laptops. It's ridiculous. Windows XP finds 512MB a struggle sometimes. I'd hate to try and run Vista on that little memory.
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Miss Anthropy
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Posted - 2007.07.04 13:43:00 -
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Originally by: Patch86
Originally by: Cypherous
Not had any issues not even with my "questionable" music collection everything played fine, you do meet the minimum reqs for vista i presume?
I would recommend 2GB of RAM at the least for vista as its a tad bloated :P
Which is funny really. Half of the people with real authentic purchased content are getting royally molested by the DRM measures, while people with less than legal content aren't even getting buzzed.
Congrats on another successful deployment, Microsoft! 
Yeah, this makes me angry. I've had more trouble with DRM stuff than I used to do with pirated stuff back in my student days. I've got iTunes songs I can't get back again, and my DVD's play **** in Vista. It's not the pirates who get hurt by DRM controls; it's the genuine users. This goes for games too. Genuine gamers have to suffer the likes of StarForce or whatever it's called.
It's about time software developers took their heads out their butts and stepped over to our side of the field because it sure ain't greener here.
NERF AMARR!
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2007.07.06 21:23:00 -
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Originally by: Derovius Vaden
Originally by: Praetorian Lolzor
I like Vista, other than it freezing twice a day.
My first computer (that was mine alone, and not the families) had Windows ME on it. It crashed, literally, after each game I played when I exited. Later I learned that ME had a run-time life of about 8 hours, while windows NT had a run life of about 2 months, XP has a life of about 2 weeks and a UNIX server technically never needs to restart.
And by run-life, I mean stability in the stack; so ME's stack became so buggered up that it became inoperable after 8 hours. Thats pathetic. Now we have ME 2, with ~12 hour life? Wow, 4 hours, thanks Microsoft.
I'm not being sarcastic here but am I the only one on the planet left who switches off my computer after I'm finished? It can't be good for a computer to be left on constantly. I know my brother in law downloads tonnes of junk via torrent when he goes to bed, but then his computer gets fecked up every few months because it collapses under his growing virus collection.
OMG! Some orange text. It must be important.
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