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GazaUnit
SonOfSteven
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Posted - 2007.07.01 18:30:00 -
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I have been experiencing an odd problem with Vista and Microsoft has been no help, so maybe one of you guys knows whats up; I cannot get mp3s to play smoothly with Vista. It seems to take about 20 seconds for WMP to load them up and then every song skips at about 30 seconds from the end. I have tried the Zune player too, and the results are the same. If anyone has ANY idea how to fix this it would be great.
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UPA Terf
DEATH'S LEGION
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Posted - 2007.07.01 18:32:00 -
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iTunes..works fine on my vista..so does playing them through limewire
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Benco97
Gallente
Multiverse Corporation
The Core Collective
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Posted - 2007.07.01 18:40:00 -
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Have you done an upgrade to vista?
Check your Audio drivers and codecs, i'm sure DS can provide you with a link to the codec pack, he does love giving it out ^^
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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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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Basileus
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Posted - 2007.07.01 19:36:00 -
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Christ I like micro$oft! They can stick Vista somewhere the sun don't shine. What an utter pile of crap. Micro$oft FTL!!
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Reiisha
Splint Eye Probabilities Inc.
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Posted - 2007.07.01 19:56:00 -
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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.
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Basil Vytali
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.07.01 20:27:00 -
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That's why your not supposed to buy new platforms until the bugs are fixed  |
Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.07.01 20:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Basileus
Christ I like micro$oft! They can stick Vista somewhere the sun don't shine. What an utter pile of crap. Micro$oft FTL!!
Im sorry.. are you angry at them for wanting to make money? 
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GazaUnit
SonOfSteven
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Posted - 2007.07.01 21:30:00 -
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I didn't buy Vista, it came back with my laptop after I sent it in for repairs, everything is up to date, and I really just wanna be able to play music without a delay, skipping, or using Itunes. This is the only issue I have had with Vista, everything else seems fine. I really have no complaints, except this. I will keep searching tech forums, but you guys seem to be just as smart, and I don't get the "OMFG why doesn't he know this stuff already" treatment that I get on some of the tech forums. So if anyone knows ANYTHING about fixing it I would greatly appreciate it.
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Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.07.01 21:33:00 -
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Ive had this problem on XP... a while ago on my laptop i think, so if your searching specifically for vista problems it might not come up! I don't know what it was though, had to send it away because of some other problems.
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Benco97
Gallente
Multiverse Corporation
The Core Collective
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Posted - 2007.07.01 21:39:00 -
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actaully now that it's been mentioned I too have had this problem but not with vista, an xp install was doing this.. i'm almost positive that when I updated my codecs it was sorted..
try this I hope it helps
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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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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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.01 22:50:00 -
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Originally by: Reiisha
Congratulations for buying Vista! Have fun with your piece of junk while Microsoft installs yet another golden toilet in their offices.
How many golden toilets do you need in one office?
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lofty29
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.07.01 22:54:00 -
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Try running everything in XP compatability mode?
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Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.07.01 22:59:00 -
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Edited by: Mtthias Clemi on 01/07/2007 23:00:45
My second screen happens to also be a DVD player... and well.. i cant honestly tell the difference between playing it on vista and the dvd player! Am i missing something? 
EDIT: Also, wouldn't a gold toilet be very, very cold?
Do you know any companies that don't want to make money? No.. you don't.. because if they didn't want to make money.. they probably wouldn't be a company..
Oh no! i had to pay for something, wa wa wa wa wa wa wa, you all sound like hydraxian...
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Calisto Cody
Minmatar
The Black Swan Society
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Posted - 2007.07.01 23:16:00 -
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I have to fix something with -norton- on my mothers laptop which has vista, *cries* the combination boggles my mind
Originally by: subvert
Originally by: Pwny McPwnerson
I would not put a bounty on a washing machine, for instance.
if your washing machine was going around killing people you would
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Reiisha
Splint Eye Probabilities Inc.
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Posted - 2007.07.01 23:18:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Anthropy
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.
Not exactly. They just have to pay MS to get 'authorization' to play HD content, otherwise Vista just defaults to unprotected mode which downgrades the quality of what you're trying to play.
Vista sucks. I've seen articles of people who can't play their home videos at all because Vista can't find the licence for it, thinks it's copied copyrighted material and blocks it out.
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GazaUnit
SonOfSteven
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Posted - 2007.07.02 00:04:00 -
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Edited by: GazaUnit on 02/07/2007 00:03:13
RAWR!!!! The "run it in XP compatibility mode" did it. THANK YOU VERY MUCH Lofty29 and everyone else who had ideas!!!!
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Tiaen
Gallente
Hammer Of Light
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Posted - 2007.07.02 01:43:00 -
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Originally by: Reiisha
Congratulations for buying Vista! Have fun with your piece of junk while Microsoft installs yet another golden toilet in their offices.
Had it since shortly after launch and I haven't had a single problem with Vista. Well worth my money, for sure. Everything works well and most things work considerably better/faster than with XP. Well, there is all that "allow this and that" stuff, I guess. But, other than that, its way more efficient and stable than XP ever was...so far, anyway. Plus, unlike on XP, the Zune software actually works for me on Vista, lol.
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Logi3
Veto.
Veto Corp
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Posted - 2007.07.02 09:24:00 -
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Vista works great here too. Nice and fast and smooth to boot. I was going to suggest a driver update GAzza, but im guessing you prob already did that. Well, atleast you got it working any way :)
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Dark Shikari
Caldari
Imperium Technologies
Firmus Ixion
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Posted - 2007.07.02 09:40:00 -
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Just upgrade to Windows XP, that'll solve your problems generally.
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Spaced Skunk
Buffed Rumpuss Zit Dids
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Posted - 2007.07.02 10:24:00 -
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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.
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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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.
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Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.07.02 13:59:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
Just upgrade to Windows XP, that'll solve your problems generally.
Are you just ignoring the fact that people have said they have had this problem in XP as well?
Vista works fine for the majority of users, get used to it :P
also, hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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JoDirt
Minmatar
House of Geezer
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Posted - 2007.07.02 15:35:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
Just upgrade to Windows XP, that'll solve your problems generally.
I'm rather disappointed in your response. I was expecting:
Originally by: Dark Shikari
Just upgrade to [Insert Linux flavor], that'll solve your problems generally.
DS a xp fan boy, never would have guessed.
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cRaNbErRy MuFfInMaN
mUfFiN fAcToRy
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Posted - 2007.07.03 00:32:00 -
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vista and eve with teamspeak dont work for a corp m8 of mine so he uninstalled.
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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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mamolian
M. Corp
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.07.03 08:45:00 -
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Originally by: cRaNbErRy MuFfInMaN
vista and eve with teamspeak dont work for a corp m8 of mine so he uninstalled.
Suffering from the same **** here.. If the Ventrilo or TS client is not highlighted.. the push to talk button ceases to function..
Its not just with Eve running either.. I've seen it happen with several games on Vista.
I'm still ****ed off about them stopping support for 2k! I hate xp too!
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Invader Skooge
Minmatar
Wildlands Heavy Technologies
FOUNDATI0N
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Posted - 2007.07.03 11:27:00 -
[29]
Use Winamp - Problem solved
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Chi Quan
Jade Phoenix Deutschland
Event-Horizon
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Posted - 2007.07.03 12:25:00 -
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seriously, there are too may problems aroud with vista, tech support ppl are getting headaches. face it, vista only works unless you dont change a iota on your pc. and this is a faulty concept, pcs are and were taylored to and by the user. limiting this simply wrong.
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you have a problem with ms making money?
no, i don't have any problem with any corporation making money, it's the WAY HOW they make it, i'm not happy with. ms stated nowhere in the normal avarage joe ads or advertises that drm or the other security stuff may cause things to malfunction, or even worse play with downgraded performance. does a warning display when vista cannot find a license and dongrades? i think not. so it deliberately hides that fact.
i tried to explain to someone who is a normal USER why drm may caus troubble, he said two things:
- stop this thee-letter-high-tech-stuff
- i put a dvd in my pc and push play, like a video cassete, why sould it not work if the disk is ok?
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vista is fast
if you want to see fast install win95 on a pentium4.
have you seen performance benchmarks for vista on laptops? they are not good, especially the power consumpion is worse than xp.
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if you dont like vista, just don't install
did that, yet the cache folder of eve moved with the last patch beacuse of vista compatibilty. for everybody, so it still affects me even if i deliberatly "stay away from it"
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mamolian
M. Corp
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.07.03 15:45:00 -
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Originally by: Chi Quan
Quote:
if you dont like vista, just don't install
did that, yet the cache folder of eve moved with the last patch beacuse of vista compatibilty. for everybody, so it still affects me even if i deliberatly "stay away from it"
C:\EVE\eve.exe /end /LUA:OFF
add the " /end /LUA:OFF" to the end of the eve.exe shortcut on your desktop. Not 100% sure, but may require a fresh reinstall of the client to prevent the migration of that folder.
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Posted - 2007.07.03 16:16:00 -
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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.
Doesnt it give you a warm fuzzy feeling to know that artists and music labels are so insecure and paranoid about their income that they employ "protection" software for maybe the 5% of the population that activly views ripped material and it screws up everything for the rest of us? Ah yes, if they dont protect their already insane income they wont be able to count their money on the back of a fifteen hundred a day hooker every night!
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Mari Onette
Amarr
Gottland Production Transport Mines
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Posted - 2007.07.03 19:00:00 -
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Originally by: GazaUnit
I didn't buy Vista, it came back with my laptop after I sent it in for repairs.
Call tech support back up and demand they give you a real OS back. They should be able to send you recovery CD's for XP.
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Cypherous
Minmatar
Liberty Rogues
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.07.03 20:18:00 -
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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
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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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Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.07.03 21:12:00 -
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Maybe I wouldn't hate Vista so much if Microsoft wasn't getting all Gestapo'ish with their suppliers about forcing new systems to use Vista. Give people the goddamn choice, if Vista is the bee's-knee's, then it will be an easy sell. If its a piece of ****, atleast people are still buying XP, and you're still making some money.
What was that? Vista has all these spiffy new 3D desktops and useless crap that literate PC users don't give a crap about when it comes to a toss up between performance and eye-candy?  Stop idiot proofing the system, and train the sheep.
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Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.07.03 23:09:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Anthropy
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.
Hah, my Computing teacher only has 256 ram, i laughed at him
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.03 23:29:00 -
[38]
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!
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Cypherous
Minmatar
Liberty Rogues
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.07.04 02:31:00 -
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Originally by: Mtthias Clemi
Originally by: Miss Anthropy
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.
Hah, my Computing teacher only has 256 ram, i laughed at him
hehe tell him the rest of the computing world laughs at his tiny ermmm RAM :P
TBH i think most of my Vista issues stem from my RAM possibly being completely screwed over, its had 2 PSU's pop in it so far and it still boots amazingly however under vista it likes to randomly hang to the point that everything falls apart and under XP it just says "Feckit somethings wrong here have a 0x0F4 error :P" gonna have to run memtest at some point but i'm hoping its just a single dodgy stick although i have 4 to test :(
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Praetorian Lolzor
Amarr
Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2007.07.04 10:28:00 -
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I like Vista, other than it freezing twice a day.
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Chi Quan
Jade Phoenix Deutschland
Event-Horizon
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Posted - 2007.07.04 11:23:00 -
[41]
Originally by: mamolian
C:\EVE\eve.exe /end /LUA:OFF
add the " /end /LUA:OFF" to the end of the eve.exe shortcut on your desktop. Not 100% sure, but may require a fresh reinstall of the client to prevent the migration of that folder.
been there, done that, unfortunately this moves only the cache folder back, NOT the screenshots or (market)logs.
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Miss Anthropy
School of Applied Knowledge
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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.
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Thotam
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Posted - 2007.07.05 09:59:00 -
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Bought a new computer and running vista ultimate on it, had a lot of problem during the inital parts of the install where windows claimed my bios was not acpi compatible or something like that.
I have a bunch of mp3's but there copied from my own originals, works okey with the mediaplayer, haven't tried eve yet but can run wow, anarchy online just fine, even 2 sessions at once.
Using rather high end hardware in this computer that might help i guess, amd 5600+, 4gb ram and nvidia 8800GTX graphics card and 2 750gb disks.
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Chi Quan
Jade Phoenix Deutschland
Event-Horizon
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Posted - 2007.07.06 12:32:00 -
[44]
Originally by: Thotam
Using rather high end hardware...
offset the manufacurers inability to make a decent product by spending more money yourself? now that's not very logical.
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Tobias Sjodin
Ore Mongers
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.07.06 15:29:00 -
[45]
if EVE was developed by Microsoft, post-patch day issues would last for 2+ years.
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Kahani
Transcendent Innovations Incorporated
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Posted - 2007.07.06 16:27:00 -
[46]
Originally by: Tobias Sjodin
if EVE was developed by Microsoft, post-patch day issues would last for 2+ years.
And they would stop supporting the "old version" before all the known issues were fixed in an attempt to force an even worse product down your throat.
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Posted - 2007.07.06 16:39:00 -
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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.
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Hydraxian
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.07.06 17:19:00 -
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I think i used ME for approx 36hours before wiping my HD and reinstalling 98. But still XP ftw.... although im considering going for Vista on the shiny laptop im planning to buy 
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Derovius Vaden
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Posted - 2007.07.06 17:28:00 -
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Originally by: Hydraxian
I think i used ME for approx 36hours before wiping my HD and reinstalling 98. But still XP ftw.... although im considering going for Vista on the shiny laptop im planning to buy
Seriously, just no. And I say this as an empathetic soul who not only wants Microsoft to fail miserably, but not listen to the whine about how horribly Vista is after you see first hand.
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.06 17:55:00 -
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The thing is, regardless of whether Vista is inherently awful (i.e., the new ME) or is just going through teething troubles (as the optimists will argue), Vista just isn't as good as XP yet.
I'd recommend sticking with XP until either the point Vista becomes good (if it ever does), or the point where theres simply too much tempting DX10 software to ignore. ATM, neither is true.
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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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Posted - 2007.07.06 21:58:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Anthropy
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.
When you're doing more than just basic work on a computer, such as scientific computations and data analysis, your computer will end up staying on for atleast a day or two. I've seen graduate students start a normal equation solver program with 500+ equations and not get the solutions until a week later, if things don't mess up.
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.06 22:46:00 -
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Not to mention (for home users) server hubs. If I set up an old PC as a simple file server or similar, I'm as likely to use whatever OS I have at hand to run it (not being important enough to buy a new one). If whichever Windows version I'm using will do the trick, I'd probably use that. XP does just about, but not really. 2k was better at it.
My other alternative is Linux, which is of course free, but can be a pain in the arse for server stuff, if you're not very experienced. It usually beat XP for me, with XP's 2 weeks or so up-time. Vista? Not a chance.
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Mtthias Clemi
Gallente
Infinitus Odium
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Posted - 2007.07.06 22:50:00 -
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Originally by: Derovius Vaden
Originally by: Hydraxian
I think i used ME for approx 36hours before wiping my HD and reinstalling 98. But still XP ftw.... although im considering going for Vista on the shiny laptop im planning to buy
Seriously, just no. And I say this as an empathetic soul who not only wants Microsoft to fail miserably, but not listen to the whine about how horribly Vista is after you see first hand.
He has seen vista first hand, hes seen mine, and it works perfectly, he knows that 
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