DimensionWarped Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 So yeah... specs: Intel Core 2 Quad q6600 eVGA NVidia Geforce 8800 GT (512 MB) Asus P5N-E SLI Nvidia nForce 650i SLI Mother Board 2 GB (2x1024) MB DDR2 PC6400 MEMORY Ultra Products X3 600W Modular Power Supply 320 GB harddrive... don't remember much else about it. Anyway... I also got Vista Home Premium 64-bit edition (groan) and I'm having some rather annoying driver issues... which are causing way too many blue screens. (namely while playing games) I don't really know what to get either... and since this specific computer doesn't have any network card in it yet, I was hoping on of you guys would help me figure out what I need to get so that I can put it on a CD and get it ready. And no, I don't really know what specific drivers are giving me the issues. In other news, Vista's first service pack had a release candidate release rather recently... I hear it sucks a reasonable amount less. Oh, and also Command And Conquer 3 won't play because it seems to be incapable of detecting that I have direct X at all... probably because it doesn't use Direct X 9l and for some reason, I can't play shit with directX 10 right now... Hell Gate London won't even get to the player select screen with it enabled . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 First of all....Grats on the new pc. Downgrade now! I dunno, for the stuff you do on a daily basis I just don't see why even mess with Vista at this time, you haven't even gotten the chance to experience DX10. I know XP doesn't have DX10 support, but I say wait it out. Other than that, i really can't give you Vista advice, haven't dabbled in the realm of hell yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Dual boot Windows XP. That's about about the only thing I can suggestion. Personally, I'm with SG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Dual booting is nice and all, but I'd also like to figure out whats wrong with the OS that I paid for instead of just working with the one I nabbed... Its on my prioirities list, don't get me wrong... but I'd like to have Vista working as well. EDIT: In other news, I made this post with my new computer. Just installed a random wireless card. Surprisingly, Vista does have nice wireless connection stuff which is a good bit more user friendly than XP's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Surprisingly, Vista does have nice wireless connection stuff which is a good bit more user friendly than XP's. I noticed this, too. I never had to configure anything for my wireless internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 DW, what type of gamer are you? Hardcore? Casual? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligar Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Welcome to the world of (Program is not responding) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 DW, what type of gamer are you? Hardcore? Casual? I'm an enthusiast programmer and I just bought 1200 dollars worth of hardware... What the fuck kind of gamer do you think I am? No offense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Awesome, now you must get PSU: Aoi and a subscription and have fun with the rest of us, dammit. (That is of course, if you're a Phantasy Star fan, dunno. I remember you mentioning that you would play, but couldn't because your previous PC sucked.) Still, congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 LOL id pay money to watch him try to get PSU to run on Vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliasHoj Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 What was the price of all this? Sounds like a half decent computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I'm an enthusiast programmer and I just bought 1200 dollars worth of hardware...What the fuck kind of gamer do you think I am? No offense. I'm just saying. A lot of gamers I know use XP, or have dual boot. Vista's great and all. It's just that its compatibility issues makes it suck. Personally, I'd rather have a iMac that Vista. Side Note: Get Crysis! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streak Thunderstorm Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 DW, honestly if you were to get Vista to work with anything, you'd be the only one in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazeHedgehog Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Must be nice having a totally new computer. I just got a slight hardware upgrade a few months ago that lead to all this HDD incompatibility nonsense that I'm still dealing with. Plus, the PC likes to spontaneously freeze every now and then with no reason as to why (I've checked the RAM and everything), especially when I'm doing stuff in MMF or PSP7, meaning I'm always saving like a madman out of paranoia. Oh, and, one of the fans inside the case in the last couple weeks has started making a horrific grinding sound whenever I first turn it on (which, thankfully, I actually have the money to fix that - I just have to dip in to my christmas spending money). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 LOL id pay money to watch him try to get PSU to run on Vista Is that an offer? Because I'll do a complete Youtube/Veoh TV/whatever series if you make it worth my while. In other news, I just finished getting Service Pack 1 and am now updating my Geforce 8800 GT drivers. After that, I'll be updating whatever other drivers seem to be issuant. Vista is in fact driving me nuts, not even because of the blue screens while playing games right now so much as because of the fact that while idling, its at 30 freakin' percent of my RAM usage... out of 2 GB of physical ram! Thats almost 700MB! Its completely inexcusable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Outside of the whole RAM usage issue, I haven't had very many problems with Vista Business at all. Then again I'm not trying to run any games outside of Advent Rising and Grand Theft Auto 2 at the moment. Did your computer come installed with Vista Home or did you install it afterwards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredrikTheEvil Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Beats my pc. But I dont care. I just got a 40" 1080p tv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epon Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Dual boot, you have the HD space. I've had Vista grow on me lately. I'm not a huge game player, but I've had shit like Worms Armageddon crap out w/ Vista, so I understand your pain if you love your video games. But no need to uninstall and format! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockman Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 A brief experience with Vista was terrible, I ended up shipping the laptop back to the company I bought it from and getting my money back. I then used the money to buy a decent XP laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamerdude Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 DW, honestly if you were to get Vista to work with anything, you'd be the only one in the world. Wrong, he'd be the second one in the world at the most...I've got all my stuff working. DW: I don't know, I'm not particularly fond of 64-bit anything at the moment...still pretty lacking in support. I have yet to have one major problem with my 32-bit installation...all my games and devices work without hitch. I bet if it's anything, it's probably the 64-bit and the instability of the drivers that's holding you back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Thank you, Gamerdude. Everyone's immediately always "omg Vista die." Haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 GD has it. 64bit drivers for anything are shady at best. You're going to really have to wait for 64bit to start getting the support it really needs. For that matter you are going to have to wait for programs to really use all four cores you have there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Heh, humorously enough, driver issues were crashing everything I did... but now that I have service pack 1, it just gives you an annoying little message at the bottom right about how a driver had an error and goes on about its merry business. Happy days. Oh, but the ram usage is still completely fucking retarded. Anyway, Hellgate London runs like a charm now with full settings (though I still haven't tried DX 10 mode) and I finally have a computer that runs Morrowind in all of its horridly programmed glory at 60 frames per second. I even have Command and Conquer 3 working like a charm now at full settings. Now all I need to do is overclock my processor to 3 ghz, switch to water cooling because the horrendously loud fan keeping this thing cool is going to keep me awake at night, and wait it out for Geforce 9 series before getting my next graphics card instead of wasting my time on SLI like I had been planning to do. Oh, and dual boot XP because in spite of all of these successes, it would be nice to have a computer that didn't suck up more ram idling than my old one did with 3 gpu-intensive games and 2 instances of 3ds max running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 With 54 processes running, with a 32bit vista install on a dual core machine with 2GB of RAM, I'm only at 2% CPU usage and 712MB of Memory usage. I don't know why you would be using just as much memory at idle with nothing running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I don't either. I'd downgrade to 32 bit Vista, but unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to use 4 gigs of ram then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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