If I Buy Vista?

[Alejandro Rhodes]

recently I buy a better videocard and a PCI motherboard ,My FSX performance has change dramaticly to a better frames etc,

I being thinking ,I've read that VISTA improves FSX and this card is DX10  :)
:-/,But what about the other stuff ?My Main stuff,.. will I have trouble with 3d studio max 7 , Gmax , paint, Shop Pro ,Photoshop 7 ,corel draw 13 , etc, etc etc etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc,etc, etc etc, and couple thousands programs or softwares more?

Thanks for yourt advises ahead..

Alejandro

[AMDDDA]

You'll have to re-install it all, but most things are compatible with vista one way or another.

Vista DX10 is broken for FSX right now, though.

[Brett_Henderson]

I would tell the average person not to move to Vista, until they have no choice.

Knowing that future DX10 support will NOT be available for XP would be a good reason for running Vista, if you were building a computer today.

Or.. if you plan on using 4MB of RAM, you'll need a 64-bit operating system.. and if you're goint to go through the 64-bit driver hassle, it might as well be Vista 64-bit.

I've been running Vista 64-bit for nearly a year now, and the compatability issues for major software titles have been minor.

Knowing that you are pretty savy with computers.. I'd say yes.. get Vista (make sure it's 64-bit).

[Boikat]

What Brett said.

I have Vista Home Premium, 32 bit, and haven't had any problems to speak of that wasn't due to me being unfamiliar with the feature in question (and it did not take long to figure out) and my ancient printer was not supported.

I'm planning on getting another computer after Tax Refund Day, and plan on going for a Vista 64 bit OS.  I plan on using it as the "development" computer (though Im not going to wait that long to start 'developing'.)

[merculiv]

Alrot... if you plan on installing vista and can't get your gmax to work just let me know.

[AMDDDA]

All I can say to that last post.







Wow....................................64.




He can run it under 64bit using Wow64, which emulates 32 bit apps, plus, 64 bit has bettor memory addressing, and if he's doing a very complex model that could be to his great advantage (look at the sandbox editor for Crysis).

[Brett_Henderson]

[quote]Not to go against you there brett buddy.. I think he'd be better of with the 32 bit version of vista. The majority of his programs (GMAX being one 32 bit program) and device drivers will work much more stable with 32 bit and has better support.

[merculiv]

Your right there brett  I was thinking about if one ran a 32 bit OS with a 64 bit processor issue.  But here is the limit page for vista right here.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa366778.aspx