mazmac24 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 When I installed Vista RC2, i could install any xp software which included my sound card driver and my wireless internet driver. I was wondering of it is slightly possible to make them work on Vista. They worked on xp pro which i had on the computer. I gave up and installed xp pro back when everythin worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 If the hardware isn't supported by the vista RC2 build or the manafactures your going to have problems. Vista is a lot different to XP under the hood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazmac24 Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 Vista wasn't out yet when my hardware came out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Neither was it when I got my 2nd laptop, but luckerly everything I want to use is supported except for winpcap and stuff that uses it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazmac24 Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 Do you think the wireless g usb and sound card might work if I install Vista over exicting xp with the drivers alredy installed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Probally not. If you do a bit of research on the net you should be able to find out if vista drivers are floating about somewhere. Might be 3rd party though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 With Vista Beta 2(on my laptop) my sound didn't work my screen was crappy and slow... but now starting with RC1 My Wireless supports WPA2 (I can't even get WPA 1 to work in XP) and my Screen Doesn't update lower left first then top right a split second after when watching full screen videos (THAT'S FUCKING ANNOYING AS HELL) Vista has better support for my Tecra M4 then Toshiba (Toshiba should be avoided I 'used' to like their quality)... unless Toshiba fixes this I Might have to upgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Vista works great for me, once winpcap et al works on it i'll not be using XP on my laptop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaveMan Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 when vista is released alot more things will be supported Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nico Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 In a french forum, a guy tried windows vista. few hours later he came back to the linux side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Until Adobe do Photoshop natively for linux, its kinda pointless for me to run a linux desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 I miss a "No opinion" option. I'm not going to install Vista on a machine here just to see if I like it so I can answer a little poll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazmac24 Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 I tried installing Vista on a virtul machine yesterday. it didn't work. said it couldn't find something on d:/ even though i installed it off a cd. XP installed on vm but vista couldn't finish. wtf... CRAPPY. it installed on my old computer(the one that I broke) vista... looks cool but i couldn't use anything including internet so i said screw it. im going back to xp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Why are you even trying to install vista on old computers? Its not designed to work on old machines, its designed to work on new computers that are being sold now. As for the VM problems, again most VM machines use old generic virtual devices like S3 Trios, which are not ideal for Vista. Were you using an ISO? Or a physical disk? Because MS Virtual PC doesn't like DVD images. In all honesty you are one of the last people who should be using a beta or a rc. You don't know what your doing, and then blame Vista for being crappy when you reach the limits of your technical knowledge. So again, Vista is designed for new kit, not old kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mazmac24 Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 Why are you even trying to install vista on old computers? Its not designed to work on old machines, its designed to work on new computers that are being sold now. As for the VM problems, again most VM machines use old generic virtual devices like S3 Trios, which are not ideal for Vista. Were you using an ISO? Or a physical disk? Because MS Virtual PC doesn't like DVD images. In all honesty you are one of the last people who should be using a beta or a rc. You don't know what your doing, and then blame Vista for being crappy when you reach the limits of your technical knowledge. So again, Vista is designed for new kit, not old kit. No. It wasn't old. I meant old as in past computer. It had an Athlon 2ghz gig of ram 128mb graphics. I got the image from microsoft.com and burned it onto a dvd. And the computer i tried it on vm had p4 1.25 gig ram and 256mb graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 And the computer i tried it on vm had p4 1.25 gig ram and 256mb graphics. That's kind of irrelevant, the VM only lets the guest OS access crappy emulated hardware, as VaKo said the graphics hardware the VM presents to Vista is well below par and would not ever be a graphics card recommended for use with Vista. Otherwise though, I've not found it too bad. I'm kinda narked that both of the ways I have to get online are both broken in Vista (though everything else works flawlessly and pretty smoothly)... I'll grant MS this though, I hardly expected my USB modem to work because some people have enough trouble installing under XP and since the product is discontinued they won't be updating the drivers. The other method I tried was to try to connect via my router but this failed because unbeknown to me my ageing NIC is infact 10Mbps only and I'm hardly surprised they don't support a card that old. Wow... I didn't realise it was quite that old though... :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 <snipage>The other method I tried was to try to connect via my router but this failed because unbeknown to me my ageing NIC is infact 10Mbps only and I'm hardly surprised they don't support a card that old. Wow... I didn't realise it was quite that old though... :p You sure its not got flow control turned off in the advanced hardware propitys? Had a mate with an older NIC that kept saying it was 10mbs, but if you turned on flow control it went to 100mbs and worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Nah it really is that old, I looked it up last night... Meh, doesn't bother me though, I only use it for 2.2Mb internet and there are no drivers for Vista anyways. I'm currently dual booting Vista RC2 and Windows 2003 so as long as it works in one of them I'm not too worried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Didn't the Vista license explicitly disallow use in a VM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 I'm not sure, if I got it right you can install Vista on a VM but that counts as your one and only install and you may not install it on a real PC as well as a VM but I'd heard that this version *will not* install on a VM. Edit: However on saying this I believe certain versions are not supposed to be installed in a VM though I'm not sure which... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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