Well, I received a free version of Vista Ultimate 32Bit with SP1 integrated and Windows Server 2008 Enterprise at one of the introductions from MS somewhere and installed Vista on my AMD64 3200+ with an ATI Radeon x1650 512MB AGP card and 1 GB of memory.
Previously I had Windows XP Professional with SP2 integrated installed on that PC
My first impression is that installation went really fast, and it detected all my hardware directly. The only drivers I installed where my ATI driver and my Logitech G15 Gaming keyboard.
Only with some games/3d applications I got a bluescreen and my machine would reset. It seemed to be solved after installing DirectX 10
Now I only have some visual troubles with OpenGL applications, only a few and all games that use X-Trap, the last one seems to be a known issue with Vista and SP1.
With programming in blitzmax I noticed that you will need to choose your audio drivers wise when you want to make your game compatible with Vista, some give slowdowns and some older versions don't play any sound at all. MaxMod worksfine for me under Vista.
Most other issues where easy to solve, for some applications or games you need to be in admin mode or in compatibility mode to turn aero off, but there is no real difference in game speed compared to XP, unless you have a bad video card.
Also one thing I did from start is to disable UAC which solves a lot of issues too when installing older software.
I think for the programmers in here who commercially sell their games it's good to have Vista running to be sure their games will run on Vista too. So that is one good reason to install Vista.
Previously I had Windows XP Professional with SP2 integrated installed on that PC
My first impression is that installation went really fast, and it detected all my hardware directly. The only drivers I installed where my ATI driver and my Logitech G15 Gaming keyboard.
Only with some games/3d applications I got a bluescreen and my machine would reset. It seemed to be solved after installing DirectX 10
Now I only have some visual troubles with OpenGL applications, only a few and all games that use X-Trap, the last one seems to be a known issue with Vista and SP1.
With programming in blitzmax I noticed that you will need to choose your audio drivers wise when you want to make your game compatible with Vista, some give slowdowns and some older versions don't play any sound at all. MaxMod worksfine for me under Vista.
Most other issues where easy to solve, for some applications or games you need to be in admin mode or in compatibility mode to turn aero off, but there is no real difference in game speed compared to XP, unless you have a bad video card.
Also one thing I did from start is to disable UAC which solves a lot of issues too when installing older software.
I think for the programmers in here who commercially sell their games it's good to have Vista running to be sure their games will run on Vista too. So that is one good reason to install Vista.