Age of Conan

With the excitement around AoC and the hope that it would support directx10 I took the plunge and installed vista 64.  After much disappointment I've decided to uninstall it tonight and go back to xp.... Sucks with AoC coming out tomorrow but my vista just keeps having issues and too many things are not working properly.  It does seem to recover very nicely from crashing but really it is still crashing. 

I'm sure there are things I could perhaps do to fix it but too many things are broken at this point and I haven't even started trying to get new versions of applications I use.

So I've seen people asking about if they should upgrade to vista from time to time.  My recommendation is if you are running xp and it is working fine don't upgrade.

Originally posted by ethion

With the excitement around AoC and the hope that it would support directx10 I took the plunge and installed vista 64.  After much disappointment I've decided to uninstall it tonight and go back to xp.... Sucks with AoC coming out tomorrow but my vista just keeps having issues and too many things are not working properly.  It does seem to recover very nicely from crashing but really it is still crashing. 

I'm sure there are things I could perhaps do to fix it but too many things are broken at this point and I haven't even started trying to get new versions of applications I use.

So I've seen people asking about if they should upgrade to vista from time to time.  My recommendation is if you are running xp and it is working fine don't upgrade.

 

Well, not everyone can be so bad with computers, I suppose. Almost everyone I know, including my self who has upgraded to vista has had no problems. The ones who have problems are usually the ones who shouldn't be upgrading their own computer anyway.

You need a beast computer to run vista and games well. Think on Quad core and 8 gigs ram more or less. If you dont have it, you better stay with XP. Vista is a good OS, for a Vista capable computer.

I had Vista on my machine, and it ran it fine, no problem what so ever. But things run in XP sooo much fast that I decided to switch back to XP. I don't have quad simply because this is mainly a gaming computer, and as such spending extra money (compared to a dual core) for quad-core for the marginal difference in gaming isn't worth it. Really the only reason to keep vista is DX10, and that's not even a whole lot of reason. Other than that, I'm way happier with XP. If you want XP to look good, get windowsBlind. Alot better than the Vista default. Really the only people I know that are happy with Vista over XP say that they just want to stay with the latest OS, which is fine with me. XP over Vista any day imo. Atleast until MS doesn't support XP anymore.

I ran vista ultimate for over a year with no troubles, until I installed SP1.

I won't bore you with the details, but it culminated with MS tech support telling me to reinstall, so I went back to XP :)

Something doesnt seem right with the op's comments. What keeps crashing? The OS or what game/program?

I'm running vista 64 with no problems, period. I installed it a few months back, everything has ran pretty much perfect since day 1. I'm trying to think of something I've had problems with, but I cant atm.

I dont have a super pc like  someone posted and  seems to be clueless about, you dont need a nasa pc.. I have a 4800 dc, 4 gigs ram and a 1650 vid card.

I run more graphics programs than games, but still have no problems with either.

Originally posted by alakram

You need a beast computer to run vista and games well. Think on Quad core and 8 gigs ram more or less. If you dont have it, you better stay with XP. Vista is a good OS, for a Vista capable computer.

You don't need 8 gigs or more to run games on vista what are you talking about

I run vista fine on my pc, dual core 1.8Ghz, 2 gigs ram no problem what so ever. I v only had my pc crash about 7 times in 9 months i been using vista. That's a major improvement from XP. I dont know how well it handle AoC but its briliant for the job i use it for.

I'm taking a longshot.

If you have 4GB ram installed remove so you have less and see if you have the same crashing. There is a fix for 512MB cards  +Vista +4GB memory. But it may be faster to just remove memory to see if you affected by it.

My problems are probably solvable in time but it's a lot of time and I really want to be playing AoC tomorrow not messing with my computer :)

As to my capability with computer technology I'd say I'm at the extreme upper end in fact probably far enough that I make as many problems as I fix..  I'm also quite the nitpicker in that I want things to work a certain way and will mess with it till it does...

Right out of the box installed I'm not sure Vista was too much of a problem it worked reasonalby well.  I installed video drivers and all seemed good.  Two issues right out of the box were my antivirus software apparently crashed the computer in the first night.  This was a fresh fully patched 64 bit version.  The second day I noticed my system wouldn't read SMART data from my disks.  Also sleep mode wasn't enabled for the network.  I enabled network card for sleep mode and I updated my system with the latest nvidia drivers since asus did not have any released 64 bit vista drivers for my motherboard.  Basically a 680i based mother board.

Looking at the logs it looks like it wakes up every hour and it sometimes crashes waking up but it does auto restart and just tells me it had problems in the night.  In spite of updating sata drivers and trying several programs to monitor smart data on drives they fail.  Some times in the even log when looking at messages event viewer throws and exception and closes down.

On a side not vanguard seems to like it I played vanguard for a couple hours on the test server last night with no problems.  While I would like to keep it there are just too many of these issues and problems to make me put up with it.  XP was working perfectly and I am not sure why I did this other then the lure of directx 10 :P