I got a Vista computer for Christmas...

[thegeddupnoise]

I feel for you. I'm so sorry. My Dad got a brand-spanking new Vista not too long ago, either. He thinks it rocks - I think it's a piece of **** that has absolutely nothing new about it except for the fact that it doesn't run as well as XP did. We should place bombs in Microsoft headquarters because of Vista's existence.

Thank God I have a school-owned laptop that's on Mac OS X. But wait... I'm not going to have it in the summer... I guess I better buy a USB Keyboard so I can play it on my Wii then

[[TeRa]]

step 1.) kill who ever got you it
step 2.) steal their wallet after you done with the killing
step 3.) go buy a windows XP disk/XP comp
step 4.) play ffr

or do what i did...

step 1.) break the brand new computer the first month you have it.

[Zageron]

Originally Posted by skishmonkey72

Linux is free, comes with tons of free software whose counterparts would be prohibitively expensive on Windows, and is in general more secure than Windows. Then again, it is more complicated to use. It's a matter of general preference.

I can get anything, program wise, for free. So the cost doesn't bother me. I downloaded and used Vista on a separate partition... It was not only slow, my computers fault, but it looked horrible and had bugs coming out the walls. Plus the security is so tight you can't do anything.

[meno_rocks123]

Originally Posted by [TeRa]

1.) kill who ever got you it
2.) go buy a windows XP disk/XP comp
3.) play ffr

XP-64
4gb RAM
1gb+ VC (if you don't want to buy a wicked video card, just double-up two 512s)
quadcore processor
forgot which motherboard to buy
1tb hard-drive
2ms monitor
wired mouse/keyboard (don't have to be awesome, just buy an optical mouse and a $40 keyboard)

And that's how you make ffr run perfectly.
(10000mb internet connection with a router that can handle it helps too.)

[Crashfan3]

[LOUD CURSING]

What the hell was Big Bill thinking when he made Vista?
XP RUNS JUST F@#$ING FINE!!!!

Sorry about your loss man. I think you can still buy XP comps new, but they're getting harder and harder to find, and I think they'll be nothing more than a memory on the market by the end of '08.

URRGRRGHGH!!! [moar ranting about vista]

EDIT: *steals meno's computer*

[andili]

I reinstalled my comp with xp pro instead of xp media center...the arrows in multip goes 1.75X when it's turned on 2.0X :/.

[skishmonkey72]

Originally Posted by Zageron

...but it looked horrible and had bugs coming out the walls. Plus the security is so tight you can't do anything.

Part of what I like about Linux is that security is tight enough in the right places so that nothing can really happen to your computer from the outside or the inside, but lax enough in other places so that you can still comfortably go on just like you used to. You'd have to give a program (including viruses, etc.) your root (admin) password for it to screw up your computer. Then again, Linux is horrible if you're a hardcore gamer. Can't play WoW or anything like that. Most big game companies overlook linux.

Linux's great weakness is people who fool around on the command line and type things like
# pwd
/
# rm -rf

[sumzup]

Originally Posted by skishmonkey72

Get Linux. XD

Hear, hear!

[pastapiggy]

lol I play sm/ffr on vista better than I ever did on XP.

[skishmonkey72]

Originally Posted by pastapiggy

lol I play sm/ffr on vista better than I ever did on XP.

Probably placebo effect or just that you've been playing longer. Higher quality doesn't really affect skill if it was fine before, major lag does. Unless you were lagging like crap before and now it's all perfect.

[customstuff]

Originally Posted by Word

Vista

AAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!! My eyes are burning!!! AHHH!!

I feel bad for you

[boondocks77]

Originally Posted by Zageron

Everything is Vistas fault. If your cat dies, it's also Vistas fault.

IF my best friends gets sick, it's Vista's fault?! XD
dude remove your siggy, or shrink it, it's stretching the page
do so before it gets removed

[foilman8805]

Get XD because you're ****ed!

[Zageron]

Originally Posted by boondocks77

IF my best friends gets sick, it's Vista's fault?! XD
dude remove your siggy, or shrink it, it's stretching the page
do so before it gets removed

It's not stretching my page.
Change your resolution to 1280 x 1024 if you don't want page stretch.

[remedy1502]

Ya... I got 60-4-5-6 on Hatten Carnival, and I didn't even AAA Free Space. That's some badass lag. My brother is coming over soon, and he knows a lot about computers, so hopefully he can get me a good video card and a lot of other stuff to make it super cool and fast

[Zageron]

Originally Posted by remedy1502

Ya... I got 60-4-5-6 on Hatten Carnival, and I didn't even AAA Free Space. That's some badass lag. My brother is coming over soon, and he knows a lot about computers, so hopefully he can get me a good video card and a lot of other stuff to make it super cool and fast

Are you going to try the XP method?

[Crashfan3]

My friend has a Vista laptop and she can't even play things like RuneScape on it.

[bender5]

Does anyone know where I can get the beta of flash? I just got a Vista laptop too but it doesn't bother me that much cuz I can play SM wonderfully, and I have ready access to a computer I can play ffr on, but if all I need is a flash beta to make ffr run smoother that would be orgasmic

[Synthlight]

Besides there being many assumptions and incorrect statements in this thread, yes, Vista still sucks.

Your best bet: IE7 with the latest flash beta from adobe labs on the adobe site.

Cheers,

Synthlight

[robertsona]

omg synthlight.