- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: twigleaf1976
I am an IT professional, so use vista everyday. It is riddled with bugs. Mostly related to connection and talking to software, I find most of the people O work with hate it for bugs, count yourself very lucky if you actually like it.
I support Vista machines at work, too. We have a test setup of 50 machines running Vista Business Volume License. Only had one major malfunction to fix in the 3 months we've been running the setup.
All due respect to your company, if they jumped straight to Vista when it came out and put it straight into a live work environment, well, that was a pretty foolish decision. Stability and compatibility is paramount for business use and new OS's usually suffer problems in both at original release. Most every company I know, mine included, refuse to move up from XP Pro until either a) there's a first major service pack for Vista or b) we absolutely need to upgrade to new hardware or c) both. Not waiting for the first service pack is a quick way to stress out the entire IT staff and make them rethink their career path.
I have a Intel core duo 2, 4 GB ram, Sli dual Gforce 7950 graphics cards on SATA drives. it is not a piece of crap machinery. And yet vista is pants.
nVidia just released beta drivers for SLI. This is Vista's fault, how?
Also, as I'm sure you're aware, if you're running 32-bit Vista, it will only support 3.2 (or 3.4gb) of RAM. The 64-bit version would support all of your RAM, but wouldn't have drivers for crap.
That said, there's absolutely no reason for your system to be running Vista poorly. There has to be something you overlooked - whether something as simple as new mobo chipset drivers or maybe some at-login program hogging your resources due to compatibility issues. My machine isn't too far off from yours and Vista runs like a champion with a 5.3 Windows Experience Index.