AMD: Windows Vista Not as Stable as Windows XP

[DasFox]

I just noticed this article over at KezNews:

http://keznews.com/2839_AMD__Windows_Vista_Not_as_Stable_as_Windows_XP

ALOHA

 

[Noema]

Well, it's a third party driver issue, according to the article, which is to be expected given how new the OS is.

I am among the ones who like Vista quite a bit. I'm excited about its new features. On the other hand I find it a bit green, specially because of the drivers, regardless of who's to blame for that.

I'm eager to jump to Vista but I'll wait until the end of the year before I upgrade.

 

[stash]

Yay, another misleading headline. He said that Vista drivers are not quite as stable as XP drivers. Which should be obvious to anyone. 5+ years of drivers for XP vs six months for Vista. Hmmm.

He also went on to say that "as far as being a user of games and applications, I now have perfectly stable systems at home that deliver to me a very consistent experience." He is talking about Vista here.

 

[Shawn]

No crashes here.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: stash
Yay, another misleading headline. He said that Vista drivers are not quite as stable as XP drivers. Which should be obvious to anyone. 5+ years of drivers for XP vs six months for Vista. Hmmm.

Yep. Always get a good laugh at all the driver complaints. Vista has been out six months and people expect everything to be as solid as XP drivers written 5+ years ago.

I would say Vista is incredible in the driver department overall. I've recently installed on half a dozen various rigs, laptops, desktops, even a tablet. It literally had drivers for every single component. And yes, the drivers work fine Very nice not to waste time hunting down CDs and various drivers off the 'net to get things up and running.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: stash
Yay, another misleading headline. He said that Vista drivers are not quite as stable as XP drivers. Which should be obvious to anyone. 5+ years of drivers for XP vs six months for Vista. Hmmm.

Yep. Always get a good laugh at all the driver complaints. Vista has been out six months and people expect everything to be as solid as XP drivers written 5+ years ago.

I would say Vista is incredible in the driver department overall. I've recently installed on half a dozen various rigs, laptops, desktops, even a tablet. It literally had drivers for every single component. And yes, the drivers work fine Very nice not to waste time hunting down CDs and various drivers off the 'net to get things up and running.

Now if we looked at XP in its first 6 months of release and compared it to Vista,well we ALL KNOW that Vista would be and is superior to XP on drivers and stability.


There's so much FUD about Vista going around at the moment( not talking about drivers).
Expect to see Vista sales increase with SP1 release and also when DX10 games arrive.



Btw my Vista is just as stable as my XP PC,which goes to show don't believe everything you read, and there are people out there having excellent stability with Vista.I find it amazing really ,especially when you look at how young Vista and drivers are.

 

[bucwylde23]

Vista is much more stable for me at six months than XP was within the same timeframe...I had a lot of trouble with XP at first. I have had 0 MAJOR problems with Vista. just a couple issues with various programs which aren't that big of a deal.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Mem
There's so much FUD about Vista going around at the moment( not talking about drivers).
Expect to see Vista sales increase with SP1 release and also when DX10 games arrive.

Yep. And, sadly, FUD always wins.

You listen to some people and you'd walk away with the impression that you need a quad-core workstation with 32GB of RAM just to run Vista.

 

[Brazen]

When Vista gets it's driver issues ironed out, maybe THEN I will upgrade to Vista. Until then, I don't care who's fault it is, if the system is unstable, I don't want to use it.

 

[bsobel]

You listen to some people and you'd walk away with the impression that you need a quad-core workstation with 32GB of RAM just to run Vista.

I never said you NEEDED it, I said it was really really nice (and it's a dual quad core, for the record )

Bill