As long as you don't have an ATI graphic card. New version had to come off sharpish until driver support is sorted!
That is such a bizarre omission - I mean why not just include the same old ATI stuff as in 8:1?
Vista updates:
After the SP2 debacle, I thought in my naivite that maybe I'd just installed too many things, like antivirus and other non essential programs and decided to start again from scratch.
Downloaded SP1 and SP2 with the idea that I'd simply install the base package and follow it up with the two service packs (ya know like you do with XP) - it's gotta work surely.....
Base package installs (50 mins - OK not bad).
Remove Norton and MS Office (55mins - seriously! - and why so long?) (Total time to date 1hr 45min).
Install SP1.....35 mins later of appearing to go through the motions of installing we get the famous "Installation unsuccessful" message.
Now at this point it's kinda hard to know what to do. There are a zillion updates awaiting my attention, but experience has already shown me that they will take literally hours to install if at all, and when I finally go for the magic SP2 I know it will crash.
4 painless hours later, XP was installed with all the updates and every program needed. Even added a few of those Gadget thingys so it even looks like Vista.
Performance difference between XP and Vista is unbelievable. XP is so fast and stable compared with the shambling attempts from the worst piece of software I've ever seen.
And this on a dual core laptop with 2gig RAM.
To be honest having for the first time played with Vista for a length of time, I would not consider using any new products from the same company.
What I intend doing is to make sure I have XP, the service packs and copies of all the remaining updates so I'm not forced to be put through this ordeal again (OK there are some small licensing issues...).
After all why try reinventing the wheel when the old one continues to work perfectly?
