I installed Vista again but this time went with Home premium x64 instead of Ultimate x64.

Nevertheless, I have not messed with services.msc or msconfig yet, so nothing has really been brought down process or RAM wise.

I bought a Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer sound card today so I have sound in Vista. So far, the following games I have tried and work 100% with full settings on my setup and use under 2GB of RAM with no slowdowns.

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
Area 51
BF2
BF2142
BF2142 Northern Strike
Call of Heroes (new demo)
Cellfactor: Revolution
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Call of Duty
Call of Duty2
Civilization II: The Test of Time
Company of Heroes
Counter Strike Source
Doom 3
DoW DC (game only works with a "dirty" fix) See note below*
DSII
Fable: The Lost Chapters
FarCry
FEAR
FEAR Extraction Point
Garry's Mod 10
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Halo
Halo 2: Vista
Hitman Blood Money
Lost Planet
Oblivion
Penumbra
Prey
R6V
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3
Splinter Cell Double Agent
Supreme Commander
The Ship
The Ship: Multiplayer
Unreal Tournament 2004
Vampire: The Masquerade -- Bloodlines

The following apps work as well:

AVG Anti-Virus w/Firewall Pro (x64)
Ad-Aware SE 1.06 Pro
AdAware SE Personal
Adobe Acrobat version 7.0.6
AIM
AVG Anti-Rootkit
AVG Anti-Spyware version 7.5.1.36
AVG Free (x64)
AVG Free (x86)
Azureus
Blindwrite 5
Blindwrite 6
CCleaner (latest)
CloneDVD (latest version)
Cubase SX
Daemon Tools x64
Daemon Tools x86
Diskeeper 2007 Pro.
DiVx
Euphoria (screen saver)
Everest Home
FileZilla
Firefox
FL Studio
Foxit Reader
Fraps
Google Earth
Hamachi (Version 1.0.2.1)
iTunes
Logic Pro
mIRC
Nero 7
Netlimiter
Nod32
O&O Defrag
Paint.Net
Photoshop: CS2**
QT Alternative
Quicktime
R-Studio
Smart Guardian (for DFI LP users. Need absolute latest version for x64 support)
Speedfan (starting with version 432)
Spybot S&D
SpywareBlaster
Thunderbird
Trillian (turns Aero off until you close the program) ****
TrueCrypt
TuneUp Utilities 2007
uTorrent
VirtualDub
VLC
VMWare Workstation 5.5.1
VMWare Workstation 6***
Winamp
WinRAR
Winzip 10
Winzip 11
Winzip 8
Winzip 9
Wireshark
Xfire
3D Studio Max 7 (works in OpenGL mode, works in DirectX mode with Aero disabled)
Adobe Premiere Elements 1.0
Adobe Reader 8
Citrus Alarm Clock
ExtractNow
ffdshow
FilePlanet Download Manager
Microsoft Office 2003 (AND updates)
Microsoft Office 2007
Pidgin (Modern version of GAIM)
Real Alternative
SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2007
Skype
Switcher (Mac OS X Expose clone for Vista - http://insentient.net/ )
Ventrilo
WinDirStat
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If you are waiting on Logitech to release drivers for Vista, you may want to check. Last month, they did not have any Vista drivers for my keyboard/mouse and now, they have both versions. I will update my post accordingly when I install new games/apps.

It seems as though with the new release of nVidia drivers that it has made games run much more smooth. A month ago when I last tried Vista and FEAR, It lagged really bad and ate up 1.75GB of RAM with full settings. This time, I have the new nVidia drivers and ran it the same way I did a month ago and it ran flawless. Though, the game did want to freeze when I tried to quit the game.

EDIT: 4:36AM added FEAR to the list.

EDIT: 5:29PM added Dawn of War Dark Crusade to the list

EDIT: 8:35PM added a few more apps. to the list

EDIT: 8:55PM added more apps to the list

EDIT: 1:46AM April 16, 2007 added more games and apps.

EDIT: 12:18AM May 21, 2007 added more games and apps. to the list

EDIT: 12:47AM May 21, 2007 added even more games and apps. to the list

EDIT: 12:44PM May 21, 2007 added more apps and games to the list

EDIT: 2:40AM May 31, 2007 added another app. to the list

EDIT: 5:33PM June 10, 2007 added AVG Anti-Spyware to the list.

EDIT: 5:34PM June 10, 2007 added Blindwrite 5 and 6 to the list.

EDIT: 5:46PM June 10, 2007 put both lists in alpha order.

EDIT: 8:47PM June 10, 2007 added more games to the list
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*NOTE The game seems to not work with G80 cards and Vista. As of right now, Relic is working on a patch (v1.2) to fix this issue. However, there is a quick fix for it and the guys at Relic says its 100% safe. You can find it here: http://forums.relicnews.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=10888

Instructions: Navigate to the directory where Dawn of War is installed. Open the drivers folder>backup the file spdx9_config to a safe place>Replace it with the file in the link above. Here is the thread that you can find the quick fix. http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=136168&page=1&pp=15

If you install the patch when it comes out to fix the original issue, you have to copy back the original spdx9_config file then update to the new patch.

**NOTE: Aero only gets disabled for Photoshop. The rest of the system will run the Aero feature. I hear that CS3 will fix that bug.

***NOTE: Version 5.5.1 has some Vista bugs which version 6 fixes.

****NOTE: Latest update for Trillian 3.1 fixes bugs for Windows Vista. More noticeably, the auto changing from Aero to basic is now fixed.

like to know how in gods name you got AVG with firewall to work. I get firewall is not compatible message every time. I gave up and bought windows one live care.

Wasnt hard. Just took my trial key, got the exe, went through setup, installed and I was good to go.

Told you it worked.

no it don't i just tried and said firewall can not run on vista

and i own the dam thing with a real key

I have build avg75f_441a919

Well I dont know what to tell you.

So far without disabling anything within the OS, upon bootup with apps installed, I use almost a full gig. Sad.

Crash, with Fraps, is video recording working with you? Because that was the only thing with it that I was unable to get working.

i like the Latest version of Setpoint, Combined with Richard Lowens Uberoptions, makes mymouse fully assignable in many games, UT2004 every button is use able, On my MX510, I have no use for MX518- sensitivity adjustment.

MkFly said:
Ill check it out.

Media Center comes with Home Premium too. :-P

Just check your System control panel or run winver, it will tell you which version is installed. If you want to check the license, run slmgr.vbs -dlv from a command prompt. That will tell you which license is installed (Home Premium, Ultimate, etc).

I thought media center only came with Ultimate? Oh well.

Take a lookie see here for more info:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

No Media Center is in Home Premium and Ultimate. Not in Home Basic or Business.

Home Basic = crap
Home Premium = XP Media Center Edition
Business = XP Pro
Ultimate = XP Pro + Media Center + Bitlocker all in one

You can also add iTunes and Quicktime to that list.

I think Vista is awesome. There is a small similarity between it and Tiger but I like the Vista skin and set up better. The whole going through different windows thing is so cool.

Also, the price isn't actually that high. The OEM version of Home Premium is only about $159.99 CDN while the Ultimate version is $265.99 CDN. Windows XP Pro OEM is still $130+ CDN while Home is $100+ CDN. So, no complaints there.

DsL.Dilbert said:
Done. (I checked into it myself to make sure)

Vista really is a good OS. Ive got all my games using either under a gig or 25-30MB shy of 2GB. Some are just over a gig. All with full settings and the like.

I heard Jobs mention something about iTunes not working on Vista ... but I use it, and it works just fine for everything that I do with it.

If we're adding programs to the list ... some programs that I've run with no problems:

• Azureus
• VLC
• Winamp
• Google Earth
• Nero 7

I'm now booting my system between XPx64 and Vistax32.
I purchaced the full retail version of Vista Ultimate, but didn't have the balz to go Vista 64.
I did run into some quirks during the installation, but it was actually an easier install than my last re-install of XP x64.
I've only installed one game, my favorite, but the memory management and processor utilization seems to be more efficient under Vista than it was under XPx64.
I'll shortly attempt a x64 installation of Vista and will report back on it after I get my taxes done.....

Gerritt

That whole iTunes not working on Vista thing was just a way for Apple to make Vista look bad. It's just the the kind of dirty business practices that Apple is known to do. The whole point was that hopefully all 90 million iPod users would not upgrade to Vista and instead buy a Mac, or at least stick with their current XP system and buy a Mac in the future. But in the end, it was just all a bunch of Apple-certified BS.

And they say that MS is proprietory!
I'll never buy an iPod until it can play the industry standards without having to go through thier price fixed sites.

Gerritt

Here are two more applications I can confirm work on Vista. My current build is RTM, Vista Ultimate, x86.

Daemon Tools 4.08 x86
DivX 6.5

not to be the grammar police, but it's spelled Experience