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Hasta La Vista

No, you're right, I'll give them that. There's something to be said for the folk that sit back and take in how everyone else is doing it and then compile their fav bits together into something new... and it's not as though XP is a slouch or anything, it's just SUCH an old foundation. It's basically Win 2000 SP 5.2, right? I dunnno. I've probably said this before, but I've got a great deal of hope in Vista.
 
Well, again, W2K is one of the versions I never played with, so I don't have a stance to agree or disagree on the 2K-XP connection. And yeah, once the driver support is there, Vista looks for all the world like it'll rock socks over XP.
 
Oh, I discontinued my little test run of Vista last week. I may give it another try on the next build IF I read they've got improved driver support, but with 5342 my sound card and display drivers were still causing intermittent bluescreen crashes, so I played with it just long enough to get a lay of the land. However, I did play a bunch of my music (I love external hard drives, have I mentioned that?) and no, there were no DRM-related issues.
 
So last week again, I spent a couple days with Windows Vista -- this time Build 5365.

Driver support was improved in most aspects -- it recognized most of my hardware without me having to even install any drivers.

However, the two main driver deficiencies were still there -- my sound card was still not supported (no surprise, apparently the Audigy 2 series is just not all that popular anymore) and my webcam, though fully capable of audio under 5365, still sent video that was horribly scrambled.

Other bugs: Vista's Media Center, though somewhat faster overall, still had a tendency to hang, forcing one to terminate the process and restart it. Also, after a few days, Vista's "explorer.exe" process started to hog the CPU, pegging it up to 50% usage after about 30-45 minutes, at which time one would have to terminate process and restart in order to get another 30-45 minutes of use out of it.

That's the bad news -- the good news is, it was in fact less buggy than 5342, several issues having been addressed. Just not the issues my particular hardware specs present, unfortunately. lol

I'm looking forward to 5372 (the "Beta 2" milestone build) and I'll be keeping an eye on Creative's drivers section to see if they come up with any new beta drivers for my card.
 
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