I installed Vista Ultimate x64 on my home machine and I had to
remove it right away afterwards. My machine is not super (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
3800+, with Geforce6600) but still... XSI gave me a warning during installation
that I have no OpenGL driver, and later, I was lucky and managed to run it only
once, and the viewports performance was horrible. After that I failed to run it
again thanks to SPM (I don’t know how it ran the first time).
On another note, the OpenGL driver in 3dsMax was giving a lot of
garbage also… This is using the latest public nvidia drivers that I downloaded
three days ago…
I’m not saying it’s a bad OS, but I prefer to give it sometime
instead of being on the front line of people suffering compatibility issues
that would go with time.
Wessam Bahnassi
Microsoft DirectX MVP,
Programmer
Electronic Arts
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From:
owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of jordibares
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:43 AM
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>; Marco Spasiano
Subject: Re: Vista and XSI?
Man, that is funny.
jb
On 30/1/07 11:21, "Marco Spasiano" <spasiano(at)playstos.com> wrote:
Hi, take a look to that:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/microsoft-vista-faster-on-a-mac-pro-than-apples-own-os-x-232402.php
Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Andersson" <sanders3d(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: Vista and XSI?
>I can only agree :) And running bootcamp on a macbook pro works great
> if you need windows for some applications (such as xsi). Or.... you
> can install Linux, some distros actually supports the MacBook Pro now.
> And then you can have both OSX and Linux.
>
> Windows.... "archive to bin"
>
> /stefan
>
>
> On 1/30/07, jordibares <jordibares(at)the-mill.com>
wrote:
>>
>> If you are planning to use a windows based box MAKE SURE IS NOT
VISTA.
>>
>> http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/07/technology/Reality_check_Vista.biz2/index.htm?cnn=yes
>>
>>
>> The implications are huge in terms of drivers/support for old
hardware,
>> memory requirements for the OS, and IMO one of the worsts things we
are
>> facing nowadays, Digital Restriction Manager.
>>
>> To learn more
>>
>> http://polishlinux.org/gnu/drm-vista-and-your-rights/
>>
>>
>> My suggestion for a laptop? Buy a Mac with Bootcamp so you can
run OS X
>> and
>> Windows XP, the performance is impressive and there are some
benchmarks
>> between Macs and Dells running XSI, Maya, Photoshop and seems they are
>> faster than comparable models.
>>
>> Just make sure is NOT VISTA.
>>
>> jb
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29/1/07 19:35, "Byron Nash" <byronnash(at)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm in the market for a laptop(not to drudge up the old
"laptops"
>> thread).
>> As of today, everything Dell sells will come with MS Vista. Does
anyone
>> know
>> if XSI runs (well) on it? Also, is Vista 64bit? therefore allowing one
to
>> run XSI 64bit?
>>
>> Another question: I looked at the recommended hardware list for
XSI
>> mobile
>> workstations. It's pretty small. I also noticed that a lot of you are
>> running lappys with graphics cards not on the list. I'm looking into
>> Dell's
>> mostly, so Inspirons, M90/65 and XPS are on the research list. As long
as
>> I
>> upgrade from the built in graphics controller to GeForce, Quadro, or
>> Radeon
>> I should be able to run XSI, correct??
>>
>>
>
>
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