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Originally posted by wormwood
I just installed fritz 9. vista complained about "known incompatibility issues", I ignored, and it works perfectly. no problems whatsoever.
ct-art 3 nagged about trying to write somewhere it's not allowed to (what horribly low quality coding in a commercial piece of software! 😲) while installing (I ignored), but seems to still work normally.

if it doesn't work on some computer, I'd give the 'honor' from that to the convekta 'programmer' responsible for ct-art, not vista.

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I have a kick ass computer (i wont tell you the specs, it'll make you cry). . . Vista works fine, but i couldn't find the program i needed to tweek with my graphics cards, and it wont let me use a non-microsoft program without me having to let it through all the time. 😛
what's that in nerd talk? you couldn't get the graphics card driver installed? -it makes a huge impact in the sluggishness. the vista generic drivers are meant to just show the screen, and nothing more. at least on my 1920x1600 screen the generic driver worked reeeeally slow....

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Originally posted by wormwood
what's that in nerd talk? you couldn't get the graphics card driver installed? -it makes a huge impact in the sluggishness. the vista generic drivers are meant to just show the screen, and nothing more. at least on my 1920x1600 screen the generic driver worked reeeeally slow....
No, i could get the driver installed, but i had problems with the fan speeds, and couldn't find the drivers to see if there was a way of tweeking them. I installed a program that Hopscotch told me about that changes the fan speed manually, but Vista wouldn't let it run from startup.

oh, and i have two 512mb 8800GT's running SLI. The graphics run like a dream 😛

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
No, i could get the driver installed, but i had problems with the fan speeds, and couldn't find the drivers to see if there was a way of tweeking them. I installed a program that Hopscotch told me about that changes the fan speed manually, but Vista wouldn't let it run from startup.

oh, and i have two 512mb 8800GT's running SLI. The graphics run like a dream 😛
maybe the fan controlling software needs to be installed as admin?

on the other hand, I can't get trillian to connect properly from startup, so maybe there really is something wrong with the startup directory?

what's the fan throttling software called? I'd need one myself, as the mobo's similar program won't let itself install on vista...

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Is there a trial version/simulation of vista I can download and use on my old equipment? Or is there one on the internet?

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Originally posted by wormwood
maybe the fan controlling software needs to be installed as admin?

on the other hand, I can't get trillian to connect properly from startup, so maybe there really is something wrong with the startup directory?

what's the fan throttling software called? I'd need one myself, as the mobo's similar program won't let itself install on vista...
Riva Tuner

There's a site you can download it from,just google it 🙂

Long story, ending in me taking my having to buy a new MB 😳

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
Riva Tuner

There's a site you can download it from,just google it 🙂

Long story, ending in me taking my having to buy a new MB 😳
ah, right. you did say it was for graphics card, but somehow I was thinking of a throttling software for my cpu & northbridge fans...

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Originally posted by wormwood
ah, right. you did say it was for graphics card, but somehow I was thinking of a throttling software for my cpu & northbridge fans...
Ask Hopscotch, that's who gave me my last couple of pieces of useful computer info.

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Originally posted by wormwood
I just installed fritz 9. vista complained about "known incompatibility issues", I ignored, and it works perfectly. no problems whatsoever.
yep that's exactly what I did and I have had it running on there for about 6 months with no problems

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Originally posted by wormwood
I just installed fritz 9. vista complained about "known incompatibility issues", I ignored, and it works perfectly. no problems whatsoever.
Any help you can give on this is appreciated. I get the compatability message, run as administrator and setup starts. It then loads a window with an install button and it fails at that point

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I agree with those who say it's annoyingly sluggish. I also hate that it says I don't have permission to do things! It's MY computer! Of course I have permission! Some of those are really simple things like adding a screen saver or adding a desktop background. I have to save files and manually move them to the right folder. I can't remember the other things it refuses to let me do offhand. Basically, I hate it.

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