Hi. Do they intend, as far as you've heard, to work on resource intensiveness? The primary reason i'm running xp still, other than the audio limitations, is I find vista slow. Jaws isn't as responsive there. I can't arrow quickly around because when I hit the top or bottom edge of my screen it then takes a while to scroll the entire screen and let me read the next line, slowing me down rediculously. Everyone claims vista is one blazing fast OS, how wrong they are. I've tried it on three different laptops and they've all done the same thing. One has a 1.8ghz core2duo, the next had a 1.81ghz turion64x2, and this one here has a core2duo 1.66ghz. this one is much better than the other two because I suppose vista business has a lower footprint and runs fewer processes. No media center to take care of and what? I don't know, i'm really disapointed though, you'd think ms'd be trying to really make it go fast, smaller, faster, easier. Oh, and do you know it takes me more steps to connect to the internet on vista? I need less steps in xp. Start menu, network connections, hit enter on wireless network connection, ok a little more than two but the option to do these things is berried unvariably deeper in vista than it is in xp. It's not more user friendly for me, except for the windows update feature which rocks. And, every time I want to connect to my school's dual t1 on vista I have to repair my local area network connection for some reason. In xp on the same computer I connect automatically. Speaking of computers, on this vaio here, whic h came with vista and now runs both vista and xp, on both opperating systems, when I run direct x stuff, like GMA shades of dooooooom, yes I put the extra o's in there on purpose, the stereo spectrum is really messed up. I think it tries to simulate surround sound. The result is when something is in front of me it's really hard to line myself up on it because it just sounds like it's in the center all the time. It's not like this with my other computers. If I walk up the hall, i'll heer the bleepbleepbleep noise, it sounds like the door is right in front of me. As I keep walking, the difference happens for one step here, the door will be completely on my left or completely on my right, if that makes sence, as I keep going I can hear what should have happened in the opposit as I approached. The door's sound will get quieter with each step I take and it will begin to sound more and more like it's directly behind me, but not quite make it before I can't hear the indicater for the door at all. Anyone know why they do that on this computer and what I can do about it? Clango does this too, even with the SAPI voices, when something is on the far right, it sounds like it's close to the cenbter but has some effect applied to it that sorta makes it sound like it's behind me. I think some people would like this but I dislike it with a passion. Oh and btw I have shades of doom set to stereo, not surround sound or what ever. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] old game companies we have not heard much about
> Hi Aaron, > From what I have been told by my sources about Windows 7 I think it > will be much more satisfactory than Vista. It is my understanding > Microsoft wanted to get Vista out the door asap, and so it was rushed to > production. Its new driver library, bugs, and other things hadn't been > fully completed when it was initially released. They basically hoped > they could address all the issues in service packs and through the > Windows update service. In my personal opinion this is a dirty way to do > business, but it is how they did it to get some initial up front capital. > However, now they have Vista to tide them over financially what they are > doing is working on addressing all the issues, bugs, and driver problems > with Vista and putting them into service packs for Vista users. Those > service packs are also being applied to Windows 7 which is basically > going to be Windows Vista with all the bugs, issues, and service packs > installed. Oh, they will probably add in afew extras like new wall > papers, sounds, icons, themes, a new feature here or there, but I have > been told it is not going to be a major upgrade. More of a Windows Vista > with a new look and feel, and with many bug fixes and patches installed > by default. > Also for us programmers they are of course going to be removing many of > the older libraries that have been around for ages, that are no longer > needed, and are replacing them with the updated .NET Framework, XNA is > going to basically replace DirectX as the core gaming API, and various > other changes that are available for Vista, but weren't necessarily > ready to ship with Vista last year. For example the XAudio2 library was > just released this year, and now officially replaces DirectSound in > Windows 7, but was in development and testing stages when Vista hit the > seen.So DirectSound was used instead on Vista. > > > Valiant8086 wrote: >> Hi. >> Or maybe windows 7 will be satisfactory for more people. It could be like >> windows xp was when compared to windows ME. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "shaun everiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:15 PM >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] old game companies we have not heard much about >> >> >>> true tom. >>> I for one thing wouldn't mind staying with xp at least till the next >>> time >>> I really need to upgrade. >>> To tell you the truth, this will be a while, after this laptop decides >>> to >>> die whenever that will be betwene 5-10 years, and maybe more I still >>> have >>> my slow a10 which is semi dead but will probably last me another 5 years >>> or so if I reserect it maybe more. >>> The issue with staying with xp with a laptop is the fact that drivers >>> will >>> not be made for the hardware and since all new hardware will require >>> drivers including sound there is almost no choice in the matter. >>> I suspect that if the next system is not up to scrat h and both laptops >>> do >>> die whenever that will be and this one is just new so I don't think that >>> would be for at least 20-30 years if I play my cards right, if thats the >>> case and I don't have a job or a life a fact that I still am not sure >>> of, >>> then I will just have to get a desktop, its not a big loss. >>> If push comes to shove I have an old sb16 here, I also have an old p3 >>> 733 >>> here granted it has a busted ram slot on it meaning I would have the >>> 256mb >>> ram instead of 512 which is recomended for xp really to be good enough >>> to >>> run I probably could live with that. >>> If all else fails though my next system will be either linux or if I >>> want >>> to stay with windows it will be windows 2000 the last system where >>> activation is not required. >>> At 09:01 a.m. 31/07/2008, you wrote: >>>> Hi Damien, >>>> Yeah, the fact of the matter is some people are going to upgrade and we >>>> can't stick to total Windows XP only compatibility forever. As of last >>>> month Windows XP has totally been pulled off the market, and everything >>>> is Windows Vista. So even if you buy a new laptop, and want to buy XP >>>> all you can do is hope to find new copies on Ebay or find left over >>>> stock some place. >>>> In the general market at least Mac OS Leopard sales are up since more >>>> and more sighted companies and home users are sick of Vista as well. >>>> Vista hasn't been the success Microsoft hoped it would be, and more >>>> people are at least thinking about Linux or Mac OS now. >>>> As game programmers we need to keep an eye on these trends as we are >>>> slowly seeing it happen to the blind community as well. I have a friend >>> >from high school who was so disgusted with Vista he went Linux. I know >>>> someone else who recently purchased a MacBook Pro with Leopard on it. >>>> Both of them are blind,and they don't want to go to Vista. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Damien Sadler wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> Yeah, I agree. Even though I don't have a Vista laptop or even in some >>>>> respects don't even agree with Vista, I understand that that's not >>>>> everyone's opinion, hence the reason I made sure, using my friend's >>>>> laptop, >>>>> that Acefire supported Vista before releasing. Cory Sharp was a great >>>>> help >>>>> in that respect. >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Damien >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>>> list, >>>> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>> list, >>> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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