Vista Bugs and Solutions I've discovered
Even although Vista is now officially released, there are still a variety of critical bugs I've noted in Microsoft's new pretty OS.
The main one which affects me is the error code 43 bug which prevents AGP graphics cards from working properly on dual core machines. You could run dual core without the benefits of your graphics card, or you could turn off one core and have pretty graphics but slow programs. It took 3 months of investigation but I finally figured out that what was necessary was to update the AGP system device -- if you have SiS, or Uli chipset (I have Uli) you are in luck. Otherwise if you are rocking with Nvidia's Nforce3, (or worse 2)...so very sorry.
Install the AGP Patch, reboot and your windows experience index should go from a 1 rating to something far more reasonable.
The second big bug comes on installation -- even when doing a clean install, Vista has a tendency to use drives OTHER than the boot/OS drive to store system files (such as ntldr). To avoid this you need to make sure that you are loading all your drivers from a USB key/CD and NOT from a separate hard drive in the system. Failure to do this will result in your system relying on two separate drives to get started. If anyone can tell me a shortcut to moving the system files over to the boot drive/partition I'd much appreciate it.
The third problem (and its something I'm still troubleshooting) is integration with firefox. If you set firefox as the main URL handler for Vista, many of the core OS referral functions breaks. For example typing an url in the Address links on the taskbar does not pull the page in firefox...rather the request goes nowhere. No solution for this other than using IE as the default browser for link handling.
Speaking of IE (and this is not strictly a vista problem), IE7 does not seem to work with Citrix. Anyone have any solutions for this?
The main one which affects me is the error code 43 bug which prevents AGP graphics cards from working properly on dual core machines. You could run dual core without the benefits of your graphics card, or you could turn off one core and have pretty graphics but slow programs. It took 3 months of investigation but I finally figured out that what was necessary was to update the AGP system device -- if you have SiS, or Uli chipset (I have Uli) you are in luck. Otherwise if you are rocking with Nvidia's Nforce3, (or worse 2)...so very sorry.
Install the AGP Patch, reboot and your windows experience index should go from a 1 rating to something far more reasonable.
The second big bug comes on installation -- even when doing a clean install, Vista has a tendency to use drives OTHER than the boot/OS drive to store system files (such as ntldr). To avoid this you need to make sure that you are loading all your drivers from a USB key/CD and NOT from a separate hard drive in the system. Failure to do this will result in your system relying on two separate drives to get started. If anyone can tell me a shortcut to moving the system files over to the boot drive/partition I'd much appreciate it.
The third problem (and its something I'm still troubleshooting) is integration with firefox. If you set firefox as the main URL handler for Vista, many of the core OS referral functions breaks. For example typing an url in the Address links on the taskbar does not pull the page in firefox...rather the request goes nowhere. No solution for this other than using IE as the default browser for link handling.
Speaking of IE (and this is not strictly a vista problem), IE7 does not seem to work with Citrix. Anyone have any solutions for this?
Labels: Vista Bugs and Solutions
posted by Wetkarma | 9:57 AM
3 Comments:
Hey, I just thought I'd pop over from TNT.
I bought a copy of WinXP Media Center Edition, which comes with a coupon/certificate to get Vista Home Premium, and I plan to upgrade if it seems doable, as you know.
I'll be running AMD and a PCI express videocard.
Have you noticed any new lock-ups, or bugs?
Have you got mozilla to work, yet?
Oh, yeah. How are you doing?
Yours,
pp
No new lockups. I've taken TweakVI and setup the settings the way I like it...if you are very familiar with XP, much of the power user functionality is still there. Tips that work in WinXP are even neater in Vista. ADM + PCI video shouldn't be a problem, I'm pretty much locked into my AGP motherboard for the next few years as I don't really see the benefit of PCI yet.
Mozilla 2.0 seems to solve the address bar problem. Right now the only thing I'm working on is getting my overclocking application (Easytune) to work. So far vista doesn't seem to like it at all.
BTW one thing I have noticed is that this thing is a memory hog. In its "resting" state 34% of my 2GB of memory is being used. I can see where 4GB+ systems will be standard in the future. Let me know how your upgrade goes, I'd be happy to help if I can.
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