Comments on: Vista and the missing compatible Software

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:59:41 +0000

Eeer hi i have vista home basic and i wanna play maple story but then ic ant find the compatibilty tab on prperties or anything like that but on other thing everything is going great

By: Will

Will — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:10:33 +0000

Thanks Sascha, one last thing would I need the Windows XP Installation Disc to upgrade to Vista Premium? If anyone knows any help would be appreciated.

By: sascha

sascha — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:01:03 +0000

Will, they are compatible with Vista. There is just a small issue in Flash when clicking in/out of movieclips. Thats an incompability that other apps have too (Eclipse and Photoshop CS2 have similar glitches). However switching to compability mode helps and lets not forget that CS3 is soon to be released.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:59:55 +0000

Hey, would anyone be able to tell me if Flash MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Fireworks MX 2004 are compatible with Windows Vista. I’m thinking about upgrading but as a web developer these tools are essential and set me back quite a bit.

By: sascha

sascha — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:38:14 +0000

Tayga don’t misunderstand! In my opinion the Audiophile is an excellent and inexpensive Pro card. I have 6ms latency when using audio applications with that card and I don’t like to replace that card with any other in near future. So M-Audio should come up with drivers soon or they are banned forever!

By: Rudy

Rudy — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:32:57 +0000

End of the month starts the Frankfurter musicmesse. I think m-audio can’t show up without vista compatible stuff don’t you think ?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:13:21 +0000

viktor.. tried that… didn’t work out… Vista style.. u’re so full of shit… the score in vista is up to 10 points… so cut the crap and lie to someone who buys your stuff.

By: viktor

viktor — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:44:08 +0000

Right click on the shortcut to Flash, select Properties > compatibility: check “Disable desktop composition”.

This solves the Flash zoom problem on Vista Ultimate for me.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:38:56 +0000

hey dan. i hate that m-audio takes forever with drivers. have you tried contacting them? i am also in the same situation as you. that soundcard is awesome btw.

By: sascha

sascha — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:17:14 +0000

@ViSTA STYLe and what do you do with your super computer? I hope it’s more than ‘just playing Solitaire”! The high rating comes mainly from your large amount of RAM and the quad cpu.
Even a value of 5 is a very good Vista ranking for a PC!

Dan, M-Audio is indeed slow with drivers but then again I have no experience with other Pro-Audio makers. The Logitech situation is a debacle! They seems to have become ridiculous! I can only hope they change their mind about providing Legacy drivers!

There are several points that keep me back from using Vista:
- Missing Drivers (Mouse, Sound),
- No OpenGL (yet)
- No compatible third party Firewall (or lets say since I’m using Zonealarm, it is not compatible yet).

My Hardware is rather up-to-date so if these things were fixed I’d switch in a second simply because Vista is more stable and secure than XP (although I’m sure there is still much room for improvement) and IMHO Vista’s look and feel is quite nice.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:16:30 +0000

ViSTA STYLe, Nice pc… hope you’ll buy it sometime in the far far far future. Anyhow, if we started talkin` ’bout the systems… I have an Intel Xeon 3.20 GHz, 2×512 DDR, Intel MB, Seagate Barracuda 120 GB 10200 rpm, ATi Radeon 9600 Pro 120 MB, Thermaltake Soprano case, LG DVD-RAM, ASUS TV-FM and so on… anyway, let’s cut the crap and do some business… Sascha, the M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 is a very powerfull soundcard, high quality in/out and so on.. but the HUGE problem is that M-Audio takes so long to develop teh new drivers. btw, what happend to Logitech and how come they don’t release some mouse drivers Vista compatible? This is stupidity and at the same time a restriction for the consumer from them to use XP or some other crappy OS. Even if MS Win sucks BIG time with it’s backdoors and security holes, lookin` at the graphics, they hit the jackpot for us, the ones blessed by their pc’s Cheers mates and have a bite of reality.

By: ViSTA STYLe

ViSTA STYLe — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:02:51 +0000

Viasta is the best my computer rating is 19.7 and flash works like a charm wit no problems what so ever

my specs are:
windows vista ultamate
8GB ram
2GB vidieo card ati x1950 crossfire (2 video cards hooked together)
2 terribytes hdd (hard drive 2048GB
Intal Extreame Quad processor (4 cores)
Liquid Nitrogen Gel Cooling (My PC NEVER GETS HOT)
17 in 1 card reader firewire and all the other stuff
suround sound speakers
24 bit high definition sound card

This PC costad $23579 !!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:07:30 +0000

On Vista I eventually got my Realtek audio drivers working. However on some DVD’s the sound would disappear although superficially the sound system appeared OK. (Signal strength meter etc working.) I then find right clicking the sound icon bottom right of screen gives me differing hardware options to choose from and default selection options. Invariably a combination of these works! What I do not understand is why it is not automated as it was under XP.

By: sascha

sascha — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:56:49 +0000

Dan I know your problem too well! I have the same soundcard (which is a very good one btw). I don’t think you will be able to get XP drivers working under Vista. We simply have to wait until they (or MS) release the correct drivers. The same goes for Logitech but they already made clear in their forums that there probably will be no Mouseware for Vista.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:16:32 +0000

James, Flash 8 runs perfect on Vista Enterprise, WITH the Aero theme. Also PhotoPaint X3 and Corel Draw X3 and any other graph design app I’m tryin` tyo use. My HUGE problem is with m-audio and their stinky drivers… how come they only released for XP and not even a beta for Vista? Geeeez, that’s a very nasty thing to do to leave their customers without the right to use the products they purchased. I have a M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 and I managed to install the XP drivers in Vista, but they don’t spit any sound and if try to use them it gives me an error like they’re in use or invalid. Does anyone know or presumes how to solve this compatibility issue? I also tried to load the drivers in XP Compatibility Mode but… no luck. Thanks in advance for your help. Cheers mates.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:37:05 +0000

Thanks for the tip for compatability mode! a lot

By: James

James — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:04:57 +0000

I think we sould wait for Adobe CS3 and Studio 9… I hate the awful look of windows clasic, but is the only way I get Flash Professional to work “ok”.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:47:55 +0000

For Vista I would recommend a Vista capable machine. i.e. A new purchase. Sound drivers are a nuisance but in my case it was Realtek HD Drivers that Realtek said “Worked” when they in fact did not. 3 updates later it’s all OK but this was on a Vista Capable Laptop.
Along with Vista goes MS Office 2007. THINK there are compatibility problems (BIG Ones) with 2007 and Office XP. I would let the dust settle and certainly make no business decisions on either upgrade path yet. If you are geeky Vista is interesting. Please don’t tell me you want to upgrade because of the colour scheme though! Windows XP will allow all sorts of mods to it’s front end look. So that should not be a factor in your decision making.
An off the cuff point. Vista Ultimate, I am not a fan of media centre, the hijacking nature of all media programs gets me down. You put some tunes off your CD’s onto the Comp and before you know it they are “Protected” So you cannot now tranfer them to your mp3 player unless it’s a Zune or an iPod. Naff! DRM should be DMM Driving Me Mad!

By: sascha

sascha — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:43:38 +0000

Yes there is a solution: Don’t use Vista!
Honestly don’t expect any feedback from Microsoft when software from their opponents doesn’t run on their OS.

By: Pandan

Pandan — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:10:28 +0000

I installed vista today. And I also have the problem with the zoom effect when editing objects.
It hangs for several seconds.
What supprised me is that I can’t find any information from either Adobe or Microsoft about this bug.

So now I have use disable desktop composition when running flash.exe.
As a flash developer this means that I always have to use “disable desktop composition” . It sucks