Talk:Windows Vista
Personal experiences
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Ey Ren
Summary
Success running SL under Vista
System
ASUSTEK G2 Laptop
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Series Processor (1994 MHz)
- Memory: 2047 MB
- OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000)
- Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
- Graphics Card: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1700
More info
SL failed to run with the default driver. I modded ATI Catalyst 7.8 with the free tool from Driver Heaven (took me less than 10 minutes). The instructions says to install MSXML 4.0 - I installed MSXML 6.0 and ran the tool without problems.
Benja Kepler
Summary
Catalyst 7.3+ upgrade recommended by AMD for viewer crash when using Catalyst 7.1 and Vista
System
Dell Dimension C521
- CPU: AMD (Unknown model) (2304 MHz)
- Memory: 2046 MB
- OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000)
- Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
- Graphics Card: Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
More info
The first time I tried SL on my Vista machine, the viewer crashed. I found this on the AMD support website
After updating to Catalyst 7.4 I was able to load SL.
Summary
Various problems using non-Administrator account in Vista
System
as above
More info
Strange things seemed to happen using a non-Administrator account under Vista that went away, with the same viewer, when run under Administrator, such as:-
While logged into the non-Administrator account, the view can be run 'As Administrator', as well as logging into Administrator to run it from there.