Vista experiences anyone?

**john1701** · 03-21-2007, 08:09 AM

pressing vol-, mute, vol+, does nothing. Heres my button code:
B22,2,488,113,55,"VOL-","Volume-"
B23,115,490,114,51,"MUTE","Mute"
B24,230,491,112,51,"VOL+","Volume+"

Also playing videos it keeps flashing the video player on/off over the video.

I did just installed RR on vista not even a hour ago, so it looks like I got some tweaking to do. Any suggestions?

**david69leonard** · 03-21-2007, 08:40 AM

im thinking of installing Vista in my ride as well, just for ****s and giggles... One thing that did look interesting to me is the new WMC, i was thinking about using this as my front end and im sure there has to be a way to customize it to suite my needs... Has anyone tried to do anything with Windows Media Center in Vista yet?

**Ruffy** · 03-21-2007, 08:44 AM

thought vista doesnt support GDI at all, so the new version wont work well

In any case, everyones complaining about vista requirments. Vista can be stripped down to run on slow/old hardware. The high end requirements are for Aero. Remember, there are/will be vista based embedded solutions that arent running the latest and greatest hardware out there. I'm looking foward to the WindowsCE replacement based off vista thats in testing.

**EL CAMINO** · 03-21-2007, 01:17 PM

i been using vista ultimate on my desktop, i can see mayor bugs not to mention drivers support, most likely audio drivers, is true that they are availabe but not like for xp, Road Runner dosnt run under vista, cut be the aero GUI, i dont care,but i must say MC is nice as hell.my carpc is running nicely and strong with xp and Road RUnner and like JWPB said Road Runner is covering my whole screen soo no reason to see windos that much, soo i'll wait..

**turbocad6** · 03-21-2007, 04:56 PM

I've been playing with vista recently... I like it.... so far it just seems like a refined version of xp...

WARNING: from my experiences so far, DO NOT try & do an upgrade, especially if you have a lot of crap on your pc... vista can have issues with programs that the advisor will not warn you about, & you won't find out about the problems until after you upgrade, then wind up with a crapped out system,

I had one machine that after the upgrade it just crapped out, blue screens & all... I'm realizing that the issue there seemed to be a program that I had on the machine called style xp... vista couldn't live with it, but gave no indication until after the fact.... it's always a good idea to do a freash install anyway, but especially with vista as there are a lot of unknown compatability issues there still...

after playing with vista for a bit, I'm pretty sure that I will upgrade all my machines to it.... it runs fine on my system & I see no real difference in performance between it & xp.... in some ways it's faster even, especially the built in search & the way it indexes...

I haven't even run aero yet & I still say go for it, maybe not in the car though until fe support is more wide spread...

**turbocad6** · 03-23-2007, 07:22 PM

ok, a bit more learning & I now know that you MUST completely remove ANY aplication that the upgrade advisor flags as a red X & incompatable, as well as ALL aplications that even give a yellow flag as to being a maybe or partial incompatability....

then, an upgrade should go of clean.....

gonna try one now

just thought I'd share that too

**TrevorC** · 04-05-2007, 12:09 PM

I have had vista installed in my car for about a month. I am just now trying to integrate RR.

My setup is all brand new, vista was cheap, and xp would not give me an activation code so....

Aero is running.

**2k1Toaster** · 01-10-2008, 05:36 AM

Well for ****s and giggles I am trying out RR and Vista Ultimate 32bit...

Running on a P4M 2.2Ghz with 512Mb RAM. Also the Nov. 2007 release of RR.

First off, the OS runs more smoothly than I thought. I got flash installed and RoadRunner started. Changed the volume control to Master and that works. However everything is choppy. The flash logo spins fine. I press a button though and there is a noticeable lag. Really annoying. Then I tried to embed IGv4. With or without clipping it would not embed. It just showed up on top of RR with the full menu bar and all. Froze RR a few times. Really annoying.

So that was a fun experiment, XP goes back on tomorrow.

**MrCummings** · 01-10-2008, 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by 2k1Toaster

Well for ****s and giggles I am trying out RR and Vista Ultimate 32bit...

Running on a P4M 2.2Ghz with 512Mb RAM. Also the Nov. 2007 release of RR.

First off, the OS runs more smoothly than I thought. I got flash installed and RoadRunner started. Changed the volume control to Master and that works. However everything is choppy. The flash logo spins fine. I press a button though and there is a noticeable lag. Really annoying. Then I tried to embed IGv4. With or without clipping it would not embed. It just showed up on top of RR with the full menu bar and all. Froze RR a few times. Really annoying.

So that was a fun experiment, XP goes back on tomorrow.

Try more memory. 512 MB is the minimum requirement for Vista Home. The others recommend 1GB.

I have Vista freshly installed with 1GB memory and RoadRunner runs almost perfectly. I get random blue screens and restarts all day on my current XP system so i am trying to get Vista working. My only issue is that most of the skins show a white screen until I run the mouse cursor over the buttons. I have tried disabling windows aero but I get the same thing. So for right now the only skin I have gotten to work perfectly is Digital FX 2.5

Anyone else have any suggestions?

**slvrsol** · 01-10-2008, 07:45 PM

did you try changing the compatibility properties for the RoadRunner executable? I have no problems with the following settings: compatibility for win xp, sp2.. disable visual themes.. disable desktop composition and disable display scaling on high DPI settings.