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QlimaxUK

QlimaxUK

QlimaxUK

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ok so im thinking about gettin a Core2duo but am determined to stay with XP, so am just wonderin if XP is able to handle this cpu type efficiently enough so i can run the latest games: crysis, NFS-Prostreet, UT3......
 
ah good. so XP can live on :), just wonderin is ther many ppl out ther who r determined as me to keep with xp and not switch to vista?
 
QlimaxUK said:
ah good. so XP can live on :), just wonderin is ther many ppl out ther who r determined as me to keep with xp and not switch to vista?
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Yip there is.


Tho an awful lot of them are converted once they give Vista a chance.
 
Currently I've seen very little need to move to Vista, especially with what they're charging for it compared to the value it adds. I guess I'm not really ultra "determined" to stick with XP, but I highly doubt I'll be switching any time soon. XP runs like a champ on the system in my sig BTW.
 
1st off: compatability issues (lots of) Hardware/software/Drivers
2nd: Bill G is evil!!!! tryin to switch us to vista so we can play HALO!!!! and other games he wants to double charge for!
3rd: looks like it uses more resources so xp should be faster
and more i cant think of rite now :)
 
Point 1 : not any more, I get better FPS in Vista now.

Point 3 : It doesn't use more resources, if fills them so it can use them to there max its uber clever :)
 
At the moment XP is faster at your copy/cut and paste but that should be getting sorted out in SP1. I have used Vista for around 5/6 months now its pretty nice to use like all the fancy eye candy things.

I will say it is annoying that some companys (Creative) are lazy and rather than launch some drivers for their older products force you to use xp if you want to add music to your mp3 player(I have a Zen Touch).
 
A Retail copy of Vista costs about £250-£300, depending on what edition. 64-bit has hardly any decent software support, the OEM copies of Vista are apparently really strict when it comes to hardware upgrades (which is fine if you never, ever upgrade your GPU), Vista has built in DRM crap. Unless you want to watch Resident Evil 2 on Blu-Ray or see a tree get cut down in Crysis DX10, what's the point at the moment? Eventually Vista will be essential but most people would rather spend their spare cash on hardware instead.
 
Take superfetch as an example, it caches programs you use frequently so that they open much faster when you choose to use them, for example photoshop opens much faster in vista than it did in xp for me because of this.

If a program needs more ram then vista just "uncaches" some others to give it room for example if I was playing a game like crysis, vista would give it priority and chuck photoshop out of the ram.
 
this is what i do:

Windows XP for daily use and DX9 games (pretty much 100% of all the games i currently own :P)

and i have Vista installed on another partiton, and i will only ever go on that for any type of DX10 game or benchmark otherwise i dont need it.

:)
 
QlimaxUK said:
1st off: compatability issues (lots of) Hardware/software/Drivers
2nd: Bill G is evil!!!! tryin to switch us to vista so we can play HALO!!!! and other games he wants to double charge for!
3rd: looks like it uses more resources so xp should be faster
and more i cant think of rite now :)
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You can patch Halo 2 to run from XP. :)

Works great for me! (no online tho)
 
Chimerical said:
A Retail copy of Vista costs about £250-£300, depending on what edition. 64-bit has hardly any decent software support, the OEM copies of Vista are apparently really strict when it comes to hardware upgrades (which is fine if you never, ever upgrade your GPU), Vista has built in DRM crap. Unless you want to watch Resident Evil 2 on Blu-Ray or see a tree get cut down in Crysis DX10, what's the point at the moment? Eventually Vista will be essential but most people would rather spend their spare cash on hardware instead.
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I picked up my retail Vista Home Premium for £150, and as for the OEM versions, they have the same licensing restrictions as XP i.e. you change your motherboard, you need a new OS.
 
if your building a new system i think it seems to be silly to build it and not put the latest OS on.

ive got vista running and it runs so fast its unreal. no worries with any drivers either. 90% of all new stuff released supports vista.
 
a lot more people are determined to stick with XP than change to Vista. I'm one of them. I've tried vista a few times, and it just doesn't compare to XP in terms of speed/performance. It's nice to look at, but at the moment, thats about it. I care about performance, not eye candy, so I will stick with XP untill am I physically forced to switch to Vista.
 
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