Soldato
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I see loads of people complaining that since upgrading to Vista, they have lost X amount of performance over XP. I myself find, that games do run about 10-25% faster in XP.
Then I cast my mind back to why I got my first PC, back in 94 when I saw Doom. I got myself an old (even then) 386 and installed dos and Doom, I was off!
Then I got interested in windows, 3.11 it was. As soon as I ran Doom under this, I lost FPS.
So I bought a cutting edge 486 DX4 100, VLBus, and that good 2d card they had then, I forget which now. The fps went back up again.
Then I was tempted by Windows 95, now I didn't have enought RAM, 8mb was not going to cut it. Had to upgrade again, £90 for 16mb.
Then Windows 98- upgrade again
Then ME, less said about that the better
Then XP, by now I have an athlon 800 and 512 RAM, but its not really cutting the mustard in XP, Better upgrade then. 1800,2800,4000,4200x2
So, is Vista going to get any faster? Yes and no, it will if you can afford it to. I dont expect drivers to give an awful lot more performance than they currently do, if you upgrade your OS, you have to expect some drop in performance, I have seen it with every one so far, why should Vista be any different?
Then I cast my mind back to why I got my first PC, back in 94 when I saw Doom. I got myself an old (even then) 386 and installed dos and Doom, I was off!
Then I got interested in windows, 3.11 it was. As soon as I ran Doom under this, I lost FPS.
So I bought a cutting edge 486 DX4 100, VLBus, and that good 2d card they had then, I forget which now. The fps went back up again.
Then I was tempted by Windows 95, now I didn't have enought RAM, 8mb was not going to cut it. Had to upgrade again, £90 for 16mb.
Then Windows 98- upgrade again
Then ME, less said about that the better
Then XP, by now I have an athlon 800 and 512 RAM, but its not really cutting the mustard in XP, Better upgrade then. 1800,2800,4000,4200x2
So, is Vista going to get any faster? Yes and no, it will if you can afford it to. I dont expect drivers to give an awful lot more performance than they currently do, if you upgrade your OS, you have to expect some drop in performance, I have seen it with every one so far, why should Vista be any different?