Vista lasted about a day for me, now back to good old XP.
Thinking of going back to XP
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i`d say if there isnt any drivers for your hardware by now, then there isnt going to be any, after all vista has been out over a year now
i`ll stick with vista
as for XP being efficient and uses next to nothing, it actually wastes resources, it has ram just sitting there doing nothing were vista uses more of it, till its needed.
now we have SP1 vista is even better
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Do the people complaining about Vista have crappy machines?
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i use vista and it runs sweet as anything - far better than XP
Nobody in the thread has said that games run significantly faster under Vista?
If a particular game *does* run faster on either OS, it's due to the graphics drivers.. XP has much more mature drivers, so in some games, it will have better performance.. but then again, some games (like Assassins Creed) will be faster under Vista (assuming you have a DX10 card)
Nobody in the thread has said that games run significantly faster under Vista?
If a particular game *does* run faster on either OS, it's due to the graphics drivers.. XP has much more mature drivers, so in some games, it will have better performance.. but then again, some games (like Assassins Creed) will be faster under Vista (assuming you have a DX10 card)
In reference to GFX performance
Like XP did to 2000? oh wait...
Having moved on from Windows98 to XP and know to Vista I wouldn't go back to XP it just seems dated .. I just like to keep up Ive also replaced the kids PC with it another thing i like is its user friendliness self maintenance in a nut shell i find Vista looks after it self
Try a real OS... get linux...
MS coppied the 'aero' style window system from linux's KDE... KDE has been around donkies years.... if you like vista, you'd love linux...
Who cares where it stole it from. Most people would hate linux it's complicated and not user friendly. Although it is getting better. But I suppose that's a tottaly different argument to this thread.
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How am I proving your point ? I am demonstrating that there is no performance difference between the 2 in gaming, which you said that vista wasn't as good in gaming. It is basically the same.
There is no point in not having Vista, you are just reducing the system security, having less features and having a less pretty desktop to look at.
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Even things such as the GPU helping with desktop drawing (awesome for those who use creative software) running certain programs in a sandbox, better memory and disk management, reworked network stack, more inbuilt security, heck even little things like rendering thumbnail previews better in the Explorer (I actually had a folder of JPG's that XP would not show thumbnails too, they just appeared in random colors, and in Vista they show perfectly). Even the whole OS is better designed to take better advantage of dual core tech.
XP from 98 had just as many people complaining, and now those same people are crying over Vista from XP :/
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I've been on Vista since the weekend and so far, it is great - apart from Stupid Nvidia not releasing an updated driver for my 7900GS on my laptop. A modded driver is now at work and it's much better but not as good compared to XP's matured driver - still get the occasional glitch and flickering.