Windows Mojave!

I've also used Vista with 1, 2 and 4GB of RAM. With 1GB I found it very slow for anything other than basic browsing and office work. 2GB was fine for most stuff but I still experienced quite a slowdown when multitasking, more than under XP. With 4GB it's perfect.

As for the test... just shows that the majority of Vista hatred is from uninformed bandwagon-jumpers.
 
Mattey1 said:
Agree totally but I've only used 1gb & 2gb :) vista works perfect with 2gb.
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how can you say it's 'perfect' if you've only used it with 2gb!

i'd consider it useable if you have 2gb, defender real-time disabled, and no antivirus installed



edit, read this..
http://www.corsairmemory.com/_appnotes/AN804_Gaming_Performance_Analysis.pdf

summary here

Corsair_2GBvs4GB_performance_01.jpg
 
I'll add one caveat, I was not testing on gaming rigs. I've used vista on normal workstations, multimedia editing machines and various others, but they've almost always been in a work environment.

Burnsy
 
it's more the general desktop feel i was on about, going through explorer, opening programs, task switching


xp nails vista hands down under 2gb imo
 
Cuchulain said:
Vista is alright, apart from applications freezing occasionally and my internet connection dropping randomly when ICS is installed, it's still nowhere near as stable as Xubuntu running on my laptop though and that was just as easy to install as Vista was. .
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There is a hot fix for that, thought it was in sp1 though. You can still get it google "ics hotfix".
 
mr.sly said:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/07/24/microsoft-lies-to-xp-users-and-they-start-to-love-vista



Do you dislike Vista because of press reviews? Forum members who dislike Vista? Or do you genuinely think XP is better than Vista?
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i dont care if 100% said it was better than sex,drugs,music,food,and smokes combined, because why would i even listen to the opinions of people who cant tell what vista looks like.

sure there are people who dont know what they are talking about on both sides, some of these people are lucky and say the correct thing because really its a 50% chance..

i'll say it again

Vista IS slower than XP in most programs and ALL GAMES!!!! (my 8800GT on xp destroys an 4850 on vista, by (friend has same settings and lower res and he gets 30FPS, i get 60-100)
Vista Has poor driver support and huge glitches

the layout is for the general public ( general public = morons), more on this point, i believe they try to make things simplictic, but infact they make it overly complicated?? i dont want that rubbish layout, took me 2 years to get used to XP (because xp was overly simplified and "nooby")

id rather they make Vista professional (for overclockers and enthusiasts, ie none of this menu system that is overly simplified, everythign is decided with pure logic.)

then vista idiot edition for 95% of the world because it looks nice and has fancy bars so people look at it all day and only browse the internet

and yes people dont like change, but its because things always change to something rubbish and we have to deal with it because there is nothing we can do... apart from being ********** ***** ******** off
 
platinum87 said:
i dont care if 100% said it was better than sex,drugs,music,food,and smokes combined, because why would i even listen to the opinions of people who cant tell what vista looks like.

sure there are people who dont know what they are talking about on both sides, some of these people are lucky and say the correct thing because really its a 50% chance..

i'll say it again

Vista IS slower than XP in most programs and ALL GAMES!!!! (my 8800GT on xp destroys an 4850 on vista, by (friend has same settings and lower res and he gets 30FPS, i get 60-100)
Vista Has poor driver support and huge glitches

the layout is for the general public ( general public = morons), more on this point, i believe they try to make things simplictic, but infact they make it overly complicated?? i dont want that rubbish layout, took me 2 years to get used to XP (because xp was overly simplified and "nooby")

id rather they make Vista professional (for overclockers and enthusiasts, ie none of this menu system that is overly simplified, everythign is decided with pure logic.)

then vista idiot edition for 95% of the world because it looks nice and has fancy bars so people look at it all day and only browse the internet

and yes people dont like change, but its because things always change to something rubbish and we have to deal with it because there is nothing we can do... apart from being ********** ***** ******** off
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Haha stop frothing at the mouth.

Vista is not slower in "ALL GAMES" as proven by benchmarks. And any games Vista is slower in, its by 1 or 2 frames. Hardly something to write home about.

It doesn't have poor driver support or huge glitches.

If it took you two years to get used to a simplified layout maybe you're the n00b?

People do like change. Ask black people alive before the 1970s.
 
How is poor driver support a problem of the OS? unless you mean vistas own brand drivers for components? I am sure the APIs are readily available, i certainly don't blame MS for the recent creative debauchle.

I can't understand peoples dying devotion to an operating system, it's a tool, it helps you do what you want, if it doesn't meet the requirements, you can't use it or there are more efficient tools, you switch tool.

Not to mention people arguing whether it's faster or slower, is this out of the box? after tweaking? you all have unique setups and are even comparing different tasks. Not objective or quantitive in the slightest.

As for the mentioned article, it very cleverly does not mention whether the users would have liked it if it had they known what it really was, the fact that vista is slated in press is irrelevant, just marketing spin.
 
platinum87 said:
i dont care if 100% said it was better than sex,drugs,music,food,and smokes combined, because why would i even listen to the opinions of people who cant tell what vista looks like.

sure there are people who dont know what they are talking about on both sides, some of these people are lucky and say the correct thing because really its a 50% chance..

i'll say it again

Vista IS slower than XP in most programs and ALL GAMES!!!! (my 8800GT on xp destroys an 4850 on vista, by (friend has same settings and lower res and he gets 30FPS, i get 60-100)
Vista Has poor driver support and huge glitches

the layout is for the general public ( general public = morons), more on this point, i believe they try to make things simplictic, but infact they make it overly complicated?? i dont want that rubbish layout, took me 2 years to get used to XP (because xp was overly simplified and "nooby")

id rather they make Vista professional (for overclockers and enthusiasts, ie none of this menu system that is overly simplified, everythign is decided with pure logic.)

then vista idiot edition for 95% of the world because it looks nice and has fancy bars so people look at it all day and only browse the internet

and yes people dont like change, but its because things always change to something rubbish and we have to deal with it because there is nothing we can do... apart from being ********** ***** ******** off
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Wow.

Vista is just as professional as any other Windows OS if you know what you're doing. Yes, it may be more simple for the every day user to perform every day tasks, but it's not like they're stripped out the advanced settings and options... they're all there as they were in XP.

Please enlighten me on these HUGE glitches as well :)

Every driver needed has worked for me, my Dad, my brother and every other person I know who has Vista :)

But hey, each to their own. I really couldn't care less if people use XP or Vista. Don't blame your problems on the OS :p
 
platinum87 said:
Vista IS slower than XP in most programs and ALL GAMES!!!! (my 8800GT on xp destroys an 4850 on vista, by (friend has same settings and lower res and he gets 30FPS, i get 60-100)
Vista Has poor driver support and huge glitches
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Anecdotal evidence - fantastic! What are these games on which your friend gets 30FPS? Have you compared all games? Have you even compared more than one? Do you have any evidence that it is Vista causing the slowdown and not any other element of your friend's PC? Or are you just jumping to conclusions like many people who bash Vista?


the layout is for the general public ( general public = morons), more on this point?? i dont want that rubbish layout, took me 2 years to get used to XP (because xp was overly simplified and "nooby")
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The layout is for the general public? So Microsoft decided to go with a layout which pleases the majority of their customers, rather than what's perfectly suited to someone on an overclocking forum? Surprising, that! Anyone would think they were out there to make money.

id rather they make Vista professional (for overclockers and enthusiasts, ie none of this menu system that is overly simplified, everythign is decided with pure logic.)
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Why would Microsoft do that? Even if they did, where's the guarantee that what suits you would suit another overclocker or enthusiast?

If you want an OS which you can customise to your every whim, quit moaning and use Linux.
 
I've been using Vista for a while now, installed on my new Q6600+4GB system and it runs absolutely fine.

However thats my home gaming rig - I wouldn't want Vista in a corporate environment, XPSP2 is just soooo stable there's no reason to move away from it.
 
Moley said:
I've been using Vista for a while now, installed on my new Q6600+4GB system and it runs absolutely fine.

However thats my home gaming rig - I wouldn't want Vista in a corporate environment, XPSP2 is just soooo stable there's no reason to move away from it.
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Heh, my place only uses Win2000. Still. No machines with XP on at all.
 
Interesting article, but from what I have read the people were shown a video of the O/S, and they didn't actually interact with it...Please correct me if I'm wrong.

When presented, Vista does seem to look rarther awesome. Everytime I SEE Vista is looks awesome and far superior to it's previous Windows O/S, but when interacting with the software....well that's a whole different question.

I wonder what the response would have been had they played games on this O/S and other situations that arn't possible when just viewing a Microsoft spun promotional video
 
generally I like vista x64 more than xp. I did wait a few months before upgrading though so most of the issues were ironed out.
I would still like more dedicated 64bit apps, codecs and plugins etc and I still think overall network/hard drive transfer rates could be improved some more though.
 
Interesting article I have heard people say vista is no good but have never used it :S. About the amount of ram... I have used Vista on 3 computers and 2 laptops and although for general usage 1 GB is fine 2 GB is best for Media Centre such as watching TV by far the biggest difference is dual core which makes a world of difference.
 
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