http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/602286/vista_blows_says_directx_creator.html http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2277871,00.asp
I kinda agree with him, Vista is bloated but the x64 version is far better than the XP x64 and larger amounts of RAM are needed sooner or later. And of course DX10 sucks, at least the software we now have.
He is talking in the article like intels larrabee is already out and ready for mass production. Of course 3d gaming will change in that direction but maybe only in 3 years. Second also nvidia will react and AMD will adapt ATI aswell. I still dont think you can bring the highend market to CPU GPU in one. The biggest problem I see is in heat prodcution, also with 32nm. For mainstream and low cost systems its surly a good and cheap solution.
When I was an XP user I had to format it every 6 - 12 months due to it being overloaded with crap. I must admit Vista 64 has been up and running for me since it was launched and its been a great experience and its STILL not full of crap. It runs faster than XP does on my machine I have 4GB of RAM ofc
Opposite for me, my Vista X64 installation crapped out after only a few days, it was unbearably slow and everything crashed randomly. I'm sticking with XP for sure.
ROFL COPTER!!!....I totally agree. This guy is full of BS..plain and simple. Vista runs great for me SP1 included.
Same here. While it was not initially a great experience, it has drastically improved and I think there are a lot of great features in vista that to me are useful. I could never see myself going back to XP at this point wither way, so i have no complaints. Most of the Vista Hatred thing revolves around retards repeating the statements of the even more retarded. lol Oh well....
Hmm hopefully Open GL one day becomes the main platform I still prefer Open GL games over Directx. I am still ready if MS ever sells DX10.1 for XP i would rather pay for DX for XP then Vista. and yes i have vista sux bullocks And yes Vista is better with SP1 but Server 2k3 with SP2 rapes it a new one. My Games run worse on vista, and I aint talking 3fps difference when both OS's are tweaked and etc 2k3 beats it by 10-20fps. Windows 2k8 is ok as well better then vista from my testing but need to do more testing to see if thats what I finally upgrade to.
Can only agree with worthy here, sure vista is bloated for a p3 with 1 GB of memory But for a C2D or C2Q with 4 GB memory and a 500 GB HDD it's Peanuts/overkill I have vista SP1 since almost a week now and I don't see any improvements most of the time because there was nothing to improve
But see, that's the problem. An OS should be as transparent as possible while running something that takes up a lot of resources. IMO, if it's using over 512mb of RAM just sitting at the desktop doing nothing, with no programs running in the background something is seriously screwed up.
The transparency border must be brought forward eventually, otherwise we will be stuck in the past. You can disable a lot of services to reduce Vista's overall demand. However, I have never needed to. I played Crysis to the end with Very High everything bar shadows on 1440X no aa and it was smooth
A 300$ computer is considered a low end computer, and you can easily get a GB or two of memory, and it's not even 2 years into this new OS Am sorry but it took more then 2 years after xp's release to have low-end computer running it well if you want to have a computer sit idle at low ammount of memory go back to Windows 98, but I'll be looking forward ... not 10 years backward
That's the problem though, if you disable services you'll realize just how many applications need them. There are barely any that you can safely disable. Personally, I'm fine with XP, I don't use any of the built-in crap that Vista has anyway, to me it's just a useless upgrade.
It's your motherboard. I had the CFX3200-UT as well and couldn't figure what the hell was causing all of my system crashes in Vista 64 until I went to the event viewer. I just about fell out of my chair after seeing all of the HDD related errors. After just a few weeks the errors with faulty writes, disks not responding, bad reads and more had risen to being well over 1000 individual events. The ULI chipset was causing massive problems due to very poor drivers. I gave up on the system and did a complete overhaul. It's been rock steady since I did. I was supremely disappointed with that board myself. It never had good drivers for XP or Vista (XP still gets write errors to this day) and it just frankly was an awful experience. Sure I could've used the Silicon Image SATA, but that would literally halve the performance of the drives. It had such great potential to see it get held back by such shoddy drivers was absolutely shameful on both Nvidia's part (because they purchased ULI) and on DFI's part for essentially dropping the board in its prime. Screencap showing just a handful of the errors.
