Vista Good for Gaming?, Think Again Options

[Old Man Mike]

So you think that the new Vista operating system with 32/64 bits processing is going to help your processing speed for games? Apparently not. Microsoft once again stuffs the operating system with even more services for worthless applications so that the new OS runs slower than XP. Here are the benchmarks including one for COD:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/

Yeah, I'll eventually "upgrade" to the new operating system but it will probably be after the 6 months of public debugging is finished. And it will certainly be with new hardware to overcome the Vista penalty.

Old Man Mike

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Very interesting information Mike! I know I personally don't plan on buying Vista until Microsoft says they will not support XP any longer. That ought to give them enough time to get things sorted out, I hope.

[M@ster of Dis@ster]

I don't understand their conclusions myself. Vista loses to XP almost everywhere, everyone in their right mind knows it is going to be buggy until they get the first service pack, yet Tom tells us to get it anyway unless we are a very select group of 1 in 1000 who runs massive processing applications. Me thinks Tom's Hardware Guide ass is showing, and what it shows is that they are more and more in the big corperations back pocket, because the actual RESULTS from their test would have given Vista a well deserved slam.

I'm in IT myself, and given the computing needs of the average user, I don't think the has been an OS less impressive than Vista for a long time. Perhaps after a few decades we've gotten to the point that there isn't much more to do with an OS than tweak it. About the only reason to move to Vista in the future is because Microsoft will stop supporting XP with DirectX updates and such. But essentially, I can't see a reason then to update before you get you next computer, whether that be in 1, 2 or 3 years.