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

[Doyle]

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

I agree with OMM about not converting over to Vista.

I remember when XP replaced 98, everyone was in a rush to convert over and line the Microsoft coffers. I chose to wait until all the bugs were fixed or updates were made. I waited for a year when I finally changed over to XP and did not regret waiting.

Lately due to very low frame rate in game play, I have been contemplating building a new game machine, if and when I do I will have XP Pro and not Vista as my OS.