 Vista Good for Gaming?, Think Again |
| Old Man Mike |
 02/07/07 3:08am
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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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| GIJOE |
02/12/07 2:55pm
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Being in IT for 30 years, I have a few things to say... first off I wish for the good old DOS days when a program had to fit in 640K... they were efficient and rarely crashed... I held out updating to "windows" OS until I could wait no more and then it was only kicking and dragging..LOL
Now as to Vista... there are advantages to running a 64 bit OS, especially when running a core 2 dual (Quad) processor...BUT the overhead is ENORMOUS and costly... Wait for the "features" (BUGS) to be worked out... XP Pro is a proven OS and will probably be supported for some time to come... good choice Why can't an OS be written were LESS is MORE???? ...and operates on less than 128 mb ...too bad Linux isn't more compatible with window's programs... -------------------- |
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| M@ster of Dis@ster |
02/12/07 6:24pm
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 Colonel  Group: {MOB} Regs Posts: 1153 Joined: February 16th 2006 Member No.: 1598 Xfire: Master0fDisaster |
QUOTE(GIJOE @ 02/12/07 3:55pm)  Being in IT for 30 years, I have a few things to say... first off I wish for the good old DOS days when a program had to fit in 640K... they were efficient and rarely crashed... I held out updating to "windows" OS until I could wait no more and then it was only kicking and dragging..LOL Now as to Vista... there are advantages to running a 64 bit OS, especially when running a core 2 dual (Quad) processor...BUT the overhead is ENORMOUS and costly... Wait for the "features" (BUGS) to be worked out... XP Pro is a proven OS and will probably be supported for some time to come... good choice Why can't an OS be written were LESS is MORE???? ...and operates on less than 128 mb ...too bad Linux isn't more compatible with window's programs... In IT 30 years!?!?! LOL. I would have pegged your age at about 35 JOE. I hope you feel as young as you sound!! As for OSes, it is too bad that we are basically stuck with OSes that have to build on the one before. Clearly, if you could start from scratch you could make something 10 times, maybe a 100 times smaller than XP and it's run better, more efficiently, etc. But Windows is like a monster that keeps growing, because it still has to support all the old stuff before it. --------------------  |
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Old Man Mike Vista Good for Gaming? 02/07/07 3:08am
)--S@B0T--> Very interesting information Mike! I know I p... 02/10/07 5:29am
M@ster of Dis@ster I don't understand their conclusions myself. V... 02/10/07 6:14pm Doyle So you think that the new Vista operating system ... 02/12/07 1:18pm some_help Vista... well not right now but eventually! T... 02/12/07 7:25pm |
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