I just can't go to Windows Vista. Everyone says how great it is for gaming now with SP1. But here is a thing, I got it for free months after it was released...it was horrid, but I just installed it on an extra machine in my house. Well when SP1 came out I went and said, well I am going to give this one a good shot and said, I am going to use this for at least a year before I give up on it. Well I am back to XP in 9 months. I just couldn't take it! Memory leaks, lower FPS by 3-5 frames in most games which is not huge unless you are trying to play crysis at 30 FPS... Next, startup is so much slower its not even funny! UAC prompts are annoying as hell is really don't do anything to protect me. Interface can be wonky and change to the Aero basic theme with some non-made-for-vista programs. It eats up more memory than I don't know what, and why? It does really nothing better than XP other than pretty interface and indexing(and an annoying sidebar which is turned off). I just hope that developers continue to support XP as their main platform until Windows7 comes out(which I am praying is better)
I'm still on XP and I see no incentive whatsoever to upgrade to Vista. I saw some numbers released on Steam which said that the vast majority of its users had XP.
Im still on XP and will stay on XP until another ( better ) alternative gets released. Vista has come a long way i admit and in all honesty is fairly viable given proper tweaks.
It simply doesnt do anything better than XP does aside from giving you a largely ( by most consumers ) worthless DX10 API and the ability to address larger amounts of physical memory which yet again, most people will never use.
Yep, and will continue to use it long after it becomes obsolete. If Windows 7 doesn't end up being better than Vista for gamers then I will just use XP or Linux.
There are plenty more people using XP than Vista. You should turn UAC off by going to User Accounts in Control Panel. And there really aren't any memory leaks. Vista just uses more ram, that's only natural from a newer OS. Unused ram is pointless ram. I only upgraded to Vista because I needed to buy a new OS and at that point Vista was the obvious way to go because XP is quite expensive at this point and Microsoft is of course dropping its support.
I still have XP on my work laptop, but Vista on my home PC. I love Vista, now it's a RAM hog, but other than that I haven't had any problems at all with it, but I don't play PC games.
There are plenty more people using XP than Vista. You should turn UAC off by going to User Accounts in Control Panel. And there really aren't any memory leaks. Vista just uses more ram, that's only natural from a newer OS. Unused ram is pointless ram. I only upgraded to Vista because I needed to buy a new OS and at that point Vista was the obvious way to go because XP is quite expensive at this point and Microsoft is of course dropping its support.RK-Mara
Well with mine there would be like 5 SVCHOST's and 5 RUNDLL32's running which would all keep expanding as use would go on(it was due to using the new standby mode but they changed it to a hibernate(but its different than XP), so I don't know what to call it, but each time you would bring it back up you would start all new "critical windows components" and more or less keep the old ones running and they would just keep getting larger.
I use Vista on my laptop because it came with it, but I use XP on my desktop PC that I game on. I used to hate on Vista, but it has grown on me. Overall, I would say XP is the better OS, but Vista isn't as terrible as people make it out to be.
Vista actually has come a very long way. With SP1 and much better drivers than when the OS first released, some tests show that gaming on VistaSP1 is better than on XP. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302500,00.asp There's one such study. You can go back a few pages and look at the machines they ran things on if you want. Also in regards to Vista RAM usage, I believe the OS utilizes SuperFetch/PreFetch, and thus tries to utilize as much memory as it can in order to make for speedier interactions with your apps. You can read about it here: http://members.rushmore.com/~jsky/id37.html
Vista actually has come a very long way. With SP1 and much better drivers than when the OS first released, some tests show that gaming on VistaSP1 is better than on XP. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302500,00.asp There's one such study. You can go back a few pages and look at the machines they ran things on if you want. Also in regards to Vista RAM usage, I believe the OS utilizes SuperFetch/PreFetch, and thus tries to utilize as much memory as it can in order to make for speedier interactions with your apps. You can read about it here: http://members.rushmore.com/~jsky/id37.htmlmorph_basic
Yep, I'm not planning to upgrade to Vista until it becomes an absolute requirement. Vista is a nightmare in general and a specifically, a gaming nightmare.
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