Vista vs XP

So alot of people are having trouble with Vista, and a surprisingly high amount of people have gone back to xp. My question for those that have tried both, which is better overall (regardless of system specs, i mean features, programs, compatibility, and ease of use)

So alot of people are having trouble with Vista, and a surprisingly high amount of people have gone back to xp. My question for those that have tried both, which is better overall (regardless of system specs, i mean features, programs, compatibility, and ease of use)

timma25

i have Vista and honestly the only diference i have noticed is a slight extra use of ram in Vista, which can be nullified if you change the desktop theme to Classic instead of aero.

XP ftw

With very few games being released with DX10 for it in the next couple months, Vista having trouble with numerous hardware drives giving lackluster performance, adding nothing really needed or new in the interface, and along with $100 price tag for upgrade doesn't seem like its worth it.

All benchmarks have lead to show me that Vista still has a relevent performance hit in games over XP.. This is the complete opposite Microsoft promised by claiming a unheard of 60% increase in performance in som eplaces.

With very few games being released with DX10 for it in the next couple months, Vista having trouble with numerous hardware drives giving lackluster performance, adding nothing really needed or new in the interface, and along with $100 price tag for upgrade doesn't seem like its worth it.

All benchmarks have lead to show me that Vista still has a relevent performance hit in games over XP.. This is the complete opposite Microsoft promised by claiming a unheard of 60% increase in performance in som eplaces.

sSubZerOo

Most of that lackluster performance you speak of is mostly confined to certain devices as of right now. Most of the problems encountered have been mostly driver, and as of late they are pretty much an Nividia problem not Microsofts.

Creative has done some good things with thier release of the ALchemy set, and ATI has been on the ball releasing drivers monthly, and doing a remarkable job at the level of quality of thier releases. Logitech, has released thier G15 keyboard 32 and 64 bitdrivers so the LCD miniscreen and hotkeys setups now work flawlessly.

I will agree with you that Microsoft didnot complete thier endandther is not that 60% performance increase, but Vista even with AERO has not given me any degradation in performance, in fact my games do load up a bit faster, and I don't have any problems running my games, even in a 64 bit OS.

I have never took stock into any company's promises until I see the actual results upon release, its foolish to take anything at face value especially when there is a price affixed to it. That's why I am not really going to put all my eggs in one basket for Crysis, Quake Wars, or any exceptional new release. When those products come out then it will be noted whether or not they accomplished all they promised.

Hello, Friends ?

I have few game purchased a year ago. Without noticing that my laptop vga card is only 32MB dedicated shared up to 64MB VRAM. but iam going to change my laptop, original OS is windows vista

Can these game compatible with Vista : FEAR, Splinter Cell, GTA:San Andreas ?? Need your comment

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Can these game compatible with Vista : FEAR, Splinter Cell, GTA:San Andreas ?? Need your comment

tonnytok

I have ran FEAR with it's expansion, Splinter Cell (all but the first one), and GTA SA on Vista with no problems.

I have Vista premium and already encountering problems with some games. I have to Alt-shift-print to disable the color scheme in vista if i don't want Titan quest to freeze on me and some of my old (Used to them) utilities don't work on Vista.

And don't own Xp was pre-installed on my last computer so stuck with Vista.

Old skool 98 babyhenri1960

hahah totally

LOL at all the people who expected Vista to be awesome right out the box. Don't you remember all the problems XP had??

I'll wait till I'm forced to upgrade.

I recently got a new PC with XP & there is no way I'm gonna upgrade it to vista. Yet again I'm gonna say: THINGS TAKE TIME!
That goes for software too, so no wonder it has a **** load of problems & u can only play a small number of games. But over time it will surelyget better for gameing thanXP.
Would every1 just chill & not go crazy over software!:)

I love Vista :oops:

as do I, I still love XP but there's something about Vista that just flows better to me. My "issues" are almost non existant at this point after a little research and some digging into the OS to make some slight adjustments.

If I hadn't bought a new rig then I would have just kept good 'ol XP but what's the point of spending a ton of money for the new stuff and not put the new OS on it.

I have Vista and I'm not going to pretend like it's fine just so I can justify my purchase. It's crap. Not only it's not worth 100 freakin dollars, it isn't worth 5 dollars. A clean bootup with no anti-virus or anything of the sort - you start out with 40 background processes. "Switching the scheme back to Classic" doesn't nullify crap.

But.... there's always DirectX10. People are already making judgements on PATCHES that were released that just use up more resources. Atleast wait until there's DX10 based games before you start to judge it.

XP for gamingpco_rainmaster

Vista is a difrent OS, and 40 processes is not alot of Vista at all. I have 60 and my PC runs perfect. It's smooth as silk and faster then a viper.

And it was only 600 dollars. Now 40 processes in XP I would start to worry.

Vista is a difrent OS, and 40 processes is not alot of Vista at all. I have 60 and my PC runs perfect. It's smooth as silk and faster then a viper.

And it was only 600 dollars. Now 40 processes in XP I would start to worry.

VaioAS

Regardless Vista has been shown to have lower performance then Xp when it comes to games.. And with such few DX10 games releasing with the fact that they may not look as different as DX9 I do not see a point of buying it now.. I will only get the OS when performance is the same or increased like they said it would.

XP FTW. I just get too hard of a performance hit by using vista so i gave up on it.