Why does Vista need more memory for games while XP doesn't?

Just curious guys and title says it all :P

Vista is more of a system hog than XP.

Vista is more of a system hog than XP.

Legendaryscmt

So games would run better than XP I assume. Off-topic, but is it worth keeping Vista 64 bit or should I go for Windows 7?

Vista is more of a system hog than XP.

Legendaryscmt

Vista sucks i think.i installed it in my PC and remove it the next day.full of good for nothing features.go to www.Badvista.org and read alittle about it

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Vista is more of a system hog than XP.

AdoringFan_

So games would run better than XP I assume. Off-topic, but is it worth keeping Vista 64 bit or should I go for Windows 7?

There is no reason to switch a well working OS for a beta version that runs out in a couple of months.

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Vista is more of a system hog than XP.

Gog

So games would run better than XP I assume. Off-topic, but is it worth keeping Vista 64 bit or should I go for Windows 7?

There is no reason to switch a well working OS for a beta version that runs out in a couple of months.

There is zero reason to use Vista, all games still support XP and if it's an older game it might not even work on Vista!

I dunno about all the other guys here, but with only 2gigs of RAM I've never had a single problem running any game, and I went from Crysis to games as far back as Pandemonium. That's 1996. Vista Home Premium x64.

The way the OS was coded makes it use more RAM than the same operation in XP would take.

Memory Management in Vista is not the same as it was implemented in XP.

This is why 3rd-party utility developers make a lot of money, because they write code to make your OS work the way it should have when it came on to the market.:P

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[QUOTE="Legendaryscmt"]

Vista is more of a system hog than XP.

Gog

So games would run better than XP I assume. Off-topic, but is it worth keeping Vista 64 bit or should I go for Windows 7?

There is no reason to switch a well working OS for a beta version that runs out in a couple of months.

I say keep it, I'm definitely keeping mine for at least a few more years.

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[QUOTE="Legendaryscmt"]

Vista is more of a system hog than XP.

Gog

So games would run better than XP I assume. Off-topic, but is it worth keeping Vista 64 bit or should I go for Windows 7?

There is no reason to switch a well working OS for a beta version that runs out in a couple of months.

Windows 7 runs out March 2010.

[spoiler] [/spoiler]

The old beta runs out August or end of July I think.

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A short answer to the TC [here], Although old it does explain Vista Management.

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Blah what is happening with Gamspot today? I'm getting Error after Error today.:x

Vista doesn't need more memory for games than XP. Vista uses more of the memory you have by default, leaving less memory for your games to use.