Phantasm66
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From the comments I hear from my friends
What did they say? Have any of these people installed the final release of Vista and not a release candidate or beta?
From the comments I hear from my friends
supersmashbrada said:You cant run vista efficiently without a good video card and a large amount of ram.
herr5407 said:lol no.
From the comments I hear from my friends, I've just decided to steer clear for a little while.
halo71 said:Kinda proves what I was gonna say. I hear the same thing from my friends as well about how crappy Vista is. And none of them are even running it, but yet all they do is talk down about it! I have a new laptop with 2 gigs of ram, no "good video card" and it runs like a top! Its running Ultimate. And so far the ONLY problem I have had was running the Zune software. I even run Sim City 3000 on it just to see how it would run and it runs great! And this game is what 10 years old?!?
No, Linux at work and at home. My iBook's battery is dead so I don't use it that much at the moment.cfitzarl said:I take it that you're a Mac user Mictlantecuhtli
supersmashbrada said:128mb of video ram is becoming not enough to mulitask on vista.
SNGX1275 said:UAC is there to protect the typical user from having malware installed without their knowledge. The reason it asks when YOU install something is because in XP you are always (unless you make a specific limited account) ran at elevated privliges, meaning anything gets installed without question. UAC is there to prevent this from happening. Do you complain when you have to su in linux to install something? Security comes at a price.
If you think Aero is what Vista is all about then that is your problem and it is probably pointless arguing anymore with you because you've got a mental block against Vista. There are tons of improvements in Vista. Now you can burn DVDs from explorer, better help, better search, media center enhancements (that didn't even exist outside of XP MCE), improved networking, and tons of other stuff that I'm missing because I don't want to write a damn press release statement here.
It was well reported nearly at nearly every tech site that games ran with lower fps in XP than in 98se. 98se is still regarded as the best gaming OS, in fact you'll likely get better performance in 98 in every game that will run on both 98 and XP, problem is most modern games won't install in 98 anymore. Same thing is/will happen with XP/Vista. It is just like console gaming, when consoles first come out they aren't utilized fully in games, later releases are more able to take advantage of what the system can do. For the first example that comes into my head, look at mario 1 vs mario 3 on NES or any early game vs Kirby's Adventure. Same hardware, world of difference.
You can run 98 just fine on 32 megs of RAM. Windows 2000 will run ok on 64 once it gets loaded. The jump to Vista shouldn' tbe suprising, the size of the jump really shouldn't be either, there have been huge technology advancements since XP. If you don't have more than 1 gig of RAM don't install Vista. Just like if you don't have more than 32 megs of RAM don't install XP. New Windows OSes have never ran better on older hardware than their previous OS.
You ran RC1, there was RC2, and then the real release, and then updates on top of that.
Mictlantecuhtli said:One of the things I don't like (aside from usual Windows behaviour) are slow file operations. It's not as slow as a couple of bytes a second, but certainly slower than the same operations in Linux or Server 2003.
supersmashbrada said:You have a thinkpad, enough said, not much going on in that thing anyway. I'm referring to the majority of the enthusiast market. pc people with computers that actually have to do things
Phantasm66 said:An excellent post.
I found the opposite true. I have a dual boot system with 98 and XP and games are jerky/laggy on 98 but run very smooth on XP. This is true of games like PoP:WW and NFS: MW.SNGX1275 said:It was well reported nearly at nearly every tech site that games ran with lower fps in XP than in 98se. 98se is still regarded as the best gaming OS, in fact you'll likely get better performance in 98 in every game that will run on both 98 and XP.