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Re: Very disappointed with Vista's performance especially gaming!
"Joe Corey" <klrjoe@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:540E8EFD-505E-44D5-B502-1E2C37F3E502@microsoft.com...
>I must say after 3 months now I am very disappointed with Vista Ultimate
>x64 when it comes to gaming and general performance. I have a core2 e6600,
>4gb of DDR II 800MHZ, 2 raptor X 150GB 10,000rpm hard drives in a RAID-0
>and the darn thing is still considerably slower at EVERYTHING than my XP
>pro which is installed onto a single Samsung spin-point 40gb drive! I fail
>to see how something that is supposedly better and more modern is so much
>slower. I doubled the ram from 2 to 4gb and it made no noticeable
>difference in load times or hd activity while gaming. THe background tasks
>are supposed to be low priority but the just happen to coincide with lag?
>Programs like MS Flight SIM X and BF2, BF 2142 take forever to load in
>comparison not to mention there are frequent lag spikes during game play. I
>just feel that for Gaming Vista is a huge step backwards. I hope that
>future updates/service packs do something for the performance because so
>far I am not seeing any reason to continue using Vista on a Gaming PC. All
>of my hardware is vista x64 compatible and I have latest drivers and BIOS.
>It's just Vista. It's slow!!!
Are you running Vista x64 instead of 32 bit?
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