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Re: Very disappointed with Vista's performance especially gaming! Yes but I have supported drivers for all hardware.
"GeekBoy" <allGeek@hownerdy.com> wrote in message
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> "Joe Corey" <klrjoe@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>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!!!
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> Are you running Vista x64 instead of 32 bit?
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