"Joe Corey" <klrjoe@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Yes but I have supported drivers for all hardware.
Well that's your problem.
You need to be running a 32 bit OS on a 32 bit processor and a 64 bit OS on
64 bit processor.
And not running 32 bit software on a 64 bit OS.
Slows everything down.
I have graphic intensive Battle Field 2 and it runs fine on 32 bit Vista.
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> "GeekBoy" <allGeek@hownerdy.com> wrote in message
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>> "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!!!
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>> Are you running Vista x64 instead of 32 bit?
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