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RE: Very disappointed with Vista's performance especially gaming!
"Joe Corey" wrote:
> 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!!!
> No doubt Vista is a litle slower.
I have Vista Business on an Asus A8N5X with an AMD 4800 X2 AMD x1800xt 2
gigs ram with a 250 Gig HD. Have XP Pro on an Asus A8N5X with AMD 4600 X2
Nvidia 7900GT 2 gigs ram and 120 gig HD. The XP machine feels quicker
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