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JimBowy Moderator
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Posted: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:16:17 Post Subject: Microsoft's Vista, Not so Hot Afterall |
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Why am I not surprised? In some benchmarks Vista is ~90% slower than XP. Gaming performance sucks! In some applications Vista did better, but marginly, we're talking 1-5% better....
Read the details here: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/index.html
Needless to say, I'll be sticking with XP! _________________ - Jim |
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Little Bruin
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knight0334 Rated XXX
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Modulok Rated XXX
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Posted: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:51:28 Post Subject: |
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Hope you weren't trying to shock anyone here Jim. I read that earlier and saw they did turn off the Aero when benchmarking. The reason to get Vista is Aero...imagine if they left that on. |
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JimBowy Moderator
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JimBowy Moderator
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Posted: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:52:39 Post Subject: |
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Modulok wrote: | Hope you weren't trying to shock anyone here Jim. I read that earlier and saw they did turn off the Aero when benchmarking. The reason to get Vista is Aero...imagine if they left that on. |
Yes, what a scam that is.... I forgot to mention that. _________________ - Jim |
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BeerCheeze *hick*
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Posted: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:58:25 Post Subject: |
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Nice... but I bet DirectX10 game will be better under Vista... so that means 1 to 2 yrs before Vista is an upgrade. |
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BeerCheeze *hick*
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Posted: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:00:17 Post Subject: |
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JimBowy wrote: | When DX10 games become the norm and not the exception, what are we to do? Then we will be forced to "upgrade" to Vista to play the games.... |
Bet most will go down to DX9, but you'll loose features/visuals. |
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Little Bruin
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Blue|Fusion Rated XXX
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Posted: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:49:00 Post Subject: |
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I know FSX sucks on DX9...I'm getting a free volume license for Vista Ultimate, so we'll see how that runs on there...but with a DX9 card . _________________ 5 home-built PCs, ASUS A6Jc Laptop, and a PowerEdge 2650 - all running Gentoo. Now if only I can get a car and plane to run it. Take a look at my Gallery! |
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Doctor Feelgood Arrrrghh!
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Hellfire Rated XXX
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Posted: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:04:46 Post Subject: |
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I'll hold the judgement regarding gaming on Vista when games are certified to work on Vista. We had this same problem back when Xp first came out. It'll never change
The biggest issue I had with Vista was the cd copy protection wouldn't allow me to play some of the games I had bought. Might be worked out by now though. |
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