SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Windows XP vs Vista

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Originally Posted by JSLTIGER

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Oh BTW Vista rocks, the problems ppl have is usually cause there machines aren't up to it.

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Hardly. App compatibility is the #1 factor that turns me off to it.

Let's see - The first desktop is an XP 2500, with an ATI 9550 in it and it is sluggish.

Next system - the Acer has an AMD ML-32 in it (1.8 GHz 64 bit Turion) with a couple GB of RAM and an x700 GPU. It's still sluggish - and not much different over the XP 2500, probably because the CPU MHz isn't a whole lot different. Get this though - in the system rating screen, the Acer scores about a 2.5, but the XP 2500 scores over a 3.0!! This probably has to do somewhat with video memory - the Acer has 64 MB dedicated RAM for the vid card, and the desktop has 128 MB. Still though - performance is about the same between the two.

Last system (has since been downgraded to MCE2005) is a X2 4400+, 2 GB RAM, x1900 XTX video card, RAID, etc. etc. etc. It is not really any better than the other two!!!! Like WTH! I forgot to check what the score is, but it is over 5. I can run it again with the test app and find out.

I guess my biggest complaint - it's the sluggish lack of response time. It's similar to designing a desktop in Linux and using a clock polling of 250 Hz vs cranking it up to 1000 Hz. It has issues, it has to constantly think about what it is being told to do (probably some underlying DRM bloat), and it's a resource pig.

Did I mention that Vista comes complete with a whopping 20% drop in FPS for any game you feel like playing vs. XP?

Vista is a downgrade. I'm skipping it at home except for the Acer. I'll leave it on that because i like the new diskpart program which can partition up things like FLash drives - this makes it easier to install things like WIndows PE on a flash drive. Little things like that are updated - but they are not in the GUI - they are just updated command line apps.

Vista does have one other good thing for the Acer - Mahjong and Chess Titans! Can't think of much else.

-S