Vista users....

[AVGWarhawk]

Looking at games HL2 looks to have plenty of issues with Vista. No doubt. I have not seen ESP 3. Never played HL2. I see some new cpu cores coming out reaching 5Mhz. Personally, I do not see cores getting much faster with heat issue, etc. I do not see games going any deeper then what we are experiencing with today hardware. DX10 has yet to really get off the ground. It will come. I do not see any earth shattering games on the horizon. Only those utilizing quad core, more RAM and hefty videocards. Also, if the software makers want to make a buck, they need to conform to MS and the MS OS of the day. MS does not build the OS around what other software makers are creating.

As far as XP and my pre 2006 computer, AMD3200+, 2 gig RAM and 7800GS, I spent little time shutting down background programs. The game ran fine. Not like it does on a monster rig for sure, but all the same ran fine. The thing with multiple cores, mutliple things can be going on and shutting down/disabling programs is not needed. The machine is working with multiple threads on all the cores, not sharing one core for all programs.