Windows XP vs Vista

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Originally Posted by Chock

...It does run stuff that is written with Vista in mind much better than XP in my experience, for example, many people scoffed at the claim by Microsoft that MS Flight Simulator 10 would run better on Vista when it was accused of being too much of a resource hog and running choppy in XP. But those detractors have had to eat their words, because I can attest to the fact that FSX runs much smoother on my laptop with Vista than it does on my desktop with XP, and both have 2 gigs of RAM, but the laptop has no dedicated video card, whereas the desktop has a PCI-X card, so you'd think it would blow the laptop out of the water, but it doesn't, and that seems to be because of Vista....

I'm having a hard time beliving you don't have some major issue there! I think you need to re-evaluate by comparing apples to apples since it sounds like you are comparing apples to oranges in this case. Turn off all the graphical options on your PCI-E card and then take a look since that is effectively what you are doing by running it on your laptop.

-S