Windows Vista Rules!

[Mizicke5273]

Vista has come a good bit since its release. Service Pack 1 has helped out a lot. Ive played with it a bit at home since the RTM release. But Im thinking about making the switch to it as my main OS on my gaming rig to see how it does before I buy it.

The only thing I dont like about vista is that as it is, it dosent really offer anything over xp. Now if it was released in its original form with everything that it was supposed to have, then it would be something to upgrade to. But maybe theyll be in the next windows.

[Corvin]

Vista has come a good bit since its release. Service Pack 1 has helped out a lot. Ive played with it a bit at home since the RTM release. But Im thinking about making the switch to it as my main OS on my gaming rig to see how it does before I buy it.

The only thing I dont like about vista is that as it is, it dosent really offer anything over xp. Now if it was released in its original form with everything that it was supposed to have, then it would be something to upgrade to. But maybe theyll be in the next windows.

Windows 7 is going to be what Vista was supposed to be. At least, that's what my buddy over at the MS campus in Toronto has said, he's been playing with some early alpha releases and keeping tabs on the ms research lab docs on it.

[sammis]

[QUOTE=Mizicke5273;108634]Vista has come a good bit since its release. Service Pack 1 has helped out a lot. Ive played with it a bit at home since the RTM release. But Im thinking about making the switch to it as my main OS on my gaming rig to see how it does before I buy it.

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Hi Mizickie

Before you do the update on your gaming rig, you might want to check out the gaming tech forums.

Vista is horrible for games, mainly due to the load a game puts on a system. Vista itself puts such a load on a PC that most games suffer in the performance area badly. Then you get into Admin rights, etc... not a pretty sight.

I participate in at least one game beta a year and the comments from the Vista group are pretty bad.

sammis

[Mizicke5273]

[QUOTE=sammis;108679]

Vista has come a good bit since its release. Service Pack 1 has helped out a lot. Ive played with it a bit at home since the RTM release. But Im thinking about making the switch to it as my main OS on my gaming rig to see how it does before I buy it.

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Hi Mizickie

Before you do the update on your gaming rig, you might want to check out the gaming tech forums.

Vista is horrible for games, mainly due to the load a game puts on a system. Vista itself puts such a load on a PC that most games suffer in the performance area badly. Then you get into Admin rights, etc... not a pretty sight.

I participate in at least one game beta a year and the comments from the Vista group are pretty bad.

sammis

If you have a dual core or better, 4GB RAM, and an 8800 nvidia /3870 ati series video card, any game out besides crysis wont even begin to really tax a system like this. Unless you play at insane resolutions with max settings. Basicaly as long as you have the video card and ram to support the game, you have nothing to worry about. Vista's biggest problem in the begging was drivers. This has been worked out for a while now. Gaming performance is on par with XP now. The only way you will really suffer a performance hit with games is if you are using a low end system. If you are ,then yes XP is better to game on.

Ive been following Vista since its release and with SP1 Vista has finally been brought up to speed with XP. It was the same when XP was released. It wasnt worth the move for everyday users until SP1 hit that fixed alot of bugs and drivers got mature enough.

Most bugs and driver issues have been worked out by now, thus why I am migrating over. I need to get some experience with it before I have to support it.

As for Windows7, I havent really been worried about it, as Server 08 is taking up most of my "time to wait for a new OS" time. Ive been thinking about switching my 03 server to it recently. But before I do I think ill set up a virtual machine before I do, or at least install it on a test rig to mess with it. Ive talked to a few guys at work about and it seems to be pretty decent so far.