OT: Vista users and wannabe's

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

Well you see... I am sitting on the fence about it.  I DID buy the
better version of Home in upgrade form.  I've installed it and I
retained my xp partition so it gives me the option to boot new or old
versions.

If I want to play Battlefield 2142 I play it in XP with all the
background apps disabled.  I have a P4 2.8ghz machine with a gig of
ram and a GeForce 7800 GS OC card and like I said it still lags in xp
if I don't shutdown everything else.  In Vista... well they haven't
written a driver for my card yet so pretty much forget about it.
However the old video card seemed to slow down vista but the new one
speeds it up--using native drivers.  There has to be something about
Aero and robustness of the 3D card.  Maybe it's using video memory for
the desktop?  Any thoughts?  I know you can disable Aero and improve
performance considerably.

I installed Vista Ultimate via the above mentioned crack and it works
great.  No problems thus far.  The video card on the libretto is a
little lacking so I can't flip windows but it runs and looks great on
that tiny laptop.

Now I did buy a thumbdrive that was fast enough for Vista to use as a
cache.  It bumped my vista score up 5 tenths on memory which went from
4.5 to 5.0 but my overall stayed at 1 because of the video chipset
will never bring it any higher.

Chris



On 3/13/07, Roger <rogercv1@gmail.com> wrote:
> cathy get a new MB from ebay to replace yours
>
> On 3/13/07, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> > On 12:18 am 03/13/07 "Allyn" <amalventano1@tds.net> wrote:
> > > >  Don't bother...
> > > >
> > > >  I have a Dell E520 w/E6400 with 4GB and it's constantly
> > > >  running out of memory, with less than 20 windows open.
> > > >
> > > >  With XP Pro I could have over 60 windows open, without a hickup.
> > >
> > > Umm, here, allow me to back up Peter with a visual:
> > > http://scirocco.dhs.org/overkill.jpg (just snapped)
> > >
> > > Oh, and for those curious, I run XP.  Vista is simply not ready for
> > > prime time.
> > >
> > > Al
> >
> > See, that's what concerns me. My vintage Latitude here is near the end of
> > the run (will need a mother board to fix the failing USB port) and I just
> > bet anything that I'd replace it with will come with Vista all loaded. As
> > if I want to play with the newest and least tested. :(
> > Cathy
> >
> >
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