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Offline anomaly

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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2007, 01:46:41 pm »
as far as gaming goes, in my exp and opinion XP pro is the awnser. at least for the next year or so. so many bugs and driver issues w/ vista and on top of that you will see WAY higher FPS in games w/XP pro.

DX10 is cool yea but not that cool. and besides Microsoft is already working on DX10.1 yea.... :huh: and the current DX10 cards you spent your hard earned cash on for the newer better more beautiful DX10 wont work with the DX10.1. and to be honest DX10 is a flop and Microsoft figured this out and this is why their changing stuff...cool ehh? :angry:

but enough about that. as far as normal stuff i guess vista is ok but get at least 2Gigs of ram a dual core and a mid-range video card. vista is hungry!
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2007, 01:54:05 pm »
from my personal exp, i actually got higher fps in css after i installed vista. might be because it was a clean install, but i also have 3GB of RAM....
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #17 on: November 25, 2007, 01:11:15 pm »
I used to get 100+ fps in vista, then i went down to XP and only got like 40. Now I'm back on Vista and I only get 40 on Vista again. Same setup too. It's strange...

I'm considering going back to XP pro again though because it just runs all of my Adobe software better.
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #18 on: November 25, 2007, 01:44:36 pm »
i like vista idk why people hate it.... no problems for me.
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #19 on: November 25, 2007, 11:11:05 pm »
xp uses less ram, cpu ect... but the way vista written my cause some games to run better with different hard ware. and poorly with other hardware. it mostly depends on your system and the drivers available for your hardware on the OS you pick. and that doesn't mean just cuz you have the newest stuff ether.... better drivers will be out for vista in time but for now ill stick with xp pro.
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #20 on: November 25, 2007, 11:15:44 pm »
I ran the GameXP program in XP, it seemed to speed things up a bit
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #21 on: November 25, 2007, 11:44:23 pm »
Quote from: anomaly on November 25, 2007, 11:11:05 pm
xp uses less ram, cpu ect... but the way vista written my cause some games to run better with different hard ware. and poorly with other hardware. it mostly depends on your system and the drivers available for your hardware on the OS you pick. and that doesn't mean just cuz you have the newest stuff ether.... better drivers will be out for vista in time but for now ill stick with xp pro.

i dont have the newest stuff... i run with the things that came with the laptop and it seems fine xd
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #22 on: December 15, 2007, 04:52:23 pm »
If any of you are really torn between XP and Vista because Vista looks a whole lot more pleasing to the eyes (hey, it's a legit criteria to judge by), you might want to check out the new Vista Tranfsormation Pack 8.

http://www.jcxp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=23824

It's free, it's legit, and it makes XP look more awesome than you could totally imagine. In fact, it really does make EVERYTHING look like Vista Ultimate. Basically, it's a bundle of little freeware apps that come together to give you the experience of Windows Vista. I've had it installed for a couple months now and I think it is the single coolest thing I've put on my computer to date.

Considering I'd have to pony up the full price for Vista Ultimate just to have a system that munches 1 gig of memory at idle, has strange performance issues, is still pretty buggy, has terrible third-party support, and has invasive DRM locked into it, I think I'll be sticking with a very convincing copy of Vista Ultimate running on XP Pro.
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #23 on: December 15, 2007, 07:07:18 pm »
They tried to teach me how to do invasive DRM in med school, but I had ethical qualms so I got out of it.
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #24 on: December 16, 2007, 01:01:32 pm »
giving that Vista Transformation a go. seems okay so far, still uses up more system memory and resources; then again,  I was running a barebones OS before....
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #25 on: December 16, 2007, 02:07:42 pm »
Quote from: GeNe on December 16, 2007, 01:01:32 pm
giving that Vista Transformation a go. seems okay so far, still uses up more system memory and resources; then again,  I was running a barebones OS before....

Well, it will do that just because you have more eye candy in the first place. I have it installed too, I have all the bells and whistles enabled, I've got Firefox, Thunderbird, Adobe Acrobat Pro. and Trillian 3.1 Pro all running, as well as every hardware utility and driver known to man, and I'm still only eating up about 680MB.

If Vista idles at about 1 Gig doing nothing at all, I'd say this is an improvement.  :thumbup:
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2008, 02:44:37 am »
My noob question is, Is it that important to go with the 64bit version? or is 32bit
good for most uses. I mean the non DJ haxor uses.
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2008, 09:04:09 am »
32 bit is fine for everything.  But if you are talking Vista, I don't know (or care) which you should get.  I'm avoiding vista for awhile so I don't know much about it.
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2008, 10:38:30 am »
I'm thinking seriously about getting a cheap laptop eventually,
I plan to put Linux on it, since it will not be for gaming. The programs I intend
on putting on it will not need anything major for processor and RAM (Blender, Gimp, Inkscape).
Then I don't have to lug my whole computer to my friend's house every time we work together.

Anyone have any recommendations? Oh, and down with Vista (to stay on topic).  :lol:
I still hear alot of complaints about it.
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Re: XP or Vista
« Reply #29 on: January 16, 2008, 10:47:18 am »
OK, so I know that 32-bit XP doesn't recognize more than 3 gig of RAM.  But here comes the noob part of my question.....does that make it worthless to put anymore than 3 gig in a machine?

I'm so em-bare-assed.... :moon:
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