I guess this is the wrong forum, but I'll respond anyway. 1. Regarding networking??? Glen, your friend has to be pulling your leg! XP is renown for confusing and inconsistent networking setup. Vista is XP as a baseline, true, but it improves and corrects a lot of XP's networking anamolies. Only two days ago I put Vista on a virgin drive and got internet and networking capabilities up almost immediately, whereas with XP I used to have to go through all sorts of confusing loops. Even product manuals explaining all the convoluted XP dialog boxes are hard to follow. (I think Vista needs to go further, though.)
2. Regarding speed in games, remember that one of the big changes to Vista over XP is the graphics architecture, reallocating functionality between applications and kernel. Because games are intended to achieve smooth graphics motion they require the best graphics hardware. But even so, some games were written in such a way that the new graphics architecture causes extra software layers to be invoked. If you read those game benchmarks you'll typically find only some games where XP is faster; notably with other games Vista is faster. That is explained by how the new graphics architecture afftects existing graphics programs written one way but not as much as another way (DirectX 10 and WDDM issues, among others). As games are developed or rewritten, and new graphics cards are deployed, you'll find Vista matching pretty close what XP did. The point is, many people such as your friend incorrectly use broad sweeping accusations when they really should be addressing a specifically narrow issue. Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: Glen Tubbesing To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [AP] Adding Ram Yeah, as long as you don't use it to run a network, or don't use any program that needs speed. I've seen numerous articles that show that Vista is slower than XP when running games. Now, whether this is because XP has more mature drivers than Vista is open for argument. As far as the network issue goes, a friend of mine runs a network for the Lamborghini store in the Palazzo on the LV Strip, and he curses Vista because of the problems he has getting it to work right. I don't know if he's got some setting wrong or what, but he's constantly getting network-related calls from them. Glen in Vegas Lee Menningen wrote: > > Actually, Vista is better than XP. Most of the improvements are under the > hood, (i.e., new graphics architecture, security issues, better > multi-processor support, etc.). > > Most of the "bad things" you've probably read were non-specific, and, I > read, were prompted by software vendors who objected to a) Vista enforcing > Program Files rules that XP was tolerant of, and b) the changed > graphics and > device driver architectures. But those things are all positive > changes, so I > have no sympathy for the vendors. > > You best move is to get Vista 64. (The forthcoming Windows 7 is base-lined > from Vista, Microsoft has said.) Note that although CS4 is not modified to > take advantage of raw 64-bit enhancements, CS4 runs under Vista 64 very > well, so I've read on the forums. I'm looking to make the same move > since my > larger projects frequently crash in both CS3 and CS4 and I, too, am hoping > that more memory will help the situation. Maybe they'll come out with a > CS4.64 someday! > > Of course, the bottom line is that CS4 shouldn't crash even if there isn't > enough memory, but that is another story. > > Lee > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
