> I am running vista ultimate right now on my gaming rig. It's slow > as shit, even copying files via network is slower, much slower.
Yeah, known problem. The Performance and Reliability patches helped this situation a lot, and a buddy of mine that applied the SP1 beta reported that network performance was restored to XP-levels. Otherwise, on my machine at least, it doesn't feel slow at all. > I changed the UI to be like XP but games lag when they did not lag > before in XP. I have a core2duo 2.4Ghz, 2G ram, 10K Raptor and 8800 > GTX. Stupid question, but, are you running the latest drivers? Both nVidia and AMD have made great strides in their Vista drivers since it went RTM. According to this firingsquad test battery, Vista's gaming performance is just slightly less than XP's is, and that's with 5 years of RTM driver dev vs. <1 year. http://firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_nvidia_windows_vista_driver_performance_ update/ > The box should scream like it does in XP but alas it does not. The > audio > subsystem in vista is an utter joke, thanks MSFT. Moving the audio subsystem to user mode is one of the greatest architectural improvements in Vista IMO. But again, drivers are immature. Plese make DX10 > available > for XP, vista should never have been released. UAC is a joke and to > most > users annoying as hell. Aero is cool for about 5 minutes, thanks for > worthless > eye candy. So what does Vista offer over XP besides DX10? Headaches > and pain. The file copy/move enhancements alone are worth it to me. Wow, encountering an in-use file no longer kills the entire transfer! :) Greg > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:06:18AM -0400, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > > Why are there umpteen zillion versions? Why is it known to be slower > on the > > same hardware than is XP? Most importantly, what does it do for me > that XP > > doesn't? > > > > Wayne Johnson wrote: > >> At 04:32 10-07-2007, Tim \"The Beave\" Lider typed: > >>> Learning Vista? What the heck? If you don't like the or have > problems > >>> With > >>> Windows Aero, you can set it to Windows XP look. > >> > >> I had Vista's public beta or trial version for several months & > while one > >> can even take it back to Windows Classic I still don't like it. Why > should > >> some one pay money for an OS when it's little more than a GUI change > as > >> compared to XP ? It certainly not any faster. As for the improvement > in > >> the file manager they're no biggie as I've been using Total > Commander as > >> opposed to Windows Exploder for years. I certainly wouldn't upgrade > XP to > >> Vista & recently even when I had the chance to get Vista Business > instead > >> of XP Pro I said no thanks. > >> > >> Sorry but no sale here. > >> > >> > >> ---------------+-------------- > >> I'm a geek that loves to tweak. > >> > >> > > -- > > Bryan G. Seitz
