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    Default Vista or XP?

    I'm currently using XP, but I wanna upgrade to Vista to use Directx 10. Some people say Vista is trash and could mess up your games, i'm wondering if this is true.

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    I use to mess up your games but not anymore.... not for me atleast.
    I would still stick with XP though because i dont like Vistas Virtualized Memory thing.

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    Vista only if you:

    - Have 3GB ram or more.
    - Plan on playing games with DX10(otherwise it's useless, and there a few games that are DX10)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ax3l2323 View Post
    Some people say Vista is trash
    Because they ran vista on a low end trash pc expecting it to run.
    A pc that has been bought lately (dualcore, decenty gpu and at least 2gigs ram) will run it flawlessy

    Quote Originally Posted by Ax3l2323 View Post
    and could mess up your games, i'm wondering if this is true.
    It doesnt anymore, xp was thesame when they released it as nothing worked on it. Service pack 1 fixed alot of stuff and i can run any game now.

    Dont forget to turn of the user account control though, it makes vista so much faster and less annoying.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SnOwBunZz View Post
    Dont forget to turn of the user account control though, it makes vista so much faster and less annoying.
    Well, first everyone *****es how UNIX/LINUX has a more sophisticated user-privilege control (= security).

    Than they bring it over and people find it annoying.

    Funny to me; I didn't turn it off, I also wouldn't advice people too.

    People can give it a shot, if it's bothering them too much, they can get rid of it as mentioned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin View Post
    Well, first everyone *****es how UNIX/LINUX has a more sophisticated user-privilege control (= security).

    Than they bring it over and people find it annoying.

    Funny to me; I didn't turn it off, I also wouldn't advice people too.

    People can give it a shot, if it's bothering them too much, they can get rid of it as mentioned.
    yea, everytime you want to run an application is good in the beginning, but after a while its annoying

    what really bothered me is the waiting time after you downloaded an executable
    it doesnt even say whats its doing untill 20mins later when its starts to run suddenly


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    Quote Originally Posted by SnOwBunZz View Post
    yea, everytime you want to run an application is good in the beginning, but after a while its annoying

    what really bothered me is the waiting time after you downloaded an executable
    it doesnt even say whats its doing untill 20mins later when its starts to run suddenly
    Ya I know what you mean, I have that too at times.

    Also I have a feeling at times, that even "vista ready" virus scanners some times have probs with the whole thing.

    Often you can trigger the question, buy starting a program that needs admin, but it's probably the only shortcoming of Vista atm, besides the too cluttered networking management I can think of.

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