Vista or XP?

[Ax3l2323]

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.

[Gattsu]

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.

[iMicro]

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)

[SnOwBunZz]

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

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.

[Ronin]

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.

[SnOwBunZz]

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

[Ronin]

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.

[Ax3l2323]

These are my specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 8650 Triple-Core Processor 2.3GHz

Memory: 3.25 RAM (Suppose to be 4 gigs, but it says 3.25)

Hard Drive: 320 GB

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800

[SnOwBunZz]

These are my specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 8650 Triple-Core Processor 2.3GHz

Memory: 3.25 RAM (Suppose to be 4 gigs, but it says 3.25)

Hard Drive: 320 GB

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800

pretty much thesame setup, except for intel c2d e6550 and a 8800gts 320mb (i presume you have a 8800gt)

you shouldnt have problems running vista

[mtm0531]

I would stick with XP. I still have XP on my pc but messed around with Vista on others. Not that great.

[Xente]

These are my specs:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 8650 Triple-Core Processor 2.3GHz

Memory: 3.25 RAM (Suppose to be 4 gigs, but it says 3.25)

Hard Drive: 320 GB

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800

mines the same except i have a AMD X2 5600+

vista runs flawlessly

no games lagg whatsoever and service pack 1 fixed ALOT of stuff

upgrade man, you wont be disappointed

ignore the haters =D

[Neutral]

/agree

they did fix almost everything