This thread is deja vu. There's a similar themed version on other forums.
AKA.... The majority dislike the OS and have stated so, but at least one has to hammer the message home onto deaf ears.
IMHO. Vista is rubbish, full stop. I don't hate it, same as I don't hate XP, but let's have it right.
It didn't do what was promised from the off. It kicks gamers in the teeth. It wacks the processor to meet it's demands. It wacks the GPU to meet it's demands. Bear in mind the max memory you can use is 4 gig If I'm not mistaken, and you see the memory required is steep.
This is before you even launch a third party app.
The "super mega rocket powered" prefetch it uses is a gag. In case you don't know, It caches all and everything you use most often to available ram in the hope you will use it and it's all ready to go.
That's fine when you follow a set path, but supposing you play a game instead? Won't that cache be flushed when the OS realises you need the ram?
You switch off, and the cache is lost. Only to be reloaded as you work. Forgive my ignorance, but I see it as pointless waste of time. I view it in the same light as I do ram "cleaner" programs. Worse performance in the long run.
It has it's uses, but only where you are fairly repetitive in what you do. It simply makes the OS look faster.
It uses software sound, which is rubbish. Realtek audio is dire. My old Audigy left it standing.
Use your current older Creative, or other soundcard and loose out big time on game audio.
I currently use the Audigy 2 platinum. This is what I loose by switching to Vista:
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Originally Posted by Creative's site
This driver does not support the following:
Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals
DVD-Audio
DirectSound®-based EAX games
Gameports
6.1 speaker mode.
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Lucky me. I end up with something that performs like an ISA card.
Gaming performance will be down, by order of the driver setup.
OS Security, while improved, is still very XP like, since patches are coming out thick and fast.
Your personal security under Vista logo software is compromised. From the home of spybot:
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While we found the "Certified for Vista" logo requirements to be very useful to enforce a high software quality in general, it has a huge drawback, which essentially makes every certified security software prone to getting disabled by malware.
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Read the full thing
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2007-06-11.html
Still happy with Vista?
So you will forgive me if I don't shout the merits of Vista from the rooftops.
Vienna? Sounds like a Vista upgrade.
XP SP3 will be here this year. I think you get a 5 year support period with service packs, or is it 3? Whichever it is, XP is here for a good while yet.
My opinion. Take it or leave it, but please stop shoving it down my throat.