PERFORMANCE BOOST using XP instead of VISTA ???

Post by **hurenBock** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:24 pm

hi !

im thinking about deleteing win VISTA and installing XP again the last time
cause i heard that games run faster under XP cause it doesnt need that much power like VISTA needs...

so what would you do ? i mean on the other side i want to stay with VISTA
but it sucks that i cant play my old favorite games like VIETCONG or BLOOD etc etc...

but i dont want to run a dual OS system.....
i mean will XP be enough for the future ? i mean this is senseless when i reinstall and use XP again now

when all the games that get released the next months years all need VISTA and dont run under XP.....dont want to make myself all that stress just because of 3-4 games........

what would you do ?

running VISTA or XP PRO ?

freakboy · Post by **freakboy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:09 pm

Sp3 is coming for xp so this OS is far from dead. No point of using Vista.

Post by **hurenBock** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:28 pm

VISTA SP 1 is coming too ....... i decided to stay with VISTA for now !
lets see what the SP brings...

Liamoneal · Post by **Liamoneal** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:05 am

I have XP on my desktop in my computer room and Vista on my laptop. If something wont run on my laptop I use my desktop. Works for me.

Post by **hurenBock** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:49 am

well i just have 1 machine

mxjgr · Post by **mxjgr** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:06 pm

The only use for Vista would be, if you have a brand new high end computer and want to play DirectX 10 games like Farecry 2 on the highest graphic level.

Even so the games with DirectX 10 extensions are fery few and don't look that much different, when you play them with DirectX 9 and XP - judging from the Screenshots.
For everything else - and even performance with these new games - XP is far superior.
Also Vista comes with screwed security issues (working against and not for the user, as it should be) and DRM, which is No-No for me.

Stick with XP for now! People are already translating DirectX10 for Wine (Linux), so this could be an option in the future.

Post by **InsaneFury** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:05 pm

mxjgr wrote:The only use for Vista would be, if you have a brand new high end computer and want to play DirectX 10 games like Farecry 2 on the highest graphic level.

I'm getting myself one, and I'll only (if at all) be installing Vista to check out some DirectX 10 features and to make use of all of my RAM. For all else, I'd consider Vista more of a downgrade of XP, so I'll be sticking with Windows XP as long as I can.

I'm installing Windows XP on it for sure though, as my main OS.

Post by **hurenBock** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:27 pm

i got the SP 1 for VISTA today installation was a little bit long 30-45 minutes.......

but well its worth it my system is faster now especially copying is real fast now

i want to use XP again too one fact why is that SP 3 is coming but yesterday i tried to make my C parition smaller and making the E DRIVE for my GAMES bigger

but as i wanted to make the drive bigger and C smaller i clicked proceed and the PC rebooted......then the DRIVE did something but then somthing stand there like

"unalbe to write to SECTOR 1 drive C:"

somehow the C DRIVE is protected from changing space or whatever this sux i guess i cant even FORMAT C DRIVE and install XP again

Liamoneal · Post by **Liamoneal** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:46 am

Sure you can but you have to use third party partitioning software like Partition magic.

Post by **hurenBock** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:07 am

i installed win XP PRO including SP2 again...yesterday evening.........using

winXP PRO again now.......vista sukked somehow.......and i made the partitions i wanted with >>>

"ARCONIS DISK DIRECTOR SUITE V.10"

thats a good tool better than Partition MAGIC i think.....

my C: "WINXP" Drive is now 30 GB
my D: "MISC" Drive is 50 GB

and E: "GAMES" Drive is 168 GB

all i need now is XP SERVICE PACK 3 i cant wait to download it !
btw is it already released ? no it isnt right ?!

but VIST SP1 was released yesterday or 2 days before downloaded the FINAL version yesterday !

WOW since i use XP PRO again my new GAMES run 20-30 % faster !

mxjgr · Post by **mxjgr** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:28 pm

hurenBock wrote:iall i need now is XP SERVICE PACK 3 i cant wait to download it !
btw is it already released ? no it isnt right ?!

As far as I know, it has been released for some time already, but only in English.

But it consist manly of some updates, so it is not that important.

Post by **hurenBock** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:49 pm

all i can say is....if you play a lot use XP forget about VISTA... if youre a gamer...........

like said before ALL my GAMES are running 20-30 percent faster under XP

Post by **Trey** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:23 pm

There's a leaked beta version of SP3 that has been floating around the internet since last year, a final version still hasn't been released. There wasn't even going to be a SP3 at all until businesses still using XP complained very loudly about Microsoft throwing XP under the bus, and no longer supporting it.

otiscrusher · Post by **otiscrusher** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:26 pm

Only a moron installs Vista, every new OS is totally <i>fudge</i> up, wait until sp 3 or 4 arrives. also Vista's perfomance is terrible, it consumes RAM like '69 Cadillac Fleetwood.

Post by **Trey** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:41 am

VISTA is just a pretty, flashy resource hog at this point. Computers get more RAM and more processing power, Microsoft turns around and finds a way to waste it making things look nice, but really running no better. XP was like that when it first came out. I stuck with 98 for a long time before switching over. On the whole, XP was more stable than 98, we'll have to wait and see about VISTA.

PERFORMANCE BOOST using XP instead of VISTA ???

PERFORMANCE BOOST using XP instead of VISTA ???

Re: PERFORMANCE BOOST using XP instead of VISTA ???

Personally I use both

Sure you can