- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
Posted by: Zeph
Vista being a RAM hog is a bit misleading. Vista automatically load information to memory that it will likely need for your typical computing needs. Say you play Battlefield 2142 a lot. Vista would automatically load files associated with 2142's startup so it will start quickly. However, say you decide to play Oblivion for the first time, Vista would use the remaining memory and begin flushing out things it had already preloaded such as 2142. It'll use a petobyte of RAM if you had it to spare; that's just how it was made. Anyone complaining about it is ignorant to the features of Vista under the hood.
Gj Zepth, you know your Vista my friend. :)
Here's a fun read for you guys about Vista and RAM
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
Btw, Vista is great.. but one thing I hate is they took out the DirectSound HAL API... in other words, no hardware-accelerated sound. The reason behind this is DirectSound is what causes a lot of BSOD's and errors in Windows, so instead of re-writing it, they killed it and until more games support either OpenAL or the Xbox Audio System (which MS is now pushing developpers to use for games on Vista since that will do hardware-accelerated sound)... what does this mean for those who want EAX and SurroundSound gaming with hardware acceleration? Creative has a solution only for their X-Fi soundcard lineup (since that's the only one that supports hardware OpenAL) is their program called aLchemy...
http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx
So that's my only heads up for Vista that kinda sucks... otherwise? Vista works great. I have an X-Fi XtremeMusic soundcard, so I don't suffer any probs. ;)