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Subject: HardOCP's bottom line on Vista: "It's a Lemon."
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Posted by: empyphil
There is no point getting Vista at the moment as it hardly offers anything new over Xp.
Yeah, let's just ignore DirectX 10 and a number of other features Vista offers.

  • 04.07.2007 10:54 AM PDT
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if you read it said that areo does not cause any more resources to be used than the classic theme

that was my worry

  • 04.07.2007 11:46 AM PDT

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Posted by: Master Kim
Posted by: empyphil
There is no point getting Vista at the moment as it hardly offers anything new over Xp.
Yeah, let's just ignore DirectX 10 and a number of other features Vista offers.

Thats like saying "Hey every body do you see crysis? Now guess what? Forget about it." Please don't have a bad feeling about vista, sure its a piece of -blam!- but just try not to go on the internet with it and you will be fine. /sarcasm

  • 04.07.2007 5:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: LOL WALMART
if you read it said that areo does not cause any more resources to be used than the classic theme

that was my worry

Thats bull-blam!-. Of course it does. It uses alot of GPU and RAM... Which is why you need it decent. But Vista has ReadyBoost, where you can use an external drive as "Secondary RAM", which increases OS and game FPS.

Oh and, if you are worried about piracy, my Music folder is full of things... Not saying sources but... Microsoft hasn't contacted me yet >_>.

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  • 04.07.2007 6:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: natedogr
Always wait for Microsoft to fix the bugs on any of their operating systems. They all have serious problems when they are first released.


All OS, retail and private, have problems through their life. XP still has problems. OS X still has problems. Solaris 10 still has problems. NT/2000 still has problems. Vista will still have problems at the end of its life, and so will all OS till the point they're unrecognizable to us today. It's a fact of life. Their code is soo deep, is worked on by soo many people, and used by soo many people all the problems will never be fixed.

  • 04.08.2007 7:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: RoffleChops
Posted by: LOL WALMART
if you read it said that areo does not cause any more resources to be used than the classic theme

that was my worry

Thats bull-blam!-. Of course it does. It uses alot of GPU and RAM... Which is why you need it decent. But Vista has ReadyBoost, where you can use an external drive as "Secondary RAM", which increases OS and game FPS.

Oh and, if you are worried about piracy, my Music folder is full of things... Not saying sources but... Microsoft hasn't contacted me yet >_>.


You do know that Vista uses a lot of RAM because it preloads what you're most likely to use and it also keeps your GPU active because you're not using it either, correct? Aero's only additional resource use is the GPU, and what little of that it is. If you're complaining about it hogging that, you need to take a step back and ask yourself what else you're using it on right then.

ReadyBoost is not secondary RAM which increases OS and game FPS. It only serves as virtual memory. Flash memory has a faster read/write speed over hard disks. Saying it gives you faster FPS is like saying your video card holds the textures its working with on your hdd. With H2V as an example, ReadyBoost would hold maps you've played recently on the flash drive for faster loading if you use them again. That is assuming you dont have enough memory for it to already do that.

  • 04.08.2007 7:45 AM PDT
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Not sure where all that "XP DVD compatability" stuff comes from.

I often burn disks to use on other machines (XP), the TV DVD player and the DVD player in the car and i've had no problems with any of the disks. The only problem i have with them at the moment is this damn drive that keeps clicking at me and refuses to read disks, but thats more a "oops i dropped the drive when putting it in the pc" problem than a "oh wow vista is like the worst thing in the world ever!" problem.

  • 04.09.2007 6:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: empyphil
There is no point getting Vista at the moment as it hardly offers anything new over Xp.


Then you aren't using it right. Widgets/sidebar, searching, drive management, and better visuals are just a few.

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Posted by: empyphil
There is no point getting Vista at the moment as it hardly offers anything new over Xp.


Then you aren't using it right. Widgets/sidebar, searching, drive management, and better visuals are just a few.


Ive had those features on OS X for ages now, its not worth the money buying Vista for a few features.

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Posted by: RoffleChops

Thats bull-blam!-. Of course it does. It uses alot of GPU and RAM... Which is why you need it decent. But Vista has ReadyBoost, where you can use an external drive as "Secondary RAM", which increases OS and game FPS.

Oh and, if you are worried about piracy, my Music folder is full of things... Not saying sources but... Microsoft hasn't contacted me yet >_>.
well from what i understand is that in the regular theme it relys on the system memory, in areo it goes off of the graphics card memory

readyboost doesnt help my RAM, it only makes things more laggy cause USB is so slow

  • 04.09.2007 6:40 AM PDT

Personally, I dont get why people would pay $200+ on an operating system that typiclly is unstable, virus prone, and malware prone. I use Linux as my operating system (Ubuntu Linux). Linux is free, downloadable, has hardly any viruses or malware, open source (which means that you can download the complete uncompiled source code to Linux, modify it, and redistrubute it.), etc. There is also NO reason why Halo 2 Vista cant run on Windows XP. Bungies original statment was that Windows Live is not aviable in XP. However, I am in the Windows Live beta, and Live runs on Windows XP!! Im hopeing I can use Linux virtualization software, like Wine, or Cedega, specificly designed to run Windows games on Linux) to run H2V.

  • 04.09.2007 1:20 PM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

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