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LOL. Jesus, look at the statistics man. Almost EVERY poll you look at on the net, more than 70% ( give or take 10% ) will go for XP, about 25% vista, and about 5% Unix related.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenosaga21
Well yeah, from that, the world pretty much does have a problem with vista.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenosaga21
Because 64bit drivers suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xenosaga21
As for vista, I'ld rather not have 5gb of unused bloatware on my PC.
My entire vista install is less than 4gb's :happy:Quote:
Originally Posted by lukyjay
Polls mean nothing... if you put an option on every poll with the choice " I don't know wtf is going on " 90% of people will click it for fun ... ^^
vista Sp1 32bit/64bit is Fine there is nothing wrong with it you guys just buy into hype to much.
I ran all the Os's and find vista runs great.
aether way it doesn't make a sufferance everyone will use what they are comfortable with in the end... and everyone has there own opinions on the best setup....
Shall we all just agree to disagree?
i cant believe this thread is still alive ..
Xenosaga21 obviously sells ms vista and has erections all night long for vista.
everybody else doesn't like it. shall we end this then ?
Pitching a tent over vista? ive just bought a new rig and told Vista to GTFO
O yea me and vista get it on all night long... the orgasms are endless. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by omen
Also everybody else who? There is only 3 - 4 people posting in this thread and honestly I don't believe that they have computers capable of running any of the new games above low...
Anyways Curious enough i have been looking around for benchmarks for Xp vs Vista Sp1
Most of the Fps readings where within 1 - 2 fps from each other...
Load times where much faster for vista because of superfetch . . .
So Your looking at Faster Load times on vista with Comparable Fps... so whats the big fucking deal then ? why not use vista...
You may all be quick to judge, I have given tons of reasons showing the advantages of gaming on vista...only thing all of you have been able to say/do is offer no reason not to use vista other than stating your distaste for it...
im sorry but I will take my benchmarks as well as others benchmarks over "your distaste" I prefer tangible results over all of these intangible beliefs and misconceptions .
Here is a link to some alternate benchmarks ...
http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...ad.php?t=72298
clearly the newer games performed better on Vista than they did on xp.. with a few exceptions ...
Load times for complex programs like Photoshop etc... where hands down best in vista... I mean 2 sec load time vs 8.5 sec on Xp...
Some of the benchmarks are also very close but questionable as the method he used to gauge them using fraps is not as accurate as i would like...
aether way I have done similar testing as to this guy... hands down i pick vista... also not to mention it is quite possible that this guy used a Beta candidate version of SP1 which was not finalized... a lot has changed since then...
Ps: something must also be wrong with that guys rig... cause I get an average of like 40 Fps on my Geforce 8800 in crysis on DX10 0o and i didnt even buy the game it's dl'd lol
anyways I still think windows 2000 server advanced was the best in terms of gaming. . . . large memory limit . . . good computability. . . low resource requirements ... rarely had any issues. . . just got tired of the Gui a little is all.... and all you had to do to get it up and ready for gaming was enable sound and turn on graphics acceleration... which are disabled by default.
Xeno, I don't know what you've been doing with XP, but I've never had to reinstall XP. Never. I did it once to upgrade from Home to Pro and once due to a hard drive crash (initiated by a worm.)
My current installation of XP Pro dates back to July 2005.
Don't blame the operating system if you can't properly maintain it.
As for all that crapware that comes bundled in OEMs from HP, Dell and other such companies, you can uninstall it all. Just because you don't know how, doesn't mean you can't.
Lol. Im gonna quote myself, because i can, and because the last couple of people just proved it lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by fatslob222
By the time you uninstall all that garbage, you could have formatted twice.Quote:
Originally Posted by fuckstick
Vista installs in under 15 min on my pc... and Sp1 already incorporates 95% of the latest drivers.+ I have integrated all my computers drivers that i need onto my Vista install DvD myself... Along with a few extra themes ^^..
2nd windows Xp has a shorter half-life than any other OS.
Bit Rot is windows xp's worst enemy due to its inefficient indexing and poor handling of the windows registry . . . Windows xp over normal use
4 - 5 Months will lose efficiency and NEED a complete format to get back to what it was when it was first installed...
Windows xp over time = MAJOR DATA CORRUPTION AND LOSS
Windows Vista has not overcome this problem but it has made great strides in progress... giving it a longer half life ...
A half life is like a bell curve .... Windows Gains efficiency for a certain time until it reaches its peak... at which point the system's errors and corruption/loss of data begin to hinder its performance...
We are not just talking about simple maintenance ... but the practical time it takes to maintain an OS... ie
sit there and reinstall The os ( and none of your programs if you backed up nicely which takes about 25 Min) or sit there every 2 days cleaning up the mess that Xp leaves behind as it works with files.
... Your computer on average makes 1000's of writes and reads to the harddrive every hour... you think it does a perfect job every time? If you believe it does... you are nuts...
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Originally Posted by fatslob222
like i said half the people don't know the first thing about there computer, so there posts/polls/votes/opinions are worthless to me.
most of them the only OS they have ever used is Xp..
I have Used
Dos
Windows 3.1x
Linux /redhat/ubuntu/etc...
Windows 2000 / advanced/datacenter etc.. (Advanced is better than Xp)
windows Me (worst of all)
Windows Xp Pro.... Home etc suck... so why bother talking about those
windows vista Ultimate/Business.... even the Kms editions for server side authentication..
Windows 2003 server (great for gaming when configured as a workstation...)
Windows 2008 server ( probably the best out of all of these ... maybe only equaled in performance only by 2000 advanced)
I have run benchmarks... tested/built/configured/troublshot almost every problem on each of these systems... from networking ... down to simple things... broken registry entries missing dll's.... so far the one that is the most hastle free is Vista ... -_-
I have nothing to gain from anyone believing me... I don't sell vista... I don't even own microsoft stock...in fact i hate microsoft ... i dont even buy most of there products, cause they are so overpriced.... and I get most of this junk for free... or Beta test it.... so
believe what you want... but if you had half the balls to prove yourself wrong you would sit there waste time doing what I did .... TEST IT.
Sorry for bring this back up but know one has answer it. Was there a MS 16 bit OS??
wahahahaahahaha, ure funny, WHTF, i agree with omen, if ure not shure of something just dont post.
It takes minutes, 30-45 minutes tops if it's a particularly large plethora.Quote:
By the time you uninstall all that garbage, you could have formatted twice.
Well, gee. I guess if even a small fraction of all of that were true, I'd be getting dozens of corrupt and orphaned files daily and constantly having to run chkdsk!Quote:
2nd windows Xp has a shorter half-life than any other OS.
Bit Rot is windows xp's worst enemy due to its inefficient indexing and poor handling of the windows registry . . . Windows xp over normal use
4 - 5 Months will lose efficiency and NEED a complete format to get back to what it was when it was first installed...
Windows xp over time = MAJOR DATA CORRUPTION AND LOSS
Windows Vista has not overcome this problem but it has made great strides in progress... giving it a longer half life ...
A half life is like a bell curve .... Windows Gains efficiency for a certain time until it reaches its peak... at which point the system's errors and corruption/loss of data begin to hinder its performance...
We are not just talking about simple maintenance ... but the practical time it takes to maintain an OS... ie
sit there and reinstall The os ( and none of your programs if you backed up nicely which takes about 25 Min) or sit there every 2 days cleaning up the mess that Xp leaves behind as it works with files.
... Your computer on average makes 1000's of writes and reads to the harddrive every hour... you think it does a perfect job every time? If you believe it does... you are nuts...
I run clutter maintenance every month and perfomance maintenance every 6 months.
I have yet to fall victim to any corrupt files on my system.
The most I get is a false positive (caused by software bugs) every few months.
Also, all the "MAJOR DATA CORRUPTION AND LOSS" bit rot woes you continually spit out are solved rather easily with a nifty little built-in Windows tool called System File Checker, which finds and replaces all corrupt/missing system files directly from your install disc, saving you the need of a reinstallation.