Sp3 = +25% ?

[strewth]

Originally Posted by Codex

As for Vista being crap well have a look at this:

4) Vista is a massive resource hog over XP.
And XP takes more resources than 2k, and 2k takes more than 98/98SE, and 98 takes more than 95, and 95 takes more than 3.11.
New software is released to take use of the current available hardware, and to be able to make good use of the available hardware over its lifespan.
XP was released in '02 (IIRC) and what was the top CPU then? About a 2Ghz, 512Mb RAM was still pretty tops and a GFX was hardly more than 64Mb.
What's top at the moment? Dual-Core 3.8Ghz? 2Gb ram is standard, 1024Mb gfx is top-range.
Not supprising running Vista on a 5 year old PC might be a bit of a strech!

Yeah well he appeared to let ME slip by un-noticed. I am not the greatest fan of microsoft, but generally it works and I personally cannot do any better, so I use it.

HOWEVER! For those that have experienced ME otherwise known by the numerous help line people as "Arrrr, you mean Many Errors"; I can only shake my head at the heartache it caused me over the years on a work laptop. It certainly one that MS just plain got wrong.

Not really trying to flame you here. Just reading through and it was something that caught my eye.

Cheers!

[GOZR]

Well if you want the best M$ os for me for now it's win server 2003..

[Codex]

Originally Posted by 6S.Manu

Maybe in the Sp3 we'll have the DX10 support for XP?

Microsoft has always said it's not going to release DX10 for XP. There are some third party development houses building DX10 wrappers for XP, but they won't have the memory management optimisations of Vista for DX10 games, which mean a DX10 game in XP will be slower than on Vista. Also they'll probably charge $$$ for the wrapper, which to me defeats the purpose, you might as well just buy Vista.

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[TooCool]

As said previously, Vista seems to be the modern Windows Me. one article I found funny:

"Upgrading from Vista to XP"

http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/ar...indows-xp.aspx




anyway, the "after vista" OS is supposed to arrive in about 2.5 years... there's a good chance XP does quite well until there.. even if most will have to move to a 64bit version

[VMF-214_HaVoK]

Originally Posted by Tbag

Isn't XP limited to 3GB of memory? If so, this will be the limiting factor for XPs lifespan in my opinion. 2GB are becoming standard right now, for gamers anyway.

Yes, but most games will stay optimized for 2GB of ram for the simple reason most people do not run 64bit OS. I personally run XP Pro 64bit but even to this day its not fully supported and its not marketed very well either and almost feels abandoned at times. By the way Vista 32bit has the same capacity as XP 32bit so unless everyone starts running out and buy 64bit versions you have nothing to worry about concerning RAM limitations.

S!