Vista or XP for gaming now

[skace]

I'm battling some issues, but Vista64 hasn't been too bad to me. I wouldn't go back to XP or 32 for 2 reasons: 1. 8gb of ram, 2. DX10. It's that simple.

 

[Aikouka]

I run Vista Ultimate on both of my desktops (my laptop came with MCE 2005). My new laptop is coming with Vista Ultimate. My main desktop (C2Q 6600, Gigabyte P35-based motherboard, 4GB OCZ DDR2 800, GeForce 8800GTX) runs x64, my HTPC/Server (C2D 6600, Gigabyte 965-based motherboard, 2GB OCZ DDR2 800, GeForce 7600GS) runs x86. I haven't really had any problems with it other than the fact that it takes forever to boot on my main machine (I don't remember if it takes awhile on the other machine...). Supposedly based on Vista's performance tools, it's the Profile Manager that's taking awhile to boot (note that it's nice that Vista has such tools built in!) I don't reboot often so I haven't really looked into this much.

Originally posted by: j0j081
u must be thinking of the Office service pack. SP1 for Vista isn't out yet.

It's out in beta form.

Originally posted by: potato28
I didn't hop onto XP until SP1 came out, and I plan to do the same with Vista, unless they do an update to XP.

SP3 will be coming out for XP.

Originally posted by: jjones
Holy cow, network file transfers suck balls. Won't be "upgrading" my office to Vista anytime soon, that's for sure.

What's weird is... I don't get slow speeds all the time. Sometimes I get 30-40mb/s but sometimes

Originally posted by: arredondo
- I have to reboot Vista 2-3 times a day because it won't completely end the process when browsing the 'net or exiting a game sometimes, which prevents me from loading it up again. Why not go to task manager and end the process from there you may ask? Because in Vista, 95% of the time selecting "end process" on a frozen program does not work, and the system even tells me that I'll likely need to reboot! This frustrates me to no end.

Never had this problem happen on any of my Vista machines. Although I'm having some issues with FFDShow all of a sudden, but I think I'm running into a bug in that software that causes a video to freeze when minimized (sometimes). Not sure what exactly is causing it yet.

Also, I have no problem killing processes in Vista. It sounds like you've got something else wrong.

 

[Nebor]

The network file transfers are HORRIBLE. BLARRGhh. I have an all gigabit network, with all Vista machines, and sometimes get up to 40mb\s.

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: Nebor
The network file transfers are HORRIBLE. BLARRGhh. I have an all gigabit network, with all Vista machines, and sometimes get up to 40mb\s.

New Vista Hotfix 943899

Might help your transfer rate problems. Woke up this morning and found 6-7 updates ready to be installed. This was one of them and there was at least one more that was semi-interesting.

• This article contains an update that resolves issues that may affect some Windows Vista-based computers. These issues have been reported by customers who use the Error Reporting service or Microsoft Customer Support Services.
  
  This update improves performance, responsiveness, and reliability of Windows Vista in various scenarios.
  
  This update resolves the following issues on a Windows Vista-based computer:
  
  ? You receive a "Stop 0x000000A0" error when you try to switch the computer to the hibernate state.
  ? You receive a "Stop 0x0000009f" error when you switch the computer to the hibernate state or to the standby state. Or, you receive this Stop error when you resume the computer from the hibernate state or from the standby state. This problem occurs on a computer that has a wireless network connection.
  ? The disk does not spin down after a specified time of inactivity.
  Additionally, this update can help improve performance when you perform operations that are related to large disk I/O.
  
  After you apply this update, you may notice up to a 15 percent performance improvement in some copying operations and when moving some large files.

I did run a quick test myself and did notice a nice little boost with at least HDD to HDD transfer speeds. Copying 20GB of FRAPs videos from one Raptor to another, I got 61.9 MB/s transfer rate, which is very close to published report speeds and faster than the 45-50 MB/s I got last week when I moved them to clear room on my game drive. Worth a shot, let us know if it helps at all.