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inflater wrote:I wouldn't recommend Vista though; except if you like the whole 3-D desktop... Its security is weak, it crashes almost every time, everytime it needs "your permission to continue" (the worst thing is, i've played on sister's laptop and Microsoft Word and suddenly whoah - the system shut down with message "Installing updates" - if it weren't for auto-save function, your work is trashed down ), the interface is very messy - I had some problems finding volume control in the tray bar , it slows down the whole PC, needs more RAM and CPU speed compared to XP, a lot applications from WinXP aren't working in Vista,.... ....and I could continue with the list. Yes, Vista supports DirectX 10, and so what? I've never seen much games that could support this interface...

My opinion: Windows Vista equals Windows ME + Windows 98 + Windows NT 4.0 + 3D shiny visuals.
Vista, the third Microsoft's failure apart from Microsoft BOB and Windows ME.

Windows Blista. Say LOL.

Um, Vista's security is better than XP. UAC (the whole permission thing) can be disabled with minimal worry. The general layout of the interface isn't notably different than XP (other than look, the tray is the same, the start menu is pretty much the same, etc.). Haven't had it crash yet (been running sometimes for two months without end). I do hate the update thing though.

Vista does need more hardware to run than XP, but most computers made these days shouldn't have trouble with it. After all, would you build a computer with less than a decent Core 2 Duo and around 2GB of RAM? Also, I've yet to find an application that would run on XP but not on Vista. The sole exception is Castle of the Winds, which is an absolutely ancient game that wouldn't run, but that was because 64-bit versions of Windows apparently won't run 16-bit applications. No big loss.

It is true that DirectX10 isn't really important now, but it will be in les than a year I'd say. After all, games like Starcraft 2 are planning to potentially include DX10 only features.

I guess you've just been unlucky with Vista. I've made a flawless transition from Windows 2000 to it.

Why go with windows at all? UNIX!!!

nah, I'll stick with the OS with driver support and cool games. =)

I didn't read the whole thread, but me having the choice, I would go 64bit.
I have windows Vista 32 bits, I I know that Vista 64 bit is not like linux 64 bit, but that's another thing, absolutely!

I remember when Windows XP 64-bit came out and everyone was thinking that games would run faster under it.

It was possible in theory but highly unlikely. Especially since they were still running 32-bit code.

What they didn't realise is that the performance will usually only increase if the game used a lot of 64-bit logic internally or required more than 3GB of memory (which I doubt) and they recompiled it from source.

One game, however, did take advantage of 64-bit Windows; FarCry. They even released a special 64-bit-only map.