Xp Or Vista - Which do you use?

[DB7]

Originally Posted by Xtreme2damax

Most if not all games run just as good on Vista as XP, and I don't have a top of the line PC either only an AMD64 X 2 3800+ 1 Gig of ram and a Geforce 6150LE.

This is what I don't understand as well. I have a Pentium-D 2.8ghz, 1.5gb of RAM and a GeForce 8600GTS, not exactly a high end system and I just don't get why people who have better systems than I do have so many problems with Vista. The only software I needed a new version of was Nero and the only hardware that needed a new driver was my Lexmark All in One. Gaming is also very good, if there is any difference I certainly haven't noticed it and in the case of some older games Vista runs them better than XP, even with the dual-core hotfix installed.

Originally Posted by Adeno;

By the way, is there an option in VISTA where I could turn off all of their unnecessary graphical gimmicks, like those spinning folders and stuff?

Yes you can turn all of the graphical frippery off if you want to.

[Arick_darkangel]

Using both of them in my home. vista is great but xp is my best friend which i trust to run my game without crash (maybe a little) so vote for xp now.

[Xtreme2damax]

Originally Posted by DB7

This is what I don't understand as well. I have a Pentium-D 2.8ghz, 1.5gb of RAM and a GeForce 8600GTS, not exactly a high end system and I just don't get why people who have better systems than I do have so many problems with Vista. The only software I needed a new version of was Nero and the only hardware that needed a new driver was my Lexmark All in One. Gaming is also very good, if there is any difference I certainly haven't noticed it and in the case of some older games Vista runs them better than XP, even with the dual-core hotfix installed.

One thing that was a major pizzor for me is the same thing as you, the Lexmark drivers. I don't blame Vista for that though, I blame Lexmark's lazy asses who didn't want to create a Vista compatible driver for my printer.

Luckily my father was able to get a new printer so he gave me his old HP printer/scanner so all is not lost.

Generally my experience with Vista has been quite pleasant so far besides a few minor annoyances.

UAC is a small annoyance, but it's not so annoying that it leads me to disabling it.

For some emulators/games to work properly I had to give permissions for Vista to write to the emulators/games folder in the C:\Program Files directory.

Right now I'm only using the 32-bit Vista, I plan on picking up the 64-bit version soon when I get some more money.

Right now I currently dual boot XP64 and Vista 32-bit, only reason I have XP64 right now is to test games via Dolphin 64 Beta 3.

However once I'm able to purchase Vista64 I'll be ditching XP altogether.

[Leiw]

XP all the way, been using it for 5 (?) years now. Also tried Vista, but it simply doesn't run that smoothly and uses up a lot of memory, which I don't like. And now with SP3, I'll sure stick with it until Win 7.

[strike105x]

Well i'm also using XP it runs better on my system still vista isnt a bad operating system with a dual core processor it works quite good actually after i get a dual core i think il be moving to vista

[Hackers89cool]

I simply use win vista..because I tired using old windows..Xp too old for me..So I Changing to win vista..Much better..Keep it updates .. by the way..running fast and smooth..so guys change ur mind .. Use windows vista