Xp Or Vista - Which do you use?

Zack · April 1st, 2008

Right long story short. My new PC I got was faulty, sent it back today, hoping to get a refund, then getting a dell (slightly higher spec).

Now then, It comes with Windows Vista Home. I however own 2 versions of XP. I did have Vista when it first came out, and threw it under my bed a few days later

However I'm not one of these guys who is going to live under a rock for the rest of my life so I am willing to give Vista another go.

Just wondering, If service pack 1 has improved things at all?. I remember all the screen fading combined with the loading icon continuously going around and around drove me insane, does that occur less often?

Don't forget to vote in the poll as to which you use!

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Id be very interested to hear from XP die-hards like myself who changed to Vista and didn't return to XP.

NamesSolidSnake · April 1st, 2008

How many threads are gonna be made like this one?...

Zack · April 1st, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by NamesSolidSnake

How many threads are gonna be made like this one?...

Probably a lot

Bubbafat · April 2nd, 2008

Well, for me i had Vista, and wasnt planning to switch back, but vistas updates kept ****ing up my computers drivers whenever it did an update and i would system restore for it to do it again. Plus i get better speeds in pcsx2 with xp.... So i just formatted everything off of my hdd(realising later i had tons of pireated games and hentai to save

) no i had a ton of stuff i should have saved like games, and gamesaves, like my oblivion one

i had just beaten main story line for the first time...

cottonvibes · April 2nd, 2008

i had vista x64 for about a month and it hated it so much.
i deleted that partition and went back to using 32bit windows XP.

maybe SP1 w/ Vista 32bit might be Okay, but "if it ain't broke, why fix it"... so get ready to reinstall XP on your new system

_mr_m_ · April 2nd, 2008

I, alas, am forced to use Vista, as it's what came with my laptop. It actually runs pretty well and I haven't had any of the problems that I hear about oh-so-often.

But since my laptop has dual hard drives (not just partitions, but 2 physical hard drives), I might go dig up my XP Pro SP1a CD and give it a go...I just don't want to hunt down all the drivers for XP to make my hardware work.

..Too bad there's not an option for "both"

Xtreme2damax · April 2nd, 2008

Vista runs amazingly well here, just as great as XP does. I don't know what performance problems people keep yapping about but I have yet to experience any degradation in performance or issues.

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.

Crashes and bugs? Haven't experienced any unless you count a display driver crash as part of Nvidia's sloppy coding about a year ago.

I only dual boot XP x64 to play Dolphin and as soon as I can buy a copy of Vista x64 I'm ditching XP all together.

Everytime the Anti-Vista fud machine starts up it usually winds up not being the fault of Vista and the result of a poorly coded or bugged driver, third party application and/or faulty/severely under-performing hardware that doesn't meet the specifications that are listed for Vista to run decently.

blueshogun96 · April 2nd, 2008

I'm dual booting Windows XP x86 and x86-64. I mostly use 64bit version, but I only use the 32bit when I need it (i.e. surfing, running certain games, Cxbx, etc.)

raksmey1309 · April 2nd, 2008

I am using both XP SP 2 and Vista Ultimate x64.

Fadingz · April 2nd, 2008

I use media center XP, but planing to get Vista 64 Ultimate for my next build

S.SubZero · April 2nd, 2008

Welcome to Hackintosh.

(going legit tomorrow, picking up a secondhand Macbook Pro)

Quote:

I'm dual booting Windows XP x86 and x86-64. I mostly use 64bit version, but I only use the 32bit when I need it (i.e. surfing, running certain games, Cxbx, etc.)

What games don't work on XP64? Also, why would you switch to XP32 for surfing? XP64 is fine for that.

NamesSolidSnake · April 2nd, 2008

XP and Vista are probably just as good, now.

As long as your PC is tough enough to run it.

I never used Vista, but I hear (many) mixed reviews.

d0x! · April 2nd, 2008

i use vista simply because it was the cheapest option.
been alright so far

**emwearz** · April 2nd, 2008

Im multi-booting with.
XP Pro, XP64 and Vista Ultimate.

I use XP Pro and very rarely use the other two, Vista I find is a utter piece of a crap and runs everything slower then XP, doing comparisons early on proved this to me when i benched the games in XP and in Vista and XP killed it as a gaming platform.

KillerShots · April 2nd, 2008

Multiboot with XP 64, Vista 32, and Gentoo 64

Spend 90+% of my time under gentoo (gaming, surfing, coding), with the other 10% under XP 64 (gaming only)... and some trace percentage under vista. Generally, I only use vista when something doesn't work on XP 64 due to the 64-bit incompatibility.

**MiretanK** · April 2nd, 2008

I did it for teh lulz.

Cid Highwind · April 2nd, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by emwearz

Im multi-booting with.
XP Pro, XP64 and Vista Ultimate.

I use XP Pro and very rarely use the other two, Vista I find is a utter piece of a crap and runs everything slower then XP, doing comparisons early on proved this to me when i benched the games in XP and in Vista and XP killed it as a gaming platform.

I have a copy of XP64, but stuck with the regular one. Perhaps it's time I should give it a try one day when I reinstall Windows again. And no, I'm not planning to cough up an €45,- for a Vista license, there's no added value, so I'd rather buy a beer.

**Chrono Archangel** · April 2nd, 2008

I went Vista x64 when I got my new rig. No issues whatsoever.
Don't think I'll ever be going back to XP on my home rigs.

Adeno · April 2nd, 2008

Hmmm I'm thinking of getting VISTA some time in the future, it's just that I've heard and read articles about it not being compatible with a lot of games (or at least it has bad issues with them). I mainly use my computer to play games.

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? I'm not the type of computer user who likes filling up the desktop with useless graphics or folder animation. Even with my current machine, an intel core 2 duo at 3.2Ghz with 2 gigs or ram and an ati radeon 2600 xt, I still use Windows Classic mode and I've disabled the point shadows and other things I don't care about. I'm even using a plain black background for the desktop lol!

I just really don't know when to get VISTA hmm...

ThePreserver · April 2nd, 2008

Since I recently got another gig of ram on Monday(2GB total), I'm sticking with Vista.

View Poll Results: Which do you use?
I use Windows Vista	21	33.87%
I use Windows XP	38	61.29%
Neither	3	4.84%
Voters: 62. You may not vote on this poll

April 1st, 2008	#1 (permalink)
Zack Coder Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: idk Posts: 160	Xp Or Vista - Which do you use? Right long story short. My new PC I got was faulty, sent it back today, hoping to get a refund, then getting a dell (slightly higher spec). Now then, It comes with Windows Vista Home. I however own 2 versions of XP. I did have Vista when it first came out, and threw it under my bed a few days later However I'm not one of these guys who is going to live under a rock for the rest of my life so I am willing to give Vista another go. Just wondering, If service pack 1 has improved things at all?. I remember all the screen fading combined with the loading icon continuously going around and around drove me insane, does that occur less often? Don't forget to vote in the poll as to which you use! . Id be very interested to hear from XP die-hards like myself who changed to Vista and didn't return to XP. __________________ My Releases : Wolfenstein 3D For PSP V4.8 (With Better Sound & Music Quality, Game Loader, Wolf3D Full Version Support, Spear Of Destiny Full Version Support + Spear Of Destiny Expansion Packs Support!! + Cheats, Quick Load & Save, Improved Controls & Lots More) ^^ Check out our coding compo! ^^

April 1st, 2008	#2 (permalink)
NamesSolidSnake nullDC Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: California Posts: 616	How many threads are gonna be made like this one?... __________________ PC/Laptop:Compaq Presario v5000 Notebook CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ at 1.8 GHz with PowerNow! technology. Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress Mobility 200 Series. RAM: 512 MB. HDD: 60 GB. OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

April 2nd, 2008	#4 (permalink)
Bubbafat Bow down to my awesomenes Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Mass. Posts: 1,016	Well, for me i had Vista, and wasnt planning to switch back, but vistas updates kept ****ing up my computers drivers whenever it did an update and i would system restore for it to do it again. Plus i get better speeds in pcsx2 with xp.... So i just formatted everything off of my hdd(realising later i had tons of pireated games and hentai to save) no i had a ton of stuff i should have saved like games, and gamesaves, like my oblivion one i had just beaten main story line for the first time... __________________ -Cpu currently at 1.8 upgraded bios issue -2gb pc 5400 667mhz

April 2nd, 2008	#5 (permalink)
cottonvibes NGemu's Kawaii Imoutochan Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Super Mario World Posts: 2,558	i had vista x64 for about a month and it hated it so much. i deleted that partition and went back to using 32bit windows XP. maybe SP1 w/ Vista 32bit might be Okay, but "if it ain't broke, why fix it"... so get ready to reinstall XP on your new system __________________ PC Specs: AMD X2 4400+ @ 2.921 Ghz, 1.47 vCore \| G92 8800 GTS 512mb @ 740/1944\| 4GB Dual Channel OCZ Memory @ 835 Mhz (5-4-4-15-2T) \| 700 Watt PSU \| DVD-RW Drive \| 500 GB Hitachi SATA II Hard Drive, 30 GB & 40 GB Western Digital IDE Hard Drives \| 1920x1080 40" LCD Flat Pannel HDTV monitor \| Consoles: 1 PS3 (60 GB), 2 PS2s, 1 PS, 3 GBAs, 1 GB, and 1 old school NES Having troubles with PCSX2? Check out my guide to get it running correctly. Running PCSX2 Guide for Noobs

April 2nd, 2008	#6 (permalink)
_mr_m_ pwned. Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: The Loop, St. Louis, MO Posts: 216	I, alas, am forced to use Vista, as it's what came with my laptop. It actually runs pretty well and I haven't had any of the problems that I hear about oh-so-often. But since my laptop has dual hard drives (not just partitions, but 2 physical hard drives), I might go dig up my XP Pro SP1a CD and give it a go...I just don't want to hunt down all the drivers for XP to make my hardware work. ..Too bad there's not an option for "both" __________________ foolish are the ones who play twister on the stairs... PC Specs: Intel Core2Duo T7500 (2.2 GHz), 2GB DDR2 Ram (@ 667 MHz), 256MB ATI Radeon Mobility 2600 HighDefinition, RealTek High Definition Audio, 8x DVD+/-RW

April 2nd, 2008	#7 (permalink)
Xtreme2damax Registered Ball Crusher Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: In my bedroomz optimizing PCSX2 by kicking it in the nuts. Posts: 1,623	Vista runs amazingly well here, just as great as XP does. I don't know what performance problems people keep yapping about but I have yet to experience any degradation in performance or issues. 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. Crashes and bugs? Haven't experienced any unless you count a display driver crash as part of Nvidia's sloppy coding about a year ago. I only dual boot XP x64 to play Dolphin and as soon as I can buy a copy of Vista x64 I'm ditching XP all together. Everytime the Anti-Vista fud machine starts up it usually winds up not being the fault of Vista and the result of a poorly coded or bugged driver, third party application and/or faulty/severely under-performing hardware that doesn't meet the specifications that are listed for Vista to run decently. __________________ Half-Life Resistance Forums. Xtemulation Wiki The Mobile Suit Project Come join us on irc: irc.freenode.net #xtemu

April 2nd, 2008	#8 (permalink)
blueshogun96 Shogun3D Interactive (TM) Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Unidentified Posts: 2,072	I'm dual booting Windows XP x86 and x86-64. I mostly use 64bit version, but I only use the 32bit when I need it (i.e. surfing, running certain games, Cxbx, etc.) __________________ [Sagat] Windows XP x64 Pro \| AMD Athlon 3000+ (~2.0GHz) \| NVIDIA GeForce 6600 PCI-E \| Realtek AC97 Audio \| 512MB Ram \| NVIDIA NForce 4-4X chipset \| Seagate HDD 160GB \| LG 8614 DVD-ROM \| HP DVD 1040d CD/DVD -/+ RW w/ LightScribe GeneralEmu - December 27, 2005 and beyond! My programming, emulation and Xbox blog! - Click or die! (Updated June 26, 2008) Visit my YouTube page! http://www.youtube.com/blueshogun96

April 2nd, 2008	#9 (permalink)
raksmey1309 <_-AK-_> Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Kingdom of Cambodia Posts: 1,249	I am using both XP SP 2 and Vista Ultimate x64. __________________ If I will be rewarded for my meritorious acts,I wish to be reborn in Kampujia (again) Preah Vihear,a Khmer temple is on the list of UNESCO world heritage. Hopefully to wake up some Thai people from their long day dream.XD

April 2nd, 2008	#10 (permalink)
Fadingz 大嘴巴 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: 應許之地 Posts: 2,924	I use media center XP, but planing to get Vista 64 Ultimate for my next build __________________ My deviantART~ QX9650 stock \| G.Skill 2GB DDR2 1066 RAM x 4 \| Vista 64 Ultimate \| Quadro FX4600 \| X-Fi Elite Pro \| SAMSUNG 2253BW \| Cosmos S \| ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA \| Western Digital Raptor X x2 \| ThermalTake 850W

April 2nd, 2008	#12 (permalink)
NamesSolidSnake nullDC Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: California Posts: 616	XP and Vista are probably just as good, now. As long as your PC is tough enough to run it. I never used Vista, but I hear (many) mixed reviews. __________________ PC/Laptop:Compaq Presario v5000 Notebook CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ at 1.8 GHz with PowerNow! technology. Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress Mobility 200 Series. RAM: 512 MB. HDD: 60 GB. OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

April 2nd, 2008	#13 (permalink)
d0x! el dox0r Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: uk Posts: 25	i use vista simply because it was the cheapest option. been alright so far __________________ T7700\| 3gb ram \| 320GB HD\| 8800MGTX \| WIndows XP Pro SP3

April 2nd, 2008	#14 (permalink)
emwearz Moderator Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 3,213	Im multi-booting with. XP Pro, XP64 and Vista Ultimate. I use XP Pro and very rarely use the other two, Vista I find is a utter piece of a crap and runs everything slower then XP, doing comparisons early on proved this to me when i benched the games in XP and in Vista and XP killed it as a gaming platform. __________________ - No Jobs On A Dead Planet - Welcome to EMerica .:\|:. You're mine now » Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 B2 Stepping @3.3 Ghz \| Asus 8800GT 512MB PhysX enabled @700/1750/975 MHz \| 2GB OCZ DDR2 800 « » Asus P5B Vanilla \| Thermaltake Soprano \| Thermaltake Big Typhoon VX « » Beta Tester for nullDC «

April 2nd, 2008	#15 (permalink)
KillerShots War Games coder Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Florida Posts: 1,918	Multiboot with XP 64, Vista 32, and Gentoo 64 Spend 90+% of my time under gentoo (gaming, surfing, coding), with the other 10% under XP 64 (gaming only)... and some trace percentage under vista. Generally, I only use vista when something doesn't work on XP 64 due to the 64-bit incompatibility. __________________ Primary CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Mobo: Biostar N4SLI-A9 RAM: 2G Crucial (DDR400) Video: eVGA GeForce 7900 GTX (512M) Audio: HDA X-Mystique HD(s): Maxtor 300G SATA2, Samsung 400G SATA2 OS(s): WinXP x64 Pro, Vista x32 Ultimate, Gentoo x64 Monitor(s): Primary - 19" Flat Panel (1280x1024) Secondary - 19" Flat Panel (1280x1024) Tertiary - Zenith 42" Plasma TV (1024x768 res) Many other machines... sig too short

April 2nd, 2008	#18 (permalink)
Chrono Archangel Administrator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 7,068	I went Vista x64 when I got my new rig. No issues whatsoever. Don't think I'll ever be going back to XP on my home rigs. __________________ When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

April 2nd, 2008	#19 (permalink)
Adeno Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: adfasdf Posts: 16	Hmmm I'm thinking of getting VISTA some time in the future, it's just that I've heard and read articles about it not being compatible with a lot of games (or at least it has bad issues with them). I mainly use my computer to play games. 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? I'm not the type of computer user who likes filling up the desktop with useless graphics or folder animation. Even with my current machine, an intel core 2 duo at 3.2Ghz with 2 gigs or ram and an ati radeon 2600 xt, I still use Windows Classic mode and I've disabled the point shadows and other things I don't care about. I'm even using a plain black background for the desktop lol! I just really don't know when to get VISTA hmm...

April 2nd, 2008	#20 (permalink)
ThePreserver EmuTalk Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Alpha Centauri Posts: 66	Since I recently got another gig of ram on Monday(2GB total), I'm sticking with Vista. __________________ AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ @ 2.11GHz :: 2GB PC2-5300 RAM @ 669MHz :: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 w/ PS3.0 @ 425MHz :: Realtek ALC888 7.1HD Audio :: 250GB SATA HDD @ 7200RPM :: DirectX 9.0 :: USB 2.0 x7 Pokémon Connect

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