oOoHeaDShoToOo Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 I was wondering what i should install for a operating system cause i deleted something i thinki shouldnt have.....i wanted to know which would be better for gaming and performance my computer stats areintel core 2 duo e8400 3.0ghzevga nvidia geforce gtx 2804gb of ramterabyte hard driveim going to be gettingone or the other tomorrow so some quick feedback would be awesome thanks .ScoTiaN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogger Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 If you want to use all of that RAM then you only have 1 choice .. Vista 64. I have Vista and have no problems with it at all. Don't be afraid ..... go into the light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN3AK Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 I'm stuck with Vista on my laptop, which it's bad for laptops with onboard graphics. It was excellent on my desktop though, for the short time I had it, but I quickly ditched it as it wouldn't let me organize the folders the way I liked and the fact that I have to click through 5 different things to get to something I could easily access in XP. I also had a couple driver issues as I have an older motherboard. Sure Vista x64 will recognize that full 4GB RAM, but unless you're doing virtual environments I haven't heard of anything that makes use of all that RAM.In the end the only positive I could give it was that it looked nice. But if I wanted an amazing graphic desktop environment I'd switch to Linux.just my opinion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goofy Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 if you can find drivers for all your hardware get Vista 64 im wishing I had 64 now instead of 32 when I got my new system last january Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euth Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 the PC I just got has Vista...I was afraid at first with all that has been said about it....but..I havent had any problems with it so far and I am kinda pleased with it....so I guess it isnt as bad as I thought....and isnt DirectX 10 only supported with Vista...or has someone figured out how to implement it into XP ...I know Microsoft wont do it because they want to push the sales of Vista....but I heard at one time someone was trying to get it to XP...IDK....I just wish Vista wasnt such a resource hog.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN3AK Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 and isnt DirectX 10 only supported with Vista...or has someone figured out how to implement it into XP ...I know Microsoft wont do it because they want to push the sales of Vista....but I heard at one time someone was trying to get it to XP...IDK....http://www.techmixer.com/download-directx-10-for-windows-xp/As a support technician I had more issues with the lack of self administration. Even logging into the default Administrator account you still don't have access to some things. It's locked down more than it should be and quite frankly UAC is worthless as most users either get pissed off at it and hate Vista for it or turn it off rendering it useless.As for being a resource hog SP1 already cut down on that somewhat, but SP2 should help even more. It seems SP2 has some pretty good things in store for Vista Laptops though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goofy Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Vista was only bad if you upgraded your system with it for there were hardly any drivers out there for the older hardware, if you got a new system when Vista came out your new hardware would have had the right drivers so you wouldn't have run into any of the major problems upgraders were running intostill wish Microcrap would stop making 5 different versions of their OS"s though make 2 versions one for home one for office therefore less confusing for ppl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oOoHeaDShoToOo Posted January 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 so its decided i just baught and installed WindowsVista Ultimate 64-bit from staples it cost me $372.84 with tax now i just have to reinstall everything lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogger Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Good deal. Word of advice .. turn off UAC unless you are incompetent and are a noob user Disclaimer: No offense to any of you that leave it on or are noob users Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goofy Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 i'm a boob user that count Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euth Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Good deal. Word of advice .. turn off UAC unless you are incompetent and are a noob user unless you just really...and I do mean REALLY..like pop-up windows asking you for permissionto do anything everytime you turn around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN3AK Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 And google Vista Speed Tweaks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goofy Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 sneak most of those tweaks are for boot up time so not really worth it at all what is an extra 5 seconds during boot up time going to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN3AK Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 We must be looking at different tweaks. The ones I'm talking about reduce Vista's resource usage, things like turning off Windows Defender which does a constant scan (unless your a noob and you actually get viruses and need that plus I believe it's uses up more resources than equivalent services such as Avast.) Turning off the indexing service which constantly monitors files, same with System Restore which I'm not sure but I think is a dynamic setup where it's constantly adding to the restore file in the background (not sure just what it sounds like.) Turning off the services will help with boot up time yes, and some will help with network transfer speed. I believe the Offline Replication Service or something like that is an unnecessary service too that is a constant resource drain. If you truly want to reduce resource usage turn off the Aero theme service and switch to Windows Classic. Of course then you lose the whole point of Vista, that it "looks pretty and that's about it." Vista is only useful right now for it's 64 bit versions and being able to recognize more than 4GB ram (of course you can tweak the memory addressing in 32 bit Vista to recognize 4GB plus GPU memory, I think it extends the physical addressing to 36 bits but it doesn't seem worth it.) XP x64 failed, if you think finding drivers for vista x64 is a nightmare, XP was worse. Besides what use do you have for 4GB+ of RAM if you're not doing virtual environments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goofy Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 have never turned aero on LOL don't care if my background moves or not hehe and I have 4 gigs of ram and yes I know Vista 32 only recognizes 3 gigs but my video card will still use all the ram that is available if it nees it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN3AK Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 don't care if my background moves or notActually the moving backgrounds are part of Vista Ultimate, call Dreamscenes, which you probably have to have Aero turned on to use them (not sure never tried it without Aero.) They're pretty cool but yet again, aesthetics over functionality is not my thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitzkrieg Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 I Bought a new Hard Drive and it wont let me Install XP on it, I had to go buy Vista, I still didn't install vista yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emjay Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 No one cares you loser HA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN3AK Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 I Bought a new Hard Drive and it wont let me Install XP on it, I had to go buy Vista, I still didn't install vista yet.How is it preventing you from installing XP? What hard drive is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emjay Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 sneak man dont ask the guy question, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING, nothing good can come from his reply LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitzkrieg Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 It's a Western Digital Hard Drive (10,000 rpm), i went to install XP and it told me to fuck off ( i dont kno the exact terms it used ) said Xp wasnt compatible or some shit, so i went and bought Vista but i only got 2GB's of Ram so im waiting until I'm not lazy and buy 4GB's of Ram to Install it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SN3AK Posted February 2, 2009 Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 sneak man dont ask the guy question, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING, nothing good can come from his reply LOLtrolls trolling trolls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadik Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 i fixed that issue by installing both xp and vista64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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