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Xejin · 06/28/07, 5:49 AM

Vista is alright. You hear a lot of FUD about Vista that is 99% untrue. XP runs better on older hardware because it was designed for older hardware and older hardware was designed for XP. Vista really shines when you have a lot of RAM because of its prefetching software. Basically, it'll create a RAM disk for you so that textures and what not load faster.

You'll notice that Vista looks like its gobbling RAM like crazy, that's just the prefetching software. One of the above posters is very right about driver issues. There is a lot of older hardware (1+ years old) sitting out there that will never get a Vista driver and because of that Vista will never be as stable or a fast as XP will be using the same hardware.

On newer machines, Vista will out perform XP. It's that simple. However, do not upgrade to Vista thinking that DX10 will help you get better performance in WoW - it won't, WoW uses OpenGL.

06/28/07, 5:49 AM	#51
Xejin Von Kaiser Xejin Blood Elf Mage <Sovereign> Nordrassil	Vista is OK Vista is alright. You hear a lot of FUD about Vista that is 99% untrue. XP runs better on older hardware because it was designed for older hardware and older hardware was designed for XP. Vista really shines when you have a lot of RAM because of its prefetching software. Basically, it'll create a RAM disk for you so that textures and what not load faster. You'll notice that Vista looks like its gobbling RAM like crazy, that's just the prefetching software. One of the above posters is very right about driver issues. There is a lot of older hardware (1+ years old) sitting out there that will never get a Vista driver and because of that Vista will never be as stable or a fast as XP will be using the same hardware. On newer machines, Vista will out perform XP. It's that simple. However, do not upgrade to Vista thinking that DX10 will help you get better performance in WoW - it won't, WoW uses OpenGL.