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Organic Jerk:


--- Quote from: Sir Auros on June 26, 2007, 12:29:35 am ---Best Buy had a pretty decent computer on sale this week for $299, but it has Vista Basic. Pentium 4 3.2gig and a gig of RAM, and I picked up a cheap videocard (Radeon X1050) for output to a TV.

However, I was wondering how popular MAME software and related MAME cabinet software works with Vista thus far. I was also curious about whether or not the system I got is going to slow down much with those kinds of stats.

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I would stay away from Vista for now, but that computer, from the basics you posted, still seems like a good deal.  There's nothing stopping you from installing XP on that machine and just holding on to Vista until you may want to try it.. (I always like having software available to me)... I mean you could just get the other PC, but at 200 that's not a bad deal...

Especially with the CPS3 revelation recently, and if you plan to play other emulators, that PC sounds like a good contender with a new video card.

I say: Ditch the Vista, Keep the PC.

AtomSmasher:

I wouldn't use Vista on my arcade machine since you probably want the most stipped down OS you can find for it.

On a similar note, last week I received a copy of Vista and have been running it ever since.  I've heard so many bad things about it, that I figured I wouldn't be using Vista for anything more then to tinker with.  To be on the safe side I installed Vista as a dual boot with XP, so I can switch back and forth between OS's easily, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with Vista.  I actually really like it a lot and haven't had to go back to XP at all in the past week.  The only bad thing is in game performance (newer games, not Mame), my fps in some games is almost 1/2 of what it was in XP, which does suck, but should eventually be fixed with driver updates.

torez:


--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on June 26, 2007, 09:51:05 am ---Vista is turning out to be the Windows ME of this decade...wait...Windows ME was this decade...ok...Windows Vista is turning out to be ANOTHER Windows ME of this decade.


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WinME came out in 2000, so it was the last year of previous decade.

Vista is video card hog, so you need a good video card to play pc games or even have all the eye candy.  XP is still the best for gaming, as it's using less resources and has better driver support.  I would recommend waiting until SP1 for Vista comes out (expect beta to be out by November 12).

I tried Vista on 1.13 GHz Dell laptop and it was running fine, but when tried to play dvd movie (with Cyberlink PowerDVD), it would play in window only.  Full screen would basically stall.  Reinstalled XP and movies played without any hickups.

I'm not eager to use this os for another year or two (when more DirectX 10 games start coming out).  There is talk about new os by 2009/2010, so I may skip this altogether and go for what's next.

I've been happy with XP since day one.  It run almost two months at first withou reboot.  As I install XP on many laptops and then have to update, it bothers me to see that the updates at least double the size of XP installation.  Why so much crap???  If you plan on using XP just for Mame, install it with SP-2 and don't do any updates, as they will not affect playability in Mame.

If you have Vista Basic already, I would wait until SP-1 comes out and by an upgrade, so you will save some money and use Vista on your main computer (probably still dual boot).

NightGod:

Personally, I've been insanely happy with Vista-I'd say it's the most stable-at-release OS I've seen from MS. Other than a couple of issues with video codecs (caused more by the fact that I went 64-bit than anything), it's been awesome for me. Then again, I put it on a brand new system that is more than capable of running it-my Windows Experience index is 5.5, and the slow things are my RAM (which is 4 GB of 800 Mhz) and my CPU (which is a Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition). Both my video card ratings and my HD rating are 5.9. Mind you, that scale is out of a possible 6.

Santoro:


--- Quote from: NightGod on June 27, 2007, 12:52:41 am ---Personally, I've been insanely happy with Vista-I'd say it's the most stable-at-release OS I've seen from MS. Other than a couple of issues with video codecs (caused more by the fact that I went 64-bit than anything), it's been awesome for me.
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Yep me too.  I think most of the Vista naysayers aren't running it, or aren't running it on current hardware.

If I was building a cab, however, I'd stick with XP for reasons already stated.  (There's not much MAME/Vista info out there yet, better performance on old hardware.)



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