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Vista64 and driver compatibility
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: divemaster127 on January 29, 2008, 12:18:04 pm ---How did you get service pack 3 already.
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:laugh2: I didn't.... But I'm quoting from a PC Format Labs Benchmark Test there. They tend to be a very reliable indicator.
And that information came from a pre release version of SP3.
I have however been running vista on one new machine.... Not Impressed.... Very pretty, very configureable but loaded down with bloatware and junk. With regular lock ups and crashes and a habit of starting itself up without any input at all, even with all the power management turned off, the machine went back after two weeks.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
DeLuSioNal29:
It's a matter of time before the handy little program "nlite" will support Vista. Then you can remove all of the bells and whistles to your hearts content.
~ D
TimmyB:
--- Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on January 29, 2008, 12:42:14 pm ---It's a matter of time before the handy little program "nlite" will support Vista. Then you can remove all of the bells and whistles to your hearts content.
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It is already out http://www.vlite.net/ , but I haven't monkied around with it. Pretty happy with the perfomance thus far even on newer CHDs.
bvicarious:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on January 29, 2008, 12:16:19 pm ---Vista is (at the moment) a slow over bloated, bug ridden, crash everything, compatibility failure.
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That's weird, I've been running Vista for a year now and I haven't had a single crash or compatibility failure that I would pin down on the OS itself, or encountered any show-stopping bug that I can recall. What have you had problems with running?
taz-nz:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on January 29, 2008, 12:16:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: Shoegazer on November 28, 2007, 08:06:51 am ---The discussions I've seen on this board lately have gotten me very interested in using Vista64.
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Why!! Vista, regardless of any 64bit performance improvements is a piece of total junk.
Benchmarking Vista in all round performance against Windows XP with the new service pack 3 installed. Shows windows XP on the same hardware litteraly running twice as fast as Vista. So the performance gain from Vista64 is actually completely destroyed by the performance loss of the OS.
Vista is (at the moment) a slow over bloated, bug ridden, crash everything, compatibility failure.
It's going to be one to two years before Vista gets fixed and is a genuinely viable option. By which time, the REAL new Microsoft OS will have been released and Vista will become more of a laughing stock than it is now.
Look at vista as the equivalent of Windows ME. It's a stop gap OS that will not be the actual Microsft OS for very long.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on January 29, 2008, 12:32:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: divemaster127 on January 29, 2008, 12:18:04 pm ---How did you get service pack 3 already.
dm
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:laugh2: I didn't.... But I'm quoting from a PC Format Labs Benchmark Test there. They tend to be a very reliable indicator.
And that information came from a pre release version of SP3.
I have however been running vista on one new machine.... Not Impressed.... Very pretty, very configureable but loaded down with bloatware and junk. With regular lock ups and crashes and a habit of starting itself up without any input at all, even with all the power management turned off, the machine went back after two weeks.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
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You total have no idea do you, your just quoting random websites and Anti-Vista posts from other forums, you've been shot down by Aaron on this very forum for these kinds of statement and you still make them.
Vista is bloated no question about it, but that doesn't make it slow, just big, and there is vLite for that now. Give Vista 2gb of ram and 20gb of HDD space and a modern CPU and it goes like the snot, buying a cheap piece of :censored: PC from wallmart with Vista Basic pre-installed and only 512mb does not count as test of anything.
Second only to the Dev's :notworthy: , I probably done more M.A.M.E. Benchmarks than anyone else on the planet, I've done Apples for Apples comparisons between WinXP and Vista64 on identical PCs and Vista64 is faster even when running 32bit M.A.M.E., running M.A.M.E. 64bit under Vista 64bit offer a performance gain of up to 20%, even the most optimised Tiny XP install can not hope to keep up with Vista 64bit.
There is simply no better operating system to run the current versions of M.A.M.E. under than Vista 64bit, saying anything to the opposite is just putting your head in the sand and hoping that the world will stop spinning.
I suggest to anyone that hasn't already read in to check out my benchmark post: [url]http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72776.0[/url, before jumping to any conclusions.