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| elvisart:
Why would anyone run Vista? It's a proven memory hog! If I wanted a stable 64 bit OS, I'd use XP 64 or the latest 64 bit Linux OS. |
| Haze:
Best 64-bit platform for MAME right now is a 64-bit Linux distro with SDLMame. Vista just takes too much effort reconfiguring to be 'not annoying' to be worthwhile, XP-64 has bad driver support. Given the lack of what I would consider a viable 64-bit Windows platform I'm seriously considering switching my day-to-day OS to Linux. I've tried the recent Ubuntu distributions briefly and they're *very* good. Something I've definitely not been able to say about Linux before. |
| SGT:
--- Quote from: elvisart on December 08, 2007, 01:51:13 am ---Why would anyone run Vista? It's a proven memory hog! If I wanted a stable 64 bit OS, I'd use XP 64 or the latest 64 bit Linux OS. --- End quote --- The best options are Linux or Vista because as Haze pointed out, driver support is so bad with 64 bit XP. Then you get into which you had rather do, pare Vista down so that it runs well, or learn Linux. The driving factor for me is that I run a lot more than Mame on my machine which will make the choice "Vista" for me. |
| Red:
"The best options are Linux or Vista because as Haze pointed out, driver support is so bad with 64 bit XP. Then you get into which you had rather do, pare Vista down so that it runs well, or learn Linux. The driving factor for me is that I run a lot more than Mame on my machine which will make the choice "Vista" for me." Would it be best then to just install Vista Basic 64, so you don't have to worry about all the bells and whistles of the other versions of Vista bogging down your system? |
| SGT:
Red, I am assuming you have a Core 2 Duo? Have you seen the thread linked below? Taz-Nz's benchmarks show excellent results with Vista. You might PM him to see if he did anything to optimize Vista and see what version he has. I'm not sure what the results would be for a 64 bit processor other than the C2D. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=72776.0 |
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