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Todd H:
I use Maximus Arcade with Vista and have zero issues. What glitches are you seeing?
Bender:
Thanks so much everyone (especially loadman)

I gave up on vista a month or so ago
I switched to XP 64 and am very happy with it

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: loadman on October 13, 2008, 06:47:40 pm ---Not sure I can relate to your logic here.

Vista is a 'dud' OS  IMHO. My bet is on the next version.  Win98SE and WinXP are the only half decent versions of windows I have used.  ME was a shocker. 2000 was OK.....ish.

I can understand some wanting the latest OS on the desktop.

"Vista is the future for mame"??  Mame needs Vista  ???

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I can't believe I've had to read down that far for someone to make that comment.

I recently purchased a Vista PC for my mother and was disappointed by how sluggish the computer felt. My mother even sent me an email no less than a week later commenting on how slow Vista is. She went from a ME on a 800Mhz CPU to a Vista on a 2GHz Duo. What does that tell you when she’s using one of Microsoft’s crappiest OS ever as a reference point?

I’m not asking for Microsoft to develop a new OS that runs on a 486 (that’s one of the roles of Linux) but to trim the fat, or better yet make it easier for the end user to trim the fat without having to go through months of research, hurdles, and tweaks. It’s pretty clear Microsoft knows how to strip their OS down to the basic core, now let’s make that core more readily accessible to the end user.
Endaar:
I run a 1000 node network, with a mix of Vista and XP. I do prefer XP, but that's for reasons that are simply irrelevent in a home environment. I don't buy into the "Vista is slower than XP" argument though, because I've seen both OSes side-by-side on identical hardware and the difference is negligible. Vista does have a higher memory footprint though, so on a machine with less than 2GB of RAM, you could end up with the OS swapping more frequently, which will certainly slow things down. Given how cheap memory is these days, there's really no reason to skimp in that area.

Since it's pretty well accepted that x64 is the way to go for MAME, that pretty heavily tilts the argument in Vista's favor. Driver support in XP64 is nowhere near as good as it is for Vista 64.

SavannahLion - something is wrong with your mom's PC. I'd check to see just how much junk is running in the background. Some PC vendors are notorious for pre-installing a lot of stuff you don't need and probably don't want that can slow things down.

As for the originial question, I'm using GameEx on Vista x32 without any issues.

Endaar
ids:

--- Quote from: Endaar on March 29, 2009, 06:41:30 pm ---...on a machine with less than 2GB of RAM...

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Sorry, didn't want to enter the OS debate, but when the OS requires you to have TWO F**N GIGABYTES of memory.....debate over

I've run BSD/X-Windows in 8M.
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