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Originally Posted by macdude425  How many people have that? How many people can afford that? It is absurd that Microsoft would essentially FORCE people to upgrade so as to use their new software - especially when a good deal of hardware that struggles with it is still being sold.
Actually, in my experience, XP doesn't handle dual cores/procs too badly.
Actually, I think XP is a better performer - period. I have seen XP and Vista run on NEAR identical hardware and XP was more responsive; it booted faster and it didn't stall. Granted, these machines didn't have two gigs of RAM, but that's just absurd to call that a minimum to run an operating system. |
Did i say anywhere in there that 2GB of RAM was MIMIMUM? No. The minimum for Vista is 512MB. Granted it runs like XP does on 64MB but still. With newer software require more hardware.
I hear all these complaints about Vista but yet no ones says a thing when a game requires these things. Nor do they say anything when a a photo application requires these things. So why is it that a brand new OS that has some eye candy among other things require it people go nuts?
Since Dual Core is now becoming the standard with at least 1GB on all pre-built systems i would say the chances are better than most now. Yes XP does boot faster, as it does have to load the totally new OS built from scratch instead of built of a older kernel like XP was. So yeah it boots faster it is also just the NT kernel with a couple new things added to it. The NT kernel was created in 99 or so. That offers a lot of security. Hence why XP is so easily hacked. Unlike Vista which was built from scratch off the Server 2003 Kernel which has yet to get a vulnerability found for it.
So which will i go for. The old outdated kernel which is like swiss cheese, or the new and improved kernel which offer more security for not only me but my family. Tough choice there really. My machine is over 3 years old and it performs with Vista Ultimate just fine.
So when people start asking questions like why BF2 requires just as much as Vista then maybe i wont gripe aobut this. **** at least Vista will run on all GFX cards unlike BF2. Yeah you may not have the Aero but it will still run.
As for the problems with Quake 4 it is well known that Quake 4 isnt even compatable with Vista. So trying to run it of course will produce problems. That is why it isnt compatable.:eek: Shocking i know.