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New MMORPGs and Vista
Eribis
Member Posts: 25
I've just completed building my ultimate gaming rig, and all that's left is to pick an OS.
I have heard so many awful things about vista, and I am really familiar with XP, but it all comes down to one thing
Direct X 10
Vista has it and XP does not.
I'm wondering if I should make the switch to Vista for the new generation of MMORPGs that are coming out, or should I stick with XP?
All opinions are welcome (Mac's can kiss my ass)
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I have used Vista for a while now with no problems. You may have to do some searching for drivers but most of that has been cleared up by now.
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no, than it would be more wise to wait for the new windows which is upcomming. i think XP will still do fine. also for upcomming Aion ofcourse. [also awaiting Aion
than i quit L2 ]
Good luck ,
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I have 2 partitions on my PC. One with XP 32bit SP3 and one with Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1. I haven't had any problems with Vista what so ever. As a matter of fact it runs faster and smoother than XP, at least for me. I haven't had any problems with hardware drivers nor had any compatibility issues. And DX10 is a nice perk.
To get it to run smooth, you need to tweak it a bit by turning off all of the useless tasks that run in the background.
Besides that, Microsoft has began phasing out XP on June 30th. They will not provide any more copies to PC makers and slowly phase it out.
i'm personally not swtiching to it for a while... and neither is Intel it appears...
http://www.insidetech.com/news/2441-intel-turns-its-back-on-windows-vista?referral=IT_nlet
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I think it depends on whether or not you want to gamble on the Windows 7 crapshoot. I had installed Vista Home Premium x86 (32 bit) and ran WoW, LOTRO, and EVE with no problems. I upgraded to 6GB Ram and Vista Home Premium x64. I have a DX10-compliant video card and run LOTRO on DX10 max settings with no problems. Unfortunately, my card is not DX10.1-compliant. However, since games like WoW, AOC, etc don't support DX10, you really don't need to worry. You will see some quality increases if you play a DX10-compliant game. If not, you know XP is stable but Windows 7 is a huge unknown. Vista, in its current iteration, is VERY stable for me in 32- and 64-bit flavors if you don't go tweaking too much. All other things being equal, you can wring a couple years out of XP and be practically forced to go with Vista or Windows 7 by about 2010 or you can go with Vista now and maybe skip Windows 7 if it stinks.
A lot of companies operate on outdated hardware. Upgrading all workstations that Intel has to be Vista compatible would cost them a lot of money. Especially if they have a contract with a PC manufacturer. A lot of these corporations buy workstations in bulk and continue using them until they run out. I worked for a large corporation that has just recently (last year) upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 98.
Some PC users use the business world's reluctance to upgrade to Vista as a way to say that the OS sucks. It doesn't. Not anymore anyway. The simple fact is that in order for a company to upgrade all of their workstations to a new OS requires a lot of money. Besides that, depending on what the company uses computers for, employees might need to be trained to use the new OS and the software, which requires time and money. Also, the needs of the business world are drastically different than the needs of an average PC user.
Simple answer is use both. I have Xp and Vista on two seperate hardrives, or you could dual boot two OS's on seperate partitions on one hardrive. At the monent there is no reason to get Vista if your a gamer, it slows your FPS down and there are no real DX 10 games out.
I haven't experienced any noteworthy issues with Vista to be honest. I think it's stable enough by now to make the switch.