Originally posted by: Mem
Originally posted by: munky
As much as I wasn't enthuiastic about Vista before, I'm even more inclined against switching to Vista after reading the AT article. Slower network performance, bloated memory usage, and worst of all - slower gaming performance in gpu-boud situations, where it really matters. So much for the "upto 8x faster performance" due to the more efficient driver model, as if I ever believed it in the first place. If anything, MS will have to pay me to get me to switch, otherwise I'm keeping XP for as long as it serves my needs.
My experience is slightly different from Anandtech's review,networking in the real world I see no difference ,even in download speed testing,as to drivers well they will only get better with time and I find them adequate at the moment,yes they are missing a lot of the Nvidia Control panel features,memory with Vista is more efficient with superprefetch etc... but I agree 1GB is the minimum to aim for.
Game benchmarks well that's a whole new ball game,you can find both great and bad benchmark's for Vista performance,they'll improve with time ,you guys remember the video driver problems XP had in the early days with Nvidia ?.....I do ,not to mention XP stability/security before SP1 was released.
Give it time people remember this is a whole new OS,even Creative Labs still don't have any official drivers and I can confirm one major bug in the beta Audigy 4 drivers ,"CTHELP.EXE" causes memory crash error on restart or shutdown,fix for that is to disable it in startup of msconfig,not needed anyway.
There's really more Pro's then Con's,when I look at XP when it was first released and then you compare it to Vista,Vista is a more finished polished product for sure.The actual OS itself I find very stable.I've no intention of going back to XP,my experience has been very positive,I had more problem's with XP in the early days then I ever did with Vista at the moment.
My Vista problem's at the moment are minor lets see,hmm no Leadtek Vista x64 or x68 DTV tuner USB driver at the moment(however they have released some for other DTV models so I expect one soon),no official Creative drivers ( typical Creative but read due in March).Colorvision Spyder2Express has no usb driver at the moment for Vista(workround for that is to copy the Colorvison ICM settings you have from XP to a floppy or CD, then to Color management in Vista and install ColorVison software,the ICM settings will load on startup)....that's about it for my x64 Vista.