15.05.2008, 09:44
Pretty silly of you to claim that "vista sucks is the mantra of the OS illiterate". OMGZ was a nice touch, but sorry, I don't type like that. Try reading my previous posts if you can, but I get the feeling you don't read very much. It looks like you just saw my snip post from page 1 where I commented on the poor purchasing choices and decided to respond to that, not realizing the person you are insulting might know a thing or two about computers and has already demonstrated as such in successive pages in this very thread.
1) I never once said Vista was unstable. Don't put words in my mouth, it is the tactic of forum trolls everywhere. I said it sucked, and I stand by that. It isn't a fact, it is an opinion. An opinion based upon personal experience, technical expertise, 2nd and 3rd hand reports, and an incredible amount of reading. I respect your right to have a differing opinion, but I don't respect your opinion itself when you don't back it up with evidence.
2) I own FSX and I have used it on Vista, the deplorable performance is somehow even worse and the game only looks slightly better. My point stands, there is almost no benefit for DX10 for this title and it, being MS designed, should give us some reason to use DX10. At this point in time it does not. Maybe in the future. I've also tested Crysis, World in Conflict, Bioshock, and Company of Heroes. None of those offer anything that is obvious outside of screenshot comparison.
3) Touting superfetch as a reason to use Vista, or even as one of it's good features, is like saying you bought a new SUV because the CD player had an alarm clock that automatically notified you to change the oil every 3000 miles. Yes, I know all about Superfetch. I disagree that it is the way we should be going, and although I know you can disable it, it should never have been included in the first place. The XP prefetcher was MORE than adequate! For basic users that know little about computers and who only use a handful of programs this might be somewhat useful, but we have a conundrum here: If you only use a few programs why not simply keep all your programs loaded into memory and never exit them? With XP 1gb would be enough for that. But no, Vista "pushes the envelope" to make people believe they NEED bigger, faster, and more, to get the same experience as XP. It was designed that way on purpose! Superfetch is pointless, and it will stay pointless. When Microsoft did R&D for Vista did they honestly say "Hey, lets take the XP pre-fetcher and make it bloated and cumbersome, but improving load performance for people that use sleep mode or virus scan every night." If I want a program's essentials to be pre-loaded into memory for quick loading I will set that up myself. I don't need a nanny OS to do it for me, poorly, and without asking.
4) I can't help but laugh at your mention of Readyboost. You don't have any concept of memory bandwidth, do you? Using computers since 68 and you believe that a USB flashdrive can supplement system memory to significantly improve performance! Amazing! USB2.0 is only 480mbit/sec throughput maximum, and the sustained rate is much lower. Even firewire, the fastest external peripheral device interface currently available, can only reach 3.2g/b, still only a fraction of system memory throughput (12.8gb/sec for DDR2 800, I believe). The future is supposed to bump up Firewire to 6.4 -- at that point Readyboost MIGHT be more helpful, if that throughput can be sustained (but firewire is notorious for bandwidth fluctuations). Like most of Vista, Readyboost is a feature that could be good if technology continues at the current rate, but right here, right now, it is near useless. I have heard that Readyboost can help in some applications where you use a lot of very small files (due to fast flash mem access time), but I have no experience with this and haven't seen any tech articles. If you know any, please let me know.
I was very specific to avoid insulting you in this post even though you insulted me first and then proceeded to post a bunch of unsubstantiated opinions. Please avoid this in the future (both the insults and the nonsense). Thanks.
PS: Putting technology names in all caps LIKE THIS does not mean they are good or that you know how they work. It makes you look like someone who reposts their favourite ad copy as fact. At least to me it does.
1) I never once said Vista was unstable. Don't put words in my mouth, it is the tactic of forum trolls everywhere. I said it sucked, and I stand by that. It isn't a fact, it is an opinion. An opinion based upon personal experience, technical expertise, 2nd and 3rd hand reports, and an incredible amount of reading. I respect your right to have a differing opinion, but I don't respect your opinion itself when you don't back it up with evidence.
2) I own FSX and I have used it on Vista, the deplorable performance is somehow even worse and the game only looks slightly better. My point stands, there is almost no benefit for DX10 for this title and it, being MS designed, should give us some reason to use DX10. At this point in time it does not. Maybe in the future. I've also tested Crysis, World in Conflict, Bioshock, and Company of Heroes. None of those offer anything that is obvious outside of screenshot comparison.
3) Touting superfetch as a reason to use Vista, or even as one of it's good features, is like saying you bought a new SUV because the CD player had an alarm clock that automatically notified you to change the oil every 3000 miles. Yes, I know all about Superfetch. I disagree that it is the way we should be going, and although I know you can disable it, it should never have been included in the first place. The XP prefetcher was MORE than adequate! For basic users that know little about computers and who only use a handful of programs this might be somewhat useful, but we have a conundrum here: If you only use a few programs why not simply keep all your programs loaded into memory and never exit them? With XP 1gb would be enough for that. But no, Vista "pushes the envelope" to make people believe they NEED bigger, faster, and more, to get the same experience as XP. It was designed that way on purpose! Superfetch is pointless, and it will stay pointless. When Microsoft did R&D for Vista did they honestly say "Hey, lets take the XP pre-fetcher and make it bloated and cumbersome, but improving load performance for people that use sleep mode or virus scan every night." If I want a program's essentials to be pre-loaded into memory for quick loading I will set that up myself. I don't need a nanny OS to do it for me, poorly, and without asking.
4) I can't help but laugh at your mention of Readyboost. You don't have any concept of memory bandwidth, do you? Using computers since 68 and you believe that a USB flashdrive can supplement system memory to significantly improve performance! Amazing! USB2.0 is only 480mbit/sec throughput maximum, and the sustained rate is much lower. Even firewire, the fastest external peripheral device interface currently available, can only reach 3.2g/b, still only a fraction of system memory throughput (12.8gb/sec for DDR2 800, I believe). The future is supposed to bump up Firewire to 6.4 -- at that point Readyboost MIGHT be more helpful, if that throughput can be sustained (but firewire is notorious for bandwidth fluctuations). Like most of Vista, Readyboost is a feature that could be good if technology continues at the current rate, but right here, right now, it is near useless. I have heard that Readyboost can help in some applications where you use a lot of very small files (due to fast flash mem access time), but I have no experience with this and haven't seen any tech articles. If you know any, please let me know.
I was very specific to avoid insulting you in this post even though you insulted me first and then proceeded to post a bunch of unsubstantiated opinions. Please avoid this in the future (both the insults and the nonsense). Thanks.
PS: Putting technology names in all caps LIKE THIS does not mean they are good or that you know how they work. It makes you look like someone who reposts their favourite ad copy as fact. At least to me it does.