SCAN cameo on BBC News Website

[shaithis]

I tried vista 64bit, liked it but it was alot more demanding in terms of ram(3x more, 1.5gb instead of 512mb) and since crysis warhead was barely playable on vista i went back to xp and guess what, the fps doubled.

Vista is by no means a bad OS just not that great for gamers until games use DX10 effectively, will give windows 7 a try.

Vista pre-caches a lot more so RAM usage looks a LOT higher then it really is, that "used" RAM will be freed up as needed.

The reason you got so many frames going back to XP was because the game didn't use the extra DX10 features that give a better PQ but at the expense of a lot of graphics card power.

[shaithis]

But isn't this more to do with laptop/ PC manufacturers having deals with companies in regards to which OS comes pre-installed?

It was to do with Microsoft not wanting to sell XP any more.

Partly for profit, partly for moving the industry on.

From what I've heard about Windows 7 it's more like "Vista R2" then anything else. If your games/apps ran badly under Vista, I fail to see how they will make a radical turn-around under Windows 7 - so as with most Windows releases and services packs it will be psychology that will make people accept it.....which always makes me laugh and despair at the same time. The old "I'll wait for SP1" etc is nothing but psychology.....SP1 normally adds some nice features and rolls-up the security patches you've had automatic updates installing each month but never seem to do any ground-breaking or revolutionary. Yet so many people will not try an OS until SP1 is out......

You also get so many people who do not realise that the length of time as OS is out is inversely proportional to the amount of issues your likely to hit. Problems are found, reported and fixed, drivers mature etc.......and because of this Windows 7 will be heralded as the messiah by so many people because they either didn't even bother trying Vista or half-heartedly tried it early and decided it wasn't ready without trying to get to the bottom of the teething problems they had....and it will just be a matured Vista. The same basic driver model means that drivers will have had 3+ years to mature, peoples hardware will have been upgraded in the meantime, 64bit will have had more time to be an acceptable word rather then the scare word it is (unjustifiably) to so many currently and more titles will actually utilise DX10 to make it more then the gimmick it currently is.

EDIT: Just checked out the beta available and it's build 6801......At the same time as releasing that it looks like Microsoft also released the beta of "Windows Server 2008 R2" and guess what its build number is? 6801.... So Windows 7 actually is Vista R2

[Mike Fishcake]

There's a difference between killing something and something else taking the part of it though.

When I split up with my girlfriend several years ago, I didn't kill her.