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    Interesting info on Vista, multimedia & networking

    One of the features that impressed me about Vista during the pre-release hype last year was the ability to prioritise multimedia playback and thus ensure that the user experience wasn't affected by background processes. It turns out this isn't all it's cracked-up to be.

    Mark Russinovich (who's been working for MS for a while now) posts an interesting bit of info on the tradeoffs that MS made to get this working. This shouldn't affect you unless you're on Gigabit Ethernet or are using multiple adapters, though one commenter said he'd experienced a far larger loss in network performance. There should still be enough throughput that online games aren't directly affected, the problems (supposedly) only affect high-end throughput and not latency, so Vista's problems with games lie elsewhere.
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    Re: Interesting info on Vista, multimedia & networking

    Quote Originally Posted by charleski View Post
    One of the features that impressed me about Vista during the pre-release hype last year was the ability to prioritise multimedia playback and thus ensure that the user experience wasn't affected by background processes. It turns out this isn't all it's cracked-up to be.

    Mark Russinovich (who's been working for MS for a while now) posts an interesting bit of info on the tradeoffs that MS made to get this working. This shouldn't affect you unless you're on Gigabit Ethernet or are using multiple adapters, though one commenter said he'd experienced a far larger loss in network performance. There should still be enough throughput that online games aren't directly affected, the problems (supposedly) only affect high-end throughput and not latency, so Vista's problems with games lie elsewhere.
    I have been having some problems with Vista games, microsoft has issued a "fix" for it.

    I would post the url but i am new to the forums and it wont let me add urls until i have 5 posts. If you go to microsoft's .com site, then /kb then /940105 that should get you there!

    I have noticed that my games tend to crash much less now than they used to do, so might be some help to people experiencing unexpected crashes.

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