I like vista because, while maybe its just me, but if I try to put a WoW screen on the secondary monitor in XP, it basiclly lags EVERYTHING out very badly.
While on vista, both games run fine maxxed out on each monitor
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I like vista because, while maybe its just me, but if I try to put a WoW screen on the secondary monitor in XP, it basiclly lags EVERYTHING out very badly.
While on vista, both games run fine maxxed out on each monitor
No offense, but I think Vista sucks balls. Microsoft already has plans to release a new OS at the end of this year, or early next year. Clearly, they realize they need to step up their game.
LOL. And where have you heard that?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Ripper',index.php?page=Thread&postID=32730#post32 730
Suvega and I work for MS. We've heard no such nonsense. Are you referring to SP2?
Vista's fine -- it's intended as a higher security OS. XP is "faster", but has less security. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Suvega and I have Vista boxes and XP boxes and both work perfectly fine for us. I've noticed no additional WoW latency between them (load times, etc) -- the only latency I have with one of my vista boxes has to do with heavier addons than the other vista/xp boxes.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Micro...09-55057.shtml
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35641/118/
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...ment-scheduled
etc.
Since I had some spare time on my hands today, I tested WoW on a machine with XP on it, was getting between 70-120fps. Flew to a few towns, did some pvp, etc. Did a clean install of Vista 64, and tested the same WoW install(it was on the D: drive), consistently get 30-40fps. Same settings, latest drivers. I have 4gb ram, 8800gt, E6600 on that machine. When I had Vista installed last year, I remember the fps was a little higher, but I had to turn down settings, etc. I run WoW in windowed mode, and I understand the fps will be lower, but I don't expect it to be that low.
I'm not knocking you, Suvega, or MS. But come on now, I'm not the only one disappointed by Vista.
I want to point out that the issue you had could very well be an NVIDIA driver thing that is known with known workarounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'rfalias',index.php?page=Thread&postID=32707#post3 2707
I don't know your hardware so I can't be sure, but it's something to check out.