5 manning with vista or xp?

[Suvega]

Hey hellsown,

The computer should be fine for 5boxing on it, and I would recommend Windows Vista 64bit, for hte following reasons:
1) Symlink advice above
2) You state you ahve 4 gb of physical memory. This in combination to the video memory would be in excess of 4gb, which means it is impossible to use all of it in a 32bit OS.

Windows Vista 64bit is really a great operating system, I use it on all 5 of my computers. It was designed for NEW computers, and you want to ENSURE you have up to date drivers. Beyond that you shouldnt' have much issues

Number 2 is incorrect 32 os can use all of the 4 gigs of memory if yeh dont see all 4 gigs its because its being used go figure.

the problem with vista is that it requires a considerable amount more memory then xp. vista needs about 2 gigs without paging anything out, where as Xp needs about 1 gig without paging anything out. If yer paging stuff yer hitting the hard drive which bogs everything down.

If yeh have vista and 4 gigs of ram yeh will always lag in major city its because of the paging.

that being said with yer current hardware yeh can 5 box without lag with xp
or if yeh got vista64 yeh can do the same as long as yeh have 6+ gigs of ram

So if yer hell bent on vista get vista 64 and 8 gigs of ram.

You need a 64bit operating system to refrence any total memory past 4gb. That INCLUDES video memory, and MoBo memory.
So if you have 4gb of physical memory, and ANY video card, then you are not using all of your hardware. It is physically impossible to reference any system location larger then 2^32 :P