Introduction and Vista Question

[rfalias]

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

[Ripper]

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.

[Vyndree]

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?

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.

[Ripper]

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.

[Quix]

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

I want to point out that the issue you had could very well be an NVIDIA driver thing that is known with known workarounds.
I don't know your hardware so I can't be sure, but it's something to check out.