so does vista make games run faster?

Memory is key. You need lots and lots of it. 2GB at least for anything serious. (the most hardcore game I've played is SimCity 4, which does fine maxed out on my 1GB-equipped machine).
 
okay so if u got 1 gig of ram and you go from xp to vista and then play one of the newer games (rainbow six vegas for example) will it run (1) the same (2) faster (3) slower because of the increased requirements of running the operating system?
 
It will be slower if you run out of memory. Because then virtual memory rears its ugly head.

Whether you will run out of memory for sure with one game or another, I cannot say. I can say that I ran out of memory while playing Sam & Max Episode 1, but that could be a memory leak because it took a while to happen. At that point my hard drive started thrashing, and that ate up the CPU (my SiS chipset doesn't seem to be 100% in the way of drivers), and that made the game stutter like a mofo (again, SiS chipset, onboard sound) till I saved, quit, and restarted it.
 
What are you talking about?! You dont buy vista to play games... You buy it to maximize/minimize the windows and use flip3D!!! HOW DARE YOU CONSIDER PLAYING GAMES ON THE BLOATWARE!!
 
Vista won't play more than 90% of the games out there, it will only play about 10% because there is no DX9c layer. MS just got OpenGL ICD to finally work (or at least they "allowed" it to,) so Doom & Unreal engined games should work.

So, what's 4GB of RAM going for in your neck of the woods? That's what I would be sticking into it because 1GB is barely the minimum, 2GB is the preferred number and 4GB will probably be the optimum.
 
90% sounds a bit high...

RAM costs about $75/GB plus shipping here...just like everywhere else:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Category=17&N=2010170147+1052107965+1052407862+1052307858&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=147


I'm waiting to get another GB or three before I put Vista on my main system as that's where I play all my games. It's running on a couple laptops very well right now though, I'm liking it.

People hated XP when it came out and said it was just a bunch of worthless GUI enhancements that would slow your computer down...but now it's the standard. Vista is in the same situation.
 
Nothing runs faster.

People are syaing games run faster because of a fresn installation & people buying extra 1gb sticks of ram.

When DirectX10 comes out, games will look better but not run any faster.
 
Yes and No. While it is supposedly more secure (for now), the plain fact is that Vista relies on DRM, with polling every second, which will eat cpu cycles and memory. Tilt bits are not to be messed with, it'll either restart the video subsystem or cause it to reboot. But think about it - Vista can degrade your video at whim. Vista is made to cripple a system if it so chooses.

No thanks. I'll stick with XP, OSX and Linux. I have no intention of running my computer as a media centre. Why the hell would I?, the fans are too loud, the wattage too high. I figure it'll only be useful as HTPC, a nice quiet box where there are no fans in the power supply, no fans on the cpu, the northbrdge, the southbridge, the video card, the disc drives. It has to be 100% passive cooling. No, I don't know what water cooling sounds like when the pump kicks in. I'll wait until a box comes out which will cost $100 and do the same thing. I have absolutely no interest in reading my email on the Plasma TV, thank you very much, nor in listening to music which has been downloaded and is so highly compressed that it is painful to listen to. Download movies? No fricking way, I pay $15 a month to Hollywood video to be able to take any 3 second run movies out at any one time, with 5 day return period. So, let's see, no internet, no video, no music, no telephone, no on-line gaming. Nope, I don't need Vista.
 
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