The Plan:
To prove Vista sucks. I will run games, benchmarks, and what not on the same computer and see how each do. I will be testing with Vista 32bit and Vista 64bit. There will also be tests done on XP Pro SP2 of course.
The Rig:
Pentium D 820 operating @ 2.8GHz
160GB SATA II HDD(8mb cache; 100GB XP partition, 20GB Vista 32bit partition, 20GB Vista 64bit partition)
1GB DDR2 533MHz Dual channel ram
GeForce 7800gtx
The Games:
Pretty much most of the mainstream games out right now:
Command and Conquer 3
LoTR: BFMEII
BF2
HL2
UT2k4
The Benchmarks
3DMark 2006
3DMark 2005
3DMark 2003
I will compile this thread with updates as I am done testing each aspect.
Vista Benchmarking
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im too lazy to take off aero and see if it performs better. But CS:S is unplayable on the highest settings with aero on in 32bit vista. I run it fine on 32 bit XP ProPilot_51 wrote:Sounds good. Be thorough about it and it'll probably be discussed in the podcast. Don't forget to try different Vista visual effects settings to see how much of an impact it causes.
It would be funny if the results show Vista to be better, but I have my doubts.
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you right click the desktop, choose personalize, then just change the theme to something like Windows Classic or Windows Basic.Pilot_51 wrote:How difficult is it to disable Aero? I don't think it would be much harder than disabling XP effects, which involves no effort at all, just maybe 20 seconds of time.
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hmm i think the effects get turned off the same way as in XP. lemme try later. Im too lazy to boot into VistaPilot_51 wrote:That sounds like themes instead of effects. Isn't Aero the glass effect? I'm sure it can be disabled without losing the Vista theme, sorta like what the pirates get with illegal copies.