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Can Vista:Business be used for gaming?

FunKPandaFunKPanda Member Posts: 155
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Sup people, dont know if any tech savvy people are around here but this was the only place i thought i could go.

 

Anyone use vista business for their gaming rig? Im building a new PC for Conan and Im lacking and OS, I get Vista Business for free through my school and I was wondering if it's any good for gaming or should i just stick with XP?

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  • gluglugluglu Member Posts: 25

    NO. Any version of Vista It's bad for gaming. Some games don't even run in Vista... others have a loss of performance compared with XP.

    Stick with XP. Bypass Vista.

    Vista will be an option may be in 2009 when all the games arround were based on DirectX10... but today it's a very bad choice for a gaming ring... with XP you will get better performance with the same hardware, as long as you keep 4GB of RAM or less.

    In short: Vista sucks for gaming in 2007 & surely also in 2008.

     

     

  • gluglugluglu Member Posts: 25
    Coments of an expertise about Vista (any version):
    What is unknown is, that most companies offer the same system with Windows XP, if you insist on no getting Vista but XP.



    If you don't need 4 GB of RAM, you should stay away from Vista.



    1. Political reasons. Read the EULA. You accept that MS is contacted and data are transferred without even asking you!

    If you are a fan of the further destruction of the private sphere and total control of all citizens, then go for Vista and accept the EULA.

    If you want to make them pay for that, do not accept the EULA and send it back.



    2. Technical reasons. Vista is slow and hungry. It's incredible how shameless M$ wastes ressources.

    The compatibility probelms were mentioned already.

    No one needs Vista and everyone with some knowledge about computers, will try to avoid and not touch it.
  • SpathotanSpathotan Member Posts: 3,928

    Dont listen to the Anti-Vista garble. These are the same people that cried when XP came out and didnt want to let go of Windows 2000.

    It will be fine with Business, espically if youre getting it for free. Why waste $100+ on XP when you can get Vista for free? Come on, be realistic here.

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  • 8hammer88hammer8 Member Posts: 1,812

    Originally posted by Spathotan


    Dont listen to the Anti-Vista garble. These are the same people that cried when XP came out and didnt want to let go of Windows 2000.
    It will be fine with Business, espically if youre getting it for free. Why waste $100+ on XP when you can get Vista for free? Come on, be realistic here.
    /Agree

    All of my games work fine with Vista...with the lone exception of NeverWinter Nights, which I knew going into and even then it worked for some people.  I am just too lazy to DL patch while I am playing other things.

    Stick with the free Vista...it will be fine.

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  • METALDRAG0NMETALDRAG0N Member Posts: 1,680

     

    Originally posted by Spathotan


    Dont listen to the Anti-Vista garble. These are the same people that cried when XP came out and didnt want to let go of Windows 2000.
    It will be fine with Business, espically if youre getting it for free. Why waste $100+ on XP when you can get Vista for free? Come on, be realistic here. Bear in mind he is building a rig so will need to buy a OS for it.

    I can get XP for less than £60

     

    http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=9479&GroupID=69

    And interestingly enough Vista Home Premium for £65.79.

    http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(16276)Microsoft-Windows-Vista-Home-Premium-64-Bit.aspx

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  • FlemFlem Member UncommonPosts: 2,870

    If your getting Vista for free, then go for it.  I have no problems playing games on Vista. Recent games im playing are F.E.A.R, Stalker, Neverwinter Nights 2, Lotro, EQ2, Vanguard, Prey.

    Majority of those people that tell you to stay away from it have never even tried Vista out.

  • paulscottpaulscott Member Posts: 5,613

    on school test computers I was mildly impressed by vista's addons, was kinda easy to do since I was expecting utterly pointless features.  it's areo(and all the stuff you can add to it) and rapid search, at first we couldn't figure out how to get the command prompt up(to be pleasantly surprised that just by using cmd in the rapid search brought it up),  internet explorer 7 worked on vista, it had drivers/emulators included in it that weren't included in XP,  vista loaded up a bit faster than XP, and I noticed no slow down at all for general user stuff(games are not general user stuff).

     

    I personally think vista would be great for media users.  but that it'd be bad for bussiness(more distractions), and gaming(it is very true that it uses more resources than XP from memory it was about 2 times as much)

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  • VampirVampir Member Posts: 4,239

    or run both like im doing..........

    do a dual boot in bios.

    some things work better in xp as of now and most of that is downloads you dont pay for, such as open office..............

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