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ChemicalWarrior · 06-09-2007, 01:12 AM

Vista is A LOT more than a "service pack". To be honest, the enhnacements in the under belly of Vista are so far improved from XP that its not funny. The driver model is much better, the audio subsystem has very much increased (and hopefully will incourage game developers to use OpenAL), the kernel has been increased in so many ways, etc. The performance on Vista in every tasks in much better than XP. My system feels much more responsive than it did in XP and there are many people saying this as well. The SuperFetch I mentioned earlier, wonderful. There are some bugs, but this is to be expected. I don't recall any previous Windows installments that went so easily however. Sure, UAC is annoying but it can be disabled. The cost is the only real issue I can see, and it is over priced by that's what you pay to be on the bleeding edge. If you like XP then don't upgrade, you'll be missing out on things from many aspects. Also, just to clear it up, DirectX 10 could have been done on XP.... at a tremendous cost to Microsoft, basically rewriting the driver model... therefore that's why its Vista only.

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ChemicalWarrior Moderator Addict Posts: 2,053 Shouts: 0 Join Date: Jun 2005 Age: 19 Thanks: 2 Thanked 18 Times in 15 Posts Add to xFire Friends List	Vista is A LOT more than a "service pack". To be honest, the enhnacements in the under belly of Vista are so far improved from XP that its not funny. The driver model is much better, the audio subsystem has very much increased (and hopefully will incourage game developers to use OpenAL), the kernel has been increased in so many ways, etc. The performance on Vista in every tasks in much better than XP. My system feels much more responsive than it did in XP and there are many people saying this as well. The SuperFetch I mentioned earlier, wonderful. There are some bugs, but this is to be expected. I don't recall any previous Windows installments that went so easily however. Sure, UAC is annoying but it can be disabled. The cost is the only real issue I can see, and it is over priced by that's what you pay to be on the bleeding edge. If you like XP then don't upgrade, you'll be missing out on things from many aspects. Also, just to clear it up, DirectX 10 could have been done on XP.... at a tremendous cost to Microsoft, basically rewriting the driver model... therefore that's why its Vista only. __________________ What could appear next?