thegmanshouse

What a shitty transfer rate

YIKES!

I've been having pretty good luck with Vista 32. I'm not willing to rely on it yet and I'm still testing but so far I pretty much like it. I may start migrating after SP1 comes out in March.

Vista SP1 RC1 Refresh 1 was out in December, Refresh 2 was out a couple of weeks ago, MicroShite has opened up the Beta to everyone.

All it did was improve the disc data transfer rate, i use to max out at 10mb/s and now it is 60/70 mb/s.

The disc to disc copying is a common problem, try it for yourself. Move your Steam folder to another drive, or even a different folder on the same drive and you will be impressed with the speed.

Perhaps i expect to much, but under XP moving stuff about was instant. sending stuff to the recyle bin was instant, but oh no MicroShite has to know everything so calculates every single thing.

BioShock on 32 bit was good, on 64 bit it was even better.

I got Vista Business as part of a student program. Not many problems now but I'm not sure if I should go 64bit or not. I thought that sense I only have 3GBs of RAM it wouldn't make a big diff...

Did just that a while ago: copied my steamapps to the vista partition. I went and made a sandwich. I should have done it from the XP side I guess



Crysis looked excellent too. Performance dragged in few places though. To be fair I had the graphics turned up a little high.

--JD

The file transfer speed is common on 32 and 64 bit Vista. If you have got a file, or folder like your Steam folder that is large, just move that folder into a new folder on the same drive/partition and you will see that it is slow. XP was almost instant whereas Vista seems to take 5 seconds.

32bit = can see and use 3gb to 3.5gb of Ram.

64bit = can see use 4gb and above. As i have 4gb of ram i chose to use 64bit. There is NOT a lot of stuff about for 64bit so it is not really worth it unless you are like me and have 4gb of ram and you want to SEE it and sometimes use it all (photoshop eats it)...

If you are interested Fox, or anyone, and have a spare 10-30GB of disk space, try Wubi Ubuntu http://wubi-installer.org/

Its a linux distro, and it is as simple as simple to install/uninstall on Vista, XP, 98, etc.

You will see first hand how pretty an OS can be AND how fast an OS should be, something that Vista is not.

I have run ALL of my steam games under Ubuntu when i simply installed Wine. The only thing that let me down was the latest 64bit drivers for my nVidia 8800.



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nPecBxM2f6c This video shows you just a little. I installed Ubuntu onto my Vista PC, and i had ALL of the fancy effects, i installed Vista and had to mess about to get Aero to turn on. Silly things like that, but Vista is just XP dumbed down and far slower. I found that out when i wondered where the RUN command box was.

Yeah, Vista is turning out to be the 32/64 bit equivalent of Windows ME. Looks nice but it's total crap.

Some people are having good luck with it and truth be told, it's been stable for me. But there are a number of headaches especially with audio that aren't worth dealing with for the little bit of gain on the eye-candy side. I get little enough time for music-making, I don't want to be fighting the OS too! When/if WaveRT comes of age and software/hardware actually start using it upgrading may be worthwhile.

Until then I'm only using Vista for the occasional game that really benefits from DX10. So far that's only been Crysis for me and I suppose FarCry 2 when that comes out in a few months.

--JD