Weird. Check your computers OC settings if you know anything about that, it may be running hotter than it needs to for the sake of running those games, causing your fans to speed up to compensate.
thats not the problem since the Bois on both xp/vista are one i think its either the motherboard/CPU drivers that vista auto installs arnt't really optimized for vista and intel dosen't provide any special vista drivers for the motherboard. or the plain and simple explanation which is VISTA hogs more while running programs.
I have been using Microsoft Vista 64-bit Ultimate and I can just say, that I finally am loving Windows Operation System. It is great.
Vista is fine on a powerful system but many pc companies were too quick to include it with cheap, low end systems. Thats why so many people hate it. I use Vista at work with most Adobe CS3 programs and have no trouble at all ( I still prefer my Mac at home though) but my folks but a cheap Acer that came with Vista and the system is slower than my old PIII.
It sucks out of the box for most people (I know plenty of friends who got vista laptops for going off to college and most of them have downgraded to XP), I guess if you know how to tweak it well or have a godly amount of RAM it runs smooth. My opinion, vista sucks get a mac.
yeah vista isnt that bad, just need a quick computer and through in a few mods and your ok... plus you can run linux on a virtual machine on your linux
Vista just seems to perform a lot slower and be compatible with a lot less. The interface is nice, but just not worth the performance that I notice I loose.
OK I ran Vista on a 500 mhz celeron and 384 mb ram and it was not that bad. But it sucks big time. I tried it on my custom OC'ed rig and it sucked too. Maybe Windows 7..... And 2 processors is not any better since most programs don't take advantage of the 2 cores. It's cheaper to get a p4 with a higher clock and overclock it further and have a duo or even quad core killer.
When I tried Vista it was far too time consuming for me and definitely put more strain on my PC... So unless you have a very powerfull machine Vista is going to be a headache... Other than that I havent really looked into it... But probably the next machine I get will come with Vista so its only a matter of time before switching for me!
Crashes on a regular basis... it dosn't manage memory well at all... after running photoshop or studio 11 for a while I need to restart just to have things start working.... and I've already upgraded to 2G memory... guess I'll have to go to 4G
Seriously The only thing I disabled was the notification/security thing...got annoying (though for the avg user, I can understand the need for better security that it gives). During the Betas (until RC2 at least) very few games were playable on it.. but after RC2, I could once again play most of my favs (BF1942, BF2, Sim City and Star Wars Galaxies).
I have a problem with my PHOTOSHOP too. Whenever I open a new document or image it takes agesss to open and it says "adobe photoshop not responding" at the top of the window. Eventually, it does open but takes ages. But dunno why.
I wub it but people hate it because they are resistant to change wait til SP1 hits, and more people stop being cheapskates, even though they're basically millionaires, and buy more ram
I have it on my laptop and some features i like, some i don't like. Espacially, when you try to start something...you get that anoying administrator screen.
One of my old posts sums it up nicely. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=4603332&postcount=108 I've since upgraded my hardware, the current specs are Q6600, 4 gig RAM, the Ge8800GTS now only drives my center display, with the 7600GT replaced by a Ge8400GS so it's all the same 'generation' hardware. My results? Oh, this is fun. Cannot activate because I installed that serial on another 'machine' - 2 hour call to microsoft results in FINALLY getting the damned thing unlocked again - I get past that point, and... Hmm, Opera hangs... Trillian hangs... VMWare (latest) hangs... Crysis runs 20fps slower even with the graphics turned down, then it too hangs... So I grab a copy of vlite and build my own install image with the bloated shit removed... http://www.vlite.net/ After some tinkering I found that killing superfetch solved the crashing problem for everything EXCEPT VMWare - to get VMWare stable I had to kill using the hardware level virtualization... at which point I'm running Vista WHY? Needless to say, I'm still running XP x64 as my primary OS and couldn't be happier. Oddly though - the UAC thing REALLY doesn't bother me as much as it does others... Maybe it's because I'm used to dealing with that in Ubuntu and OSX it's really nothing 'new' - though it does from time to time come up on programs that make no sense to need it. I'm amazed on that one how many people seem to get their panties in a bunch over it.