Really hate Vista...

[Gabb]

yeah sure Vista looks nice, but I take a huge performance hit from Aero in terms of ram usage. Anyways worst thing happens, I try to install Alcohol 120 from one of my old CDs, get a blue screen instantly. Restart, still get a blue screen in the desktop after it detects a plug and play device, safe mode doesn't work, resetting bios doesn't work, have to do a full reformat...I guess ill listen to people next time and just go xp and pray they come up with dx10 for it like Ste said...

 

[ollithemagicbum]

how many gigs of ram do you have?

 

[Gabb]

2 of the g.skill HZs running at 4-4-4-12

 

[dashogun]

Isn't vista more stable at 4GB of ram? That's what I read on the internet.

 

[saltynay]

4gb is the best for vista, 2gb is the standard like running 1gb for XP.

40% of your ram is given to vista in default for precaching programs, you can turn it off which should balance out performance

 

[<[MaTT]>]

Yer, but if i had vista i would definitely have 4gb of ram.

 

[Gabb]

but they said something like vista 32 bit can only handle 3 gigs max, and the other gig isnt registered or something like that

 

[saltynay]

depends on your graphics card any 32bit operatng system can only address 4gb of ram. You have a gaphics card with onboard ram then that also has to be addressed. You end up with 3.25-3.5gb system ram if you stick in 4gb unless you go with 64bit where the limit 128gb of ram lol

 

[baron5]

2gb of ram is only need for vista. i have been running vista 32-bit with 2gb hz's aswell. and games are running really good, loading times fast. although it does use more ram 4gb i very over kill and definatley not needed.

 

[denni0302]

i have 1.5gb of pc3200 ddr400 ram lol but vista runs fine, i do get the blue screen sometimes, but thats usually when i have old display drivers, or every now and again it may happen, but then restart and everything is fine.