Windows Vista

jontz · 06-13-2006, 04:32 PM

Just downloaded the beta of Windows Vista, and am in the process of getting a seperate box up to run it. Anyone else out there play with it yet? Just thought I would get a little discussion going...

re3dyb0y · 06-14-2006, 01:34 AM

Played with prior releases to the Public one....

Rusty075 · 06-14-2006, 02:56 AM

I've been messing with it on a couple of boxes here. So far, it's performing as advertised. No major issues to speak of...it hasn't even BSOD'd on me once yet.

The Nvidia Vista drivers are junk though....they've hobbled all the advanced/hardware features. (and now the fan runs at 100% all the time)

jontz · 06-14-2006, 09:15 PM

Is it as resource hungy as MS is making it out to be? The minimum specs are pretty crazy for an OS...

Rusty075 · 06-15-2006, 12:19 AM

On the current test rig it's using about 700mb of ram. That's full eye-candy on, sidebar, aero, every pretty-but-useless option turned all the way up. Dropping it down to "Windows Classic" and killing all the extras only saves you about 50mb of ram load. It's advertised memory management imporovements do seem to be working...it does seems to get out of the way pretty smoothly when loading up a ram intensive app. And oddly, losing the eye-candy actually makes it "feel" slower on this machine. Haven't benchmarked anything to see if that's really true or not. This is a pretty middle of the road system: Celly D 2.66, only a gig of ram, and a 6600gt.

Disk-space wise the default Windows install fills about 7 gigs.

06-13-2006, 04:32 PM	#1
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06-14-2006, 01:34 AM	#2
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06-14-2006, 02:56 AM	#3
Rusty075 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2004 Location: usa Posts: 14	Re: Windows Vista I've been messing with it on a couple of boxes here. So far, it's performing as advertised. No major issues to speak of...it hasn't even BSOD'd on me once yet. The Nvidia Vista drivers are junk though....they've hobbled all the advanced/hardware features. (and now the fan runs at 100% all the time)

06-14-2006, 09:15 PM	#4
jontz Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: South Bend, IN Posts: 385	Re: Windows Vista Is it as resource hungy as MS is making it out to be? The minimum specs are pretty crazy for an OS... __________________ Snap Server 4100, 4x120GB Seagate Drives, RAID 5, version 3.4.803

06-15-2006, 12:19 AM	#5
Rusty075 Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2004 Location: usa Posts: 14	Re: Windows Vista On the current test rig it's using about 700mb of ram. That's full eye-candy on, sidebar, aero, every pretty-but-useless option turned all the way up. Dropping it down to "Windows Classic" and killing all the extras only saves you about 50mb of ram load. It's advertised memory management imporovements do seem to be working...it does seems to get out of the way pretty smoothly when loading up a ram intensive app. And oddly, losing the eye-candy actually makes it "feel" slower on this machine. Haven't benchmarked anything to see if that's really true or not. This is a pretty middle of the road system: Celly D 2.66, only a gig of ram, and a 6600gt. Disk-space wise the default Windows install fills about 7 gigs.

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