While this helps, it doesn't handwave away the fact that aero uses 5x the memory of Beryl. And isn't going to be paged when you're doing anything but fullscreen applications that don't use the interface.Do you have any idea how memory management works? Non used data gets paged to disk. All that fancy Aero stuff that lives in RAM? Gets paged. What do you think happens when you load up Crysis on your WindowsXP computer, alt-tab and load another memory heavy program?
While it's true vista does general work faster in some cases, better for gaming, it is not.And, suprise, it doesn't. Most Vista benchmarks I've seen either show identical preformance, or near identical, with the key issue nearly ALWAYS being Graphic drivers. Do you realise that all the fancy stuff is paged to disk when games run?
I know it seems like nitpicking, but that 10-15% in performance can mean the difference between playable and frustrating in some of the games about to be released.
And yet even with everything turned off it still fails to produce any noticeable performance improvement over XP and managing to be worse unless you're hardcore at Office and browsing the web, especially for gamers.*snort*. I'll quote wikipedia simply because it's a nice compiliation and linking to several dozen MSDN articles on this would take too long.
EDIT:Part one,Part two and Part three of Mark Russinovich's cover of the Vista kernel. This is just barebones stuff.
EDIT2:Microsofts white paper on Kernel enhancements in Vista and Windows Server 2008,
Conceded, no one is going to argue that more RAM doesn't help performance.OSX gets a new incremental release every year, and I don't notice anyone saying it can be easily ran with 512MB, infact, everyone seems to say that throwing more RAM OSXs way is better.
This is one of the things I have a problem with, aero was promised to do the same thing for windows, yet CPU intensive tasks like file compression show no improvement at all.Also, OSX is 'speeding up' due to moving more of the fancy animation effects onto the graphics card. It's still taking up more power, just in another peice of hardware.
True, but why does aero use so much more memory than quartz extreme or beryl when it actually does less if not for sloppy coding.New features require more RAM? Duh?
Heh, I probably shouldn't have used "big brotherware", I don't actually believe that microsoft is reading my emails etc. I just dislike archaic DRM schemes in general.Rolling Eyes You do realise the media DRM only goes into operation when shock, you're playing trusted content media? Do you imagine it's somehow insidiously running at all times and scanning your brainwaves for piracy? Rolling Eyes
This isn't always true, I find it hard to believe that the old windows code was so perfect that they couldn't improve it at all to try and make up for resources lost to new features. Though they managed to break even in a few areas and it's never more than 5-10% performance loss, I guess thats something to commend.Basically, if the next version of the program offers MORE then the previous version, then suprise, it demands higher requirments.
And thats Vista's fault how? If you have your pageFile/swap partition on the same drive as the game, you would expect there to be I/O competition. Infact, with Vista's priorities I/O you'd expect this to go down.
Conceded.Most that loss would be at startup or alt-tab. As the game is running normally, it shouldn't make a difference.
I don't have my page file on the same disk as my software/OS, one of the first thing gamers do is move it of course.Also, tangent: you should put your page file on the most used partition of the least used disk, rather than giving it its own partition. That way, the drive heads have less seek time to get back and forth from it and your data.
Sometimes I don't realise that I'm in a minority that prefers an extremely minimal system that can be extended with what I want later on. Rather than a system that has everything I want (as well as what I don't want), but I never have to worry about setting everthing up.Ridiculous. I, not e. Anyway, yeah, that would be ridiculous. Of course it can have complaints, but those complaints also aren't immune to counter arguments. Its resource usage is probably bigger, sure, but it also has a lot more to offer, and there are more to offer: RAM is pretty cheap, and like we said, in that case, it gets out of the way when not being used thanks to virtual memory, so in practice, it shouldn't be a big deal at all.
