Freezing Game with Vista

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Originally Posted by mazex

Your not alone out there jumping past Me 2 XP32-SP3 is the best gaming platform out there now... SP1 sure made Vista better, but it's still not good enough. They had a lot of good thoughts locking things down and restricting direct access to hardware etc - too bad they did not get it to work. The Windows 7 beta is what they really wanted Vista to be. Let's hope they get all the pieces together for the release...

I've been running a dual boot with XP32 and Vista 64 Ultimate since the beta days. I think that I've been booting in XP 97% of the time...

Excellent example!

Comparing a complete business-version against the basic stripped for download-beta....

Why did you buy Ultimate? Do you need shadow-copy for protection against data loss? Do you need Fax-Services? Do you need network rules for shared work on documents? Do you need automated maintenance routines? Do you need Aero? What for? Did you at least disable these things for your benchmarking?

Just a hint when buying Win7: Don't get the Ultimate-Version again. Ultimate does not mean ultimate solution for gaming. It means complete package for business operations, which is quite the opposite.