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03-21-2009, 05:06 PM
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 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... 
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03-21-2009, 10:32 PM
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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.
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03-21-2009, 10:50 PM
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EDIT: And I don't quite follow you... I compare Vista 64 Ultimate SP1 to Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate. Stripped down? My Windows folder is 12 Gb on an almost clean install... Last edited by mazex; 03-21-2009 at 10:59 PM.
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03-22-2009, 04:26 AM
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Just to play the devils advocate here...I think its funny how so many people are hinging their hopes on "Windows 7".
Upon its release "Windows 7" may very well have as many problems as Vista did (has) when it was first released. And (years ago) I remember getting in a heated discussion with some "kid" (on another forum) where he was vehemently defending Vista as the "Ultimate platform of the future". He accused me of being an "old person" who was afraid of the future and he claimed that I couldn't see the superiority of "Vista" because I was "holding on to an aging & flawed platform"... I remember pointing out the that many times (in the past) micro$oft had failed to deliver on what they had promised, and that even with a beta floating around the internet consumers still can't be sure what the final product could be...
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03-22-2009, 06:40 AM
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There are so many companies out there that have decided that Vista is not the right choice for their DTS platform - and hope that Windows 7 will be the savior. You have to believe in something The problem for Microsoft is that the troublesome rollout of the Vista platform has been one of the factors that have revitalized the thin client alternative (hand in hand with the virtualization wave) - and as it is now Citrix, vmWare and Sun can rub their hands on the potential death of the thick client on large corporations... The big losers are naturally the hardware mongers but still, when running in an environment like that you will reduce the number of OS licenses needed. Thats part of the game...Regarding the hope for Windows 7 vs Vista the big thing is that W7 is really NT6.1 - but for marketing reasons it will be called 7.0 to not get tainted by it's older brother (but it's not the father)... By this I mean that they are not starting from scratch as they did in a lot of areas for Vista. Windows seven is rather Vista SP2 (which is soon coming - I know). I'm also an old man beeing bashed by "kids" that I do not understand the potential of Vista, have not tweaked it right etc
Last edited by mazex; 03-22-2009 at 06:49 AM. Reason: spelling - my son needed DTS support for his Vista PC so I had to hurry ;)
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03-22-2009, 08:16 AM
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I have migrated to Vista already 2 years ago and I still keep XP install at another HDD just by this problem(or bug)!
So I have to boot into ooooooold XP Pro interface just to play IL-2.  Who's to blame? I don't care & I can't know but just wish someone would solve this. Pleeease!!
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03-22-2009, 01:41 PM
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I had it, followed the solutions that were linked to in my previous post and now I don't have the problem. Is there a fix? As far as I'm concerned yes!
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03-22-2009, 06:11 PM
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Its kind of "funny" that the personal choice of sticking with a stable (proven?) operating platform (and waiting to see how things pan-out with Vista) is seen as "short sighted" thinking. I think its odd that a "forward thinker" would just accept micro$oft marketing at "their word", and would "jump-on-the-bandwagon" before doing research on the final product (in RW conditions). I guess that "thinking young" means that you believe the hype and you run before looking...experience has taught me that even though I have the green light I should still look both ways before entering traffic.
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