Another gigabyte of ram?

[Chris_Redfield]

People talking about cards should first note that hes running a laptop, he might be stuck with his 8400GS. My friend has either 8400 or 8600, cant be sure without asking. But hes on par, even shows a little worse benchmarks than me with my and my X1600, even though I have only 1 Gs of RAM, while he has 2. But then again, Im running C2D, while he has some AMD equivalent.

[Hellsent 2.0]

I hated vista..i had ultimate..im now on good ole xp...if u can afford it try vista...its good..just not for eveyone.

[camper.]

Actually, i love it.

I have had no compatibility problems what so ever, no blue screens whilst using it (probably down to the new style of split drivers) and it looks like the dog's swingers.

Going back to XP was the same affect as going from XP to 95, it just looks and feels "retro".

But, one comment on Vista is that it can take a few hours to set up all the customisable options. I removed the side bar, turned off UAC and made a few other visual changes as i like a simplistic interface.

Although, mine is Vista Business, not home premium as many people will have.

You can cut down the crap and so on once so you neer have to do it again. Make a virtual machine, install Vista without serial, customise everything right down to the bone (using administrator account only), then use Sysprep to make it a "clean" image. Then you mount the virtual drive, run imagex to compress it into a setup WIM file and you're good to go. Pretty damn simple.

The steps are very similar to here but you dont need a WinPE disk (do need the AIK) and nor do you need WSIM unless you're going for a very slimmed down installation.

[Xtacy]

Damn, that graphics card is bad.

I'd wait for the cash flow to show positive signs and move for a better card.

Well, I bought the card in December, upgrading from a Nvidia 6200. It was a real piece and stopped working for me. I was on a budget for the card and PSU together. I was thinking of getting a GT, if thats any better?

With that 6200 I barely ran 2142, and had a bit of lag in BF2. At the moment, I'm stuck on trying to buy ram and a new mouse.

[AllFoamNoBeer]

How much cash are you running on now?

Seeing you want RAM and a mouse, that would be aroudn 80 -100 dollars.

Which isn't good enough.

I'd say save up. Most people here would agree that anything below the 8800xx series is bad. (I.E. DX10 cards)

[THEONEANDONLY]

Im using Vista Ultimate and i think it is way better than XP pro ....all it is is a whole lot of propaganda how vista isnt as good or vista has soo many probs it isnt worth while .............. how bout some of u who say vista is **** proove it lol :)

[megawhompertoo]

how vista isnt as good or vista has soo many probs it isnt worth while .............. how bout some of u who say vista is **** proove it lol :)

upgrading to vista for many would require...:

a) >$200 for the OS
b) another gigabyte of RAM
c) a faster CPU
d) a new gpu for DX10.1 to appreciate those extra shiny rocks and wispier clouds at a blistering 15fps.

...to achieve the same performance for games as an XP box with a low/mid end dual core CPU and 2gb RAM, minus the shiny, wispy eye candy, minus the DRM-ware, minus compatibility with many 3-4 year old programs i need to still be able to run (gaming is a getting to be an unusual sideline for me)

maybe Vista is the cat's meow for you. if you got it with a new PC, you only paid the Vista tax on that PC, and didn't have to drop a lot of cash on a retail CD. that's awesome.

in my case, i picked a new gpu for ~$200 versus spending money on what is still a poorly-adopted, work in progress OS.

your mileage and budget may vary: there is no proof vista sucks, you are only limited by your budget and judgment.

People talking about cards should first note that hes running a laptop, he might be stuck with his 8400GS.

edit: didn't even pick up that he was running a lappy. an extra gig might be all he can do with that pc. that would help with running programs smoothly, but the video quality isn't go to go very far.

[Xtacy]

I'm not running a labtop.

And my cash flow would be returning the card (60-70$) and maybe an extra 20-40$.

To be honest, I'm not having any problems with the card and it runs the games fine for me. BF2 on medium and same for 2142, so yes I'd like to get another card, but at the moment I don't need it.