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Cassea · 07-02-2008, 01:14 PM

Sorry to disagree but Vista is far better than XP ever was. While it's true that Vista eats more CPU time and uses more memory, so did XP over Windows 98 or ME. Vista runs EQ2 very very well. Yes it takes a 15% hit in speed but that's to be expected as EQ2 is an older game. Memory is cheap, CPU's are cheap and video cards are cheap. I would not install Vista on an older machine but when buying a new machine it only costs a few extra $$$'s to get a slightly faster system to over come the extra hit Vista takes.I seem to remember people running XP with a 64meg system when it came out on Pentium 2 systems and saying how rotten XP was as compared to Windows 98 SMILEY

-JB

07-02-2008, 01:14 PM	#6
Cassea Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 269	Sorry to disagree but Vista is far better than XP ever was. While it's true that Vista eats more CPU time and uses more memory, so did XP over Windows 98 or ME. Vista runs EQ2 very very well. Yes it takes a 15% hit in speed but that's to be expected as EQ2 is an older game. Memory is cheap, CPU's are cheap and video cards are cheap. I would not install Vista on an older machine but when buying a new machine it only costs a few extra $$$'s to get a slightly faster system to over come the extra hit Vista takes.I seem to remember people running XP with a 64meg system when it came out on Pentium 2 systems and saying how rotten XP was as compared to Windows 98 -JB