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- Jun 19, 2001
Great article, it says pretty much everything, except you forgot to add a few things:
If you already have a good PC that can run all the current games with no effort, you'll still need to upgrade because Vista will make those games run up to 40% slower on the exact same hardware.
Oh, and you know that Soundblaster Xi-Fi you just bought to get nice 3D EAX sound in your games? Err, well, not in Vista. Basic 2D software sound is all you're gonna get in any pre Vista games. Which means you either get no 3D sound, or you will be forced to use some software sound system that will use CPU cycles, translating to even lower framerates.
So if you have good hardware now, just installing a new OS means it'll suddenly be crap and in dire need of spending more money on it. Which, ironically means you need to buy another Vista because you blew your single reactivation on that first hardware upgrade you needed just to run games as well as your pc used to in XP.
If you already have a good PC that can run all the current games with no effort, you'll still need to upgrade because Vista will make those games run up to 40% slower on the exact same hardware.
Oh, and you know that Soundblaster Xi-Fi you just bought to get nice 3D EAX sound in your games? Err, well, not in Vista. Basic 2D software sound is all you're gonna get in any pre Vista games. Which means you either get no 3D sound, or you will be forced to use some software sound system that will use CPU cycles, translating to even lower framerates.
So if you have good hardware now, just installing a new OS means it'll suddenly be crap and in dire need of spending more money on it. Which, ironically means you need to buy another Vista because you blew your single reactivation on that first hardware upgrade you needed just to run games as well as your pc used to in XP.