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Bootup05 · 04-25-2008, 06:53 AM

I've been using all 4 in the last few months, to me XP64 is the most responsive, but drivers aren't 100% there for it, although gettin better. Theres also a few games that fail to run properly, or even at all in some cases under the O.S.

XP32 you'll probably already know about, will run all your games at a good speed but lacks any support in DX10.

Vista 64 is apparently slightly faster than 32, as is generally said with most 64/32Bit O.S's, I didn't really see much in my case though, although driver support is there for 98% of drivers games and applications in Both 32 & 64Bit versions of Vista.

You will get some slowdown, an there will be games that perform worse than others, but there are also a few games that have performance increases under Vista. Plus you've got DX10. I personally switched back to XP after having just a bit too much performance drop in the main game I play.

It really depends what you're doing / playing when talking about performance differences although Vista is generally considered, an proven to be slower at the majority of day to day tasks. But its still a great OS to work with, depends how much you care about FPS an a few seconds encoding times etc.

04-25-2008, 06:53 AM	#6 (permalink)
Bootup05 Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Essex, UK Age: 17 Posts: 1,266	I've been using all 4 in the last few months, to me XP64 is the most responsive, but drivers aren't 100% there for it, although gettin better. Theres also a few games that fail to run properly, or even at all in some cases under the O.S. XP32 you'll probably already know about, will run all your games at a good speed but lacks any support in DX10. Vista 64 is apparently slightly faster than 32, as is generally said with most 64/32Bit O.S's, I didn't really see much in my case though, although driver support is there for 98% of drivers games and applications in Both 32 & 64Bit versions of Vista. You will get some slowdown, an there will be games that perform worse than others, but there are also a few games that have performance increases under Vista. Plus you've got DX10. I personally switched back to XP after having just a bit too much performance drop in the main game I play. It really depends what you're doing / playing when talking about performance differences although Vista is generally considered, an proven to be slower at the majority of day to day tasks. But its still a great OS to work with, depends how much you care about FPS an a few seconds encoding times etc. __________________ Main System Proccy - Intel E6400 @ 3440 \| Mobo - P5B DLX \| RAM - 2GB TwinX 6400 C5 \| GPU - 96GT HDD - WD 400GB Caviar SE - WD 320GB Caviar SE - 160GB Seagate Ext Monitor - Asus 19" Wide LCD \| PSU - Tagan 600W Dual Engine \| Soundcard - SB Live Ext 24 Heatsink - S Infinity \| Optical - Pioneer DVDRW \| OS - Vista Ult64 SP1 Last edited by Bootup05; 04-25-2008 at 02:46 PM.