Downgraded out of curiosity.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

So I wanted to have a game actually take up all four monitors at once, so I went and downgraded to XP for the "SPAN MULTIPLE MONITORS" option.

I got to installing drivers when I told myself "HOLY BLIND FUCK THIS IS FAST!!!"

I don't remember XP being this fast, what in the fuck? Even firefox is faster!

[Versed]

lol can't wait for 7

[Ranma]

xp is faster than vista though. Vista focused more on graphical and interface upgrades than speed. Windows 7 is supposed to be focused back on speed and efficiency. It's why I never upgraded to vista on my home machine.

Did you hear the goal for the next ubuntu release? 10 second boot time. Now that would be damn great for my laptop.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

Did you hear the goal for the next ubuntu release? 10 second boot time. Now that would be damn great for my laptop.

I have that with my shitty Nforce motherboard and XP.

45 seconds on vista, but I WILL wait 35 seconds every four or five months when I restart to not have to use the worst linux distro of all time.

Windows 7 is supposed to be focused back on speed and efficiency.

lol can't wait for 7

Windows 7 is nowhere near as fast as XP was going, and has the same drawbacks that I was downgrading to prevent (wddm is a turd and won't let me use my monitors like I want) I might have to buy one of those 500$ matrox jellopies if I want to game on four monitors.

[Ranma]

Haven't tried the windows 7 build so cant say about its speed in comparison to xp. I doubt its as fast though when xp is clean since its still retaining a good bit of the vista bloat.

When it comes down to it we might not have a choice to go to windows 7 though. DirectX requirements on newer games will eventually mean people have to upgrade since Microsoft is now making new DX version exclusively for their newer operating systems.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

Haven't tried the windows 7 build so cant say about its speed in comparison to xp. I doubt its as fast though when xp is clean since its still retaining a good bit of the vista bloat.

When it comes down to it we might not have a choice to go to windows 7 though. DirectX requirements on newer games will eventually mean people have to upgrade since Microsoft is now making new DX version exclusively for their newer operating systems.

I don't see why you wouldn't switch already, vista is only slower than XP by a few seconds and makes up for it many times with it's application performance and ease of use (especially on a fresh install for custom machine builders)

Hell every actual PROBLEM was solved in the first service pack.

Plus I think you can still get the 120 day trial of Server 08, which is vista's SP1 kernel without all of the bloat of vista (a few minor tweaks and its a great gaming OS)

[jwstohr]

I ran windows 7 on a virtual machine, it did seem pretty quick. A couple friends ran it on their little shitty netbooks and it was still pretty quick. Can't wait for it myself.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

if WDDM 1.1 fixes my spanning then I will give Win7 a try.

[Ranma]

I have a copy of vista as provided for me when I was still in college in my student job. But anyway, Haven't upgraded for a handful of reasons rather not bothering to get into. I use it at work and theres just a few things that I must do that don't work properly on it. As for wddm see

MS Article

According to that if you manually downgrade to the xpdm drivers for your devices theyll still work and ought to fix your problem

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

According to that if you manually downgrade to the xpdm drivers for your devices theyll still work and ought to fix your problem

I am already on XP and I can only get two working together at once.

I think I might need to SLI hoping that wondows will see the two SLI'd cards as one device and let me span my 'desktop' across all four monitors.