Sucks about the Gaming, seeing as Unreal Tournament 3 is shipping to me on Tuesday. I heard Vista eats up more of your RAM which sucks! Does any 1 know why?

It tries to use up as much of your RAM as possible by preloading your apps into memory…that’s SuperFetch. If the computer needs the memory it will free it, but it would rather have your apps and documents ready to go at a beckon call.

I have seen some reports of increased performance in certain areas for XP SP3, but generally it doesn’t seem all that different on my one machine running SP3.

From what I’ve read it’s not supposed to have any effect on the hard drive with the exception of the first few minutes after the computer starts. That’s when it reads from the disk and loads stuff into memory.

Interesting…my laptop with 2GB of memory is ready to use in about 45 seconds. After about 2 minutes it has finished loading everything, but it becomes usable in well under a minute.

Anyone had similar problems?

I can vouch for no problem using Vista on 4 notebooks on a SBS2k3 network.

muledoggie, what version of Vista were you using??? I tried Vista Home Premium last year because the boss bought a laptop and brought it in. On that system I can state network access to an SBS2003 server was quite slow. However with Vista Business or Vista Ultimate which has proper network access built in and can join the domain I suspect the speed would have been better. I to manage a network; so if you can provide feedback on that it would be great.

My experience is with a machine running Vista Business that is member of a Server 2003 domain. I’ve tried several config changes that were suggested based on googling this problem, to no avail. I’ve also found content where MS apparantly states that this is a known problem. Don’t know if this is accurate.

Anyone had similar problems?

Mule

I’d like to see comparisons with SP3 on XP. I’ve read that it speeds things up a bit, as well. It is great to see Vista has lower loading times, but I’d prefer to stay away from the Windows ME of 2008.

don’t forget that these speeds are for Vista pre any SP vs XP SP2. By the time Vista is SP1 and then 2, it will not only beat XP, but it will leave it in the dust as well.

so IMO, Vista is nothing like ME; its even better than XP by far and to prove it google the performance reports for XP before SP1. u will see what I mean

I dunno why anyone would want to disable the superfetch thing. It DRASTICALLY speeds things up, as that chart says….but I’ve definitely noticed a difference.

I disabled superfetch. So glad I did. It’s a personal thing, but for me, I hate having my laptop drive constantly churning while I’m trying to work as it caches stuff. I’ve turned it off, and haven’t even noticed a difference in program opening speeds. But no more churning

Hey, whatever works for the individual, right?