Windows Vista (First Look)

Dual Boot: Windows NT 5.1 & Windows NT 6.0 :)

I'm dual booting Win XP and Win Vista Ultimate on my PC. I'm just trying out what features is in this new operating system.

I'm beginning to like the new windows, with its super performance boost in terms of loading and prefetching. With its newer cache technology and Readyboost, it loads faster than XP for as long as you keep loading the same programs and files, Vista will 'learn' your habits and pre-fetch them when you start Vista up again.

The catch is gaming performance has dropped due to increase in system requirements for Vista compared to XP. A drop of up to 30% in gaming performance is felt over almost 50% of higher hardware requirements is needed.
Drivers are still fresh and hard to find. Vista makes older hardware 'obsolete' until certified Vista drivers are released. My HP 1020 is awaiting HP's certified Vista driver. Some XP drivers will work, but don't expect stability as they are XP drivers.

In CnC3, the video in-game loading causes my game to 'lag' for 5 seconds, I should think the makers of CnC3 has a patch in the making to improve this problem.

For now XP is still the choice for gaming as it is a true and trusted OS for gaming due to its maturity.

NoMaD_MCV