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Well, it's working. Mostly.
New computer (aka Gray-Hermit) is set up. The old computer (Dark-Tower) is either going to be turned into little more then a repository for mp3s, or cleaned up and given away.
I have turned off that Aero crap (Oh look, it's Vista, but with the look and feel of Windows Classic), moved all my mp3s over, and gotten WoW and the Lich King beta reinstalled. I still need to put Photoshop, ImageReady, and Bryce back on here, but now I have the damn space to do so... 500 Gb hard drive is nice. Got my e-mail set back up, Firefox 3 installed (and a theme that doesn't look like ass), and mostly tweaked the way I want it.
Oh, and I've already checked. I can turn all the graphics in WoW up to full and it runs better that way then my old computer did. Hell, I could probably run City of Heroes during a Rikti Invasion and not have issues now. (Okay, probably still some issues. Rikti invasions thrash video cards like you wouldn't believe.)
I have turned off that Aero crap (Oh look, it's Vista, but with the look and feel of Windows Classic), moved all my mp3s over, and gotten WoW and the Lich King beta reinstalled. I still need to put Photoshop, ImageReady, and Bryce back on here, but now I have the damn space to do so... 500 Gb hard drive is nice. Got my e-mail set back up, Firefox 3 installed (and a theme that doesn't look like ass), and mostly tweaked the way I want it.
Oh, and I've already checked. I can turn all the graphics in WoW up to full and it runs better that way then my old computer did. Hell, I could probably run City of Heroes during a Rikti Invasion and not have issues now. (Okay, probably still some issues. Rikti invasions thrash video cards like you wouldn't believe.)
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He will have ~1.5 GB of system RAM that he will be unable to utilize.
Plus some of that video memory.
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And XP is merely the 'interim' OS until MS comes out with the next version of Windows (which won't really fix any of the issues in Vista, but still).
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I turned like three things off and I am having no problems at ALL.
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Windows XP can address 4 GB total of space.
The motherboard and devices take up some of that space.
For it to map to 2 GB of video card memory, it has to lose 2 GB of addressable space.
So you're going to lose a significant amount of the RAM to address your video memory. The OS will likely decide not to address the entire video memory, thus giving you more for RAM.
This is what my estimation of ~1.5 GB of RAM and some video memory is off of.
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Also, a lot of the issues with Vista have been addressed. It's significantly better (but still not phenominal) than it was at release.
Basically, you paid a few hundred extra for parts of your computer to sit around and fuck off.
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And going with your "I'm waiting for the next OS", that's 2 years away.
The hardware you currently have will be obsolute (effectively) by them, in that it won't have the capability to run (at great effectiveness) games that are out then.
Congratulations, you paid extra money for an inefficient way to heat your house.
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