Re: The Witcher Performance Issue.

"Nostromo" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u73144p7biifjmv17vgpsv9eftm68j3bqe@xxxxxxxxxx

Aha. Ok, let's pretend we can have a civil, intelligent conversation for one
or two posts morgy (I know I'll do my part).

Makes a change from a self professed troll. Deliberately trolling doesn't equate to intellect in my book.

Tell me, why is it that almost
every app & game still runs more than acceptably on my 3 yr old (then
upper-midrange)

Because your system is three years old and wasn't overly great when it was new. An equivalent modern system will have about four times the horsepower today.

single-core system, but in order to reap the amazing
'benefits' of Vista I need a dual-core rig

You don't. I ran Vista fine on a single core Athlon FX-55 for quite some time.

If you're trying to run a new operating system on a old PC what do you expect to happen? Vista is aimed at new hardware, just as XP was aimed at new hardware. When XP came out people were bitching that it didn't run games as well as 98 did. When the next version of windows come out people will probably be moaning about how Vista runs games better.

I like to play a verity of games, some other these need a lot of horsepower, I'm also interested new OSs and hardware. I've got enough disposable income to be able to afford to keep my hardware up to date. If you don't have a need to do this then fair enough (If I used my PC in the same way you did I'd sped the money else where as well ) but don't come bitching about how new operating systems don't run well one your old hardware.

The bottom line is that Vista runs games well on a modern(ish) rig, it ran them fine on my old single core Athlon FX and it runs them fine on my current Intel Quad core.

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