Re: The Witcher Performance Issue.


"CoinSpin" <coin^spam^spin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:84Sdnag1q9Oqdt7VnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Vista came out, ran like a pig (or not at all) on older systems, ran like a pig on the newer systems it was designed for, and is finally approaching some semblance of performance after a year and a half of hardware speed improvements...

Vista ran well in November 2006 when I first installed it - albeit on upper-mid-range kit. The only real improvements in SP1 were with file copying, which degraded a small number of scenarios but improved a significant number of other.

Obviously, Nvidia and Ati have improved their driver support (in fact, they've had 'satisfactory'drivers for over a year now), but how was their slow start a problem with Vista? They, more than anyone else, had a heads-up - they new it was coming, when it was coming, and how it all worked - they had no excuses.


"As technology improves, software increases in complexity to soak up the extra power." Very concise and accurate. But why not call a spade a spade and just say "as we get faster machines, bloatware becomes more prevalent" instead?

Sure - no-one is disputing that. But why is that a vista problem - surely it is an industry problem.

Seriously, I had high expectations for Vista, it was going to have so many new and exciting advancements... One by one, those great new things that were going to make it a "must-have" (such as the efficient new file system) were dropped during development because they wouldn't make their release deadline

WinFS looked a great idea. but it didn't work. In fact they still haven't got it working properly, though some aspects of it were incorporated under the bonnet of Win Server 2008. But again, what has this got to do with performance?

You have every right not to like Vista or to disagree with the way MS has taken it forward, but this issue is about Vista performance.

Personally, it think UAC is a mess which largely renders it useless, and I find the the UI is generally too dumbed down, so that you have to dig really deep to get to advanced settings that you want to tweak.... and there is probably more too.

But it is stable, it is fast, it is more fully featured (if not perfect) and it looks good. So in general I like it - though I too hoped for more.

, until all that was left on launch was some questionable security improvements, DX-10, and a shiny new Aero interface. Oh, and it ran dog slow... Hey, but at least they came closer to their release and could get all that revenue from sales.


New hardware abstraction layer, new security infrastructure, new interface - and a number of significant breaks from the past. Personally, I would have made it x64 only, with signed drivers, etc.



Sorry, by that token, those same people you are referring to would be saying "Hey, the system is way slower, but damn doesn't Aero look awesome?" heh


More 'Hey, this system is really quite demanding, but it's rock solid, and damn doesn't Aero look awesome!"

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