So i'm guessing that the bigger concern in running Vista will be the RAM, not so much the processor speed if I have a dual core processor. There is such software. Every modern OS has it built in including Vista. There is a portion of the kernel that juggles all the active processes and threads and gets them to execute as efficiently as possible with the hardware available.
With single threaded applications there is only so much you can do. Think of this imaginary scenario: Right now I'm on a dual core box.
I'm running threads for 68 processes. There is nothing the OS can do about this. It has literally picked the most efficient thread handling possible but one core is still idle.
At some point if you want performance out of your multicore CPU the developer is going to have to write it for a multicore CPU and that means breaking his code into multiple threads that the OS can juggle around for efficiency.
As for RAM, yea run a Gig and you'll be good. I'm running 2 but that's because a few of my games really need that to run right. Aikouka Lifer. Nov 27, 30, Originally posted by: hpkeeper So here comes another question then So is it worth the conversion yet? Convert to Vista? If you are running the modern hardware that you mention, then yes. If you are running something from a few years ago then it depends.
Might be worth the upgrade, might want to just snag Vista along with whatever rig you buy next. I kinda work for MS Personally I'm digging it more and more. I think we've got a winner here. You agree to receive updates, promotions, and alerts from ZDNet. You may unsubscribe at any time.
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Most of what I have read about problems with the 64 bit version of XP place the blame for problems on the OS itself and not the older 32 bit applications. If you really want to dig into this, Intel has a number of technical briefs and specification sheets for you to download and read. Hope this helps. Vista X64 has backwards compatibility with 32 bit applications. This is done through the node you see in the registry. The problems that occur with older applications happen because of two primary reasons: 1 the app is DOS based, 2 the app installs drivers that are not WHQL signed.
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