Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:51 pmWhich op system is best for running FSX Win XP or Vista and what is the difference?????
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:51 pmPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:18 pmIm with XP /FSX works a treat and never had any prob
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:30 pmI don't think that you can assume that the difference is fixed and measurable -- I think that FSX performance is affected by a lot of things, and the operating system is well down the list.
But I'd always recommend Vista, because MS have learnt a lot about memory management since XP, especially when it comes to their own full-screen games. However this is dependant on the amount of RAM you have -- some people say that Vista requires more memory overhead. Drivers are also an issue -- good quality drivers for Vista are not always available yet, so it depends on your system. However Vista drivers will eventually surpass XP drivers.
And Vista has added security, which has to use resources, not to mention that I find it a bit of a pain in the neck.
But I'd always recommend Vista, because MS have learnt a lot about memory management since XP, especially when it comes to their own full-screen games. However this is dependant on the amount of RAM you have -- some people say that Vista requires more memory overhead. Drivers are also an issue -- good quality drivers for Vista are not always available yet, so it depends on your system. However Vista drivers will eventually surpass XP drivers.
And Vista has added security, which has to use resources, not to mention that I find it a bit of a pain in the neck.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:43 pmI have a separate 160GB Sata 2 HDD setup with Win XP home and both FS-9 and FS-X setup on it and that is all I use this HDD for.
My CP has 3 other HDDs one which also has Win XP Home that I boot to for my normal computer work.
The PC consists of Asus A8N-SLI 939 MB, AMD Duel core FX-60 running 2610 MHz, 2.5GB DDR 400 Ram, Asus Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX with 512MB, Creative SB Audigy sound card, PSU 650W and running Flight sim through a Matrox TripleHead2Go.
My CP has 3 other HDDs one which also has Win XP Home that I boot to for my normal computer work.
The PC consists of Asus A8N-SLI 939 MB, AMD Duel core FX-60 running 2610 MHz, 2.5GB DDR 400 Ram, Asus Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX with 512MB, Creative SB Audigy sound card, PSU 650W and running Flight sim through a Matrox TripleHead2Go.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:50 pmI know people who have upgraded to vista and have had a bad time using it. DONT USE VISTA.
Windows XP is the operating system I use for my PC
PD
Windows XP is the operating system I use for my PC
PD
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:35 pmI use vista have had no problems. but i don't like it asking all the time "do you wish to delete this" "are you sure you want to delete" "make sure you want to delete" 
Vista is to self concious!!
Vista is to self concious!!
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:14 pmvista and xp are pretty much the same speed. xp is slightly faster. vista is newer. your choice really
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:22 pmwaka172rg wrote:QUOTE (waka172rg @ Sep 22 2008, 07:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I use vista have had no problems. but i don't like it asking all the time "do you wish to delete this" "are you sure you want to delete" "make sure you want to delete"
Vista is to self concious!!
yea, thats a big issue. and it does that annoying 'grey out' thing where everything stops and the screen dims while it asks "allow or cancel". really annoying when you have media center open and watching tv
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:40 pmXP all the way for me.
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:47 pmUsing both here and no problems with either 
Persevere guys! once Vista SP1 was released, things settled down a lot.
As for the "greying out" and asking questions about whether you wish to delete something - switch your User Account Control off!
We had a scenery designer/hoplist maker over on the WSP site who was having major issues with the UAC... more specifically if he started writing a .cfg with the UAC on, then switched it off and later on for whatever reason switched it back on, all of the changes he made to the .cfg or script file he was working with would disappear and he would be back at square one.
Persevere guys! once Vista SP1 was released, things settled down a lot.
As for the "greying out" and asking questions about whether you wish to delete something - switch your User Account Control off!
We had a scenery designer/hoplist maker over on the WSP site who was having major issues with the UAC... more specifically if he started writing a .cfg with the UAC on, then switched it off and later on for whatever reason switched it back on, all of the changes he made to the .cfg or script file he was working with would disappear and he would be back at square one.
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:37 pmi use vista now, i agree, turn off the User Account control, it doesn't bother me anymore with all those stupid questions, fsx does seem to run slightly faster on vista sp1