What the ****

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Originally Posted by Izzy

Games run about the same on my xp and my vista

xp is 3gb's and 8800 gtx graphics card 2.5 ghz dual core.
vista is 4gb's and 9800 gtx graphics card 2.5 ghz quad core.

Slightly higher specs on my vista, then again my other computer is a laptop.

"run about the same".... uhh. That means what? Once again, nothing concrete.

A mobile chipset =! a desktop computer. Your setups aren't even remotely similar, and your configurations may all be different. Aside from that, different games perform differently on different operating systems and at different resolutions with different sets of different hardware. The fact that you have hundreds of variables in your reasoning means you can't possibly be taken seriously, nor can you actually call that statement a substantial fact.

If you tell me you ran XP and Vista with the same exact configurations with the same resolutions and same in-game configs with the same amount of the same brand of RAM, GPU, CPU, mobo, and HDD with same BIOS and hardware settings, and then that the same file you unzipped in the same manner took longer in Vista, then I'll accept that as a result - and it must be verifiable. If I try the exact same thing on the exact same hardware and the results aren't even similar, you've done something wrong. One easy way to measure things is testing in-game with framerates, or even in 3DMark. Easy to do, and provides some sort of realistic comparison.

IF THE OPERATING SYSTEM IS NOT THE ONLY VARIABLE (within realistic limits) THEN YOUR RESULTS ARE GARBAGE.

PS - your mobile chipset is different than your desktop (entirely) your video card might have been a different brand and is a different card, etc etc etc etc etc.

On second thought, don't go to the Tom's Hardware forums. You'd get laughed out of there, and they're mostly very kind and considerate people.