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I don't believe the 'problem' here is so much single-core v dual-core. Instead it's the fact that it is a Barton core and an AGP interface, coupled with a recent technology display adaptor and the gaming OS of the future which is really beginning to lend the term "bottleneck" some substantial meaning! Inadequacies in the hardware are really being exposed by the newer OS.
If replacing that rig isn't an option at this point in time then the remaining life should be wrested from it by using XP rather than Vista. It isn't going to be running games in DX10 anyway.
Wow!! From the mouth of a true expert!!
AGP is fine and can handle vista with out issues..... so AGP is not the issue there.
Right. The issue is the performance of the CPU and the memory subsystem.
There's no single "issue" here. There's a combination of isues which work together. You simply can't exclude single issues in that way, nor settle on one specific issue as the 'cause', nor draw all-inclusive conclusions from the situation.Without looking hard, I would say the main reasons his machine is too low performance is 3 fold.
1) slower cpu
2) single core
3) Vista does more
Vista does quite a lot of background work and likes cpu for them.
With a single core this will be a trauma for gamers.
With a slower cpu it takes longer for it to complete the background tasks so the impact is more severe
Vista and dual core minimum FTW.
If you're going to hijack topics with unrelated side issues you could at least make some small effort to come up with something which wasn't complete and utter bullshit misinformationDef. go XP, I'm finding the downside of vista right now. It only lets you upgrade your computer 1 time and then it junks your key...
I also get higher framerates in Vista than I see in XP, on the same rig. But there are quite a few game titles I don;t play, that a lot of other people do play, and in those games people frequently report that they get lower frame rates under Vista than they can achieve under XP.FPS is higher in vista. So i don't know where you all are getting your sources lol.