Vista or XP best for phoenix RC?

[Biggles]

yea shouldnt that read 19 years ?

what you on about????? macs are so powerful they can't even run win95 LMAO

[Disc]

what you on about????? macs are so powerful they can't even run win95 LMAO

Yes but then isn't that a blessing

[Biggles]

good point....LMAO

[lloyd]

Here's the deal......Unless u have a pc with at least a 2.8 dual core cpu, 1.5 gigs ram (not the sd stuff either) and a 256 meg pcie gpu then don't bother with vista to run a sim on.

To get the best out of a quality sim then a dedicated gpu is a requirement.

Sorry but thats simply not true with Phoenix on Vista

Try : 2ghz old athlon , 2 gig of ram and an oldish 8600 ati . This will run 1650x1050 res very smoothly. This systems 2 years old and I would bet an even slower system would be fine.
All this talk of Vista being super resource hungry is not quite true. Yes, it likes memory and yes its slower than XP but its not so big that older machines wont cope.

[Biggles]

Sorry but thats simply not true with Phoenix on Vista

Try : 2ghz old athlon , 2 gig of ram and an oldish 8600 ati . This will run 1650x1050 res very smoothly. This systems 2 years old and I would bet an even slower system would be fine.
All this talk of Vista being super resource hungry is not quite true. Yes, it likes memory and yes its slower than XP but its not so big that older machines wont cope.

so what else are you running on that pc???? And which version of vista?

[lloyd]

Vista premium with aero switched on.
I dont run anything at the same time as Phoenix, It runs well but im sure another program running at the same time would cause it a minor heart attack

[Biggles]

This is my point, most folks use their pc for a bit of everything so by the time they have loaded everything onto it av included, they are probably running 85 or so processes(with Vista)....thus if you have you don't have a reasonable pc then you are looking at having to turn everything off before you start.

That's why we recommend a decent pc in the first place if using vista