Vista optimization tips for rendering

Bogey Jammer · Post by **Bogey Jammer** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:48 am

Hi all,

Sorry for this suggestive topic title but it's more a request than tip list. But if you have some, feel free to post since there are not so many about computer optimization.

Well for my case I have a simple question:
How to make/emulate hardware profiles within Vista?
With XP it was easy, but the feature has been deleted for Vista and after searching the web I found nothing about doing this.. How stupid is m$, I'm sure that disabling some useless hardware devices and services would improve the render times.

Deus · Post by **Deus** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:28 am

Tip

Do not run vista. its the most pointless crap ever produced.

StompinTom · Post by **StompinTom** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:57 am

vista came (haha) on my brand new quadcore n im too lazy to switch it but so far its been runnin smooth!

no pressing need to optimize at the moment, though tips are always welcome!

cpfresh · Post by **cpfresh** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:34 am

lol @ deus

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:39 am

Comparing speeds of various programs on my quad between Linux 64bit and Vista 64bit actually produces no real difference. I really wouldn't worry too much about it.
IMO you're more likely to wreck your system by trying various unnecessary "optimisations".

(The main problem with windows is it's awful memory management, if you want to make good use of your memory, use 64bit Linux and native Linux applications (ie, not Wine) - there's no real speed difference but you can generally use more of your memory on Linux without the system falling apart).

Bogey Jammer · Post by **Bogey Jammer** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:44 am

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This post was useless for this topic, self-deletion.

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:10 am

XP and Linux are prefectly credible alternatives.

Kram1032 · Post by **Kram1032** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:39 am

dougal2 wrote:XP and Linux are prefectly credible alternatives.

+1

Linux surely has the better Memory-handling but XP has the advantage, not to need any emulation software to run the newest version of Indigo. Choose yourself

(Oh, one of the biggest advantages of Linux probably is, that you don't need to buy an expensive license, again, after buying a computer with a Vista-license)

Bogey Jammer · Post by **Bogey Jammer** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:40 am

I have found a quite modest tip to manage useless services, and it's very flexible, there's not need to use hardware profile assignation.
But I've not found yet an alternative for hardware profiles to manage devices.

pixie · Post by **pixie** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:19 am

Linux 64bits kicks xp64 in the ... indigo wise at least

Deus · Post by **Deus** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:11 am

Bogey Jammer wrote:I have found a quite modest tip to manage useless services, and it's very flexible, there's not need to use hardware profile assignation.
But I've not found yet an hardware profiles alternative to manage devices.

PS: switching back to XP? probably if I could downgrademy Vista license but it's impossible. Nulix? it would be great if it could full supports my hardware, and if I don't need to waste my lifetime to learn to use it decently.

PPS: my English may be bad in this post...

If I wanted to manage my OS id run Linux
If I wanted it to be pretty Id run OSX
Rest of us sane people run XP, or 2000

I have a vista license and I tried it for a month. Only thing I liked was the search... Well I can get a program for that. I am a Windows lover mind you. I am not one of those "on the barricades" Linux guys.

I am looking forward to Windows 7 but Vista its just too resource hungry, rough in the edges but looking sexy.. Much like women actually

WytRaven · Post by **WytRaven** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:13 pm

Deus wrote:Tip

Do not run vista. its the most pointless crap ever produced.

Tip

Don't sprout off about things you know nothing about. It makes you look really dumb.

pixie · Post by **pixie** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:34 pm

WytRaven
UI wise is a nightmare, you don't change old paradigms just for the sake of being different... look at office 07 if you want to look further, it's like learning an all new program, and why? It might be great for those who never touched Word and for the rest of the world that as being doing it for decades? Then there's lots of bad implemented ideas like the UAC, you know OSX has it to, but it's not as intrusive as Vista, and surely not as annoying...

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:57 pm

Bogey Jammer wrote: it would be great if it could full supports my hardware, and if I don't need to waste my lifetime to learn to use it decently.

If by "my hardware" you man the laptop in your sig, then I don't think you'll have a problem.

Get a distro like Ubuntu - the GNOME desktop is a very intuitive environment. Kinda like all the best parts of windows and OSX combined

I would recommend getting the install CD and running it - when it starts you get to use the desktop WITHOUT touching any existing stuff on your disk. Have a look, you might be surprised.

WytRaven · Post by **WytRaven** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:50 pm

Please don't take this the wrong way pixie. It's just a rebuttal

It's human nature to be resistant to change, more so the older you get.

The ribbon interface is a paradigm shift and one that is being pursued for good reason. For the first time since the birth of Microsoft they have actually had an original idea and I give them 10 points for having the balls to actually go through with it. The whole point of this shift is to prepare for a complete change in the way we, and more importantly the generations to come, interact with computers. You may find Office 2007 "a little weird" hey so did I at first but I can assure you that the interface it provides will be a thousand times easier to learn from scratch for the next generation of computer users. Not only that but I can confirm that the interface is superb for what it was primarily designed for and that is direct to screen interaction. I have Office 2007/Vista 32 on my Fujitsu ST5112 tablet and the combination of the three is...effortless... I also have Office 2007/Vista 64 on my desktop and have nil reason to complain there either.

By your logic we should all still be hunting and gathering and living under boulders because progress, and therefore the mandatory acquisition of new skills, equals bad. Embrace the madness friends, it's here to stay

The reason I made the somewhat agitated response to Deus' remark is that I am so sick of hearing stupid comments like that. The same thing happens every time a new version of Windows is released. This time around it's just amplified by the fact that the OS structure and general interface has changed enough to cause many self-proclaimed "computer-geniuses" to suddenly find themselves lacking on the genius part.

Now I am no MS advocate, in fact for the most part I am anti-MS due to my severe dislike of their business practices. I really like linux personally but unfortunately linux just isn't there and to be honest I don't think it ever will be as it seems to be the victim of it's own freedom; it forever lacks solid predictable structure.

For the record I 100% agree that UAC is terrible, and that is why I turn it off

Anyway that's enough of a rant from me for this decade...I'll withdraw back into my dark little corner now

EDIT:
Forgot to mention to Deus that I apologise for the unnecessary harshness of my earlier remark. I could have handled that much better.

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