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Windows Vista VPC Killer?

I just installed Windows Vista beta 2 (build 5384) on my AMD64 3500 running Windows XP and Virtual PC 2004 with 2 GB Ram addressed to it. Sluggish… the unbearable slowness by which Vista runs makes me want to pull my hairs out. After installing the Virtual Machine Additions it runs somewhat faster, but still nowhere near acceptable for actual testing. But hey what to expect from a VM Additions S3 Trio32/64 driver with such fancy graphics. To be honest the UI is very impressive! Tomorrow, I will probably mount an extra disk to create a dual boot and put my 7800GTX to the rescue.

Posted: May 26 2006, 01:13 AM by p.gielens | with 4 comment(s)
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Neox3d said:

Hey bro, basicly you're right vista may be the slowest in perfomance as compared to anyother OS. but the looks are worth it, anyhow istall atleast a good agp (256+or higher, you may get better results
# May 26, 2006 3:07 AM

*** Appel said:

Dual boot? Good idea... I'm anxious to hear from your experiences with that. I've also experienced this slowness in a VPC but I'm not yet ready to simply replace my Windows XP installation which I use nearly every day. I think a lot of IT pro's struggle with this dilemma ;-)

# May 26, 2006 6:31 AM

RHurlbut said:

I found that it works best to have Vista be a dual boot (at least an earlier release a couple of months -- I am sure the same with the latest release). Once I did that, perforamnce was much more livable.
# May 26, 2006 9:03 AM

Mike Lorengo said:

This entry on "Virtually Vista" talks about an update to VM Additions coming really really soon.
-=mike
http://www.little-garins.com/Blogs/marty/archive/2006/05/25/1464.aspx
# May 26, 2006 11:02 AM
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