XP or Vista???

[Formula_1]

Hi

I just got Vista for two reasons. Mainly because through a combo at Newegg it was quite reasonable in price. The other being I wanted to use more memory than my XP pro x86 will allow. I got Vista Ultimate x64.

Unless you are like me and really want more memory and currently only have a 32bit OS, then yes, Vista is worth it. It is stable, fast and given enough ram works wonderfully.
If you don't want more than 3.2GB of usable ram (with a x86 OS), or you already have XP x64, then wait for 7.
Right now Vista is using 1286MB of ram and this with many services and such shut down. Nothing I have open except this page. It is only using around 0-1% of my cpu as I write this.

Some games, especially newer ones are running better and more stable on Vista.

I like it and I'm glad I got it. I haven't had any issues to speak of and it does have some nice features that XP lacked.

I would recommend no less than 4GB of memory and really 6 or more is better, especially if using ram hungry programs. Vista will use what you have very effectively. I have 8GB and that seems to be plenty, for my needs, mainly gaming. FSX runs very well on Vista. No problems that I have seen.

Oh yeah, My Windows folder is taking up 18.8GB of space on my HDD
It has only been installed for 2 weeks and nothing added except Windows updates and hardware drivers. I'm glad I made my C: partition 97.6GB
Hope this helps

[Cessna172150]

i have vista and its ok but go with xp if you already have it.  i have i problem where my 737 cfg wont save when i put in addon textures so go wit xp

[markag]

Since you already have it installed on XP it wouldn't be worth it to switch over to Vista. I would like to note that when I jumped from XP to Vista on my old laptop, FSX performance actually increased. The actual framerate improvement wasn't drastic, but FSX ran smoother. The framerate was more constant, therefore there wasn't as much stuttering. I don't know my laptops low specs (Pentium 4 @ 3.0GHz and 1.5 GB of Ram with an ATI X300 Graphics card) had anything to do with the improvement, but the difference was noticable.

A side note about vista:

Vista is different than XP. Most of the problems that general users have with Vista aren't really problems. They are just consequence of the user not knowing how to do something in Vista. User error to say. Most of the nagging issues that had plagued vista at its launch are long gone since the release of SP1. I've been using Vista since it was launched, & I don't run into issues with it anymore at all. I have moved completely past XP. XP feels really dated to me and I hate using it.

[ThrottleUp]

Stay with XP mate. I made the dreadful mistake of ordering this new Core i7 system with Vista on it and I hate this OS bitterly. My dear faithful stable XP Home...why did I leave you?!!  :-[

[dodger]

I have just upgraded to an Asus M3N78PRO mobo (integrated NVidia 8300 graphics), AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200 processor, and 2 GB of memory. I currently have XP SP3 running satisfactorily, and FX9 works quite nicely now. I have passed on Vista, but am trying out Windows 7 Beta at the moment. Any opinions as to which will run FSX better? (I will be picking up a copy of FSX Monday) Also - opinions as to the value of Hybrid graphics and/or SLI as stage 2 of the upgrade will be a PCI-E card  (NVidia 8800 or equiv.) and more memory.