![]() ![]() Sorry, this isn’t meant as an attack on you, I recently went through some of my favorite shell replacements to give ’em a try out on XP before wiping only to discover very little remains of the once vibrant community. Maybe because Stardock either bought out many of the freeware \ shareware shell enhancement utilities and converted them ALL to run on top the explorer shell and stopped any development in that area? Maybe because (due to various factors) the shell scene lost most of the non-Stardock related shell news sites and the shell replacements were allowed to wither away? – I find using VLC and WinAMP help a lot with avoiding the cpu usage incurred from WMP11 in Vista, which seems to be caused by the protected media path. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft never made much of an effort to support OpenGL with the drivers shipped with Windows, that has always been the responsibility of the hardware manufacturers providing the drivers so you can get an OpenGL ICD that works.įor me, I notice a 2-5% performance difference between XP and Vista usually in my games, but the underpinnings of the new platform are good enough that I don’t care much, and it will become even less of an issue after I upgrade my CPU from the 3000+ A64 I have right now, the lowest-rated component of my system according to Vista. You know, if you’d actually bother to try a patched Vista with decent, recent drivers, you’d find that your cheap shot at Vista is pretty off-base.Ī lot of the complaints I see about Vista are pretty dated, launch-era problems, especially the idea that OpenGL apps are completely b0rked.
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