Since the Vista news has exploded in recent days, I'm going to start doing link posts for the articles
Anonymous
1 Feb 2007 1:16 AM
Anonymous
1 Feb 2007 12:03 PM
If you were thinking of winning performance by turning of Glass and the aero interface: DON'T. In this
W.Meints
2 Feb 2007 10:35 AM
This is indeed shocking, as you'd expected that the system needs more cpu time and memory to show all the fancy stuff they put into vista.
I wonder though, does the same apply when I have an integrated intel graphics chip. That chip doesn't have the necessary features to show earo.
2 Feb 2007 11:44 AM
If you don't have an Aero-capable card in the first place, then I suppose this is a moot point... it means you'll be running in "Windows Basic" rather than "Windows Aero" mode.
When you do get Aero, a different graphics engine is used to draw the UI... hence why switching between Aero and Basic may show so little overhead performance difference - ie it's not the case that a single graphics engine is either doing the basic or doing more work to generate the Aero experience...
Mattio Valentino
4 Mar 2007 5:08 PM
I'd disagree. I followed the directions at the URL below and saved over 100MB of memory usage.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2100/vista_make_aero_perform_faster