Vista on 32 bit

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John A Grandy

Generally, how well will Vista run on 32bit machines ?


Specifically , for following hardware :

Intel® CoreT Duo Processor T2400
1024MB PC5300 DDR2 667MHz SDRAM
160GB HDD
NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7900 GS with 256MB GDDR3


Specifically, an acceptable level of performance for development of software
to run on Vista ? Or unacceptable ?
 
Looks good to me, John.

Vista runs quite well on both my P4 2.4 GHz and my GQ Laptop Celeron 2.4 GHz
32 bit machines. In fact, I'm thinking you'll have more trouble running on a
64 bit machine than a 32 bit machine. At least at this point. May be a
different story later on . . .
 
Nice system. I agree with Nancy, You should be fine with Vista. Let us
know how it goes when you decide to install it.

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Jason

Applied but still waiting to be accepted for the Vista Beta Testing group.
Can't wait to be able to play and help make it even better.

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That is a nice system - so far I've found x86 versions of Vista running
really well - x64 generally a bit more problematic but I think it's because
of drivers rather than the OS itself.

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Zack Whittaker said:
That is a nice system - so far I've found x86 versions of Vista running
really well - x64 generally a bit more problematic but I think it's
because of drivers rather than the OS itself.
Click to expand...

FWIW, I installed 5381 on a 5-6 year old clone with P3 800 Mz, 512 MB and a
newly bought ~$50 Asus ATI Radeon 9550 SE chip with 128 MB DDR memory video
card stuck in it's AGP4x slot. It has on old SuperMAX 56I modem for faxing
and a LinkSys NC-100 ethernet card connected to my DSL gateway both of which
needed drivers but the old Win-2000 drivers installed and work fine. The
installer updated the ATI video drivers to the latest ATI WDDM drivers with
glass.

Not speedly but good enough to play around with and enjoy the eye candy...
 
If it makes you feel any better Andre - I'm sick of it now. I'm working on
getting Glass to work on a standard XP machine - even though it'll be PNG
based as the current Glass is on Vista, still trying to work on that.

However on my production Vista machine - the Theme's service is well and
truly off. Just got sick of it!

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In theory, it'd work exactly the same way...
.... now you've got me thinking again..... hmmm.....

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Zack said:
That is a nice system - so far I've found x86 versions of Vista running
really well - x64 generally a bit more problematic but I think it's because
of drivers rather than the OS itself.
Click to expand...

That is exactly I chose to install the 32 bit version of Vista, I could
install the 64 bit version, but was concerned about the drivers.

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AMD64 3200 CPU
1 gig ram
dual 120gb sata HDDs
AGP 8X ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Soundblaster Audigy 2

Triple Boot (all 32 bit):
Fedora Core 4
Vista 5308
XP SP2
 
I.P. Nichols said:
FWIW, I installed 5381 on a 5-6 year old clone with P3 800 Mz, 512 MB and a
newly bought ~$50 Asus ATI Radeon 9550 SE chip with 128 MB DDR memory video
card stuck in it's AGP4x slot. It has on old SuperMAX 56I modem for faxing
and a LinkSys NC-100 ethernet card connected to my DSL gateway both of which
needed drivers but the old Win-2000 drivers installed and work fine. The
installer updated the ATI video drivers to the latest ATI WDDM drivers with
glass.

Not speedly but good enough to play around with and enjoy the eye candy...
Click to expand...

So it seems the major bottleneck for enjoying the Glass eye candy is
the video card...;-)

rOy
 
John-

I'm running it on basically the same hardware and performance is OK, not
great. But betas are always a little on the slow side. A few things are
exceptionally slow. But in general it's acceptable.
 
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