Great explaination for why Vista is slower than XP
Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 10:52 PM - Technology
This article does a good job explaining why vista is slower than xp.http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00 ... 060344.htm
"Vista handles graphics more in the manner of video games, using a software library called DirectX designed to exploit hardware-accelerated graphics. DirectX is also used in Windows XP, but Vista uses it throughout, not just for games. Unfortunately there is a performance cost for traditional Windows applications like Microsoft Office. These generally use an older graphics library called GDI (Graphics Device Interface). In Windows XP this was hardware accelerated, but in Vista this is no longer true. Instead, they are mapped through DirectX. The new system also holds GDI windows in memory twice over, contributing to Vista's memory bloat."
Here's the devil mountain benchmarks which shows the startling differences between Vista and XP:
http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/wi ... gains.html
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