Vista, I tried to like you but you aren’t giving me as much joy as I had hoped.

I recently bought a new graphics card, a GeForce 7900GS. I was happy to finally have a powerful graphics card to play games smoothly. However, when I played City of Heroes, I got low frame rates. Like, really low. About 10 FPS. Disappointed, I installed XP again. And the increase in performance was big, I could now muster 25 FPS. Sure, not what I was hoping for, but much better. I had been told by the fellows at the City of Heroes boards I need at least 2GB of RAM - especially on Vista. I thought, fair enough. Then I checked out task manager.

Notice how not alot of my RAM is free. And also notice how most of the pagefile (which it decided to be 2.2GB) is also taken up. What gives?

Sure, I haven’t shut it down for a while (I hibernate) but still. I have Windows Media Player playing music, and Firefox running. There is a lot to like in Vista, but for now the cons just keep weighing my experience down with Vista.

I might flick over to the old bootloader soon Vista if you don’t behave.