Vista 6.0 (build 6000) not supported (1 Viewer)

[mbuzina]

You can not judge the amount of free ram in Windows 7 as a measure of how much ram you can use. W7 will use available unused ram as a cache and will gladly free it up if someone requests it. This confuses many people saying that W7 is a resource hogger, but this is wrong. It just uses HW you are not using to speed up tasks that will be coming (e.g. starting applications). This can be turned off (somehow) but I would not recommend.

Additionally I would NEVER go back to Vista as it clearly is inferior to W7 in many ways. Try to measure performance and not monitor artifical counters like used mem and you will see W7 should beat Vista in almost any situation.

 

[RitterChristian]

You can not judge the amount of free ram in Windows 7 as a measure of how much ram you can use. W7 will use available unused ram as a cache and will gladly free it up if someone requests it. This confuses many people saying that W7 is a resource hogger, but this is wrong. It just uses HW you are not using to speed up tasks that will be coming (e.g. starting applications). This can be turned off (somehow) but I would not recommend.

Additionally I would NEVER go back to Vista as it clearly is inferior to W7 in many ways. Try to measure performance and not monitor artifical counters like used mem and you will see W7 should beat Vista in almost any situation.

Hi again,

thanks for your answers! Sure you're right, and I won't doubt that, but I realized that I didn't tell the full story. Under 7, I experienced some strange lags and hangups of the mouse cursor (and in general), which I could roughly pinpoint to drivers.
Especially the ATI-Drivers (I got a Fusion APU btw) seem to have gotten worse over the years, and on mobile chips, they are just of a horrifyingly bad quality. What a letdown, I used to use ATI for years (but that just on a side note).

The ATI-support team just told me to basically reinstall my OS and all drivers, which I'll have to try.

I think I will restore to W7 (luckily I made a Paragon backup of it) and then reinstall the drivers as suggested. Maybe then it will work.

Thanks for your help so far, and also a big thank-you for delivering such a great MediaCenter app!

Best Regards,
chris

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Use 11.4 drivers, there are reports that video playback is still affected with 11.5 & 6.

Regards