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Gaming on Vista Business VS Home?

post #1 of 15
1/3/09 at 10:01am
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Hi Guys,

I'm looking at some refurb computers, and one has Vista Home Premium and the other Vista Business.

I seem to remember Vista Business lacks the aero interface, and the Media centre app, but does it lack anything which would inhibit gaming?

As far as I've seen Aero is just a resource hog, but if that's changed or its needed please let me know.

Thank you all again
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post #2 of 15
1/3/09 at 10:14am
. still chuckling at reading that Vista and/or Aero is a resource hog ;-) If your comp can run it, it will run it. Resources are there to be used, as long as they are not affecting the whole performance of the system.

. Family member has an Asus G50VT, Vista Home Prenium 64bits, blowing WoW out of the water!

cheers ...
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post #3 of 15
1/3/09 at 11:24am
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Sure thing qhn, I think as you say though my concern would be that aero is taking speed away when I'm trying to use it.

Anyone gaming on vista business out there?
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post #4 of 15
1/3/09 at 2:40pm
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Originally Posted by Strongbow View Post
Sure thing qhn, I think as you say though my concern would be that aero is taking speed away when I'm trying to use it.
Vista has a way to release the resources when and if other apps need them; and it will disable Aero for you if it your apps need the resources.

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Anyone gaming on vista business out there?
There will be no difference of the Vista versions in games. Either the games can function under Vista, or can not.

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post #5 of 15
1/3/09 at 3:19pm
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Thank you qhn, that's all I needed.
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post #6 of 15
1/9/09 at 10:20pm
Vista Media center doesn't use any system resources (except for MAYBE some hard drive space) when it's not in use. Also Vista Business does have Aero glass which also doesn't hamper gaming performance in the least. I've actually caught Vista disable Aeroglass once on my desktop while a game was still loading up.

The only reason you need Vista Business is if you need to join a Domain on a network (if you don't know what a Domain is, then you don't). Vista Home Premium will work just fine and deliver the same performance.
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post #7 of 15
1/10/09 at 2:22pm
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Yeah so it's like the old XP Pro vs XP Home, where XP Pro had the network capabilities.

In the end I opted for an XPS 1530 with Home Premium 32bit.
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post #8 of 15
2/1/09 at 4:11pm
This is good to know, my work is thinking about laptops with Vista Business - good to know I can play Quake 4 on it ;-)
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post #9 of 15
2/5/09 at 8:13am
i have vista business... i can run cs: source with 100fps

(on a notebook)
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post #10 of 15
2/5/09 at 9:23am
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i have vista business... i can run cs: source with 100fps

(on a notebook)
uh huh? then we don't need a desktop for heavy gaming, non?

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...but, if i were to be doing heavy gaming, i'd just buli myself a sturdy desktop machin.
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread224778.html

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post #11 of 15
8/29/09 at 1:03pm
Does anyone know if you can run Visa Business on Dell Studio 15?
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post #12 of 15
8/29/09 at 3:10pm
I don't see why not at first glance. Is there a specific reason to your query?

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post #13 of 15
8/30/09 at 7:21am
My son's school requires that he has Vista Business but he likes the look of the Studio 15 which comes with Vista Home as standard. I was told in a store that the Studio 15 wouldn't support Business but I don't see why. Just wondered whether anyone had experience.
Thanks for thinking about it.
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post #14 of 15
8/30/09 at 10:51am
If you can run Vista home you can run business. VH has media center (I never use) VB has the networking as said connect to a domain and if you have to ask you don't need. Your sons school clearly uses a network and domain. Vista business will be fine. See if the school offers stand alone or upgrade at a discount.
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post #15 of 15
8/30/09 at 11:41am
Thanks for your help - much appreciated!
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