deco_martini
Contributor
Well the Vista Service Pack 1 will address some of those issues....it is in Beta.
I was running most of those patches including some unreleased hotfixes for firewire/etc.
Firewire is not fixed.
Even with superfetch, kernel memory paging, and various other things disabled there is still disk thrashing.
It still had issues with my torture test.
Believe me, I wanted nothing more than for it to work. Lately I've been re-encoding some DV-AVI into x264 while rendering video in a window and having a game running in a window. No dropped frames.
There were a few architectural bugs with Vista including scheduler voodoo. For instance, to get the best interactivity, you had to load windows media player. I'm being serious, google it. It tweaks the kernel/scheduler timer while running.