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prefetch and superfetch disabled. I was fed up with my HD and its nonstop clicking for almost insignificant performance gain... Besides, I plan to replace my old 200 GB SATA Maxtor-Crap with 2x WD Raptor 74 GB in raid 0.

Oblivion/Stalker are more GPU limited. Here are some numbers with Doom 3 test demo1 (1600x1200, quality high, nvidia forceware 162.22): - Vista x64 stock : 87.7 fps - Vista after vLite and a lot of tweaks : 89.6 fps F.E.A.R. (1600x1200 AA=x4, Aniso=x16, everything high/on except soft shadows) - Vista x64 stock : min fps = 31, average = 63, max = 135 - Vista x64 after vLite and tweaks : min fps = 33, avg = 64, max = 142 UT2004 x64 patch 3369, map ONS-NMP-Panalesh (FRAPS) - Vista x64 stock : average fps = 62 - Vista x64 vLite + tweaks : average fps = 65 Besides, with a lot of games, there are less stuttering and a real feeling that things go (slightly) faster. Same with every day working with Vista (application lauching, surfing, office, startups and shutdowns...)

According to my experience, Vista 64 is 0 - 5 % faster than its 32 bits counterpart, provided that you use updated drivers and make every possible tweak because Vista 64 is terribly bloated and taxing. After a couple of months fiddling around every piece of registry (and thanks to vLite), I don't miss anymore the excellent XP 64 !

yes, please, any idea could be helpfull ! btw, is your vista 32 or 64 bits ?

legolash2o, could you please give us some, real, tweaks among your "lots of tweaks" ? or they are just big secrets or fakes ? Some of your tweaking do not decrease memory usage (ie adding memory, sorting cables, spraying dust...) Even, adding memory will slightly increase some Vi$sta cache sizes. I'd really appreciate ! For now, with Vista x64 Bu$ine$$ with vLite and almost everything removed + only 14 services running + a lot of tweaks + a lot of normal/hidden/unused devices disabled or removed, the best I can do leads to this : 396 Mo after logging... (instead of 650-690 Mo) My specs are : E6600 @ 2.4 Ghz + P5B Deluxe (lot's of thing disabled in BIOS : Firewire, COM, Wireless, unused ide/sata, cpu speedstep, enhanced halt....) + 4 Go DDR2-800 CL4 + geforce 8800GTX + 200 Go SATA. Firewall is on the broadband switch-router, AV is Nod32 last version.