The Screed

I am not clear what in the hell Mr. Softie was thinking when they released this turd, however, this should still be in Beta and not on the shelves for retail distribution.  Another case of MS taking advantage of its user base, whereby the users pay to become testers and debuggers.  The only reason I am sticking with it at this point is to play Crysis, COD4 and BIOSHOCK.  I cannot emphasize this enough, it is not ready for implementation in an enterprise environment (more on that later).So I build this gaming beast box, install 32bit Vista, and finally after one week of constant dicking with drivers etc., I had BIOSHOCK running on 32bit Vista.  Performance was notably awesome on this Intel Core2 Quad Extreme, (2) e-GeForce 8800GTX 768MB Superclocked in SLI for total 1.5gig video memory, 4gig Crucial Dominator RAM, and 10,000RPM 150gig Raptor HD.  But something just wasn’t right; so I poked around and discovered Vista was only recognizing 2.5gig of the 4gig RAM that which I paid over $400.00.  Upon further investigation, I discover the 32bit version is incapable of recognizing the entire 4gig.  My due diligence revealed that I need to install the 64bit version for that “feature capability”.

The next and most paradoxical, yet interesting discovery is while installing the 64bit version of Vista so you can use your full 4gig of RAM; you must first remove three of the four gig of RAM for the install to work.  You must then “patch” Vista 64bit to accept the entire 4gig as this is a known issue.  So we have a tiered issue.  Am I fucking high?