Just coming in to ask one simple thing... I should receive the beta soon, but as the discussion already started, i wanted to know.

Could you try to render the SAME scene on WinXP and Vista to see if there is any difference (render time) ? In fact, here at Renderosity, that is the most important thing for us to know !

 

I also made lots of fine tuning on my WinXP, and i know i also will do it on Vista. But that's because i know how to use a computer. Don't forget that a lot of people using Windows don't really know how to use it ( i know this because i'm working with peoples who really don't know how to use it but must use it...). So a lot of the stupid things we don't use are here to make the basic user life easier.