Vista had some horrible graphics performance, by disabling 2D graphics acceleration, and in keeping shadow copies of graphics buffers in RAM. There is some exp

Vista had some horrible graphics performance, by disabling 2D graphics acceleration, and in keeping shadow copies of graphics buffers in RAM. There is some explanation here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2d-windows-gdi,review-31795-7.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2d-windows-gdi,review-31795-7....