Crysis on XP over Vista. Wow.

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So I borked my Vista install yesterday when messing around, which is something I was going to stop doing. Anyway, figured I would take the opportunity to re-install XP seeing as I have been using Vista over a year now, I think, and was curious to see how it now compared to Vista for gaming.

After finally getting everything installed, the only game I had time to install was Crysis. That was the game I was most curious about anyway.

There is a massive difference. On Vista, to get it playable at the same level it was running alst night (1680x1050, everything high, DX9) I have to OC my CPU to 3.8GHz, and OC the 4870 to 790/1100. On XP with everything on stock, it was smooth as silk and don't think it dropped under 30 fps int he time I was going through it, and was usually hanging around 40 fps.

I was under the impression that Vista and XP were now on an equal footing gaming wise, but obviously not.

Now I don't know whether to keep running XP, or to re-install Vista. I do prefer the look and feel of Vista, but I can't help but wonder how much slower it is on other things still - I know network copying is still slow.

It might only be this one game that shows any real benefits using XP, but still I do like to play through the jungle scenes of the game, but get really annoyed at the dodgy performance under Vista, which then tempts me to start playing with OCing, or I just leave the game, which is silly after having paid good money for it.

Anyone else done a recent compare of XP/Vista, and did you notice a fair difference between the two for gaming? I only ask because, as I said, I thought the performance of the two was on par, so perhaps there was just something wrong with my Vista install.
 
a lot of people say that vista performs identically/better in games, as far as I'm concerned it simply isn't true. I use Vista x64 as I'm not that bothered by the relatively small performance drop, but XP is definately quicker.
 
Yeah, but like I said, its not a small performance drop in this case. In Vista have to OC CPU and GPU a fair bit to get similar performance at same settings.
 
I've noticed this as well, Crysis runs a lot smoother on my [email protected] and 8800GT. Bioshock too would also slow down <25fps in Vista, even in DX9 mode, smooth as silk in XP.

I game now in XP but prefer Vista for everything else. I'm hoping that MS really nails down the gaming performance for Windows 7 when its released. XP gaming performance and Vista look and feel/security would be a winner IMO.
 
Pretty much identical performance for me, must have been something with your Vista install that was bad.

Either that or your PC really needed a wipe which could explain the boost in performance.
 
Crysis works better on 64bit vista than 32bit, i noticed that when i had it installed on both partitions.

Its also a damn site faster on a stock q6600 than a E6750, and its a completely different case again with a 4850 strapped on it.
 
Problem is whether XP is faster or not on certain games is somewhat academic. Looking forward games will end up being optimised for Vista, and DX10+ is Vista only so....
 
one game i found to suffer in vista was Company of Heroes

(not tested on my new quad core) but this was certainly the case when COH was first out
 
I can't tell the difference on mine. On the Crysis timedemo with all High it gets 42fps average on Vista and 42.3fps average on XP.

I think it's because people often enable DX10 when they shouldn't.
 
im running crysis fine on vista all high settings getting an nice 30 - 40 fps on DX10. Some times the frame rate does drop to 20 but thats only when a lot of things are going on, otherwise its great.
 
Are you running the 64-bit version of Crysis in Vista? (not 64bit Vista, 64 bit Crysis exe).

Anyway, what's the issue? Just dual boot ffallic

Matthew
 
I can't tell the difference on mine. On the Crysis timedemo with all High it gets 42fps average on Vista and 42.3fps average on XP.

I think it's because people often enable DX10 when they shouldn't.

As I stated, its even when running DX9 mode. There is virtually no diff between DX9 and DX10 performance for Crysis that I can see.

I will run some time demos tonight as I have my Vista results, and I am sure there won't be much difference, but doens't mean there won't be when actually playing the game.

maybe a memory issue vista needs more than xp

As in my sig, I have 4GB

Are you running the 64-bit version of Crysis in Vista? (not 64bit Vista, 64 bit Crysis exe).

Anyway, what's the issue? Just dual boot ffallic

Matthew

64 bit.

I simply don't want to dual boot. I might, but still don't want to :(
 
once you get over the 'wow' i get xxx fps in Crysis and realise the game is basically pants after level 4 it doesnt matter what operating system you have installed. Im running Vista 64 Ultimate now and i have no trouble running any game although Xp is still great i wouldnt go back.
 
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