Crysis on XP over Vista. Wow.

I will re-install Vista at the weekend. Perhaps its just that its been running for months and had all sorts of stuff installed thats causing the difference.

I can't remember the last time I installed Vista though it may be as far back as Jan.

Hopefully performance will be closer then.
 
Shame.. did you try a new account first. On XP somtimes that resulted in much better performance as I'd screw one up lol.

Matthew
 
XP is faster than Vista for every single game I have, except Stalker. For some reason Stalker is faster on Vista but for every other game XP is faster.

Considering how long Vista has been out (not to mention the DX10 joke) I am very disappointed with Vista.
 
ffallic said:
I know network copying is still slow.
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Have you tried turing differential compression off? I heard that can cause slow transfers in Vista. With that off on my laptop and my main PC, I constantly max out my LAN at home moving files! :)
 
I can't run Oblivion under Vista without it crashing every 5 minutes, even in XP SP2 compatability mode. On XP it runs smooth as silk of course.
 
Well I'm certainly not up to date with all the latest developments in operating systems over the past few years. To be honest with you, they perform a function for me and that's about that. This being said, I'd have thought that going on Microsoft's many years in the field and it's historical knowledge of things past, that no matter what system you're on, any game should run more smoothly on anyone's pc with a more modern OS.

With all the resources at Microsoft's disposal I'd hate to bee seen as cynical and living in a dream world...
 
Not really. XP was designed 8 years ago to run on 8 year old hardware at an acceptable speed so on current hardware of course it's likely to run quickly. Can you imagine how fast a current PC would be running Windows 95 or DOS 6.22?

If all you want is speed and small a footprint as possible then a new OS is unlikely to be the way to go, the same is true for Apple and Open Source generaly. If you want additional security and features, whatever they may be from an OS, with a hopefully relatively small drop in speed then the newer OS is the way forward.

It really just depends on what you want.
 
I was playing this game on max settings that xp allows and it run smooth all the way through ,I mentioned it on hear when it first came out and all the vista boys were calling me a liar :rolleyes:
 
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Vista x64 set to dx9 vs xp dx9 was exactly the same in crysis for me. Maybe slightly better loading times in Vista due to it addressing my full allocation of ram.
 
martin9887 said:
If it's Crysis you can just add -DX9 to the target on the shortcut, or r_driver=dx9 into a system.cfg. If you don't see the setting in game browser or simply don't use it, like me :).
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I don't have Crysis. :o

I was referring more to UT3, had a bash on it this morning and I don't find the frame rate as fluid as it was under XP x64 - I assume this is due to Dx10.

I don't know how to put it back to Dx9 mode though.
 
vista was a long way off from xp but sp1 has made a world off difference for vista...i still choose to game in xp though as it has the edge in responsiveness aswell as higher fps in some games.

ive not tried vista64 so maybe thats more responsive than xp with the extra ram it can support.

i will have to give it a go sometime, especially with prices of memory so low.
 
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