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Have Nvidia drivers matured yet for Vista?

(no way near... especially for gaming.. if anything make a dual boot..)

-- o sorry just read the title... ignore me (thought u were talking about vista v xp)
 
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Hey triggerthat, have a read through this article. :)

In my opinion, gamming on Windows Vista is now excellent and is exactly the same as Windows XP. Now I understand that some people are still having a few problems but I believe these are very far and few between these days and I feel that some people tend to over exaggerate things just a tad.

If you will be going ahead purchainsg Windows Vista and unsure on which edition to buy then here is a great graph that compares all of the editions of Windows Vista with one another.

Now you may also be debating over to either buy the 32-bit or the 64-bit edition of Windows Vista. If you have a processor that is capable of handling 64-bit instructions then there is no reason to go for the 32-bit edition. You won't see a massive performance increase going from a 32-bit to a 64-bit operating system as of yet since many programs have been written for 32-bit architectures. However this will be changing in the future because with 64bit being more recognized, more and more programs will be written under 64-bit architectures. When programs are released that are written specifically for 64-bit, you will then start to see a performance increase from 32-bit programs.

As you may already know, you will also be able to address up to 128GB of memory with a 64-bit Operating System depending on the Edition that you purchase as opposed to a 32-bit Operating System which can address up to 4GB of memory natively but is then cut down to around the 3GB mark depending on your hardware.

A lot of people think that the only advantage of a 64-bit Operating System is so that can utilize more than 4GB of memory, this is far from the case.

Now if you are worried about the compatibility side of things with the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, their is really nothing to worry about. The majority of the manufacturers out their have now released 64-bit drivers for their hardware and as regards to software, once again, the majority of software now work perfectly fine under Windows Vista. :)
 
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im running the 169.12's with a 7600GT, all of my games run at the same performance as on XP with some even running a few frames faster :)
 
Well since Vista cant match XP (esp new SP3 gives a 10-25% gain) speeds it be very hard.

But to answer what I think you are really asking, YES the Nvidia team for months have gotten fingers out and gave us drivers, sometime many per month and every new high profile Demo or Game gets a beta driver and there is no real issues with drivers for Vista.

The functiosn for over/underscan etc for CRT TV's is still missing (READ Relase Notes .PDF, info is there is you look).
 
BTW thats 10-15% I made Typo. (also on Beta Team so got both SP's for Vista and XP).

And thats overall OS perfomance not tied to gaming, lots are mad as SP1 does nothing for Performance on Vista and XP get a speed boost by SP3 :).
 
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Nvidia vista64 drivers are excellent, been using them without any problems whatsoever, have been for months and months now.
 
I see, It's that one. :D Thank you Tute. :)

You cannot draw any kind of serious conclusion from that blog which seems to be very biased against Windows Vista along with he's other articles. :)
 
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Its on many sites not 1 URL, XP is faster than Vista period, most know that.

Im on Vista and its slow as a week in the jail to boot (public knowledge).

They use hardware specs that are mostly used by Joe Public not like us in here.

Did you not read last week than 512MB Modules now are the normal instead of 256MB Modules (more sales) that means most are finally using 1GB of Memory not 512MB lol.

We are on 2-4GB here.
 
Hey RavenXXX2, that's fair enough and I am not disputing that I am not a Vista fanboy :p. However, if sites such as Anandtech, Tweaktown and other reliable sources were also reporting very similar performance results as this other blog is then I certainly wouldn't question it. Have you also had a read through this article? :)

Now as for Crysis, are you talking about Windows XP compared to Windows Vista DirectX 10 performance? If you are, then I would agree that playing Crysis within Windows XP is a lot better than it is in Windows Vista in DirectX 10 but I believe this is more due to the hardware needing to catch up as opposed to Windows Vista and DirectX 10 that are directly casuing the problems. Now have you compared the performance of Crysis in Windows XP and Windows Vista DirectX 9? :)

Thank you for your reply as well helmutcheese. :)
 
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The SP3 makes XP faster again (already is) than Vista inc SP1 Beta overall not just gaming, nearly every aspect esp boot times which is a big plus.

Anandtech < puke /ask them for these .dll's they claim MS gave them to fix the 6800u.
 
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Maybe because SLI still isnt great in vista
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That's disappointing. The only reason I can think to move to Vista is if it's SLI performance/stability is better than XP64. For such a flagship feature, you would have thought NVidia would have got their act together by now.

I can't wait for the 9800s to come out so I can shift this SLI waste of time.
 
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