Is Vista going to get faster?

something daft already!! · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:43

I see loads of people complaining that since upgrading to Vista, they have lost X amount of performance over XP. I myself find, that games do run about 10-25% faster in XP.

Then I cast my mind back to why I got my first PC, back in 94 when I saw Doom. I got myself an old (even then) 386 and installed dos and Doom, I was off!
Then I got interested in windows, 3.11 it was. As soon as I ran Doom under this, I lost FPS.
So I bought a cutting edge 486 DX4 100, VLBus, and that good 2d card they had then, I forget which now. The fps went back up again.
Then I was tempted by Windows 95, now I didn't have enought RAM, 8mb was not going to cut it. Had to upgrade again, £90 for 16mb.
Then Windows 98- upgrade again
Then ME, less said about that the better
Then XP, by now I have an athlon 800 and 512 RAM, but its not really cutting the mustard in XP, Better upgrade then. 1800,2800,4000,4200x2

So, is Vista going to get any faster? Yes and no, it will if you can afford it to. I dont expect drivers to give an awful lot more performance than they currently do, if you upgrade your OS, you have to expect some drop in performance, I have seen it with every one so far, why should Vista be any different?

Glaucus · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:45

yes, it's not a problem with vista, it's just the drivers haven't been optimised yet, so with every release vista will close or open up a lead over xp. The new drivers are about 2 frames slower than xp.

And vista itself, is already miles faster than xp.

mrk · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:55

Yup but the game performance drop is very small, I still get 90-100fps max average in CSS for example in widescreen and that's with 8xAF and 4xFSAA

Participant · 21 Jun 2007 at 19:57

Vista was faster for me with the same hardware in normal use so as above I can only say that the video drivers are the reason behind the poor performance. Vista as a gaming piece of software is theoretically excellent.

gareth170 · 21 Jun 2007 at 20:02

vista runs my games the same speed as xp, its all down to the drivers, not vista.

Cyber-Mav · 21 Jun 2007 at 20:58

deffo seen a speed loss in games going to vista but thats probably gfx drivers related. although the last few releases of drivers have shown performance increase in vista so its deffo something thats being worked on.

TheVoice · 21 Jun 2007 at 22:07

XP SP2 saw small performance increases, so it's reasonable to suggest that if MS try, they can get more performance out of Vista as time goes on.

PhillyDee · 22 Jun 2007 at 08:43

I have never noticed any fps drops in vista or performance losses. If you benchmark it, you might see some, but its not exactly real-world performance.