IS VISTA up to scratch yet for games?

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Could someone tell me if its worth upgrading to VISTA yet. I have the 64 verrsion on ultimate but have stuck with XP at the moment.

I just dont want to swap all my games over and find out it isnt running properly yet.

thanks
 
Ive never had any problems with Vista and gaming. As long as there are drivers for your hardware, i dont see a problem. Everything I have has drivers and it all works fine. Dual boot with your Vista x64 and get a feel for it. Then at least you can just go back to XP when you want to.
 
Vista has nothing over XP except more instability and feature you wont use after two days, it s a bloated system hog, stick with XP.
 
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RavenUK said:
Vista has nothing over XP except more instability and feature you wont use after two days, it s a bloated system hog, stick with XP.
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Really my vista has been far more stable than xp was, plus more of my old games and thingss work without random crashes and driver conflicts now :)
 
i've had no problems (touch wood) with vista 64 and games. it's a new system so i've not tried everything, but i've installed and played Company of Heroes (although the dx10 patch actually makes performance worse), ETQW demo, World in Conflict demo, Civ 4 BTS, Supreme Commander and i think that's it.
 
Running Vista x64 and not experienced any real problems. I've had a few crashes with TF2, although this seems to be a driver issue. Agree with above that vista has been a lot more stable and responsive than xp for me too.
 
I really don't understand what people are complaing about with Vista, my install has been far more stable than my XP install ever was.

I've got Supreme Commander and COH running perfectly at the minute, but I do get a performance hit in 64-bit HL2 :(
 
RavenUK said:
Vista has nothing over XP except more instability and feature you wont use after two days, it s a bloated system hog, stick with XP.
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I disagree. Not found it to be unstable, I use a number of the new features (like the improved search facility), live the interface, and it's not a system hog at all.

As for gaming, this article shows quite well that the performance gap between XP and Vista in games has closed dramatically:
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_nvidia_windows_vista_driver_performance_update/
 
My only issue with vista instability is that sometimes (actually fairly often) when I open explorer and click through directories too fast it randomly crashes.. which is annoying. I don't know of anyone else with this problem though - anyone have any ideas what it might be? Might do a defrag later.. not sure what the disk is like atm.

Otherwise it's good, and in terms of features my favourite atm is the ability to filter and stack your files in explorer - i.e. you can say view only jpegs that were created yesterday, or stack by date so you can quickly see what jpegs (or any filetypes) were created on which days. <-- This is very useful in trying to find one screenshot out of the masses of TF2 screenshots, and then find only the JPEGs so I can quickly pick out which ones I've converted ready to upload. Other than that start menu search, games browser, snipping tool are all things I use on an almost daily basis.
 
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