RE: Windows Vista & Games

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In the massive vista thread I mentioned that Oblivion was running slowly on Vista. I had done an upgrade, and was complaining generally about the slowness of Vista compared to XP. But it was really late. I have installed a fresh install and Vista is now running faster than XP.

However Oblivion still runs slowly. Reading on the microsoft.windows.vista.games newsgroup iit appears I am not the only one to have this problem with oblivion.

"The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion - Version 1.1 (Performance is poor compared to
how it ran under Windows XP)" - Mike Gillingham

"Elder Scrolls 4 keeps crashing on me... can't get more than 2 minutes into
playing before it dies. Worked 100% on XP. Any ideas on how to make it
better?" - Bscoug.

Perhaps it is a compatability problem. I think a patch will solve. I havent tried any other games as yet, but I will post back on here when I do. Has anyone tried any games and come accross any issues?
 
1) hl2 runs fine
2) gta:sa runs fine
3) pro evo 5 runs but is a bit choppy at higher resolutions. turning it down a notch makes it a bit better. rather strange as pes5 is the least graphically demanding of these games. i also get no sound whatsoever. go figure..... :p and lastly vsync applied in the catalyst control center does not appear to be enforced.

that's all i've tried so far. :)
 
Gandalf501 said:
In the massive vista thread I mentioned that Oblivion was running slowly on Vista. I had done an upgrade, and was complaining generally about the slowness of Vista compared to XP. But it was really late. I have installed a fresh install and Vista is now running faster than XP.

However Oblivion still runs slowly. Reading on the microsoft.windows.vista.games newsgroup iit appears I am not the only one to have this problem with oblivion.

"The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion - Version 1.1 (Performance is poor compared to
how it ran under Windows XP)" - Mike Gillingham

"Elder Scrolls 4 keeps crashing on me... can't get more than 2 minutes into
playing before it dies. Worked 100% on XP. Any ideas on how to make it
better?" - Bscoug.

Perhaps it is a compatability problem. I think a patch will solve. I havent tried any other games as yet, but I will post back on here when I do. Has anyone tried any games and come accross any issues?

I would imagine its to do with compatiblity. The drivers arn't designed at the moment for performance and so there will be certain sluggishness on new games I reckon... Oblivion runs ok on x64 vista, but it may be because I have 3GB of ram to use..
 
Remember it's only beta 2. Obviously you know that :p

But what i'm saying is games can't have 100% compatibility with a test OS. More than likely when Vista is released in 2007, the game companies experiencing problems under the new vista OS will release updates fixing various problems.
 
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