Recent Vista gaming performance articles...

FrenchTart · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:20

Are there any around?

The RTM version of Vista seems to perform reasonably well in games but I'd like to see some hard numbers. Most reviews/articles I see seem to be looking at old drivers and old RCs.

Thanks in advance

Sleepery · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:05

There have been a few threads on it in here, as the retail versions are available to companies with technet plus subscriptions or select agreements with MS.

I have ultimate 64bit running on 2 pc's at home, and haven't noticed any drop. If there is, it's only a few fps. Main problem at the moment is with unfinished graphics drivers - have one ati and one nvidia card, and having problems with both.

nands · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:14

Toms Hardware have exactly what you are looking for.

Noxis · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:25

nands said:
Toms Hardware have exactly what you are looking for.

Apart from the fact that its Tomshardware and they are a bunch of retards you cant trust.

FrenchTart · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:31

Unfortunately, I share that view /re THG.

I have a friend running RTM on his 7900GT but I'm on an x1950xtx so his experience (which is very good actually...esp compared to the RCs I saw him running) might not reflect mine.

The stuff I have seen seems to show that most of the games I don't play are fine and the ones I do aren't. Perfect

Once again though, those are old drivers and old Vista versions so I know it's improved - FEAR actually has textures, for instance..

Noxis · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:32

Having read that THG article its utter tosh. Totally not matching what 80% of the forum readers from here have experienced, especially now there are G80 drivers leaked.

Sleepery · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:33

The nvidia drivers are actually pretty good now, but ATI are still running with the 13th December ones, which don't even have opengl support :mad:

FrenchTart · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:36

I was considering going to 8800 actually. I can probably get near to what I paid for the xtx so it's quite tempting to get a GTS.

Noxis · 18 Jan 2007 at 11:55

Aekeron said:
I was considering going to 8800 actually. I can probably get near to what I paid for the xtx so it's quite tempting to get a GTS.

Well currently the nvnews forums and OCUK gfx card forums point to same or better performance than XP when using a 8800 and the new drivers which are rumoured to be only Alpha's.

Hamoodii · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:01

www.xbitlabs.com have a good one

FrenchTart · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:20

Hmm..I'm prob being blind but I can't see it

Dureth · 18 Jan 2007 at 13:53

Xbitlabs vista review here:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/vista-performance-preview.html

Edit: The test was only done with the beta 2 release not the RTM.

BloodWolf · 18 Jan 2007 at 14:03

nands said:
Toms Hardware have exactly what you are looking for.

Seems best thing to do is give it a few months before buying vista. :confused:

FrenchTart · 18 Jan 2007 at 14:11

Thanks for the link

Shame that it's RC2 though...

Fair point about buying vista. I will have to upgrade eventually and to be honest, I have enough student friends to be able to play with it (legally) for free.

I'll prob end up reverting to XP after a week or so as I reinstall very frequently and tend to like to turn off all eye candy (though I do like aero)

Zogger · 18 Jan 2007 at 15:19

I just installed vista and aero is very nice. I didn't think I'd be that impressed, but wow. Very smooth here.

The default sidebar thing which shows a mini slideshow is amusingly pointless.

Not tried any games yet so we'll have to see what happens.

UAC is also rather annoying. I had to click confirm about 6 times just to extract CoreTemp to a folder. Will be turning that off I think

Zogger · 18 Jan 2007 at 16:20

ok I just played HL2. As in the TH article, turning on AA makes a huge impact. Was running at about 160fps without AA on. Turned it up to 4x and it went down to 40-50fps. It could handle AA like that really easily in XP. I would imagine it won't be too long before the drivers improve though.

Memphis · 18 Jan 2007 at 17:00

BloodWolf said:
Seems best thing to do is give it a few months before buying vista.

Funny that.

HangTime · 18 Jan 2007 at 21:38

Sadly due to the age of the xbitlabs article, and the questionable ethics of THB, I still don't really have much in the way of concrete evidence either way.

Still, with Vista hitting retail in a couple of weeks it shouldn't be long before FS or Anand get some numbers up I would imagine. I'm still a bit sceptical about how good opengl drivers will be (especially from ATI) but I'll keep an open mind until things become clearer.

Bottom line, unless Vista gives the same or better performance in both D3D and OGL, I won't be upgrading in the near future.

Noxis · 18 Jan 2007 at 22:05

What is being forgotten is the official launch for Vista has not yet happened. NVidia have not released their full drivers yet and I expect performance will exceed XP pretty early on.

Vista is far more mature at launch than any other previous MS operating system, things are due to get far far better.

Sleepery · 18 Jan 2007 at 22:16

While I love vista and think it has a lot of cool features, if I didn't get it from work for free there's no way I'd be shelving out for it. I can't afford a DX10 card for the forseeable future anwyay, and that's really the only new thing it brings to gaming.