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

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..

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.

FrenchTart · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:20

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

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)

FrenchTart · 19 Jan 2007 at 09:22

I steered clear of XP until way after SP1 and that's generally the way I do things with OSes...However, the UI is sadly winning me over. Can't believe something like that can win me over but...heyho

By the time I decide either way I'm sure Vista will be the OS of choice anyhow. Sometime in 2009