Vista Gaming Performance

Just to update my results:

I had a go at installing the 100.51 drivers using a modded .INF.
(edit: although I could have installed .54 without a modded inf I now see)

The results:

Lost Coast, 4xAA 16xAF: 55.76 This is wrong, see edit below, actual result: 86.76
No AA, Bilinear: 138.98

TMU, 4xAA, 16xAF, 52.7
No AA, Bilinear: 67

improvement all round on the results that I posted above. The most impressive improvement (though perhaps not the best, I haven't worked out the percentages..) in Lost Coast, no AA / AF, which is less than 1fps lower than the windows xp result (while I was a little disappointed in comparison with the AA / AF result). Both of the AA/AF results increased by exactly 7fps... interesting eh...

Can the people who say they have no drop in performance tell us what card / driver they are actually using, as we all know that the ATI drivers are currently much better than the nVidia ones.. :)

I don't think anyone was really complaining Tute, just stating facts; performance is poor in comparison to XP for a lot of us. :)

Edit: I just ran the Lost coast 4xAA, 16xAF test again, with a restart of the game after enabling it. This time I got 86.03, which is much better, relatively. Unfortunately I'm apparently not very good at fair tests because I turned off real time spyware protection in windows defender between runs. I'll try again..
Final edit: Funny enough I turned it back on and got 86.76. Slightly higher.


my above post for reference:

Lost Coast:
all settings on 'high'
---XP
4xAA, 16xAF: 105.39
NO AA, Bilinear: 139.8
---Vista
4xAA, 16xAF: 48.76
NO AA, Bilinear: 97.46

TMU:
all on 'high', postprocess fx, lightmaps, force bloom ticked
---XP
4xAA, 16xAF: 60.1
NO AA, Bilinear: 81.1
---Vista
4xAA, 16xAF: 45.7
NO AA, Bilinear: 54.9
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Jabbs said:
2142 runs like a dog on vista too, personally i think vista will be ready as a gaming platform in maybe 6 months, its just not upto the job atm and its ram hungry which can't help gaming.
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I wouldn't diss Vistas ram usage. It will ALWAYS want more when running Aero. But it unloads this when you run a game. The OS is geared towards 3D graphics - at least moreso than XP. Give it a couple of months and I'm sure it will be at least on a par with XP. Patience is the key.

If you have a spare HD, hold on to your XP install for gaming for the time being. Thats my plan - no worries :)
 
Well I cant be botherd to post lots of fps stats etc sorry.

but its vista ultimate 64bit X1950xtx with latest Ati Driver from ati.com :)

Even supreme commander runs perfect.
 
Sleepery said:
Runs just as well for me on vista as it did on XP :confused:
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My bad for some reason my ram had set voltage to normal and this was why games were running like crap, put xp on and had the same issues.
 
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