Vista performance scoring

Damien. · 8 Oct 2007 at 15:34

Whats the highest score you can get ?

Fothsn · 8 Oct 2007 at 15:43

5.9 Is the max, there are some hacks to go higher than that.

point decay · 8 Oct 2007 at 15:47

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=86

Damien. · 8 Oct 2007 at 15:49

Thanks, im new to vista and wasnt sure how it worked.

stickroad · 8 Oct 2007 at 15:54

Damien. said:
Thanks, im new to vista and wasnt sure how it worked.

Its a load of crap thats what it is. Ignore it, do not base how good your system is on that stupid score thingy.

Jimmy1983 · 8 Oct 2007 at 15:54

It's pants

PhillyDee · 8 Oct 2007 at 16:09

Why is it pants exactly? Its obvious why they have implemented it. If you look on the back of any software it tells you the system requirements. If you are not very experienced in PC's then how do you know if yours will support it? Its much easier for people to go into the shop and look for the sticker which tells you that your pc needs to be a 4.0 than to know what graphics card it has, how much ram etc. (Bear in mind, most people do not know what their pc innards even look like).

Its a good idea . . but does it actually work?

/rant

Jimmy1983 · 8 Oct 2007 at 16:10

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17786598

A few people have noted problems with it

stickroad · 8 Oct 2007 at 16:12

PhillyDee said:
Why is it pants exactly? Its obvious why they have implemented it. If you look on the back of any software it tells you the system requirements. If you are not very experienced in PC's then how do you know if yours will support it? Its much easier for people to go into the shop and look for the sticker which tells you that your pc needs to be a 4.0 than to know what graphics card it has, how much ram etc. (Bear in mind, most people do not know what their pc innards even look like).

Its a good idea . . but does it actually work?

/rant

Becuase a couple of friends of mine have the exact same system as mine and we all get different scores and plus their have also been quite a few people on here reporting tottaly different scores with having similar systems.

Damien. · 8 Oct 2007 at 16:50

I think the way it scores your machine and scores the game is good, as long as it works correctly. Ive managed to get 5.9 on everything bar my HDD resulting in a score of 5.5. I think thats respectable considering, as long as its accurate.

Skully · 8 Oct 2007 at 17:01

My computer gets 4.0 o_O.

Nearly two years old now as well, thought that was a low score, but 5.9 being the highest doesn't make it sound too bad!

PsiFox · 8 Oct 2007 at 17:18

It is all a load of E-Penis.

stickroad · 8 Oct 2007 at 17:23

PsiFox said:
It is all a load of E-Penis.

Indded. If your that bothered just manually change it to 9.9.

mattyrigby00 · 8 Oct 2007 at 17:43

all its good for is so people who dont know much about pc's can "know what will run", and so places like the "purple shirt store" can say things like "buy this top of the range pc, it has 5.0/5.9 experience rating, only £2000!", the score means nothing.

something daft already!! · 8 Oct 2007 at 19:46

WIE is wee, you may have a monster processor, ram and GPU but only get a score of 2 for your hard drive. For e-falus, 3d mark06 is the geeks choice as this does actually give you a score for how the PC performs for games. Well sort of. The best way is to actually know what you are buying and have spec wise. Look at games with minimum spec well below yours.