Vista vs 7 for gaming!

Steveo1982 · 25 Jan 2010 at 08:44

Hi guys,

Just wondering would there be much of a benefit going from vista ultimate 64 bit to windows 7 ultimate when it comes to gaming ?

Reason I ask is I have a lot of games that just refuse to work properly on vista and dont want to change the os if this will not make a lot of difference.

Cheers
Steve

DampCat · 25 Jan 2010 at 08:53

I didnt have any problems switching to 7. Everythin worked fine.

That said, everything works fine on Vista and it certainly didn't "enhance" my gaming in any way.

'Wes · 25 Jan 2010 at 08:55

I would say so OP.

johnno93 · 25 Jan 2010 at 09:00

Seem the same to me for gaming.

Moredhel · 25 Jan 2010 at 09:02

Out of interest, what games are you having issues with? Even my old stuff (albeit not the 16 bit stuff) runs fine.

DampCat · 25 Jan 2010 at 09:43

Also just noticed that you're after 7 Ultimate.

I really don't think it's worth the money for Ultimate if all you're interested in it Gaming. It's features are completely unessecary for regular folk to be honest. Even Pro is arguably unneeded. Home Premium is fine for 90% of Gamers.

Steveo1982 · 25 Jan 2010 at 11:08

Mass effect freezes when trying to load, Sound cuts out on most older games like max payne 1 and 2.

Everything else seems to be ok but anything steam related thats not source powered is a pain at times!

Swi1ch · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:18

DampCat said:
Also just noticed that you're after 7 Ultimate.

I really don't think it's worth the money for Ultimate if all you're interested in it Gaming. It's features are completely unessecary for regular folk to be honest. Even Pro is arguably unneeded. Home Premium is fine for 90% of Gamers.

Unless you can get the student price of £50.

ic1male · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:19

Swi1ch said:
Unless you can get the student price of £50.

Even so, doesn't the Ultimate edition just have precious resources taken up by things you'd never use? (i.e. bloatware)

DampCat · 25 Jan 2010 at 12:43

Swi1ch said:
Unless you can get the student price of £50.

I'll hazard a guess that he's the best part of 27 so likely no longer a student.

Steveo1982 · 25 Jan 2010 at 14:04

DampCat said:
I'll hazard a guess that he's the best part of 27 so likely no longer a student.

Im not but my brother is so could go down that route. How would I go about getting it at that price ?

I also get issues with GTA 4 not starting correctly due to some stupid service pack 3 / .net error.

RizlaKing · 25 Jan 2010 at 14:34

I have vista 64 ultimate and tried win7 and wasn't overly impressed enough to bother keeping it so went back to vista. Made zero difference in terms of performance in games and i had a few niggling issues with games on 7 so as far as i am concerned if you have ultimate vista 64 no point in 7 unless you really cannot do without some of the features it has.

Frenzy · 25 Jan 2010 at 14:35

I went from ultimate 64 to win 7. Win7 feels more responsive, crashes less and is generally easier to use. Id upgrade

toon_mad · 25 Jan 2010 at 15:26

johnno93 said:
Seem the same to me for gaming.

same here, infact i notice slight improvement over win7, but maybe thats just me

mark_t50 · 25 Jan 2010 at 15:40

When I got Vista I didn't trust it, so built my system dual boot XP+Vista x64. For the 2 years I was running Vista I would say that I spent 95% of my time booting into XP to play games because of various issues with Vista. Although it did get a little better post SP2.

I've been running dual boot XP + Win 7 x64 for some 6 months (Still running the RC), I built it dual boot because once again I didn't trust Win 7. I've never had to boot into XP since the day I installed the OS's. The experience for playing games is far better on Windows 7 than I ever got from Vista.

Evilsod · 25 Jan 2010 at 16:32

mark_t50 said:
When I got Vista I didn't trust it, so built my system dual boot XP+Vista x64. For the 2 years I was running Vista I would say that I spent 95% of my time booting into XP to play games because of various issues with Vista. Although it did get a little better post SP2.

Lucky for some, my time spent with Vista 32, i never managed to get SP1 to install, so i was stuck. It would always fail and waste about 30 minutes so in the end i gave up trying to figure out what was wrong...

Bane · 25 Jan 2010 at 20:50

Steveo1982 said:
Mass effect freezes when trying to load, Sound cuts out on most older games like max payne 1 and 2.

Everything else seems to be ok but anything steam related thats not source powered is a pain at times!

You mean you can't start Mass Effect, or it only freezes when loading a save game? If the former you need a patch, same as Windows 7.

Steveo1982 · 26 Jan 2010 at 08:48

Bane said:
You mean you can't start Mass Effect, or it only freezes when loading a save game? If the former you need a patch, same as Windows 7.

Its the steam version of mass effect. I double click to run the game from the steam menu. This gives the mass effect splash screen but it then hangs and I have to close this through ctrl alt del.

Is there a way to manually patch steam games ? If so what patch would i need ?

ic1male · 26 Jan 2010 at 09:24

You need to run the game as Administrator.

Sleepery · 26 Jan 2010 at 10:18

Steveo1982 said:
Its the steam version of mass effect. I double click to run the game from the steam menu. This gives the mass effect splash screen but it then hangs and I have to close this through ctrl alt del.

Is there a way to manually patch steam games ? If so what patch would i need ?

Mass Effect runs fine for me with Win7 64, this is the steam version. Driver or sound issue?