warhead, vista or xp? benchmarks

Limenote · 18 Sep 2008 at 13:57

i know we have a lot of warhead threads at the moment but I just wanted to see if anyone had any benchmarks of thoughts on the differance in performance between vista and XP, is the extra eye candy visible on vista machines? and is there a big performance differance?

thoughts?

uv · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:01

Vista will give you DX10 details, if your machine has the grunt to run the game with max settings..

see here for DX9 vs DX10 Warhead shots:

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...ll_quality_settings/?article_id=660402&page=1

Darkwave · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:05

uvmain said:
DX9 vs DX10 Warhead shots

Am I the only one who thinks they look identical?

Edit: Actually the ice looks a little more natural in the DX10 ice shot, and I can see a bit of shadowing under the canopies on that carrier. I wouldn't say it's anything to write home about though.

Limenote · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:07

yes they do, atleast to me, any know if theres much of a performance differance between the 2 operating systems? i ask because i know the original crysis had a strong XP following, wasnt sure if this was the case with warhead, as of yet anyway

Heatsinked · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:12

I'm sure that less than a week after everyone starts receiving their copy of Crysis Warhead, many benchmarks will appear. Unfortunately, there are no direct Vista / XP comparisons available at present. You can have most DX10 effects in Windows XP anyway, so I doubt I'll install Vista especially for Warhead.

Limenote · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:14

Heatsinked said:
I'm sure that less than a week after everyone starts receiving their copy of Crysis Warhead, many benchmarks will appear. Unfortunately, there are no direct Vista / XP comparisons available. You can have most DX10 effects in Windows XP anyway, so I doubt I'll install Vista especially for Warhead.

yeah your right, just i received my copy this morning and am itching to play it! but ive got a dual boot system so really cant make up my mind which OS to install it on!

Darkwave · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:15

Xink said:
yeah your right, just i received my copy this morning and am itching to play it! but ive got a dual boot system so really cant make up my mind which OS to install it on!

I doubt you'll take a bad performance hit on Vista. I'd just run it on that and try DX9 and DX10 modes.

bledd · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:26

i'll be playing in xp64

my 8800gt can't handle Crysis 1 properly in dx10

Limenote · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:28

yeah my 8800gts didnt do that well with crysis either, think ill just run it under xp then and see how it goes

uv · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:18

I've got warhead pre-ordered on Steam, but I can't say I'm bothered enough about performance to go back to XP just for one game..

If it doesn't run well on my current Vista install, then I'll just turn the settings down

Shep_Cobain · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:27

How do you change to DX9 for use in STEAM?

uv · 18 Sep 2008 at 15:35

Shep_Cobain said:
How do you change to DX9 for use in STEAM?

Do you mean in general, or in Warhead, which isn't released on Steam yet?

If you mean in general, then it's game dependent..

Shep_Cobain · 18 Sep 2008 at 16:15

playing Crysis in steam and when i pick up nades, it doesnt add them to my inventory????