Windows 7 and Gaming

Farore · 27 Sep 2009 at 00:01

I'm wondering if there's any info about this floating around?

Would it be worth while upgrading for the sole purpose of a gaming machine?

Ragards,
Farore

D D Danneh · 27 Sep 2009 at 02:19

More information needed? Are you coming from Vista, or XP? Are you suffering poor performance? Do you need DX10/11?

Personally, apart from DirectX, it isn't worth upgrading purely for gaming purposes, as you will not see an increase in fps, especially not from Vista.

If your sole reason to upgrade is for more fps, save the money for graphics cards.

derkaderka · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:14

Depends on which games you are playing , I know that for example
DCS Black shark will run better on Vista / windows 7 than Xp <- this is the exception to the rule mind you.

Exact same system specs: 3d mark 06
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit: 19631
Windows Xp Sp3: 20453
All test done under Nvidia driver version 186.18

What did suprise me was that the cpu figure was:
5604 under win 7
6291 under xp
I am assuming this is from the penalty of running 32bit code on a 64bit OS?

Supertaff · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:16

Win 7 is fine for gaming. I use it for playing with many of the latest games. But you will not see any benefit from using Win 7 over an XP or vista install until we see some DX11 games. So not worth changing your OS solely fir gaming yet. But if your starting afresh and looking for an OS then it won't cause you any problems

Taff

Spyke_UK · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:21

Deff depends on the games you play, Arma2? you WILL see an increase in FPS in win7 over Vista.

derkaderka · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:43

Spyke_UK said:
Deff depends on the games you play, Arma2? you WILL see an increase in FPS in win7 over Vista.

Hardly suprising with less bloat in win 7 than Vista

I wonder if Arma2 runs better on win 7 than Xp ?

Elevon · 27 Sep 2009 at 13:27

Spyke_UK said:
Deff depends on the games you play, Arma2? you WILL see an increase in FPS in win7 over Vista.

Benchmarks here show its a close fight with a lot of games ,http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/windows_7_gaming/default.asp ,XP has the edge with Arma 2,Vista/Win7 are even.

roid · 27 Sep 2009 at 13:31

Surely the trade off between able to access more RAM from the 64 bit win7 outweighs everything!

derkaderka · 27 Sep 2009 at 14:01

roid said:
Surely the trade off between able to access more RAM from the 64 bit win7 outweighs everything!

Consider that most games are 32 bit , so they will only use 2G of ram as a max
Of course unless you are going to run photoshop or other apps in the background while gaming at the same time

Farore · 27 Sep 2009 at 15:30

I'm currently using Windows Vista. I play a very wide variety of games.
Glad to hear that it wont cause any problems if I'm looking to start afresh with this new OS.

Rather nervous about it.