Will using Vista put a damper on your gaming addiction? Using the Beta 2 this past summer, we saw rather large performance decreases. Now that Vista is finally out, have things been improved?
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Thanks for the article I have been looking for a VISTA/XP game comparison for a few weeks now.
My results are allot different then yours using the same drivers and version of VISTA as you, however my system setup is allot different and I was using in game HL2 Source’s video stress test.
Using lower settings in HL2 my end score on average was about 40FPS lower on the VISTA machine. Plus in game I also noticed that hitching that you are referring to, it was odd in that my FPS was around 60 but the screen would hitch like there was lag of some type, this however did NOT happen in XP. In XP I was able to use the MAX settings @ 1600X1200 and as I said above scored 40FPS higher. NVIDIA, MS or both need to do allot more tweaking if MS expect me to shell out 300+ dollars for DX10 and getting such horrible results.
I also wanted to point out that VISTA does crash more often then XP however its recovery system is like NTFS was to FAT 32, basically VISTA closes the app and it doesn’t affect what you were doing in VISTA it reminds me of OS-X and the way it handles applications. Also suing VISTA I had not had to reboot once installing any updates or AV software.
My setup,
*AMD64 FX 60 @ 2.9GHZ (Liquid Cooled)
*ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe
*1Gx2 CORSAIR TWINX2048-4000
*BFG 7900 GTX OC
WD Raptor 120GB 10Krpm