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    Gaming XP vs Vista

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by frostbit3, Dec 19, 2007.

  1. frostbit3

    frostbit3 Notebook Evangelist

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    I got my Vostro 1500 with Vista from Dell, after using Vista I hated it,n but gaming ran really well with Vista. In CS:S I could play max res. and get 60 FPS easily. In XP I turn alot of the settings down, and I barely get 30 FPS. I have tried different drivers from laptopvideo2go.com but so far I have had no luck. Any suggestions?
     
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    I've experienced the same type of thing with Guitar Hero III. It runs fine in Vista, but stutters and lags in XP. I even had the same NVIDIA drivers on both OSes and yet Vista still outperformed. Unexpected, but nice to see that Vista *might* actually be growing up.
     
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  3. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    See if there's a patch for your favorite game to make it work better with Vista. I'd say that Vista is worth keeping now, since it's soon going to be DX10.1 under the upcoming SP1.
     
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    Finding good XP drivers for Vista-designed laptops is a pain but i still like XP better than Vista.

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    GrandAdmiral, Dec 19, 2007
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  5. frostbit3

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    Does anyone know the best drivers to use with XP? I know the ones from laptopvideo2go, but what version?
     
    frostbit3, Dec 20, 2007
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    Dude , dont use laptopvideo2go drivers. They suck so bad.


    Get the newest dell driver and you will easily get around 120 fps with everything on max.
     
    chrusti, Dec 20, 2007
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    Can't say I share your view here. I get 5,500 3DMark06 points on the Dell drivers and over 8,000 on the laptopvideo2go drivers. But one thing I've learnet over the past 20 years of programming is that 2 identical computers can on the odd occasion give different results running the same script. ;)
     
    MrBubbles, Dec 20, 2007
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  8. chrusti

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    20 years? lol I got just 1 semester ^_^
     
    chrusti, Dec 20, 2007
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