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    Gaming difference between Vista and XP

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by kozzney, Dec 7, 2007.

  1. kozzney

    kozzney Notebook Evangelist

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    So I have a dual boot, Vista Home Premium and XP Pro, and have Guitar Hero III installed on both. I have the NVIDIA 8400M GS card in my XPS M1330 laptop, with 169.04 drivers on both Vista and XP; however, the game runs a heck of a lot better in Vista than it does in XP. Am I crazy or is that not something one would expect? I thought that running it in XP would give me a huge performance boost since Vista has problems, does anyone know why it doesn't? Are there some settings that I am missing in XP? Thanks
     
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  2. sly

    sly m1530 owner!!!

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    with vista its a hit or miss. just be happy u arnt experiencing any problems
     
    sly, Dec 7, 2007
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    oresteez Notebook Consultant

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    maybe your Vista is just awesome :) hehehehe

    and since you brought up guitar hero, i heard you can play guitar with any song you want? is that true? how does that work, lol..i only have it for ps2
     
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  4. kozzney

    kozzney Notebook Evangelist

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    Not sure yet... but I'm sure that someone has figured out how to get custom songs on the PC :rolleyes:
     
    kozzney, Dec 7, 2007
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    Do you have the latest drivers installed on both partitions?
     
    odin243, Dec 7, 2007
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    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    "huge performance boost" is only on Oblivion and/or 1GB of RAM AFAIK

    The rest is about 0-10FPS difference.
     
    JCMS, Dec 7, 2007
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