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    State of Vista gaming Oct 2008 (vs XP of course)

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by skeezix, Oct 16, 2008.

  1. skeezix

    skeezix Notebook Consultant

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    Like most of us I've hung on with XP, with basicly no reason to move to Vista for my gaming OS.

    I've got 2GB of RAM and an 8800GTX (until it explodes form Nvidea manuf issues of course :)

    Warhammer Online however tends to eat a good 1.3GB or so all by itself, and if you've kept up a good full Firefox or the like a tanother couple hundred MB.. starting to get awfully near the 2GB.

    IIRC, XP can access 2.7GB of RAM if you toss in another stick, so it might be worth doing.

    But I am curious.. what is the current state of Vista gaming? I have heard from a number of sources that the OS tunin gis pretty good, and the drivers are now reasonably under control.. to the point where Vista gaming is now only a couple fps out from the same configuration in XP. ie: that going ot a full 4GB might be worth it.

    (The harder part is a full install of all applications .. thats a big turn off :)

    jeff
     
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    cjcerny Notebook Consultant

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    Vista video drivers are now just as fast as XP. As far as performance in games goes, they are now identical.
     
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  4. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Vista is not as unstable as it once was - it is a very usable OS. I moved to it when it first came out, but abandoned it seven months later since I lost so much productivity due to problems. I then picked it up again with a new laptop, which was a complete failure due to both the machine and Vista, and was on XP for another year until September this year. I am now giving Vista it's third chance and so far, on both of my machines, it has been running stable without any OS-related issues.
     
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  5. skeezix

    skeezix Notebook Consultant

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    Nice, pretty surprising really; I expected with the extra DRM tucked away in the kernel there would always at least by a slight difference, but things seem pretty tight there.

    Hmrf, okay, so I'll have to consider it then. **** ;)

    jeff
     
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    Vista is a problem when you have older hardware
     
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    Soooo... several GB install bigger than XP, requires new hardware, and after over a year finally offers same performance as XP?

    For a gaming machine forget it. Still no significant reason.

    I can see if you only play newer games, and your new PC came with Vista, no problem. But there's no compelling reason to buy Vista.
     
    HTWingNut, Oct 16, 2008
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