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    Windows 7 Beta Gaming Performance: XP vs Vista vs 7

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by goke313, Jan 26, 2009.

  1. goke313

    goke313 Notebook Evangelist

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    goke313, Jan 26, 2009
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  2. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Pretty interesting results, but XP still surpasses both in some tests , which is not surprising at all.
    For a Beta though, W7 is really good.
     
    eleron911, Jan 26, 2009
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  3. Rebellion

    Rebellion Notebook Geek

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    Yeah so far I am finding for gaming, that Win 7 and XP are on par. And Vista lags a bit behind, but not by much.

    But you take a nicely ladden down mature XP installation. (you know what I am talking about) And Win 7 does in my tests beat it, now for the real test is to get a nicely ladden down mature Win 7 installation and see if there is a difference.

    Win 7 is definately making a good impression me. Though there are quite a few bugs to work out. 10 bug reports already and thats just for IE 8, and SQL problems.
     
    Rebellion, Jan 26, 2009
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    superrey19 Notebook Enthusiast

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    yeah I'v heard that IE 8 is terribly buggy even though its been in beta since last year, so i wouldn't blame Win 7.
     
    superrey19, Jan 26, 2009
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  5. dmacfour

    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    Looks impressive so far... I hope that driver support is good this time around.
     
    dmacfour, Jan 27, 2009
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