XP = more fps?

Ive been hearing alot about how Vista just craps on games nowadays and how it somewhat reduces system performance. So im wondering if XP professional will give a significant increase on gaming performance (more fps etc..)

 

5-7 FPS is the common difference. But Vista isn't "crappy" at gaming, it's just not as good as XP.

 

Expect around a 15% drop in frames per second going from XP to Vista.

That seems like a lot, though when you consider a game running at 60 FPS in XP runs a whole (sarcastic) 9 FPS slower in Vista...it really doesn't seem like it matters that much.

The newer and faster your hardware, the more minute the difference.

 

Vista sucked in the early days....does it still? I don't think so.
There have been big improvements in drivers since most of the 'Vista sucks' tests were done, SP1 makes a good difference (i have a link somewhere). Most new cards are DX10, so nvidia are definitely going to be spending more resources on Vista drivers compared to XP.

I'd like to see some brand new comparisons done (with SP1 and recent drivers etc), but I don't think Vista sucks for gaming as much as some people think.

 

Lol thats alot, that means in Crysis, running on an XP i could run it on medium ...kinda

 

it seems liek vista was faster for me, rather than xp
excepcially for COD4 and TF2

i dunno

 

can u pm the link to me

 

See, vista is made for newer systems, not for old ones. So if you have old sutff, games will run horribly. I find very little FPS difference for me personally.

 

Here is the article i read recently:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2273203,00.asp

There is a small (but I will take ANY improvement!) improvement in FPS in most games, depends on games and res etc. And there are improvements in other area's too.

If you remember that most of the early Vista vs XP tests were done way back before any hotfixes or SP1, and also remember that nVidia have been releasing new drivers like crazy these past months....I think if you tested Vista vs XP again, there would still be a small % difference, but sometimes it would be - and sometimes +

 

In most games I haven't really noticed any major difference between the two systems (yes, more frames in XP, but when you have enough who cares how much more than enough you have). So yes like others have remarked. It's about having a new enough system to a certain degree.

One exception was crysis which ran absolutely terrible on Vista compared to XP on the Comp in my sig (@1920x1200) Something like 30% slower, but it may be better since Crysis 1.1, but I haven't bothered to test it.

 

In older games maybe you won`t feel the difference, but in newer ones, hell yea.
I can now play all high in crysis in xp, whereas in Vista I was getting 5-10 fps less.

 

reason i want the sp1 there are a bunch of bug fixed with file transferring between hard drives

 

just wait 4 more days for official

 

My only problem with Vista was alot of my older games didn't work with it so well. Once they patch it up, i'll go back.

 

^^^^ That's the biggest err I find with Vista.

 

So it looks like I'll be switching back to Vista just in time for SP1?

 

Just about, supposedly SP1 will be on Windows Update later this month.

 

I tried Crysis on Vista x64 and on XP. I have 2x7950GTX's and I was getting comparable performance on both systems. With all the revisions to drivers I can't tell a difference. Then again I also have 4GB of ram so...

 

My main reason for sticking with XP, backwards compatibility with older games/programs. From what I've heard, Vista is getting much better these days. Anyone know when XP SP3 is due?

 

Vista will be slower, but you won't notice it, there'll be a difference of 5-6fps, and when you're playing above 50-60fps it won't matter, you'll only start to see it when it drops below 24 (films and TV are shot on 24 fps and noone complains)

 

Yep, I do miss Vista's overall "niceness" though, so I hope they fix backwards compatability

I use SP3, I think it's somewhat beta, I don't really remember, but it got released a few months ago.