be honest.is there a performance differnce between vista and xp when playing crysis?

im planning to go to xp 32 bit but is there a real difference perfornace between the two os(xp and vista)?

im using the gateway p-7811fx and im thinking if i am going to use xp instead of vista when playing crysis or warhead

be honest with me. how many ,ore fps if i use xp or vista?

 

Umm vista has DX10, so yes.

 

nah, i wouldn't bother going with XP unless you absolutely have to have it for an older app... I've gone back and forth a couple times, and with the newer drivers and SP1 for Vista, I can't tell any advantage to XP, and like mentioned above, Vista has DX10 if you want to run that mode.

So, my vote is just stick with Vista... on my machine, XP provides no advantage, and is lacking in vista features. Vista gets my vote for sure.

DX9 mode in Vista for Crysis is how I roll, runs good.

 

what about performance say i use dx9 on vista vs dx9 on xp? are there performance difference between the two?

 

At this point, I believe the performance is almost equal..maybe a couple of % higher for XP. Not worth the trouble. Not to mention, with your machine....I would highly recommend playing it in DX10 for the eye candy.

 

so booting to xp is not worth it then huh?

 

As people already mentioned, unless you have programs that don't work under Vista, you might as well stick to Vista (and optimize it to no end).

Personally, I don't see that much advantage to Dx10, and Vista's 'new' features are basically something that a lot of people simply don't use.
Crysis can be modified to enable Dx10 graphics in Dx9 mode.

Performance wise (if you have decent/contemporary hardware), Vista doesn't really differ from XP though and is just as stable (it's 'only' problems are incompatibility with some older applications that some of us use, much higher resource use compared to XP, and not that really innovative ... but as I said, Vista can be customized to eliminate most of the annoyances and unnecessary aspects).

So if you find Dx10 to be important ... stick with Vista.

 

DX10 in Crysis doesn't really look much different. I'd still stick with Vista, because as everyone has said, not much performance difference.

 

My case with running Crysis is a bit different I guess. With that laptop in my sig, I have run it for almost 7-8 times. In Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1, I can play at 1024x768 but had to turn down shaders and shadows to low,rest I maintain the medium settings. While doing that my fps remain 20-25.

But in XP SP3, it is a bit different, I can run it on 1024x768 all medium, having the same fps(20-25). The drivers I use are 177.92 from laptopvideo2go. Other games produce similar performances for me both in XP and Vista but Crysis is a different story.

 

What are all these pics doing here in a Crysis topic?