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    How does Vista do with games?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by YMW, Jul 12, 2007.

  1. YMW

    YMW Notebook Consultant

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    I am planning on buying a new Dell Inspiron 530 desktop, with 2 GB RAM, the 256 MB nVidia 8600 GT-DDR3, Core 2 DUo, 250 GB HD, and Vista Premium. How well would games like Battlefield 1942 (2002), MVP Baseball 2004 (guess), and Age of Empires 3 work on that?

    And.....should I have posted this somewhere else? :rolleyes:
     
    YMW, Jul 12, 2007
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    nVidia 8600 GT-DDR3

    This is bad...the 8600 cards have all shown to have disappointing performance I believe. Check out a 8800GTS and/or build a desktop!
     
    Greg, Jul 12, 2007
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  3. YMW

    YMW Notebook Consultant

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    But the 8600 will work for the games I mentioned, right? I don't need anything really high-end, just better than integrated.
     
    YMW, Jul 13, 2007
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  4. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Well, in that case yes...but I question the value of the card...that's all.
     
    Greg, Jul 13, 2007
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  5. YMW

    YMW Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, thanks :). Anybody else?
     
    YMW, Jul 13, 2007
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  6. Overclocker

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    To answer the thread title (not the video card q), XP outperforms Vista on nearly every gaming benchmark available right now. Perhaps this will change after SP1, but what's rather incontrovertible is that a game that doesn't require the DX10 will run faster on XP, for the forseable future.
     
    Overclocker, Jul 13, 2007
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    Utilizing DX10 also requires a lot of GPU power too.
     
    Duy028, Jul 13, 2007
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  8. ttupa

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    I run Oblivion flawlessly on my desktop with Vista. No problems.
     
    ttupa, Jul 13, 2007
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  9. andy15

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    Not bad at all..

    I play F.E.A.R, FIFA 2007, Oblivion, Stalker and they all run ultra smooth
     
    andy15, Jul 13, 2007
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  10. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    I love Vista when surfing the net, listening to music, or watching videos. But when it comes to gaming, omg I cannot do crap on this OS. I just recently played CS:S and boy it ran like crap. Though I was getting 20% less fps, the IQ and controls were way out of tune. All my shots were just not registering or not as accurate like in XP.

    Mike.
     
    ScifiMike12, Jul 13, 2007
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