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RE: Gaming and Vista?

KelsieKatt — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:34:56 GMT

As far as I can tell, Vista in it's current state as of December 2007 onward, is actually gaming worthy. The performance difference between XP and Vista is now practically identical, were talking like a framerate loss of .25FPS which is essentially nothing. The only downside I see so far, is two games out of ~60 I've tested so far, I've still got a lot more to try, 60 isn't even half of the games I own, but so far I've managed to find 2 games that don't work, Rayman 2 The Great Escape and Medal of Honor Pacific Assault.

Only downside atm is:
XP Memory usage - 400-600mb
Vista Memory usage - 900-1200mb

So users may need to upgrade their ram, or lower some texture settings. Good thing is though, we have support for A LOT more total ram.

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Walker — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:46:00 GMT

Jason asked at the start if SLI works in Vista.
Now i am going according to what alienware says ( they sell pure gaming laptops so i trust them) and apparently SLI is not yet available in Vista. Should be soon

RE: Gaming and Vista?

razrider — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:33:29 GMT

My nephew has battlefield 2 and we have tried to load it into his new computer with vista and it will not load. Do you have any solutions for us? He is getting upset at this operating system. Please help.

Thankyou Raz

RE: Gaming and Vista?

MOFO64 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:43:13 GMT

Much appreciated m8, thankyou. :)

My rig for anyone interested :)

ASUS A8N-SLi DELUXE, AMD3500+,2GB TWINMOSS DDR400, GAINWARD 7800GTX, 240GB MAXTOR RAID0 (3x80GB)

LG DVD BURNER, BLUE STORM 500w PSU, 21" IBM DIGITAL CRT on DVI

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:19:43 GMT

Welcome, nice pc.:D

RE: Gaming and Vista?

MOFO64 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:16:22 GMT

Thanks very much m8, on both counts. Glad to have found a decent forum for Vista at last :)

RE: Gaming and Vista?

niffer022 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:03:50 GMT

nice score dude, im highest 3dmark score is a crappy 116 :blush: cant wait to get a better motherboard and gfx card, then i might be able to get a half decent score :P

p.s welcome to vista forums

nathan

RE: Gaming and Vista?

MOFO64 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:11:35 GMT

Hey guys :)

I'm new here, followed a link from a post on BF2TRACKER. I've been toying with VB2 here for just over a week and must say I'm very impressed by this OS on every count. Not only does the GUI make me drool but the power of this platform is truely a wonder.

I've run a few benchmarks and thought I'd let you see the results.

Test Rig :

Asus A8N-SLi DELUXE

AMD3500+

2GB TWINMOSS DDR400

GAINWARD 7800GTX 256MB

This is all runnin' largely untweaked with stock G-card clocks due to NVIDIA's lack of clock control in 88.61 for VB2.

3D MARK '06 ------ http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=352192

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:36:58 GMT

[quote][b]DMikeM (2/25/2006)[/b][hr]Jason,
I am a BF2 player as well. [AGB]-=Revenge=- is my play name. Our AntiClan is located at www.agbgaming.com . Maybe I will copy my BF2 install to my Vista system and give it a try.[/quote]

Cool! Sounds good. Let us know how it runs.

RE: Gaming and Vista?

DMikeM — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:06:47 GMT

Jason,
I am a BF2 player as well. [AGB]-=Revenge=- is my play name. Our AntiClan is located at www.agbgaming.com . Maybe I will copy my BF2 install to my Vista system and give it a try.

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:13:26 GMT

[quote][b]afeher (10/19/2005)[/b][hr]Its a sub-notebook. My friend have one. Its fantastic...

ASUS W5AE-G014P P750 80G 512M DVDR XPP

http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?l1=5&l2=75&l3=157
&model=414&modelmenu=1[/quote]

Thats a sweet laptop, I like the camera. But its a little outa my price range. I ended up getting an Averatec 2100 series notebook. Has Amd 64 1.6ghz cpu, 80gb hd, 512mb 333 ram(going to have 2gb soon), cd/dvd-rw dual layer burner, 12" widescreen display, bluetooth, and ATI Radeon Express 200m. The thing is tiny only weights like 4lbs to its what i wanted. I used my desktop for the powerful things. I think it just came out actually, I got it at Costco for 999.99. Check it out:
http://www.averatec.com/notebooks/2100series.htm

RE: Gaming and Vista?

afeher — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:57:54 GMT

Its a sub-notebook. My friend have one. Its fantastic...

ASUS W5AE-G014P P750 80G 512M DVDR XPP

http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?l1=5&l2=75&l3=157
&model=414&modelmenu=1

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:11:14 GMT

asus makes laptops? How big is that one? most asus's I find our big like 6.6lbs

RE: Gaming and Vista?

afeher — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:19:19 GMT

There is a new ASUS. Pentium M 1.8 512MB, ATI graphics, DVD/RW, 80GB HD..

Sounds good... :-)

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:53:53 GMT

[quote][b]afeher (10/17/2005)[/b][hr]Huhh... it sounds good. Maybe the best is if you have a fast PC at home, and to use a small and slower Sub-Notebook, for works on the "road".[/quote]

thats what I have been thinking since any laptop (in a good size) wont be able to do what I do on my desktop, like multiple programs running along w/ photoshop cs,dreamweaver,ftp clients etc.. I am thinking about getting a nice small laptop and beefing up my 2.5Ghz computer.

RE: Gaming and Vista?

afeher — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:00:25 GMT

Huhh... it sounds good. Maybe the best is if you have a fast PC at home, and to use a small and slower Sub-Notebook, for works on the "road".

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:55:35 GMT

Ya those are expensive tho. I really like Averatec laptops they are kinda new to the markey and some are really sweet, you can even get a hardcore one w/ a P4 3.0Ghz HT and Radeon 9600 in it.

RE: Gaming and Vista?

afeher — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:34:36 GMT

Aha, so than trie to find a Sony Vaio. I think its the best on market. Fast good, small...

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:17:05 GMT

[quote][b]afeher (10/17/2005)[/b][hr][quote][b]Jason (10/13/2005)[/b][hr]I am looking to buy a laptop and the best ones I can find come w/ a Radeon 9600 64Mb, anyone know if that supports DirectX8?[/quote]

Yes it supports the DirectX8, but I think if you can than buy a faster laptop, with ATI RADEON MOBILITY with 128 MB RAM. Its faster and you don't have to change the laptop in a year.[/quote]

Yeah but the thing is I want a small latop, and the small ones never really pack a big punch and usually have integrated video.

RE: Gaming and Vista?

afeher — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:03:23 GMT

[quote][b]Jason (10/13/2005)[/b][hr]I am looking to buy a laptop and the best ones I can find come w/ a Radeon 9600 64Mb, anyone know if that supports DirectX8?[/quote]

Yes it supports the DirectX8, but I think if you can than buy a faster laptop, with ATI RADEON MOBILITY with 128 MB RAM. Its faster and you don't have to change the laptop in a year.

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:31:04 GMT

I am looking to buy a laptop and the best ones I can find come w/ a Radeon 9600 64Mb, anyone know if that supports DirectX8?

RE: Gaming and Vista?

MasterEthan — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:05:47 GMT

I beleave that they said the next DirectX release will drop all legacy support and only support DX8 and up, which would kind of make sense to make room for more improvements. So if thats true then yes, Vista will have the latest DirectX meaning you'll need a GFX card that supports atleast DX8. Once I get Beta 2 I'll start tests with games and such.

RE: Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:31:14 GMT

I have heard that you must have a video card which supports DirectX8 or greater. Any truth to that?

RE: Gaming and Vista?

_Venom_ — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:26:00 GMT

Well from what I've been hearing, the 'Ultimate' or final version of Vista is going to have the ability to unload *All* (Although I'm not sure) of the system processes, allowing the game to run in DOS which would make gameplay alot smoother, I myself noticed that battlefield 2 ran just as well as XP if not better...& in such an early stage of devolpment that's impressive, I'm really keeping an eye out for microsoft and some of the new software.

Gaming and Vista?

Jason — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:13:42 GMT

While being satisfied by the cool effects and new interface of Windows Vista Codename Longhorn, many of us testers are what you would call "gamers." The lot of us would like to know if gaming on the default Vista Supplemental drivers would mean loss of graphics quality compared to using up to date drivers on a XP OS. For example, I installed Vista and then installed my trusty game, Battlefield 2. I tried using the new nvidia Vista drivers but the game kept crashing when I start it up. So I reinstalled the Vista Supplemental drivers and it happened to work. Quite interesting. I am able to run the game on default vista drivers and not the nvidia vista drivers. Coming to conclusion, would using the vista drivers result in loss of quality and graphics compared to using up to date drivers on a XP system? Or you can also rephrase it; Would gaming be better on the Vista Beta or XP?

Does anyone know if SLI works on Vista?