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Vista Gaming Benchmarks

by Steve Gibson, Jan 29, 2007 9:15am PST

Related Topics – Hardware (PC only)

Some early Windows Vista gaming benchmarks show that as expected drivers arent really very mature yet for the OS. Roughly 5-15% slower than XP for now. If that isnt enough here are a few more.

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Is there any reason to upgrade to Vista? What can it do for me that XP cant?

Jan 29, 2007 1:18pm PST

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Is there any reason to upgrade to Vista? What can it do for me that XP cant? : jarek99
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  There's no reason to upgrade until there's some DX10 games on the market you want to play in DX10 (becaus... : Angrakhan
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    So winxp will not work with directx10? Why do I have a feeling this is being done to force an upgrade? : jarek99
    - because its being done to force an upgrade. : Turd Ferguson
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      I wonder if some clever person will make a hack to allow DX10 to install on XP... : tunis5000
      
      Nope... it needs some OS features that XP does not have. : Johnny Law
- Here's what it has (and XP doesn't have): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista : ghjkghjk

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There are some ATI/AMD graphics card tests here: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/windows_vista_performance_amd_catalyst_7.1/

Summary: ATI/AMD cards perform roughly as good in Vista as in XP.

Jan 29, 2007 10:26am PST

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There are some ATI/AMD graphics card tests here: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/windows_vista_perfor... : code-e255
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- Well that's very encouraging and flies in the face of pretty much every gaming web site that has discusse... : limabone-jlp

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I'd like to see a XP/Vista comparison using a 8800GTX...

using the 7900, I dont think is a great way to tell if Vista is 'good for games' because of the radically different artitecture of DX10 cards,

perhaps this 5-15% slower is 'emulation' of DX10 for DX9 cards

Jan 29, 2007 11:16am PST

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I'd like to see a XP/Vista comparison using a 8800GTX... using the 7900, I dont think is a great way t... : ShadowRam
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