Warp2Search.net » News » October 2006 » Vista gaming will be 10 to 15 per cent slower than XP

03/23/2006 06:45 PM: Vista Gamers Need 2GB Plus of Memory by Newsfactory
Recently we managed to spend some time using a Vista machine. The machine had Athlon 4000+ and 2 GB of memory with Geforce 7800 GTX card. ...

10/14/2005 04:41 PM: Windows Vista Game (Shanghai Solitaire) Hacked @ Extended64 by Newsfactory
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09/09/2005 06:05 PM: Game on - Fresh Vista Games by Newsfactory
There hasn’t been much word or news about Windows Vista, due to the fact that the PDC 2005 (Professional Developers Conference) is just a mere few days from start (actually three days to go!). Today...

Rosco Posts: 21 Joined: 2005-02-09

#65311 Posted on: 10/07/2006 11:51 PM Sounds like FUD, especially seeing who the article is coming from.

jeremym Posts: 20 Joined: 2003-06-13

#65312 Posted on: 10/08/2006 02:59 AM might as well get world new posted from the onion. Why w2s gets news from the inquirer over and over i will never understand.

paesan Unregistered

#65314 Posted on: 10/08/2006 01:37 PM Even before I was about to read this, I said why am I wasting my time reading an article from the Inquirer. I was correct, what a waste. Crysis will play on windows xp. They have no clue what they are talking about.

Cimlite Unregistered Posts: 5 Joined: 2005-11-12

#65315 Posted on: 10/08/2006 03:39 PM What they say makes sense in a way. That's what I originally thought too when I heard about the desktop being rendered in 3D. However, from what I've read... it does seem like Vista completly disables everything that has to do with the desktop when a fullscreen DirectX game is run. Part of which explains why MS is saying it will be faster. I agree with the other comments here, pretty sure this is regular Inquirer style guess-reporting.

Domingo Unregistered

#65331 Posted on: 10/10/2006 04:03 PM This article is right, but for all the wrong reasons. It's mainly because of drivers. XP was slower than 98 by about 10-15% from RC1-Gold and possibly even a few months afterward. It's because the companies like nvidia, Ati, Creative, etc. all had drives that were functional, but not optimized. Once people started actually moving to XP, THEN the new drivers came out that were priority 1. That doesn't even include the older games that just didn't run well in an NT environment...but that's irrelevant in this case. Give it 6 months after release and it'll be just as fast if not faster.

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