Vista Vs, XP in gaming tests.. performance or quality. You judge

[Rabbitrunner51]

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6164940/index.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=multimodule&tag=multimodule;picks;title;6 :eek: ;)

[CrazyCrusher]

nice post rabbit, I did bench mine the other day I lost 120 Points in 3dmark06 which isnt a huge amount, I havent really tweaked my Vista yet but Im sure I can get it back to normall, the biggest memory killer I think is Windows Live Onecare, kinda reminds of norton.

[AllGamer]

isn't it obvious
same was the case between Win98 vs WinME vs Win2k vs. WinXP for games

WinXP does better than Win2k
Win98 does better than WinME
Win98 did better than WinXP (until the latest generation of games)

so now WinXP will do better than WinVista until... new games that are made to run in vista comes out.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Driver (im)maturity is what quite a lot of it is down to. These sorts of numbers are fairly readily availiable on the net now, and although there is an expected performance drop of up to 10% under Vista from XP, a lot of the huge performance burps can be blamed on poor driver devlopment at this stage (particularly Nvidia who have been suffering a lot of abuse from disgruntled users for the poor state of their drivers).

Give it a little while though and the equality of performance with XP that ATi and NV are seeking should start becoming more prevalant

--Jakk:t

[Rabbitrunner51]

Good ponts.. but still its more recource hungry, regardless of drivers. I guess thats the nature of coming out with a new OS, which goes hand in hand with the current trends of higher end machines, and what you might really need in order to operate it, without taking up ones other processes along with it.. I have to look into the driver issue update thing a bit more, and I guess some of that is coming forth soon, or so you all hope.

I myself, do like anything visual and most of the tech analysis from almost everybody ssem to convey they made more effort along those lines than actually usefullness to ALL consumers.

People .., users that take pride and have more interest in video editing, digital photography, and may even music, may benefit the most.

I'm sure someday this will be looked upon as great, once all these issues or improvements ,such as drivers get handed out and optomized.
All the software companies like esp. ATI and Nvidia will come full circle. Your right about that. really, they haven't much choice do they??

[RamonGTP]

I'm still waiting for the 64bit drivers to mature. Vista runs VERY fast if you have large amounts of memory and a dual core CPU. However you are limited to about 3.25GB of ram under 32bit since 32bit can only address 4GB total, and that includes the RAM on the video card as well as other hardware that requires memory addressing.

[Midknyte]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/

Vista has way more overhead than xp, which puts it at a disadvantage from the onset.

[Rabbitrunner51]

Very nice link MK..... loads of great info and analysis. One to keep for personal records...

This is one reason why I keep telling people to read up on things and similar on the net.. Its one thing to intially praise something and even tell all how good it runs for you now.., but eventually, something will enveritibly not set right with some...
I know one thing.. I don't particularly care for the new Media player 11. Seems ot be somewhat buggy,and they left out some needed things,for what reasons, i do not know..