Gaming Benchmarks on Vista vs. XP

[DynCA]

Why hasn't this dummy gotten banned yet?
I look at his rig and I see a rosewill powersupply

That should be enough for a ban, then I see his consistent jealousy of those people who can afford a copy of Vista

Jesus man, LEAVE VISTA ALONE, STOP BEING A HYPOCRITE.

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Speaking of hypocrites...

Hi and good bye, Gagan Sidhu, aka Broly, and other names. Previously banned under several names for rudeness in hardware and other threads, posting to offer dealer quantities and conducting auction style offers and off forum bidding wars by PM.

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[mechBgon]

Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!
Lovely Spaaam! Wonderful Spaaam!
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Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am.
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Lovely Spaaam! (Lovely Spam!)
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Spaaam, Spaaam, Spaaam, Spaaaaaam!

I would call it FUD, not Spam. The OP appears to have something against Vista. I don't see the OP posting anything to proclaim that about 95% of existing Windows malware will not work as designed on Vista, for example.

Symantec blog

Approximately 2,000 unique instances of malicious code were executed during the life of this project....

...Out of the seventy percent that were able to execute, only about six percent of the samples were able to accomplish a full compromise and an even smaller number (four percent) were able to survive a reboot. The rest did not execute properly due to incompatibility, unhandled exceptions, or security restrictions.

I seem to recall someone (Quinton) lambasting Microsoft for not making a "virus-proof" OS Well... they're making headway, eh?

 

[Sunner]

Link19's evil twin?

I bet soon every post he makes will have the acronym POS in it.

 

[nweaver]

did you know that 50% of all statistics are wrong?

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod

Originally posted by: sam509

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod

What are you talking about? They were just finalized the other day!

What are you talking about? They were just finalized today.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_100.54.html

And they are still not good. Just like XP it will take a couple of months for drivers to catch up.

My bad... They were suppose to finalize them earlier than today. However, they ARE finalized and I knew I wasn't losing my mind.

What alternate reality do you live in? THEY ARE BETA DRIVERS. The link right there says so. If they are available for download then they are finalized beta drivers but beta nonetheless.

Gawd, not even facts get in your way do they?

 

[Agman]

Quake 4 has surround sound because it uses OpenAl for its surround sound...which is the only one that Microsoft left when they stripped DirectSound out.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Agman
Quake 4 has surround sound because it uses OpenAl for its surround sound...which is the only one that Microsoft left when they stripped DirectSound out.

Cool. Wasn't everyone griping about having no OpenAl before?

EAX seems to be working fine too.

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
Did you know they also took away Direct Sound and Direct Sound 3D from Vista? Meaning. all your games will get bland stereo sound? I mean, what's up with that?

When you post stuff like this you sound like some sort of desperate anti-fanboi. The sound issues have been worked through in a number of threads, and since you were on some of them you should know what the real story is. The mods have posted a sticky in the forum asking us to keep the number of additional Vista threads to a minimum and still you go on posting FUD.

Others have already enlightened you, but I'll reiterate: "finalized" drivers for Vista does not necessarily mean "mature" drivers for Vista.

 

[bassoprofundo]

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
I dunno if this is good news or bad news to those who plan to upgrade. However, here are the benchmarks for several games on Vista vs. XP.

Maybe in the future this will be fixed, but as it stands, this isn't good.

http://techgage.com/article/windows_vista_gaming_performance_reports




Discuss!

All I have to say is, "Duh". XP has had how many years to be optimized? Driver developers have had how many years to develop how many driver releases for XP? Tell us something we don't know, man. Drivers are still the suck for Vista and probably will be well into the later half of this year, especially compared with their XP counterparts. It took manufacturers a year (or more) in a lot of cases to get a decent driver when Win2k came out. Most serious gamers stayed with at least a Win98/2000 dual boot (if not just Win98) for a couple of years until the performance delta was small enough to justify the switch. There's a lot of stuff to be peeved with about Vista, but dude, you've got until 2014 (end of XP support) before you absolutely have to switch. From the way it sounds, game devs aren't too sweet on DX10 anyway, so I suspect we'll see a ton of games still using DX9 for the next few years. By the time a full-fledged move to DX10 and beyond happens, drivers will have made up the difference. If you're mad about the drivers or the dreaded "DRM", stay with XP. If you're ticked because Vista is evolutionary rather than revolutionary, start playing with the latest and greatest Linux distros. It won't cost you a penny. If you have an axe to grind with MS, make your point in a single thread and be done with it or move elsewhere. It gets old here really quick.