Gaming on Vista Beta 2

[gizbug]

How do your games run, and which games have you tried?

 

[remagavon]

Slower. Maybe 1/2 speed (compared to xp). This is using an x1900xtx, so it might be different with nvidia's drivers rather than ati's. OpenGL runs like *crap,* but I'm going to wait until the public beta is out to start a general thread with q&a in hopes of finding an answer to that, as not many devs game.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: remagavon
Slower. Maybe 1/2 speed (compared to xp). This is using an x1900xtx, so it might be different with nvidia's drivers rather than ati's. OpenGL runs like *crap,* but I'm going to wait until the public beta is out to start a general thread with q&a in hopes of finding an answer to that, as not many devs game.

I've done some quick testing, Nvidia's drivers aren't much better. I can't even enable anti-aliasing in their not-feature-complete Vista control panel.

 

[gizbug]

That bad for nvidia people?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: gizbug
That bad for nvidia people?

It's a beta operating system with a new driver model(WDDM), what did you expect?

 

[Gautama]

Hmm, I was gonna download Vista beta just for Media Center, but I dont think all sacrifice half my gaming speed for that. Prob just "acquire" Windows MCE

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: Gautama
Hmm, I was gonna download Vista beta just for Media Center, but I dont think all sacrifice half my gaming speed for that. Prob just "acquire" Windows MCE

"Acquiring" software is "frowned" upon here. No warez discussion, please.

 

[Gautama]

Oh, my bad.

 

[Seeruk]

To be honest I have only had time to test one game, Eve Online

It doesnt work

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Seeruk
To be honest I have only had time to test one game, Eve Online

It doesnt work

1) Add an entry to the registry at HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/Shell Folders called "Fonts" with the entry "C:/Windows/Fonts"
2) Ignore the error at Eve's startup that says your DirectX is out of date.

 

[Seeruk]

ooh cheers I'll give it a try tonight

 

[Gautama]

Please tell us how it runs after you give it a shot

 

[Seeruk]

Hmmm I gave it a shot, and it got further in that the login screen loaded up, seemed to sit there for a few minutes after entering login details without doing anything so I quit and forgot to try again after a reboot

Will be trying again tonight though

 

[Gautama]

Go on...

 

[Mean MrMustard]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: Gautama
Hmm, I was gonna download Vista beta just for Media Center, but I dont think all sacrifice half my gaming speed for that. Prob just "acquire" Windows MCE

"Acquiring" software is "frowned" upon here. No warez discussion, please.

What if some of us are MSDN Subscribers?

 

[krotchy]

I am installing Vista B2x64 from my MSDN account as we speak. I will let you know what games look like on it.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Gautama
Go on...

Go on what? Please be more concise.

 

[Gautama]

He said he'd be trying again, and he never made a post.

 

[cw42]

The answer to all your questions...

"Will Vista Run Your Games?"
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1969005,00.asp

 

[Seeruk]

Originally posted by: Gautama
Go on...

Sorry, havent tried again on Vista yet... was having too much fun fleecing a guy selling him vast quantities of isogen for 150isk a unit

I PROMISE to try again tonight

 

[Gautama]

Originally posted by: cw42
The answer to all your questions...

"Will Vista Run Your Games?"
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1969005,00.asp

From what's said there, Beta 2 results in little or no performance drop in the games tested. Thats good news