Gaming performance on Vista vs XP

[xtknight]

http://techgage.com/article/windows_vista_gaming_performance_reports/2

GPU performance difference seems to be negligible, +/-5% but check out the 3dmark2001 score. Not sure if that's because Vista is more CPU intensive or because the NVIDIA driver offloads vertex processing to the other core. What do you think?

 

[wanderer27]

ROFLM

They striped out the D3 sound Drivers!

It just keeps getting better . . . .

 

[imported_blacken]

Heh. Looking like the GF 8xxx series and R600 / RD600 is gonna need what it has to perform well.

 

[Swampthing]

Who cares what the 3dmark score is? Is 3dmark a game? does it give even a remotely relevant number? It's 3dmark2001 on top of it. 2001, yes 6 years old.

3dmark is completely irrelevant and i don't know why sites even still use it. The directsound issue has been known for quite sometime, welcome to 1 year ago. Look up a term called OpenAL, you might learn something.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: Swampthing
Who cares what the 3dmark score is? Is 3dmark a game? does it give even a remotely relevant number? It's 3dmark2001 on top of it. 2001, yes 6 years old.

3dmark is completely irrelevant and i don't know why sites even still use it. The directsound issue has been known for quite sometime, welcome to 1 year ago. Look up a term called OpenAL, you might learn something.

Dude, it's only a test for comparison purposes.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Swampthing
Who cares what the 3dmark score is? Is 3dmark a game? does it give even a remotely relevant number? It's 3dmark2001 on top of it. 2001, yes 6 years old.

3DMark uses the same instruction set as any other game does. In high-CPU situations such as a large amounts of enemies (or physics explosions), CPU cost is at a premium.

3dmark is completely irrelevant and i don't know why sites even still use it. The directsound issue has been known for quite sometime, welcome to 1 year ago. Look up a term called OpenAL, you might learn something.

These days, when paired with a fast GPU, 3DMark2001 measures CPU/memory performance. It is used because it is one of the few programs so sensitive to those factors anymore. Newer games are almost always GPU limited.

I would like to know why you think the audio (if there is any) in 3DMark2001 accounts for 33% of the CPU time on a Core 2 Duo E6300 (66% on one core).

Average FPS on HL2 EP1 went from 73 to 61. On a slightly slower GPU that could be the difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS with VSync on.

 

[Golgatha]

I do wonder how much of a gaming performance hit the translation from D3D to OpenAL causes on the X-Fi cards using the Beta Creative drivers. The dedicated sound hardware typically frees the CPU up a bit, but the extra processing has got to eat some cycles.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: Golgatha
I do wonder how much of a gaming performance hit the translation from D3D to OpenAL causes on the X-Fi cards using the Beta Creative drivers. The dedicated sound hardware typically frees the CPU up a bit, but the extra processing has got to eat some cycles.

The same thing I'm thinking....

I'm worrying that there's absolutely no advantage to having a dedicated sound card anymore.

 

[xtknight]

bump

 

[IlllI]

i just saw this article. it might be interesting for some.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: gersson

Originally posted by: Golgatha
I do wonder how much of a gaming performance hit the translation from D3D to OpenAL causes on the X-Fi cards using the Beta Creative drivers. The dedicated sound hardware typically frees the CPU up a bit, but the extra processing has got to eat some cycles.

The same thing I'm thinking....

I'm worrying that there's absolutely no advantage to having a dedicated sound card anymore.

Only if all games support OpenAL all of a sudden. I guess if Microsoft bankrupts Creative Labs, they will lose an MP3 competitor and a DirectSound competitor all in one death.

 

[wanderer27]

OpenAL.

Maybe Microsoft's planning to do their own Soundcards now, which coincidently will be OpenAL based :disgust:

Heck, they already do XBox, Mice (?), Gamepads/controllers . . . .