XP vs Vista Driver Comparison

[RajunCajun]

Link To FiringSquad Article

Looking over the performance results, it?s clear to see that both AMD and NVIDIA?s Windows Vista drivers have come a long way in the past seven months. NVIDIA in particular has made tremendous strides with their latest Vista driver, SLI support is fully functional for all GeForce card owners and it scales well in most cases. Unfortunately, CrossFire compatibility is still an issue for AMD. New games like BioShock and World in Conflict don't support CrossFire at this time, and Lost Planet and Quake Wars have graphical glitches.

 

[Matt2]

Good find. Looks like Vista gaming has arrived. I personally havent used XP since March.

My only issue with the article is that I wish they would have used more games.

 

[Avalon]

Not really surprised to say the least, but glad to see it benchmarked for everyone to see. I've been pretty happy running Vista 64 and have had no troubles gaming at what has been about the same speed as XP, at least to me.

 

[tuteja1986]

I think some of the problem has to blamed on game developers. Nvidia has been spoon feeding the dev that they don't really even bother tweaking for ATI GPU no more. Bioshock , Lost planet and World in conflict all went gold with ATI show stopper bugs. Even when ATI pointed out the bugs/performance issues, dev team of World in conflict just simply igroned the issue by letting it gold and saying it will be fixed in the next patch after the game is released. I think ATI needs to start providing some service for game dev that make sure that doesn't happen anymore.

 

[Sylvanas]

Good read, the only annoying problem I have had with Nv's X64 Vista drivers is the 'nvklm' not responding error which has been on the Nv boards for months and nothing seems to have fixed it Granted that error only comes up if I am gaming at overclocked settings so for stock performance theres no troubles there. As for AMD I have had no problems with anything in Vista 64 so heres hoping that trend continues. I would agree however that it would be great to see some of ATI's coined features make its way to the devs for future games, there has been Truform, 3dc compression and now the funky tesselation with the 2x00 series all of which would be great to see.