Comments on: Vista and gaming, a bad combination? http://www.techspot.com/blog/121/vista-and-gaming-a-bad-combination/ Technology news and commentary by TechSpot.com staff Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:52:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Fletcher Shires http://www.techspot.com/blog/121/vista-and-gaming-a-bad-combination/#comment-41703 Fletcher Shires Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:31:35 +0000 http://www.techspot.com/blog/121/vista-and-gaming-a-bad-combination/#comment-41703 I have had Vista on both an iBuypower laptop (256MB video card/2GB of RAM/2.2 core duo processors) and currently on a new Dell XPS M1730 (2.4 core duo processors, dual 512MB 8800GTXs, 4GB of RAM), and gaming on both systems has been frustrating at best. The mantra of Vista towards games seems to be "_________ has stopped working" Simcity Societies, Medieval II: Total War, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion, ARMA, pretty much any game I played on it. Vista is horrible for gaming. The Vista operating system actually committed suicide on my iBuypower and I replaced it with XP. It tried to do the same with my Dell, but I managed to save it by reinstalling the BIOS. Vista= Higher hardware requirements to allow you to play constantly crashing games that are rock solid in XP. I have had Vista on both an iBuypower laptop (256MB video card/2GB of RAM/2.2 core duo processors) and currently on a new Dell XPS M1730 (2.4 core duo processors, dual 512MB 8800GTXs, 4GB of RAM), and gaming on both systems has been frustrating at best. The mantra of Vista towards games seems to be “_________ has stopped working” Simcity Societies, Medieval II: Total War, Knights of the Old Republic 2, Rome Total War: Barbarian Invasion, ARMA, pretty much any game I played on it. Vista is horrible for gaming. The Vista operating system actually committed suicide on my iBuypower and I replaced it with XP. It tried to do the same with my Dell, but I managed to save it by reinstalling the BIOS. Vista= Higher hardware requirements to allow you to play constantly crashing games that are rock solid in XP.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.techspot.com/blog/121/vista-and-gaming-a-bad-combination/#comment-31435 Daniel Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:03:21 +0000 http://www.techspot.com/blog/121/vista-and-gaming-a-bad-combination/#comment-31435 Running Windos Vista Premium on a AMD64 5600+, 8800GTS 512 & 4Gb DDR2 PC6400 - it did float pretty well. But the compability between games and Vista are pretty poor at the moment and I canno't recommend anything below 4Gb memory on a Vista-machine. Regardless other hardware installed. And running DX10-games doesn't benefit much from Vista in terms of visible effects. Bioshock and Crysis looked almost identical on my XP-installation. Scary.... Running Windos Vista Premium on a AMD64 5600+, 8800GTS 512 & 4Gb DDR2 PC6400 - it did float pretty well. But the compability between games and Vista are pretty poor at the moment and I canno’t recommend anything below 4Gb memory on a Vista-machine. Regardless other hardware installed.

And running DX10-games doesn’t benefit much from Vista in terms of visible effects. Bioshock and Crysis looked almost identical on my XP-installation. Scary….

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