Comments on: Vista and gaming, a bad combination?

By: dan

dan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:13:27 +0000

most people tend to over look the compatibility on the gaming list but the fact is just disable DEP and tell it to run as a windows XP s2 environment this sounds a bit rough around the edges but its the best solution i found out for now

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:57:05 +0000

I am running Vista 64 Home Premium with the following:
CPU: E8400 over clocked 3.6ghz
GPU: HD4870 512 over clocked 770/1100
RAM: 8GB (4X2gb) DDR2 Corsair

Absolutely no crashes no BSODS (unless of course I have done something stupid like stuff up the voltage settings on my CPU etc).

The system does tend to take up a lot of resources though, which is why I am so looking forward to Win7 coming out next month.

By: Howard Anderson

Howard Anderson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:00:47 +0000

I am running Vista premium on AMD645600, 8800GTS 512 & 4Gb DDR2 PC6400 I suffer game crashes much too often. I have Vista running on two hard drives and both of them crash BSD, and the crashes get varying causes. The crashes stopped for a brief period no idea why they stopped but now they have returned. Never have I had problems with any other versions of windows, not happy with Vista 64.

By: Brendan Edwards

Brendan Edwards — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:55:26 +0000

Running vista on intel Q6600, 4GB DDR2 ram (800MHz) 8800GTS 512. runs practically every current game at full spec with 2xAA and 4to8xAF without any problems (apart from crysis, have to drop down AF but still averages about 35fps).
tempted to dual boot it on xp and see how it handles then.

By: Fletcher Shires

Fletcher Shires — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:31:35 +0000

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

Daniel — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:03:21 +0000

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….