My frame rate under vista was half that than under XP. Jim Davis wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:03 AM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: Vista Gaming on par with XP >> >> This covers games created for Windows under the Games For Windows >> banner. >> >> Try running an older, but still very popular title such as Neverwinter >> Nights I. >> Another more recent title that has issues is X3:Reunion. >> Recent games made for Vista may work fine, but quite a few people >> still have older titles. > > Actually NWN is one of my favorite games... it runs just fine for me (as do > all of the D&D games - Baldurs Gate, Temple of Elemental Evil, etc). None > of them ever seemed to stress the system much for me. > > On the PC really ALL I play any more is D&D and Valve games. Although I > actually keep buying those gems I've missed from Steam (like "Indigo > Prophecy") I never seem to actually play them much. Oh... and a WHOLE lot > of PopCap ("Chuzzle" and "Peggle" are like crack). > > Of course I've never noticed a problem with any game - that's not saying > that it ISN'T slower, just that I can't notice a difference. > The only game that I've had noticeable problems with was "Crysis" (go > figure)... but the demo for that didn't intrigue me at all enough to buy it. > >> There was also compatibility issues with SLI as recently as 6 months >> ago, so people weren't just complaining with no basis. >> Microsoft had to release a hotfix for that issue ahead of Vista >> SP1.The article itself notes that it took a year and a half to get >> to the point where the OS is on par with XP in terms of pure Frames Per >> Second. > > Yup... of course the differences before weren't exactly earth-shattering. > As I've said, at least in Source-based titles I never saw an initial drop in > performance. HL2 stress test was always on par for me. > >> One should therefore understand the view of early adopters. > > Oh - I do. Did I actually say anything about early adopter or are you just > touchy today, my friend. ;^) > > As I said - I'm an early adopter and have never seen a noticeable > difference. I know that some people had actual, factual, no-nonsense > problems. I also know that some people had sorta, kinda, "I'm losing 5 fps" > problems - I MAY pick on them a bit. > > Jim Davis > > >
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