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Will Vista Run Your Games?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mostly dept.

mikemuch writes "With Vista reaching the more stable beta 2 designation, Jason Cross at ExtremeTech decided to run a slew of popular PC games -- Oblivion, F.E.A.R, GTA, Civ IV, WoW, and more -- on the OS to see what will and won't run, and how well. His findings are encouraging, but unsurprisingly the OS is not quite ready for prime time. Some work is needed on the part of driver writers, Microsoft, and game developers to get the gaming experience ready for launch day. The biggest problem he found was StarForce copy protection and a performance drop-off in many of the games when using anti-aliasing. From the article: 'With Microsoft proclaiming a "PC gaming renaissance" around the launch of Vista, they need to really deliver a fantastic experience, and it's not quite there yet.'"

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  1. OS X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It wont even run your games? They really ARE copying OS X.

    1. Re:OS X? by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 2, Funny

      It wont even run your games? They really ARE copying OS X.

      What do you expect. They have a perfectly fine gaming machine that they want to sell you, that just needs a TV ;)

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  2. Am I the only one. . . by LunchTableGoat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one that read the headline as "Will Vista Ruin Your Games?"

  3. Capt. Obvious by Agent00Wang · · Score: 5, Funny

    "and it's not quite there yet"

    Hence why it's coming out next year, not now.

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  4. I doubt it. by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    Will Vista Run Your Games?

    No... because I'll never install it!

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  5. Re:I'm glad they confirmed this myth... by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 2, Funny
    Wow. Just wow. Holy fucking wow.

    Way to get moderated up for being a complete dipshit.

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