Will Vista Run Your Games? · Slashdot Mirror

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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I'm glad they confirmed this myth... by theJML · 2006-05-31 04:27 · Score: -1, Redundant

a performance drop-off in many of the games when using anti-aliasing. NO WAY!! I mean, the game has to render like 2-8 times as many pixels as without AA, who would have thought that would slow it down?

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