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25 Games Tested in Vista
mikemuch writes "Jason Cross at ExtremeTech has installed more than 25 PC Games in Windows Vista and reports back with his experiences with each. For the most part, the OS handled games with aplomb, but on the whole ran them slightly slower than XP, and some required logging in as administrator to install them. These and other minor issues were the result of immature drivers. It was hit or miss whether games would appear in the Games Explorer correctly with box art, and GameTap doesn't work yet at all."
Provided that MS is able to get developers to switch to DX10, nobody will notice how much slower Vista is for modern gaming once they are rendered incapable of running current titles under anything BUT Vista. Vista's sluggishness is only an issue whenever XP can compete in the same arena. Sadly, DX10 won't fix any current driver issues.
Yes, but at this point, EVERYTHING, is old software. I'm not going to pick up Vista until games work BETTER in Vista than XP.
Always going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Asus A8R32-MVP with *** Socket AM2 ***? using DDR memory. And an FX 60? He obviously has a 939-system. How far can we trust this guy to have opinions on drivers and stuff?
What? You mean your firewall didn't report an application trying to open a connection and pass information to another machine? Oh, wait, this is *windows* we're talking about. Of course it didn't.
I don't think "secure" means what microsoft thinks it means.
The mobo is a socket AM2, an AMD socket with 940 pins. The processor is a 939 setup (939 pins.) This may not seem as though it wouldn't work, but the AM2 setup rearranges the way the pins are aligned such that only an AM2 processor fits in it. So yes, the described system is not possible. Even if it were possible, surely there are better mobo choices, it's memory is DDR 400 for goodness sakes.
Demented But Determined.
Here's the sad thing... I've griped about M$ forever, but I still run their OS because I play computer games. A lot. I know you can do wonders with various Linux tools, but there's something nice about not fussing with that sort of stuff to just play some games after work. Vista, with all its "features," is about to push me to something else in a hurry. Especially if the performance enhancements that are supposed to come down from on high with DX10 don't really meet expectations. Never leaned so far toward a Mac before in my life (the only game I play these days will run on that natively).
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
"The performance on vista(sic) for games is abysmal to say the least"
That's a false statement. I play Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Never Winter Nights 2, Paradise, and Civilization 4 on my Vista machine. Every single one of those games runs the same or better as when the machine was running XP.
Perhaps you'd like to qualify your statement more. "The performance of X game with Y hardware on Vista is abysmal", might be a true statement. Making a blanket statement like that, where there are counter examples is just plain irresponsible.