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Windows 7 Gaming Performance Tested

Posted by Soulskill on from the take-with-a-beta-grain-of-salt dept.

Timmus writes "Gamers holding onto Windows XP may not have to fear sluggish performance when Windows 7 debuts. While Windows Vista's gaming performance was pretty spotty at launch, the Windows 7 beta build seems to handle most games well. Firingsquad has tested the Windows 7 beta against Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 on midrange and high-end gaming PCs across 7 different games. While the beta stumbles in a couple of cases, overall it performs within a few percentage points of Windows XP, actually outrunning XP in multiple benchmarks."

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  1. EDITORS: EDIT! by argStyopa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OK, FFS can we stop linking to the BULLSHIT 16 paragraph=16 page articles that are meant to maximize web traffic? PLEASE?

    Jesus, please: just copy the damn printable link and get it all on one page.

    Slashdot is a fairly heavy-traffic site. You have the throw weight discourage this HORRIBLE style of web page design.

    If the print-summary page isn't available then link the CONCLUSIONS page...readers who are smart enough to parse what WinMark scores are can *probably* figure out how to get back to the detail pages.

    Here's the damn link: http://www.firingsquad.com/print_article.asp?current_section=Hardware&fs_article_id=2404

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    -Styopa
  2. Re:DRM? by hab136 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is this modded troll? It's the *ONLY* statistic I care about.

    Was it informative? No.
    Was it interesting? No.
    Was it funny? No.
    Was it an emotional remark, offering no information or reasoning? Yes. --> Troll

    Now, a reasonable discussion of why you won't purchase anything with DRM might be informative, but that veers into off-topic - since the article is about performance of Windows 7, not whether or not you will buy it, or how you feel about DRM.