Windows 7 Gaming Performance Tested

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 26, 2009 @11:50PM 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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Re:not worth it... by PhilHibbs · 2009-01-27 01:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

So the only reason to upgrade an operating system is to make things run faster? What about security, stability, user interface improvement, compatibility?
Re:DRM? by Archimagus · 2009-01-27 01:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

Wheres my mod points when I need the. Mod this dude up.
Re:DRM? by L4t3r4lu5 · 2009-01-27 02:08 · Score: 0, Redundant

Mod parent Informative.

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