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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."

2 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. DRM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    But the real question is, will they ditch the DRM? Oh wait.. it's Microsoft.. nah.

  2. not worth it... by mcfatboy93 · · Score: 0, Troll

    overall it performs within a few percentage points of Windows XP

    overall... not worth it.

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