Fireblade
02-11-2007, 16:00
First of all... I've put this thread in the 'Gaming' section - rather than the 'Software' section, simply because the tests/benchmarks carried out in the article in question, are primarily gaming related, as opposed to comparisons of the OS's themselves.
Secondly... I know it's a month old article now, and some of you will no doubt have read it already... but this Custom PC XP vs Vista (http://www.custompc.co.uk/features/601358/xp-vs-vista/page1.html) article (dated 2nd October 2007) is well worth a gander by those who haven't read it before.
They basically benchmark a number of well-known games under XP and Vista, to see how they compare.
The [unsurprising to many, I'm sure] 'in a nutshell' result, is highlighted in bold below!
James Morris puts Windows XP and Vista head to head in a gruelling set of benchmarks to see which Microsoft operating system runs your games and applications the quickest.
Windows Vista's slower application and game performance compared with that of Windows XP is very worrying.
This is particularly the case for Nvidia; in many of our game benchmarks, the difference between its hardware's performance in XP and Vista was far more pronounced than that of ATI.
Perhaps this disparity was acceptable (or at least, expected) when Vista first appeared - it's pretty par for the course with a new version of Windows until drivers are optimised.
However, now that Windows XP is close to being discontinued, at least for pre-built PC's, we'd have hoped for a step forwards rather than backwards in overall speed.
Still, unless you're willing to put your faith in a DirectX 10 hack for Windows XP, if you want to play the latest games with the full benefit of the latest graphics hardware, you'll increasingly have little choice but to upgrade to Windows Vista.
As I've intimated already... the results are not a complete surprise to those of us who have experienced similar problems running [certain] games under Vista.
And they're the main reason why many of us [gamers in particular] choose not to rely solely on Windows Vista - but instead, dual-boot XP and Vista, allowing us to fall back to the OS we know our games will run on!
Roll on Vista SP1?
Secondly... I know it's a month old article now, and some of you will no doubt have read it already... but this Custom PC XP vs Vista (http://www.custompc.co.uk/features/601358/xp-vs-vista/page1.html) article (dated 2nd October 2007) is well worth a gander by those who haven't read it before.
They basically benchmark a number of well-known games under XP and Vista, to see how they compare.
The [unsurprising to many, I'm sure] 'in a nutshell' result, is highlighted in bold below!
James Morris puts Windows XP and Vista head to head in a gruelling set of benchmarks to see which Microsoft operating system runs your games and applications the quickest.
Windows Vista's slower application and game performance compared with that of Windows XP is very worrying.
This is particularly the case for Nvidia; in many of our game benchmarks, the difference between its hardware's performance in XP and Vista was far more pronounced than that of ATI.
Perhaps this disparity was acceptable (or at least, expected) when Vista first appeared - it's pretty par for the course with a new version of Windows until drivers are optimised.
However, now that Windows XP is close to being discontinued, at least for pre-built PC's, we'd have hoped for a step forwards rather than backwards in overall speed.
Still, unless you're willing to put your faith in a DirectX 10 hack for Windows XP, if you want to play the latest games with the full benefit of the latest graphics hardware, you'll increasingly have little choice but to upgrade to Windows Vista.
As I've intimated already... the results are not a complete surprise to those of us who have experienced similar problems running [certain] games under Vista.
And they're the main reason why many of us [gamers in particular] choose not to rely solely on Windows Vista - but instead, dual-boot XP and Vista, allowing us to fall back to the OS we know our games will run on!
Roll on Vista SP1?