Okay, Anyone Doing the Sims/Vista Rhumba?
blubug:
Quote from: Pseudonymous on 2007 February 09, 00:24:41
They're still doing shady stuff though like adding a DRM service that checks the license of a video 30 times a second, killing analog holes, and locking the kernel for no reason other than to attempt to make a monopoly. There's still no reason to upgrade to it though because there's no DX10 games and if you do upgrade you'll gimp OpenGL.
I hate all that. Media player already nags me about videos. It's like windoze is the lawyer of what I want to purchase- or not purchase ;)
I just got a macbook as a second computer, and I'm in love with MacOS X (First time mac owner ;D). And on my gaming pc, no vista for me, I'm prepared to stay away until I have no choice. Stupid microsoft. I just loathe using Windows now. :P
MxxPwr:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 14, 09:45:43
Quote from: MxxPwr on 2007 February 13, 10:10:27
FX60 and the 8800? Heh, a typical household rig ::)
If the writer of the article would give me a rig like his, I'd use Vista too.
In fairness, if you wanted to test how well Vista runs games, you would need to use a machine sufficiently powerful that the hardware would not be a limiting factor. Writing that Oblivion doesn't run well on Vista because your hardware isn't up to snuff isn't of much value.
I understand what you're saying. But, realistically, your gamers are going to have X19xx's or 79xx's in their rigs. Mainstreamers are going to have X18's or 76/66's in their rig's or worse. 1-3 month old namebrand boxes are going to have only the intel X6300's or the lower-clocked 64 X2's. A Vista review using his rig isn't much of a value either.
I'll still take his rig though.
MxxPwr:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 14, 09:45:43
Will Vista Run Your Games? (already referenced above)
Windows Vista Performance Guide
Build a Windows Vista Upgrade Parachute
Windows XP vs. Vista: The Benchmark Rundown
Interesting articles. Thank you. I'm a bit concerned though about hearing words like 'far more processess' 'far larger codebase' 'far more memory used.' I thought MS was throwing the baby out with the bathwater with Vista. No more bloat code; lean and mean. Naive, I know.
I'd wonder what Vista does with alt-tabbing and swapping vid memory to hdd. Does it favor it's own 3d base when going from a game to desktop? Swapping out all your game data from the vid board to main mem or worse the hdd?
Karen:
I just bought a new Dell XPS 410, Intel Core Duo 6400 (2.13 GHz) with 4 GB RAM, ATI 1300 Pro video card (256 MB). It came with Vista. The game, with all EPs and about 1.5 GB of custom content, loads in about a minute. This compared to *at least* 15-20 minutes on my old machine (Pentium IV 2.4 GHz with 1 GB of RAM and Radeon 9600XT video card). The graphics settings in-game default to low or medium, but I have turned up just about everything to the max setting and there is no lag at all. I was a little worried about how the video card would perform with Vista because it's on Maxis's list of "OK" cards, not "Good", but I have zero complaints so far, after about 3 days of playing the game on the new machine. All my hacks work fine.
aqualectrix:
It seems likely that your massive loading speedup is mostly caused by the massive jump you took in available RAM.
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