Vista and Gaming

[[AK]Bribo]

http://techgage.com/article/windows_...rmance_reports

Bottom line: poorer performance from Vista than XP in games like HL2 and CoD2.

[[AK]Clay]

IIRC, this is always the case. Every newer version of Windows takes a performance hit on gaming. It is relied on the hardware manufactures to continue to improve performance in order to compensate.

I ran win2k for far longer than most for this very reason. IMHO, Win2K still represents some of the best work that Microsoft has done.

[[AK]The Beast]

I remember this being true with XP as well. Bill & Co. have added new graphics features, in particular, and the Aero interface is much more intensive than the added interface features in XP. I'm running Vista in the office and I'm encountering enough "quirks" (by which I mean bugs) that I'm probably going to stick with XP on both of my home rigs until either I get a 100% stable experience at work or until I run into something that won't run under XP anymore.

[[AK]Hylander]

I'm in no hurry, but I plan to put a removable hard drive tray in my new rig and then just install on a whole new drive. That way I can experiment and build my Vista install without hosing my XP.

[[AK]StitchJones]

I *heart* WindowsME