> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:03 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Vista Gaming on par with XP
>
> This covers games created for Windows under the Games For Windows
> banner.
>
> Try running an older, but still very popular title such as Neverwinter
> Nights I.
> Another more recent title that has issues is X3:Reunion.
> Recent games made for Vista may work fine, but quite a few people
> still have older titles.
Actually NWN is one of my favorite games... it runs just fine for me (as do
all of the D&D games - Baldurs Gate, Temple of Elemental Evil, etc). None
of them ever seemed to stress the system much for me.
On the PC really ALL I play any more is D&D and Valve games. Although I
actually keep buying those gems I've missed from Steam (like "Indigo
Prophecy") I never seem to actually play them much. Oh... and a WHOLE lot
of PopCap ("Chuzzle" and "Peggle" are like crack).
Of course I've never noticed a problem with any game - that's not saying
that it ISN'T slower, just that I can't notice a difference.
The only game that I've had noticeable problems with was "Crysis" (go
figure)... but the demo for that didn't intrigue me at all enough to buy it.
> There was also compatibility issues with SLI as recently as 6 months
> ago, so people weren't just complaining with no basis.
> Microsoft had to release a hotfix for that issue ahead of Vista
> SP1.The article itself notes that it took a year and a half to get
> to the point where the OS is on par with XP in terms of pure Frames Per
> Second.
Yup... of course the differences before weren't exactly earth-shattering.
As I've said, at least in Source-based titles I never saw an initial drop in
performance. HL2 stress test was always on par for me.
> One should therefore understand the view of early adopters.
Oh - I do. Did I actually say anything about early adopter or are you just
touchy today, my friend. ;^)
As I said - I'm an early adopter and have never seen a noticeable
difference. I know that some people had actual, factual, no-nonsense
problems. I also know that some people had sorta, kinda, "I'm losing 5 fps"
problems - I MAY pick on them a bit.
Jim Davis
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