RC! Vs The Final Product for games

[Guest]

OK... been running Vista RC! Build 5600 sinde it was releaded. It's worked
fine so far, with the exception of games. Vista RC1 had serious compatibility
issues with 50% of the games my kids had that worked just fine under XP.
Even setting Vista in XP mode seemed to make little difference. That said,
has anybody who has the final product noticed how Vista works for games in
comparuson to Vista RC1 and XP?

I want to make the leap to the commercial release of Vista, but need to know
how friendly a gaming platform it is.

 

[RR Johnson Jr.]

My two favorite games I love to play are FEAR and FEAR extraction point. I
am using a NVIDIA 8800 GTS so I can take advantage of Direct X 10 games when
they are released. The FEAR games play smoother than in my old Windows XP
setup. However, they play just a few frames slower but that is not
noticeable to the human eye.

regards
Robert

 

[Guest]

Thanks. In my case Age of Empires & other such titles work just fine. The
main problem I have is with my kids games. I can live without 'em, but the
constant complaining from them about Vista is starting to get to me.... ;-}

 

[RR Johnson Jr.]

Make sure you have the game executables set to run as administrator and then
there should hopefully be no problems. If that fails then try the
compatibility tab in the properties of the executable and ry Windows XP.

regards
Robert

 

[Dale M. White]

Personally, I would have ot suggest not making the leap for another 6
months. All the games I play work and I've got no major complaints, but at
the same time, I just have a thing about playing slower and using more ram.
I think once the video drivers get a little more age under them, then the
gaming scene will be alot better.

 

[Dale M. White]

Just curious, did you try running the system benchmark in FEAR and FEARXP.
And specicfically run it two or 3 times in a row ? I'm getting some odd
behavior with FEAR and EP (that I don't get under XP:SP2). When I run the
benchmarks, I may get a 150 fps, the next run I get 45, then 30, then back
up to 80. What has me scratching my head, is I can turn off shadows and
volumetric lighting and it makes no difference on the score. In fact, a few
times, I set everything to minimum and it never would report more than
60fps, then I coudl reboot and it would report 200, but then back down to 40
on the enxt run.
Under XP with everything at MAX, noAA Trileaner filtering) I get 100-105
with shadows, 120-125 no shadows.
I have the ATI X1900XTX, so I'm guessing it's just a driver issue with that
game. Games like Doom3, HL2, Battlefield2 and2142 as well as 3dmark06 all
report normal expected numbers and are consistent every run.