Vista SP1 vs XP SP3 Gaming Performance: Vista wins again!

[NEVER85]

For me Psychonauts played better on vista than XP. For example loading screens were choppy in XP but smooth in Vista. Strange since its an old game.

No surprise, I've found Diablo II LOD is smoother on Vista than XP.

[ViperAFK]

Strange, every other bench mark I read has XP sp2 and sp3 owning vista w\SP1...now one random benchmark comes along and all the vista users feel like they can justify their purchase? lol

if i posted every article showing XP>Vista there would be a thousand threads :laugh:

Yea incredibly old pre-sp1 benchmarks with crappy old nvidia drivers...

and people need to step away from the paradigm that free ram = faster

[goji]

Brandon can you confirm that Windows 7 will be based on windows 3.11 just so we can have internet

:rofl:

[anonymous_user]

I've put Vista on machines with less than 1 GB of RAM and they run just as well as XP.

Please enlighten me on how you accomplished that.

And you had to disable Aero right?

[rtk]

What makes you think Aero is such a resource hog? A decently spec'd machine with a gig of RAM runs Vista just fine. If you've got even a basic video card from the last couple of years, why would you not want it doing some of the desktop rendering rather than force it all onto the CPU?

[notuptome2004]

Please enlighten me on how you accomplished that.

And you had to disable Aero right?

i ran Vista myself on an older system a 1.8ghz 2200+ XP system with 1gig ram and a 5600FX card and a 6600 at one point and vista with Aero ran faster on the system then vista with Aero disabled . Because Aero is all done by the GPU and thus less CPU is used so it is a GPU driven thing

[Eric Veteran]

Cool... This confirms what I already knew... Vista works fine, even for gaming. :) And as for compatibility, I was able to get Starship Titanic by Douglas Adams to run on Vista x64. I've haven't been able to play it since I bought it in the 90s because it didn't work on what the box said it needed. Strangely enough, it works now...

[CrashG]

Yea incredibly old pre-sp1 benchmarks with crappy old nvidia drivers...

and people need to step away from the paradigm that free ram = faster

I don't know what all this is about Vista using all the memory. My setup only uses about 800-900Mb (it's usually around 850 or so with Directory Opus, IE7, Forte Agent, and WinAmp open) I haven't disabled anything. From all the talk I was really expecting it to be alot higher. Games seem to run as good as they did on XP, certainly not any worse.