Vista Ultimate 64b or Windows 7 Ultimate 64b for gaming?

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OH dear god Please get Windows 7. Vista is HORRIBLE, especially for gaming...

Actually, Windows Vista is no worse than Windows 7 for gaming per se (in case some of us have forgotten, both are based largely on server code; Windows Server 2003 in Vista's case, and Server 2008 in 7's case) and therefore are a ton more stable than the XP desktop code core (gamers are some of the biggest multitaskers and multithreaders in all of computing; however, most don't realize it).

The biggest minus the 64-bit versiions of Vista (and 7 as well) have as far as gaming goes has to do with really old games with 16-bit installers; however, few of these games require DirectX, either, which makes them also ideal for running in a virtual machine. (The only game I own that falls into the 16-bit installer category is Microsoft's Fury3, which is so old that it is playable in *Windows for Workgroups", not to mention Windows 9x, or even NT.)

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Actually, Windows Vista is no worse than Windows 7 for gaming per se (in case some of us have forgotten, both are based largely on server code; Windows Server 2003 in Vista's case, and Server 2008 in 7's case) and therefore are a ton more stable than the XP desktop code core (gamers are some of the biggest multitaskers and multithreaders in all of computing; however, most don't realize it).

btw Vista has the same codebase as Server 2008 since SP1

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I actually had no problems with Vista, in fact it was the most stable 2+ years of computing Ive ever had, not 1 freeze, crash or random reboot. That said, throw away your Vista and never look back as 7 64-bit blows it away.

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7.

Hands down.

Vista is a horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible OS.

Vista is horrible overall, just horrible for gaming.

January 2007 called. And said you two would fit right in with it and the rest of the people who obviously havent touched vista since then.

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Has anybody tried Crysis on Windows 7 64bit? Playing it a bit last night and it seemed so much more fluid and smoother compared to Vista. All settings at max except for textures (medium) and runs like a dream.

My specs are Intel Q6600, Geforce 8800GTS 320MB and 2GB ram. A better graphic card with more memory and I'm sure I could max the textures as well. Have 4GB ram coming soon which should improve things even more.

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7 Owns Vista hands down but for some vista may be slightly better, Vista die 7 Owns Vista.

While 7 Ultimate beats Vista Ultimate (which I have pointed out), Vista Ultimate whacks XP Professional (or Media Center 2005, which is based on Professional) in terms of stability of the operating system and multitasking/multithreading support, both of which are just as critical for gamers as frame rates (especially when it comes to multiplayer gaming).

How many people actually unload *everything* they may have running in the background just to play a game, even in XP? (I certainly didn't in XP, so no way would i do so in Vista or 7.) If you are going to benchmark, make it as close to how you actually use your computer (and this is especially true for gamers and the supposedly-game-focussed benchmarks, such as the 3DMark series). Otherwise, you're deliberately skewing the numbers, and fooling nobody (except maybe yourself).

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OH dear god Please get Windows 7. Vista is HORRIBLE, especially for gaming...

that's absolutely not true. please cite some sources or legitimate examples.

Has anybody tried Crysis on Windows 7 64bit? Playing it a bit last night and it seemed so much more fluid and smoother compared to Vista. All settings at max except for textures (medium) and runs like a dream.

My specs are Intel Q6600, Geforce 8800GTS 320MB and 2GB ram. A better graphic card with more memory and I'm sure I could max the textures as well. Have 4GB ram coming soon which should improve things even more.

yeah i've played crysis on 7 64-bit. just as smooth, no faster than Vista 64-bit.

interestingly though, i used to have the same 8800GTS as you. when upgraded to my 8800GTS 512MB, my Crysis benchmark scores more than doubled... one benchmark increased 66%. weird huh?

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