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  Gaming on Vista 10 to 15 Percent Slower than XP
Time: 01:32 EST/06:32 GMT | News Source: Neowin | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

Microsoft is reportedly telling it's gaming industry associates that games will run 10-15% slower on their new operating system due to the new GUI implemented.

Vista's new 3D desktop will constantly be draining the PC of video memory that games could make use of, so in actual fact many of your favourite games will probably run faster on Windows XP. Of course after Vista arrives new PCs and hardware will be built especially for Vista which will increase performance anyway.

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#1 By 2174 (24.31.103.42) at 10/9/2006 9:46:09 AM
Guess that makes up My mind to keep XP!
It would be a while before DX10 games are widely available.
I enjoy the current versions too much to slow them down just to be "stylish"
Besides EA doesn't need Microsoft's help with screwy running games ;)
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#2 By 61 (71.251.77.56) at 10/9/2006 10:40:49 AM
It's more an issue with audio and video drivers than Vista, just gotta wait for them to mature a bit.

#3 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 10/9/2006 11:35:05 AM
Neowin: Vista's new 3D desktop will constantly be draining the PC of video memory that games could make use of, so in actual fact many of your favourite games will probably run faster on Windows XP.

I'm not sure if the author was just speculating why this is the case, but I don't see why this explanation would be accurate given that most games run in exclusive mode. A much more likely explanation is the user-kernel mode video subsystem balance in Vista vs. that of XP (as well as the maturity of the drivers, but I think they may be considering theoretical best performance vs. current beta driver benchmarking).

#4 By 3 (62.253.128.15) at 10/9/2006 1:16:17 PM
Not sure why Neowin hasn't put a link to the actual source of the story - The Inq on Saturday. Certainly my tests on the latest drivers on RC2 show 10-15% slow down on gaming in genera, some games like FEAR and Battlefield 2 are much worse at around 25%

#5 By 1124 (165.170.128.66) at 10/9/2006 2:42:15 PM
Every OS from DOS to XP slowed the performance of games(with few minor exception). The bottom line is this is the nature of technology. When we get quad processors, we will not notice the problem. Try running XP on a 486.

#6 By 61 (71.251.77.56) at 10/9/2006 3:15:44 PM
kellino, I don't know what idiot came up with that garbage, but Vista already does this.

#7 By 20505 (64.60.114.101) at 10/9/2006 3:26:29 PM
I've been playing (literally and figuratively) with Vista RC2 this last weekend, and let me tell you that this OS is definitely not ready for gaming. It won't even run half my games and those that do run, run very slowly even with Aero turned off.

Taken together with the lack of driver support and backwards compatibility with at least half of the programs that I run; Vista look to be a turkey out of the gate. I know, I know, eventually it will be there but I think six months to a year before this is anything but a business program.

Right now Vista look an awful lot like Linux (only slower); you know - no general driver support, no games, no security suite but it looks pretty and is stable with a good office suite and browser. Oh by the way, Granny is never going to figure out how to use her USB drive what with the sixteen pop up screens needed to have security access to a drive hooked to the parent machine.

This is a very good time to short Microsoft. The sales numbers will be terrible for the new OS early on.

#8 By 61 (71.251.77.56) at 10/9/2006 5:06:16 PM
Oldog, I've never seen any security access popups for hooking up an external drive, EVER.

I wouldn't say there is a lack of driver support... at least all my devices have drivers, even the ones that aren't supported by the manufacturer anymore still work.

As far as gaming goes, you are probably trying to play an OpenGL game with the stock drivers, you need to ugprade to a driver that has actual OpenGL support in them, which can be downloaded from ATi or nVidia.

#9 By 7760 (12.155.143.50) at 10/9/2006 6:58:27 PM
I'm guessing that games that use a DX10 path will negate most or all of that 10-15% difference, and most of the good games that come out after Vista will include such a path. If I'm guessing right, I imagine that this slowness is only temporary and will mostly just affect games made in 2006. Earlier games would run fast enough that the slowdown wouldn't be much of a factor and later games would have DX10 paths and run pretty much the same. This is all speculation on my part, but I think that this is why Microsoft isn't too concerned about the current slowness.

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