Guest mentalcrisis00 Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Wondering if you folks think that games would run better under windows XP or vista? i've been running vista on my dell vostro for about a month and i am very disappointed with it's performance. Games crash alot or run badly, i've tried at least a dozen video drivers, and vista also takes more then a minute to fully boot up. My xp rig only takes a few seconds to go from welcome screen to desktop. Curiose as to what others think about vista or if switching back to xp would improve gaming at all. thanks -Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrm Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 I use Vista on my rig, and I like it, from what I've read you will gain some performance by switching back to XP but you will lose the nice user interface from Vista, your choice. I don't know how Vista SP1 will affect the gaming performance but I hope it will atleast give some more performance,I'll just sit back and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Bond Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Of course, regressing to XP, you will get better performance due to how XP doesn't hog all of your computer's resources. However, you will lose DirectX 10, including the newer Shaders and OpenGL and eventually will lose compatibility as games become more familiar with DX10. So really, its a matter of preference. Compatibility or Preformance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Si (UK) Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 XP is loads better than vista for games weather you got a laptop or a desktop... I run xp on my dell m1710 after removing vista and games run great.. Same with my dektop PC . i dual boot xp and vista ... I have a C2D running at 3.4ghz 2gb ram and a 8800GTX ultra , running the same game with the same settings on vista as i do on xp the performance is sometimes cut in half , thats how poor vista is for gaming... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Ferret Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Honestly i love vista. It has its issues but on my m1710 i had issue with gaming until i did a fresh install (non dell install) and installed drivers past 101.19. Compairing desktop to laptop does not help cause they really cant be compaired due to components. I would say try both and see if the games you play work well in vista. If not go xp... really have to try it for your self but before you make judgement make sure you have updated everything and have the latest drivers. The same you should do for xp anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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