I’ve been an early adopter for Microsoft Operating Systems since Windows 98. I was there on launch day buying my copies of Vista for use with my GeForce 8800 GTS. I was super keen to download the CoH Direct X 10 patch (which took 3 hours to install due to a bad hard drive). Overall though, I knew game peformance would be slower than XP until the video card drivers improved.
I’ve been telling folks for a while that game performance and compatibility on Vista was a non-issue. Especially for Relic games. I’m actually working on an Article outlining running all of Relic’s PC games running on Vista X64. Spoiler: Relic games run in Vista as well as they do in XP (and better for CoH, as it has DX10 and XP does not).
Video card drivers have been improving for a while now, and we’ve now got benchmarks showing Vista SP1 besting XP SP3 performance wise for World in Conflict, Supreme Commander, and Crysis from Extremetech.com.
If you were using Vista’s gaming performance as an excuse to not get Vista, it’s time to find something else to hitch your horse too! I’ve said it since I’ve had it installed, Vista is Microsoft’s best OS yet. If you have questions about Vista and gaming, post a comment and I’ll try and respond. If you want to dis Microsoft, feel free to post as well, but don’t expect a response :-D
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Posted by Astrocrab at May 16th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Homeworld 2 works in Vista?
That’s news to me. I’ve been trying to get it to function since last May.
Posted by ÜberJumper at May 17th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Works flawlessly. Post on the tech forums and I can give you some help.
It was the first game I re-installed after installing one of the Vista release candidates, has worked since then.
Posted by dude at June 6th, 2008 at 8:33 am
I’ts all about video drivers! I could not play CNC generals,ZeroHour and CoD4-demo untill I updated. The message I got was something to do with the “spooge” sonething in ur DirectX.
Posted by WABBIT at June 18th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I actually have two issues, which I beleieve are linked to a single problem. One is that it reports to me that my “agp” card is running in pci mode and needs to be addressed (my card is pci-X). It then tells me my graphics drivers are out of date and need to be updated, lol. Game will sort of run, but jumpy and any change to video settings will cause major malfunction rendering it unplayable and having to be reinstalled.
6860fx
t9300 2.6 core duo, 6mb l2
geforce 8800m gts 512 ddr3
4gb ddr2 at 667mhz
320 gb 5400 rpm hd
Vista home premium 64 bit
Posted by ÜberJumper at July 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
WABBIT:
You can ignore that AGP/PCI warning. That also comes up in XP if you have a PCI-X card. Same with the graphics drivers warning.
Homeworld 2 runs beautifully on my Vista based rig (I played in on Vista 32 and 64 bit).