VISTA viable for gaming?

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I got my hands on VISTA played a few hours and I immediately "upgraded" to XP. Where I could finally play my games again...with no graphic hiccups and game crashes.

It has got to be one of the most infuriating OSes (spelling?) I have ever used. Not just drivers but the way it does stufff. "Are you sure you want to connect to that site?" "Did you want to install this program?" "Are you really really really sure?" I spent some valuable time turning those messages off. That MAC ad had it right. :)

I heard there was going to be a major patch, but it seems most of the big A list games for PC are going to be XP and DX9 supported, and VISTA only games so far have been lazy sellers.

What are your thoughts? Are you playing games under VISTA if so which ones?
 
Vista is the perfect operating system for PC gamers whom library of games will consist of only Halo 2, Shadowrun, and UNO. :lol:

Hopefully Vista won't ne brisked off to the side like WinMe and matures into the likes of 2k/xp.
 
whens uno coming out? i got 3.0ghz pentium 4, 2Gb ram and geforce 8500. i run halo and shadowrun fine. soon most games are gonna be vista only. vista isnt that bad.
 
[quote name='BoomRocker']Ooohhh UNO! Also why is LIVE only for Vista. That seems odd.[/QUOTE]


Gears of War will be the first XP game with windows live :)


I'll probably get Vista around this time next year or a bit sooner depending on the usual factors...
 
I've been thinking of getting the 64bit version of Vista when I get a DX10 card but unless Vista tweaks really well (meaning, get rid of all the crap that I don't want) then I'll probably dual boot with good 'ol XP.

I'm running Vista at work and I keep thinking of switching back. Vista just wasn't made for hardcore PC users. And yet, MS uses things like DX10 to try and get us to make the switch to the granny OS.

Oh Microsoft, I used to like you, but Vista has just confused my feelings about you.
 
games have run just fine on vista, i mostly play CS:S and WOW, as for the permission pop ups, you can turn those off in about 2 clicks.
 
I love Vista. It is kinda annoying with all the popups but there are alot of things that are done better in Vista. Like the quick search bar.
 
Vista is working perfectly for me, with every game I own. (except Dungeon Keeper 2) :(

It's very bloated at first, but you can disable a ton of services and extra things you don't want, and it's just fine.
 
The only game I've had trouble Vista trouble with is Rome: Total War. Everything else has run great. I like Vista.
 
[quote name='RAMSTORIA']games have run just fine on vista, i mostly play CS:S and WOW, as for the permission pop ups, you can turn those off in about 2 clicks.[/quote]

Accually to turn it off takes about 4 clicks, pressing accept about 3 times, and restarting your system.

I guess they want people to keep it on.
 
If you did a benchmark test comparing vista to xp workload/process wise XP wins by leaps and bounds while vista hogs your valuable memory and cpu space. Lets not forget that a lot of software is still incompatible with it.
 
COD2 would not run on Vista for me, and even with nvidia's most curent drivers I got bad artifcating in the video.

All in all I hope Vista is a success for the money I have sunk into it, and I pray its not another ME.

Also do you say it VEEESTA or VIZ-TA?
 
Vista couldn't port forward for me at all, which is why I switched back.
XP FTMFW.

Now if only I could figure out why Steam can't get online when everything else does...
 
I love hearing this same bullshit over and over again on every sight. Funny, I've had Vista since November, and I have run into a whopping 1 game that doesn't play perfectly on it. It was a game that didn't work well on XP service pack 2. Most games I have perform better on Vista than they did on the same computer with XP. Problem is there are too many people trying to run Vista on garbage computers and expecting it to work. Most compatibility issues are hardware related.

Way too many people that barely know how to turn there computer, do something stupid, and then want to run all over the internet to make sure they tell as many people as possible that it's everyone fault but their own.
 
[quote name='n25philly']I love hearing this same bullshit over and over again on every sight. Funny, I've had Vista since November, and I have run into a whopping 1 game that doesn't play perfectly on it. It was a game that didn't work well on XP service pack 2. Most games I have perform better on Vista than they did on the same computer with XP. Problem is there are too many people trying to run Vista on garbage computers and expecting it to work. Most compatibility issues are hardware related.

Way too many people that barely know how to turn there computer, do something stupid, and then want to run all over the internet to make sure they tell as many people as possible that it's everyone fault but their own.[/quote]

I was about to ask why you are such an angry person but then I noticed your name. Crazy angry Philly people.
 
I dual boot 64 bit Vista and 32 bit XP that way I can just switch back to XP if I have trouble with anything. So far with Vista I have only had trouble with the sound in Portal, which is strange because the rest of the Orange Box runs great. I have mostly run new games though, but I want to be able to run the newer games in DX10.
 
The sound stutter is actually caused by things being loaded into video RAM. I found getting the latest Nvidia Beta driver fixed all my problems. Also, try turning down your resolution or switching to bloom instead of HDR.

[quote name='msdmoney']I dual boot 64 bit Vista and 32 bit XP that way I can just switch back to XP if I have trouble with anything. So far with Vista I have only had trouble with the sound in Portal, which is strange because the rest of the Orange Box runs great. I have mostly run new games though, but I want to be able to run the newer games in DX10.[/quote]


I dual booted Vista and XP. My original plan was to use XP just for gaming. After a few driver updates and game patches, I really didn't even notice any difference between the two. For arguements sake, I'd say XP is faster, but thats just because its a lighter install and the SLI drivers worked a lot better (but they still sucked for 7 series cards). All-in-all, Vista really isn't that bad. I wouldn't pay $400 for ultimate nor $200 for a gimped version, but for the free I got it for, its not bad.
 
Yo Philly. My hardware is fine. Its just that the drivers are trash. Vista does need higher specs than a relatively similar performing XP machine.

My comments were just on the actual feel of the OS and its not that nice for me personally. Maybe the patch will address the communities issues. I hope :eek:)

PC gaming is where it is for me, so I am going where the games are..XP or Vista!
 
[quote name='BoomRocker']COD2 would not run on Vista for me, and even with nvidia's most curent drivers I got bad artifcating in the video.

All in all I hope Vista is a success for the money I have sunk into it, and I pray its not another ME.

Also do you say it VEEESTA or VIZ-TA?[/quote]


actually, artifcating is usually a good sign that you're video card is close to kicking the bucket, not of driver or software performance.
 
Perhaps, but the video card works like a champ under XP.

I have money in Vista so by all means I am eager to see it get off the ground, but I wish it was a more successful launch. :)
 
Vista works fine for gaming. I've been using it for the last 4 months now and I can say that any problems I did have with games. Have been fixed promptlyby either Microsoft hotfixes, driver updates or the game publisher. A new OS always has bugs/issues. Let's not forget when XP came out, there where plenty of bugs that needed to be resolved. I've yet to have Vista hardlock on me, requiring me to reboot. A nice, but little know feature in Vista is its ability to capture a driver failure in a 'bubble' and stop it the OS from BSODing, and then restarting the driver.

As for those annoying popups you get, those can be tunred off, look up "User Account Control" or UAC in google, about how to turn it off.
 
At this point, I really can't go back to XP. Games run fine under Vista and I haven't run into any compatibility problems. And the interface is worlds better. I really can't see myself ever putting XP on my computer again and when I do have to use it, I miss the prettiness of Vista.
 
My vista runs faster and stabler on my hardware then XP does, but everytime I see someone with a preloaded Vista it seems to suck. Games run just fine too on my 7900.
 
Removing the HAL layer was such a great idea and so that we can't use EAX
Yea sounds gamer friendly to me

anyways i dual boot with Win vista x64 and Win XP pro
 
Yeah I am dual booting now too. Looks like most of the artifacting is cleared up with Nvidias newest drivers.

I know VISTA is prettier...but it just doesn't seem better...just different.

I know I sound like a grouchy old man, but I will soon like VISTA I am sure.

Yeah back to TF2!
 
[quote name='Animefalcon']Removing the HAL layer was such a great idea and so that we can't use EAX
Yea sounds gamer friendly to me

anyways i dual boot with Win vista x64 and Win XP pro[/QUOTE]

Considering that it eliminates the instability that creative's cards caused... yeah, it actually was a great idea.

We needed to move away from the sound card nonsense and Creative's bullshit drivers anyway.
 
Yeah, Creative's drivers are pretty shitty. Almost every time I shut down XP, their audio console taskbar app crashes. Makes me laugh. Vista is fine. I use Creative's ALchemy for EAX support for games that don't have OpenAL. The only game I've had any noticeable performance loss was the UT3 demo, but that's probably because ATI/AMD's Catalyst drivers suck/aren't mature under Vista.
 
[quote name='Chacrana']Considering that it eliminates the instability that creative's cards caused... yeah, it actually was a great idea.

We needed to move away from the sound card nonsense and Creative's bullshit drivers anyway.[/quote]

Yes, Microsoft re-wrote the entire audio stack taking away the ability for any audio programs being being able to access the kernel level in windows. This will solve a lot of stability issues. EAX gets killed because of the sh!tty programming it consisted of.
 
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