Gaming on Vista not up to scratch?
The complaints about gaming on Vista have started to grow with numerous reports (and personal experience) of crashes, artifacts and low FPS issues on high end machines. Granted, the majority of the games were coded for Windows XP but, still.
I was in the Vista beta program and had the same problems as a lot of people are reporting, e.g: In Counter-Strike:Source I average 100FPS on XP and that dropped to ~20 on Vista, which is simply awful. Chris Donahue, manager of the Microsoft Games for Windows Group stated that they tested 1,000 games from the past five years on Vista; he said that most worked well. Not very in depth there, Mr Donahue.
Vista is, however, gearing up for DirectX 10, the new rendering technology from Microsoft which games such as Crysis are being written on so all we can do is hope that the inclusion of DirectX 10 will increase performance and stop these bugs with Vista.
This post on nVidia’s forums summed it up pretty well:
“Formatted PC, installed Vista, updated any drivers possible. Now half [of my] games will not run, or run with corrupt graphics,”
And the reply:
“You installed Vista. You deserve your problems. Heh,”
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