[The Silent Warrior]

By comparison, Windows 7 feels considerably more snappy, and requires fewer resources. Windows 7 also benefits from the growing pains of Vista, as they largely share the same driver format. For gaming, the biggest concern is video card drivers. In this test, four games are used for the benchmark. Batman Arkham Asylum, Lost Planet, Resident Evil 5, Call of Duty 4.

System Setup: Intel Core i7 920, Intel DX58S0, 3GB DDR3 RAM, Windows Vista SP2 32-bit, Windows XP SP3 32-bit, Windows 7 32-bit, 750GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA Hard Disk Drive. Graphics Cards: PNY GeForce GTX 280 1GB, Radeon HD 4870 512MB. Graphics Drivers: ATI Catalyst 9.9, Nvidia ForceWare 191.07.



Source: Gamespot

This post has been edited by The Silent Warrior: 25 October 2009 - 03:08 PM

[FalseAgent]

this is it - windows7 is the final blow to gaming on windows XP!

[Munkypoo7]

While it does show an improvement, graphics drivers aren't fully prepared for 7 yet, many components are still Vista and not just 7 components.

Give it a month, then gaming benchmarks could REALLY mean something...

[K.L.Devine]

Finally! Bye bye XP.

[zool]

Guys, which is better? DX10 in Vista or 7? I played some games using Vista compatibility, and the performance is sucks.. then i switched back to XP compatibility , the games run smoother with maximum settings.. Does this mean DX10 is slower than DX9? I also noticed that games run in Windows 7 are better than XP in my PC..

[poolsharkzz]

XP was never made to be a "Gaming Console", surely not to the level that is needed to run today's games well.

This is why XP scored a bit lower - even with the level of hardware technology being equal...

XP as an Operating System was never made to run games of today's standards and quality - that is what your PS3 and XBox 360 is for!

Seriously, you guys need to check out this Thread.

All that upgrade nightmare for what, maybe a 15% - 20% increase in performance?

I got that alone from just upgrading my Ram - not to mention the Processor!

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[poolsharkzz]

zool, on 26 October 2009 - 12:25 PM, said:

Guys, which is better? DX10 in Vista or 7? I played some games using Vista compatibility, and the performance is sucks.. then i switched back to XP compatibility , the games run smoother with maximum settings.. Does this mean DX10 is slower than DX9? I also noticed that games run in Windows 7 are better than XP in my PC..

It all may depend on your hardware specs - is your current system built for gaming and if so, what's under the hood?

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This post has been edited by poolsharkzz: 26 October 2009 - 11:59 PM

[coldemone]

I thought Xp is for gaming since it leaves the RAM and cpu free of other crappy overloads like how vista did.

[RickSOLET]

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Does this mean DX10 is slower than DX9?

It depends upon games. Some games run better in DX10 mode where as Crysis and Far Cry 2 run slower in DX10 mode.

[poolsharkzz]

coldemone, on 29 October 2009 - 03:33 AM, said:

I thought Xp is for gaming since it leaves the RAM and cpu free of other crappy overloads like how vista did.

While XP has much improved memory management versus older Win 9x systems, Micrososft stepped it up in Vista and Windows 7.

In most circumstances, you should have better performance in newer systems.

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[ayoshi]

i experience low performance in gaming in vista.

I can't play left4dead 1 smoothly in vista

but I like the way Vista took care of my files even if I system restore