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Windows Vista beta benchmarked against XP

A recent posting on the communal blog of CNET Networks technology editors compared the performance of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system against its existing Windows XP in a handful of tasks. Of particular interest to gamers, the Vista setup ran Vivendi's first-person shooter F.E.A.R. at a rate of one extra frame per second in 1,024x768 resolution but fell two frames per second short of the XP setup when running the game at 1,600x1,200 resolution.

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Published: 1286 days 16 hours ago | News | Gaming | PC

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achira - 1286 days 15 hours ago

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this is bs. its obvious that games will be slower on vista. so you have to buy new hardware. all this lies...

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Marriot VP - 1286 days 15 hours ago

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achira your retarded. Quit hating.

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Lucidmantra - 1286 days 15 hours ago

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exactly. The word Beta does mean something. They are still trying to work out the bugs and yes you will have to buy new hardware to take advantage of DX10 and its new instruction sets. Then again almost anyone who knows something about PCs would know that.

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PS360WiiRocks - 1286 days 13 hours ago

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whats a pc? lol j/k I didn't read the article but I see no use to get Vista unless DX10 is for all new Pc games which it most likely will, even tho I dont play them I probably will buy crysis cause yeah it explains itself

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according to sony...a pc is a ps3. which leaves one question still...then what is a pc?

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