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Gaming Performance: Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3

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ExtremeTech tests Vista versus XP in gaming performance and in synthetic tests showing that the performance difference is negligible pointing to poor drivers accounting for the drop in performance when using Vista in it's infancy.
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Published: 589 days 11 hours ago | Article | Gaming | PC | Industry News | Tech
 
 

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wow4u - 589 days 11 hours ago
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nVidia and AMD drivers have finally matured.

At one point, nVidia's drivers were so bad, they were directly responsible for 33% of all Vista crashes. That's crazy.
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season007 - 589 days 4 hours ago
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2 - Opps...let the haters begin
so now it is about the driver or vista?
vista still sucks?

hmm, no offense but maybe its not about Vista, it is shown pretty obviously
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Tmac - 589 days 4 hours ago
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However impressive these results are, it's like comparing a PS2 to a PS1, since when does the predecessor have the technical edge? I'm sorry, I'm running Vista Ultimate right now, next time Vista inevitably crashes I'm booting up with XP.
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Charlie2688 - 589 days 3 hours ago
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"it's like comparing a PS2 to a PS1"

WOW, I guess you are not very familiar with OS cumulative and compatibility progression specially for Windows...cuz like it or not that is how it works
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wow4u - 589 days 2 hours ago
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If your vista crashes, I dare say you are the cause.
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Assclown20 - 589 days 3 hours ago
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Dont even listen to Tmac he is a sony fanboy. All he knows is Playstations.
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