Vista for games?
Written by Arnan on July 20, 2008 – 7:09 pmI am wondering about something. At the moment it’s just a thought…
Lately i bought an iMac 2.4Ghz with 4GB ram and i have a PC AMD 4200, dual core, with 3GB ram.
I am wondering, purely out of a gamers perspective. Is Vista better than XP?
I know all about the bad things Vista can do. I also know XP isn’t optimal on faster Computers. Currently i run XP pro SP2 on both computers for games. But i’m not comfortable with installing Vista only to discover it doesn’t work right.
I don’t want replies bitching on Vista for all it’s suckyness… I know it sucks mainly. but if it runs it runs and it will be PURELY used for games, the PC is for when i have a friend over to play games with and the iMac has OSX for everything else except games. So the ONLY thing that counts is game performance and OS performance while running games.
My main game being Civilization 4, some Steam games like HL2/TF2 and such…
For instance, would Civ4, which is sluggish on bigger games, work better on vista? Or can i put the world reflection on HL2 which are causing some slowdowns sometimes on the PC to “reflect all” instead of “reflect world”. Or can i put “Motion Blur” to high (HDR) in Vista?
Any experiences, tips, hints, ideas or whatever welcome…
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