Re: The Witcher Performance Issue.

CJM wrote:

"Nostromo" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:cvev3419k74erqfn455turml6r8rso4fai@xxxxxxxxxx

No thanks. What I do know is that Vista has taken Windows game performance
back by 50% to the late 90s. We now have to have dual-core beasts of systems
to get even half-decent performance out of most single core designed apps.


You are talking out of your arse again. Don't believe the hype re: vista gaming performance. I ran some direct comparable tests at the end of 2006 *on the same hardware*, running the games I played at that time, on XP, Vista x86, and Vista x64 - this was back when driver support was still ropey. I found that XP was indeed the best, followed by x64 and then x86, but the difference was 5% or less. With SP1 and improved driver support and 'Games for Windows', many games run equally fast or faster.

Secondly, if you have a single threaded game, the only benefit of multiple cores is that a second core can run all the OS/kernel-level stuff while the first runs the game. However, if you purchased a modern CPU (say a mid-range C2D), the increase in power for a single core would outweigh the benefits of a second core for such games.

Of course Vista is more demanding... If you run a CPU circa 2005 then you should stick with the OS from 2005. If you want to run Vista, you need hardware from the Vista era. This was exactly the same as when XP was introduced in 2001.

Maybe it's just me, but when this "must-have" shiny new OS gets pushed on us, for some reason I'm expecting it to perform BETTER, not worse, than what's already in use. To me, it's really sad that people come out and defend the shitty performance of Vista, when it runs slower on brand new hot computers than XP did on "circa 2005" computers. And I've done my own testing too - I could run a bunch of my apps and games faster on my old XP notebook than I could on a shiny new desktop I was testing out, running them side-by-side. Pretty pathetic that a new OS comes out and REQUIRES you to upgrade your hardware requirements just to run at the same speed you've been used to for years, don't you think? Seriously, if you have an "upgrade" that downgrades your performance, why defend that crap? 5% loss is 5% loss.

CoinSpin

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