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Re: Vista is slow at 3D rendering

In <1242725.AC1YSx6VsC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Roy Schestowitz  wrote:
>
> __/ [ Peter Hayes ] on Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:47 \__
> 
>> Test renders using Blender 2.42a show Vista to be a resource hog.
>> 
>> Test render, average of three renders for each platform,
>> 
>> Fedora Core 6 Linux   13m 09s
>> Windows 2000                  13m 37s
>> Vista RC1                     14m 09s
>> 
>> Shuttle PC, AMD Barton 2500+ 1 Gb ram with a Vista performance rating 
>> of 2.8  I would have hoped Vista would be at least as fast as Windows 
>> 2000. Where have all those years of development gone?
> 
> That's only about 5% slower, which is impressive. Other benchmarks are 
> more pessimistic.

But why no improvement over the W2K figure? The machine can chop a 
minute off the Vista time so I'd expect Microsoft's latest and greatest 
to come close to the Linux time.

> Vista gaming will be 10 to 15 per cent slower than XP 
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| So if you play Battlefield 2 or FEAR or any other popular game you 
>| are likely to get lower frame rates with Vista. That is certainly not 
>| a good buying argument but don?t think you and I have much choice as 
>| it looks like a take it or leave it deal. I like Vista as the 3D 
>| desktop looks sexy but that is probably its key feature.
> `----                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34915
> 
> Microsoft doesn't yet play games on Vista 
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The firm has its Vista logo all over its boothm, but all the machines 
>| that we investigated were running Windows XP.  Obviously, it is still 
>| not the right time to switch to Vista as things might be not stable 
>| for current games. We hope that they can meet the early 2007 
>| schedules. 
> `----
> 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33924

Gamers will eventually have to move to Vista because of the DirectX 10 
lock in.

-- 

Peter

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