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How's Vista Gaming Performance Nowadays?

Would be great if you still have your 3DMark score from XP somewhere. :)
- code255
- Post #8
- Jan 8, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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How's Vista Gaming Performance Nowadays?

While it's nice that you guys are getting good framerates in Vista, it's how they compare to what you'd be getting in Windows XP that's being questioned in this thread. :P Have a look at: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2850&p=3 That short preview article showed that framerates in...
- code255
- Post #5
- Jan 7, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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What rig are you hoping to run Crysis on?

It most definitely won't run well on my system (X2 3800, 2GB RAM, GeForce 6800GT, native monitor resolution: 1680*1050). I'll upgrade in maybe half a year or so, maybe a bit earlier if Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is out by then. I'll probably try to get a Intel Core 2 Quad and a GeForce 8800GTX...
- code255
- Post #36
- Jan 7, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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How's Vista Gaming Performance Nowadays?

I noticed that Nvidia released some new (non-beta!) ForceWare drivers (version 97.46) for their older GPUs for Windows Vista two days ago (5th of Jan 2007). Several months ago there were some reports which showed that, in general, gaming performance was lacking a bit on Vista. Often...
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- Jan 7, 2007
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows Vista Rules.

Thanks for all the constructive (first few pages in particular :P) comments about your Vista experiences, folks. I'm still using XP (x64), but I'll probably check out Vista fairly soon. I've got a dual core system, 2 gigs of RAM, and a decent GPU, so hopefully even Aero will run nicely. I...
- code255
- Post #178
- Jan 7, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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building a SFF gaming box in next six months

Intel Core 2 CPUs will probably still be the best in performance and value in 6 months. Whether or not you'll benefit from a quad core depends on what games you'll play. The only game I know of which will make a lot of use of quad core CPUs is Alan Wake. Crysis also has multi-core support...
- code255
- Post #11
- Jan 7, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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JOIN THE BOYCOTT FOR BATTLEFIELD 2142!

I've been boycotting all Electronics Arts products since after Battlefield 1942. I loved BF1942, but I hated the bugs, and since Dice/EA can't be bothered with quality assurance and generally polishing their games, I'm not giving them any of my money. Glad to see lots of people boycotting...
- code255
- Post #449
- Nov 25, 2006
- Forum: Windows
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How much impact do RAM speeds have on gaming performance?

Hello, How much impact do RAM speeds (with this I mean all of the RAM attributes except for size) really have on gaming performance? Will extremely high-end RAM, which is being marketed as RAM for gamers, really make games run better than fairly "normal" RAM? Would it be worth buying some...
- code255
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- Jan 16, 2005
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Computer Building
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Optimal Graphics Card for an Athlon XP 2200?

Won't a GeForce 6800 GT perform like crap on my Athlon XP 2200+ processor? Or is the processor not all that important at high resolutions?
- code255
- Post #4
- Jan 16, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Optimal Graphics Card for an Athlon XP 2200?

Hi folks, I currently have a Athlon XP 2200+, 786MB of RAM, and a GeForce4 Ti 4600 graphics card. My system performs pretty well in games at resolutions 1024*768 and 1280*1024. The only real exception is Half-Life 2, which is a bit slow even at 1024*768, but I don't really care much about...
- code255
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- Jan 16, 2005
- Replies: 26
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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CRT Eyestrain

I recently got a LCD monitor (a Philips 170C - 17", 1280*1024) and I don't get any eye-strain anymore! Even with my fairly good CRT (18.x", 1152*864, 100Hz), my eyes would get tired, and eventually looking at the screen would sting. Even though my new monitor has a higher pixel density (1280 on...
- code255
- Post #21
- Jan 5, 2005
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Got my Dell ULTRASHARP 2005fp. -----

I'm in the UK and really wanted a good widescreen monitor (I play tons of games, I watch a lot of movies, and I also do a bit of graphics work every now and then), so I bought a 2005FPW, even though they're bloody expensive here. The best deal I could find was £489 (including VAT and...
- code255
- Post #83
- Jan 5, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building

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