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 framerates were around 10-15% lower on Vista than on XP. But that was with Release Candidate versions of Vista, and beta versions of ATI and Nvidia drivers (this probably had a more serious impact).
What's the situation NOW? How does gaming performance on Windows Vista (final version with latest GPU drivers) compare to Windows XP? Now that Vista software and drivers aren't in beta stage anymore, do games perform as good on Vista as on XP? Do they even perform better than on XP now (*gasp*!), or will we probably have to wait for DX10 to mature to see any benefits?
Are there some reports on how the new Nvidia Vista drivers perform out already, or will we have to wait for lots of Vista reports and benchmarks to get published on the day Vista launches to the public?
Several months ago there were some reports which showed that, in general, gaming performance was lacking a bit on Vista. Often framerates were around 10-15% lower on Vista than on XP. But that was with Release Candidate versions of Vista, and beta versions of ATI and Nvidia drivers (this probably had a more serious impact).
What's the situation NOW? How does gaming performance on Windows Vista (final version with latest GPU drivers) compare to Windows XP? Now that Vista software and drivers aren't in beta stage anymore, do games perform as good on Vista as on XP? Do they even perform better than on XP now (*gasp*!), or will we probably have to wait for DX10 to mature to see any benefits?
Are there some reports on how the new Nvidia Vista drivers perform out already, or will we have to wait for lots of Vista reports and benchmarks to get published on the day Vista launches to the public?