Thread: Windows Vista as a playground

It seems that Windows Vista finally fully prepared. No one denies that the development of a new operating system has taken unusually long time, and some of the chips were cut in the development process. At the same time, output Vista - an important event for gamers. In this folder OS games at the top of the Start menu. It has a slot conductor (Games Explorer), which you could easily find, launch and update the game. Parental control too. DirectX 10 is exclusively for the development of Vista. Despite the fact that the games that use it do not exist, they are expected very soon.

Windows was a better OS for games, for many years, and Vista - a qualitatively new level. Vista has been installed on my home computer from October and up to now, and now I want to share their gaming experiences on the example of several popular games.
We conducted our tests at a computer:
Processor: Athlon 64 FX-60 (2.6GHz) (socket 939)
Motherboard: ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe
Memory: 2GB Corsair DDR400
Graphics card: GeForce 8800 GTS
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD1500ADFD
Sound card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Monitor: Sony 19 "Trinitron CRT
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate
Rating productivity amounted to 5.1 in Vista.
Naturally, that were installed before testing all the latest firewood. Problems arose only in the maternal and pay-were resolved by pereproshivki bios.
Before the quiz games, I decided to test productivity with 3DMark06. It all started with the fact that he was unable to recognize DirectX and to continue with the installation, I had to agree to install 9 - version.
After the upgrade to version 1.10, 3DMark06 worked no worse than in XP. Configuration was estimated at 8052 points.
So proceed directly to the games.
Half-Life 2 worked perfectly, as Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source. I just ran Half-Life, which is built on OpenGL technology that is outdated. Despite this, no problems with the game did not raise.
However, with the launch of games using Steam, with the help Igrovogo conductor (Games Explorer) are having problems. In the end, the only solution was the launch via Steam, as in XP.
This 800 - pound gorilla in the world of games, World of Warcraft, with its 8 millionth Army players, not bad enough work with Windows Vista. Productivity of the game no worse than XP, and often did not raise any problems with uploading and installing patches. PLAYING IN conductor label games in a picture display with the game packaging. So if you Jumppahuiti on WoW, can not afraid of challenges in the new OS.
Turning to another network game, Battlefield 2. I installed it with the license disk, the installation went without problems. Before installing window was shown, with the warning that tested the game with only 32 - bit version of XP. To continue, it was quite click OK. Patch 1.41 also established without problems. However, when I tried to log into the server, Punkbuster printed out a message that I was kicked for inadequate OS privileges (dishonest law in OS).
After I noted in the option game select "Start" on behalf of the administrator, the problem disappeared and I was able to play on any server.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on the new operating system is legit.
I installed the DVD version, and patched it to version 1.1.511. With the installation of the patch are having problems related to the control of accounts (User Account Control), but they decided less than a minute. Otherwise, the problems were observed.



Installing F.E.A.R. patches on it without any problem. Since their performance is not arisen. When entering the server with Punkbuster problem Battlefield 2 does not repeat itself, everything worked perfectly and without starting with an administrator. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter also not caused problems, but the performance was even higher than in XP. Doom 3 worked without problems, but to install a patch, I had to run it with an administrator.



So, let rating. Windows Vista - excellent operating system for the games. At the very least, no worse than XP. Encountered problems rather easily corrected. Quite often enough to start the game as an administrator. The only thing you can prevent - problems with the drivers, but this is quite another story ...