Info: No longer a reason not to use vista when it comes to gaming

[Legion]

Originally Posted by Koister

Yeah..

The people who can't start because of SP3 upgrade are the ones using HP machines with AMD cpu's.

HP bundled the wrong drivers in the SP3 updated, causing major issues to people with HP machines..

Windows has re-released SP3 and the issue has been fixed.

okidoki good that

[WoenK]

Originally Posted by Deluxe Pepe

It really depends on the GPU you use.

With ATI cards the situation is horrendous, with DX9 easily outperforming DX10. ATI need to get on top of that.

With NVidia cards (like 8800 series upwards), performance is the same or negligible -- no more than a 3-5fps hit at worse, which is unnoticeable during actual gameplay, and hardly unforgivable given the extra rendering required.

Surprise! Every DirectX release has had higher requirements than the previous release.

Can not confirm this.
One of the reasons I switched to ATI were the Nvidia driver under Vista, they are simply crap
I do not trust Nvidia anymore since the "update" on Assasins Creed. Game was performing better with ATI because of 10.1 support, Ubi took that out because it did not play best with Nvidia
And then those driver tweaking for benchmarks...
Or errors in games...
Had been using Nvidia for over 5 years, but right now they neither write stable and WHQL certified drivers nor do they give the best bang for the buck.
And that unstable beta drivers issue is also not for most of the users