binkster 0 Posted May 28, 2007 First off I made a dual boot of XP and Vista My system specs are: 6600 2.4ghz OC to 3.2ghz OCZ 800mhz 2x 1gig 8800gtx 600W psu GPU DRIVERS XP 158.22 GPU DRIVERS VISTA 158.18 Settings: Vsync OFF Antialiasing OFF Anisotropic OFF Apsec Ratio 16:10 Resolution 1680x1050 VisualDistance 2800m Terrain High Object High Texture High Post Process High Shadow Normal Tested a simple fire fight inside a large City XP Performance: Version 1.06 Fast Loadup Average 45FPS No LOD issues with quick test Xp Performance: Version 1.07fix Fast loadup Average 40FPS No LOD issues Vista Performance: Version 1.06 Very slow loadup compared to XP Average 28FPS Did have quick LOD issues at first It actually crashed once out of a few test.. Vista Performance: Version 1.07Fix Slow loadup Average 25FPS No LOD issues from the quick test. And also crashed once after several test. Seems like im playing ArmA on XP for now on.. Seemed to solve some bad performance issues You need this nifty program to edit the boot.ini if you installed vista before xp... If you install xp then vista you shouldnt need this program to edit it. VistaBootPro Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kilo1-1 1 Posted May 28, 2007 This has been known for quite some time. Pretty much every game played on Vista (DX9) is going to have some performance issues vs. XP performance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
binkster 0 Posted May 28, 2007 Yea I knew it was known I just wanted to get more detailed on the difference. Knowing the FPS with each OS explains alot rather than just knowing performance sucks on vista. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sniperdoc 0 Posted May 28, 2007 You need this nifty program to choose which OS to boot from VistaBootPro Off Topic: I didn't need any program... Vista will create a "boot.ini" of sorts that automatically will let you select which OS to boot into... rather than install some 3rd party program I'd let the OS's do their own work. Just something else to muddle up your install. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
binkster 0 Posted May 28, 2007 @SniperDoc I tried that ran into problems, after searching I found out if you install vista first then xp you will need a 3rd party program cause xp will overwrite the bootini Edit: Forgot to say that u dont use the 3rd party addon to change between OS, you use it to install the vista boot up files.. This allows you to basically edit the boot files then you can decide which to boot in Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The_Nebula 0 Posted May 28, 2007 With Vista, use the 160.03 Drivers - Give a big boost in FPS! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
binkster 0 Posted May 28, 2007 Yea Ill check those drivers and report back. Actually I noticed something else that can be running down my vista side. There is scanningprocess.exe running in my memory, disk, and processing, I checked my resource monitoring, this can have a large effect cause 8% of processing is going to this. Not sure if this is indexing, or Zone Alarm (which is turned off)... Ill try and turn some of these proceses off and try again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
