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RyanLucier
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Well, i decided to pick up a copy of vista since sooner or later I knew i'd need it, so might as well get it now. Needless to say, I already have XP installed again...
Counter-strike source on XP ran 100fps constant @ 2560x1600 w/ 16xQ FSAA and 16x AF and maximum details. In Vista? 1fps. Thats right, 1. If i lowered the anti-aliasing to 4x FSAA I could manage 25-30fps. If i turned FSAA off, it averaged around 80fps. If I turned SLI off, then performance was about 20% slower than a single 8800gtx in XP. So for non-sli, things aren't "too bad" but SLI right now pretty much is not supported.
Looks like nvidia has a long road ahead of them, as this performance was mimicked in many other games. World of Warcraft the burning crusade ran "tolerably" at 2560x1600 w/ 4x FSAA, but there were numerous slowdowns and stutters, it wasn't an even remotely fluid 60fps.
I think a lot of these vista benchmarks floating around on the net are quite misleading because they're all at 1600x1200 or lower. I haven't seen too many 2560x1600 benchmarks out there, and there's probably a good reason why, they run like complete garbage.
Counter-strike source on XP ran 100fps constant @ 2560x1600 w/ 16xQ FSAA and 16x AF and maximum details. In Vista? 1fps. Thats right, 1. If i lowered the anti-aliasing to 4x FSAA I could manage 25-30fps. If i turned FSAA off, it averaged around 80fps. If I turned SLI off, then performance was about 20% slower than a single 8800gtx in XP. So for non-sli, things aren't "too bad" but SLI right now pretty much is not supported.
Looks like nvidia has a long road ahead of them, as this performance was mimicked in many other games. World of Warcraft the burning crusade ran "tolerably" at 2560x1600 w/ 4x FSAA, but there were numerous slowdowns and stutters, it wasn't an even remotely fluid 60fps.
I think a lot of these vista benchmarks floating around on the net are quite misleading because they're all at 1600x1200 or lower. I haven't seen too many 2560x1600 benchmarks out there, and there's probably a good reason why, they run like complete garbage.
