Is it too soon to bother with Vista for gaming?

[hippytwoshoes]

hello!

new to the forums, just wanted to say hi and also had a question here.
so sure vista is out now, but i'm really into pc gaming & have quite a few games i like to play on occasion(who doesn't?).. but what's the compatibility like so far with Vista?..

 

[j79zlr]

Right now you are definitely better with XP. There is better driver support and no new games use DirectX 10 AFAIK.

 

[ming]

whats afaik again?:nervous:

 

[American Zombie]

as far as I know

 

[LordOfLA]

I don't have any issues with gaming in vista that won't be solved by final build drivers over the coming weeks.

 

[Khayman]

i don't have any issues with gaming right now

not slower or anything else. i'm not a "hardcore" gamer, but i do my fair share.
No games out use DX10... so? doesn't stop current games working

 

[kop48]

http://techgage.com/article/windows_vista_gaming_performance_reports/

A nice report on the state of Vista gaming at the moment. ATI definitely seems to be on the ball compared to Nvidia with their drivers.

 

[ElementalDragon]

yeah..... and ATI also doesn't have a video card using unified shaders out yet..... let alone a card that supports DX10. They also have a much smaller base of people actually USING an ATI-based motherboard requiring ATI drivers. NVidia has to get good 8800GTX drivers out for both XP AND Vista..... as well as drivers for the 7-series cards for Vista, as well as NForce drivers for Vista and possibly updated ones for XP. If you ask me, NVidia has a lot more to work on than ATI could ever dream of.

 

[LordOfLA]

And consequently have a larger developer team. The 100 series drivers work just fine for the 7000 and 6000 series PCIe cards.