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30 May 2007, 7:18 pm

I don't think Vista accurately measures your system's perfomance. Why? Because today I've installed Vista on my PC, and even though it got a score of 2.9 in the graphics section (not the overall score), it can easily play demanding games like Supreme Commander. My laptop doesn't perform well when I try to play the same games (it's onboard after all...), but oddly enough has a score of 3.4 in the graphics area.

Stranger still, the overall score of the PC is lower than my laptop... but maybe that's because of the laptops dual-core CPU or something, I'm not sure.

Overall score:

PC = 3.2
Laptop = 3.7



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30 May 2007, 7:28 pm

Even more vista shittiness...


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30 May 2007, 7:48 pm

Heh, I actually like Vista, it runs fine on both my PC and Laptop.

Ah well, never trust the performance score...



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02 Jun 2007, 7:04 pm

Shame it needs about 1 Gig of RAM around to do so though... :?



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03 Jun 2007, 2:00 pm

Vista may put more importance on parts of your computer that may not be as important while playing games.



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04 Jun 2007, 1:28 pm

dumbgenius wrote:
Vista may put more importance on parts of your computer that may not be as important while playing games.



That's the truth.

Vista's performance guide is inaccurate to say the least, especially where 3D games are concerned.


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04 Jun 2007, 5:44 pm

Jamie06 wrote:
Shame it needs about 1 Gig of RAM around to do so though... :?


Really need 2 gigs to run well... I don't mind it on my new lappy, but I'd NEVER upgrade my old desktop...

Vista doesn't like to network with XP either! :?


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