[cfgeeks] Vista Performance with current games

[Jonathan Damron]

Right now current games that I like to play are running slower on Vista 
than XP. :(  I think this will improve as game patches are made 
available and improved hardware drivers become available. But right not 
this is the main reason I will wait to upgrade.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/page4.html#3d_games

"Windows Vista clearly is not a great new performer when it comes to 
executing single applications at maximum speed." . . . "Our hopes that 
Vista might be able to speed up applications are gone."

I think that when the next generation of games are built from the ground 
up to take advantage of DirectX10 and 64 bit environment then Vista will 
be a nice boost to PC gaming. But until then XP is better for current games.

Jonathan