General Gaming issues

Posted: 01-22-2007, 11:59 AM

CJM

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I've got quite a high spec PC (E6600, 2GB PC6400, 4 x 250GB Samsung drives,
P5B Deluxe Mobo, X1900GT, Audigy 4) with a Windows Experience Rating of 5.3
(for what it's worth), so I'm expecting to get the best out of Vista x64.
Generally, I'm pleased with it, though there have been the expected
early-days problems (I've had it installed since mid-November).

Graphics card drivers have been a problem. I've been using a higher-end ATI
card and a high-end Nvidia card, and in both cases the driver situation
hasn't been good, though that is slowly changing. However, I've ecperienced
a common problem across cards and drivers (so far) - there is a significant
delay when I exit a demanding 3d game (eg. Oblivion, BF2, Call of Juarez).
There is also a delay when I try to alt-tab out of a game. The delays I am
talking about are significant (30s-60s is typical).

I was wondering if anyone else has made any similar observations? I briefly
tried XP on the same hardware and didn't notice the same issues.

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Re: General Gaming issues

Posted: 01-22-2007, 07:42 PM

That is expected. As one of the "tweaks" to try to improve gaming on Vista,
they have set up the Windows desktop to be totallly flushed out of
RAM/cache, etc. So when you are running the game, you do not have the huge
overhead of the new desktop. This makes gaming "better" but then introduces
the delay while the game gets flushed out, and the desktop re-appears. It is
the same as you enter the game..but since we are used to load times, we do
not realise that the load time is actually a little longer than on XP.

"CJM" <cjmnews04@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> I've got quite a high spec PC (E6600, 2GB PC6400, 4 x 250GB Samsung
> drives, P5B Deluxe Mobo, X1900GT, Audigy 4) with a Windows Experience
> Rating of 5.3 (for what it's worth), so I'm expecting to get the best out
> of Vista x64. Generally, I'm pleased with it, though there have been the
> expected early-days problems (I've had it installed since mid-November).
>
> Graphics card drivers have been a problem. I've been using a higher-end
> ATI card and a high-end Nvidia card, and in both cases the driver
> situation hasn't been good, though that is slowly changing. However, I've
> ecperienced a common problem across cards and drivers (so far) - there is
> a significant delay when I exit a demanding 3d game (eg. Oblivion, BF2,
> Call of Juarez). There is also a delay when I try to alt-tab out of a
> game. The delays I am talking about are significant (30s-60s is typical).
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has made any similar observations? I
> briefly tried XP on the same hardware and didn't notice the same issues.
>

CJM

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Re: General Gaming issues

Posted: 01-23-2007, 04:36 PM

"Vista Newsgroups" <johnny@jonestown.com> wrote in message
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> That is expected. As one of the "tweaks" to try to improve gaming on
> Vista, they have set up the Windows desktop to be totallly flushed out of
> RAM/cache, etc. So when you are running the game, you do not have the huge
> overhead of the new desktop. This makes gaming "better" but then
> introduces the delay while the game gets flushed out, and the desktop
> re-appears. It is the same as you enter the game..but since we are used to
> load times, we do not realise that the load time is actually a little
> longer than on XP.
>

I can sympathise with the concept, but the implementation (on my PC at
least) leaves a lot to be desired.

The games start quickly enough, but a couple of mins to flush out the memory
is too long. Hopefully this will be improved in an Update/SP.

s2d

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RE: General Gaming issues

Posted: 01-24-2007, 02:00 AM

exactly the same problems here. i've tried different cards on two, actually
three different computers and found xp to work better and even work where
vista wont at all
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s_2_d

"CJM" wrote:

> I've got quite a high spec PC (E6600, 2GB PC6400, 4 x 250GB Samsung drives,
> P5B Deluxe Mobo, X1900GT, Audigy 4) with a Windows Experience Rating of 5.3
> (for what it's worth), so I'm expecting to get the best out of Vista x64.
> Generally, I'm pleased with it, though there have been the expected
> early-days problems (I've had it installed since mid-November).
>
> Graphics card drivers have been a problem. I've been using a higher-end ATI
> card and a high-end Nvidia card, and in both cases the driver situation
> hasn't been good, though that is slowly changing. However, I've ecperienced
> a common problem across cards and drivers (so far) - there is a significant
> delay when I exit a demanding 3d game (eg. Oblivion, BF2, Call of Juarez).
> There is also a delay when I try to alt-tab out of a game. The delays I am
> talking about are significant (30s-60s is typical).
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has made any similar observations? I briefly
> tried XP on the same hardware and didn't notice the same issues.
>
>
>

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