Do DX9 games play well on Vista?

sttubs · Jun 2, 2008, 02:07 AM

I don't recall reading anywhere about this. I know they wouldn't look any better on Vista, but are the playable? Or should I just dual boot?

DrPepper · Jun 2, 2008, 02:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sttubs

I don't recall reading anywhere about this. I know they wouldn't look any better on Vista, but are the playable? Or should I just dual boot?

I find my games play very well in vista

and only using 2gb of ram. I prefer running them on vista because they turn on faster and you can use dx10

pbmaster · Jun 2, 2008, 02:10 AM

They are quite playable. Only thing I noticed was a little longer load times, but that was on my old rig with one 1 GB of RAM. With your system you won't have any problems. Only thing I had to do for Call of Duty 2 was tell it to run in XP SP2 compatibility mode. All is fine.

DaMulta · Jun 2, 2008, 02:15 AM

99% of all games are in dx9. So yes they run well, in almost all cases

JC316 · Jun 2, 2008, 02:37 AM

No difference from XP to vista, my DX9 games run great with Vista X64

OzzmanFloyd120 · Jun 2, 2008, 03:15 AM

I've noticed no difference between XP x64 and Vista x64 in running dx9 games.

Triprift · Jun 2, 2008, 03:18 AM

All my games run fine under Vista cant run dx10 cus of the gpu.

sttubs · Jun 2, 2008, 03:59 AM

Great, thanks for the answers.

xubidoo · Jun 2, 2008, 07:05 AM

are there any games that are known "not" to work in Vista ?

a compatibility list of some kind anywhere?

ChromeDome · Jun 2, 2008, 10:20 PM

all mine play great. FEAR is truly beautiful on my current set up. runs great

Kreij · Jun 2, 2008, 10:28 PM

All of the games I've tried on Vista, run fine.
All the older demos I've tried work well too.

KieranD · Jun 2, 2008, 10:32 PM

Most games run just as good, i think that a fwe might run a few frames slower but nothing drastic.

Only real Frames Per Second junkies would care about it.
After 60fps humans apparently cant tell the difference, 60fps at heavy load is good enuf for me.

ChromeDome · Jun 2, 2008, 11:35 PM

i want to try to run far cry on mine soon. the demo won't go. horrible tearing, etc

xubidoo · Jun 4, 2008, 09:14 AM

on XP Far Cry requires a Patch otherwise u get the horrible tearing u mentioned. probably the same on Vista with sounds of it.

get the 1.3 or 1.4 patch ,it should fix it.

Oliver_FF · Jun 4, 2008, 09:49 AM

Most games i've tried work fine on Vista - Metal Gear Solid 2 doesn't work though

UnkAsn93 · Jun 4, 2008, 11:39 PM

Unless you play BF2...

Its been nothing but trouble for me on Vista.

mikek75 · Jun 4, 2008, 11:53 PM

Agreed, Vista 64 runs almost all my games fine. Couple of issues I've found, FEAR's benchmarking tool reports FPS much lower than XP, Min 24 Max 45 Avg 35 as opposed to 90+ Avg with everything maxed inc Soft shadows. Its perfectly playable though, and the framerate is around 90% between 25-40 so quite stable.

Also, any game that uses the old Direct X game controller configuration window won't work, for example MotoGP 2 and 3. The game will play but you can't configure the controller.

Apart from that, Vista 64 FTW!

AfterAfx · Jun 5, 2008, 05:05 AM

For some reason NFS: Most Wanted wont install under vista for me, but i dont know why

Xaser04 · Jun 6, 2008, 03:01 PM

All of my games play pretty much identically on vista SP1 (laptop w/8800mGTX) as they do on my desktop with XP Home SP3 (8800GS) In fact thanks to the slightly more powerful GPU they run slightly better on my laptop (unless I overclock my 8800GS to game).

Triprift · Jun 6, 2008, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by TomCat44

Unless you play BF2...

Its been nothing but trouble for me on Vista.

Bf2 runs fine for me man smooth as

ChromeDome · Jun 6, 2008, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by xubidoo

on XP Far Cry requires a Patch otherwise u get the horrible tearing u mentioned. probably the same on Vista with sounds of it.

get the 1.3 or 1.4 patch ,it should fix it.

yeah i think i'll order it today and give it a go

i love that game....love it. i used to say its my all time fave and if i play again i'll prolly fall in love with it again

i never got to experience it "maxed out." may sound silly bcuz its got older graphics now, but i still want to. full AA, native res, and in "Paradise" mode.

when i got the game i had an FX5200. medium and low all the way. then with a 6600GT....High, for the most part with my old p4 2.8a (a non hyperthreaded Prescott

) but no AA and still below native res. and no "Paradise" mode.

i gotta have it!

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