Curse

Lonesamurai · Jan 24, 2007, 07:27 PM // 19:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Petrus

well technicaly vista was released in december . if youre a technet user (like me) or have a open license or any other lisen thats used for companys etc.. so nvidia is realy slow to get their drivers out... well atleast the beta 100.30 works ok so far..

You know full well what I meant...

And just so you know, the drivers have been out, in actual fact there was an issue in one of the latest builds of Vista itself that was causing an issue, especially with the 8800's but according to nvidia's website thats now been rememdied

ElinoraNeSangre · Jan 25, 2007, 02:25 AM // 02:25

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Originally Posted by EternalTempest

During the vista development there were multiple sources (including respected ones) that were complaining or hinting at Nvidia Driver development and Vista issues with the blame being on Nvidia's end.

This has most likely changed or will be fixed very shortly. Again, it ran fine with me without AA/AF which I normally don't run.

Microsoft doesn't write the drivers for NVidia hardware, so... there you go.

I got so irked at the drivers that I bought an ATI Radeon x1950. :: cackle ::

I'm running Vista 64-bit at home and it's running quite nicely; I confess to having the 2 gigs of RAM though.

swiftygem · Jan 25, 2007, 09:20 AM // 09:20

I'm glad it runs fine for you guys, I'm about to get a new system with Vista, plus a 8800GTS fed by C2D E6600. I'm tired of having 10FPS in Kamadan, although it's true that low FPS is much more acceptable in GW than in other games.

Lonesamurai · Jan 25, 2007, 10:36 AM // 10:36

Honestly though, I've been using Vista Beta 2 for 6 months up until i built my new rig at the begining of december, at which time i put RC1 on it... It works fine, but i decided to benchmark the RC1 against XP Pro SP2 and SP2 actually gets a higher benchmark, so I'll stick with it now

My Rig:-
Motherboard: MSI AM2 K9N NEO-F, NF550, S AM2, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800/400, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX
CPU: AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3800 + Windsor Core, Dual Core 2GHz, 2x 512KB Cache, Energy Efficient Retail
RAM: 2Gb (2x1Gb) Corsair Value Select, DDR2 PC5300 (667), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-15
Hard Drive: 2x Maxtor 6V200E0 200GB SATA300 7200rpm 8MB Cache - OEM
DVD: LiteOn 16x DVD + /-RW/RAM SATA black drive & S/W
Graphics: 256MB Palit 7600GT Sonic, PCI-E(x16), Mem 1500MHz, GPU 575MHz, 12Pipes, D-Sub/Dual Link DVI/HDTV SLI

And in most areas I get 75+ FPS, the lowest I've seen anywhere is in a GvG at the flagstand @ VoD and that fell to around 30 FPS

TyrianFury · Jan 25, 2007, 10:57 AM // 10:57

Guild Wars runs a treat for me with vista, actualy faster than with windows xp home edition.

I have Windows Vista Business Edition Final build 6000 64-bit, AMD x2 64 4200, 1gb ram, Nvidia Gefore 7600 gt 256 mb. The new vista foreceware drivers are awsome! Shame you can't get flash player for a 64-bit os so I'm unable to download any of my direct song extra music

Adobe say they are working on a 64-bit version of flash player for windows.

boxterduke · Jan 25, 2007, 01:58 PM // 13:58

I had GW running on Vista RC1 with an ATI card and it ran smooth.

ElinoraNeSangre · Jan 25, 2007, 11:45 PM // 23:45

If it's running slow-ish for anyone, try setting your GW shortcut to disable themes and desktop compositioning (in the properties under Compatibility). This shuts off the visual effects and frees up some resources while you're playing.

RinLian · Jan 26, 2007, 12:42 AM // 00:42

Bleh.... I won't be upgrading to vista for a long time. Same deal with IE7, which is now included in the windows update packages... still optional. Thing is, now I don't have any issues with it, however I think FF2 wins that race. (With no intention to go off-topic)

ElinoraNeSangre · Jan 26, 2007, 06:37 AM // 06:37

In all honesty, I suggest to people that if they are really excited about Vista, are ordering a new computer from an OEM that would come with it, or can get it cheap (but legal!) then they should go for it.

If you're running XP and you're happy with XP, paying full retail for Vista likely isn't worth it for many consumers.

Me, I love Windows Vista.

But then I'm extremely biased.

RinLian · Jan 27, 2007, 12:54 AM // 00:54

My pc is up to par for Vista specs, but I'd like to do some trade outs for a dual core system, better gfx card (dx10 series) and some newer hard drives.

I've played with vista, in fact, we had it on one of the tester machines here at the shop. The eye candy makes it a beauty, although, I will be waiting until things are smoothed out a bit more before considering using the operating system at home. Most businesses won't even make that move until LATE this year (IF so) or next year... at least a long time anyway.

PS Elinora, what socket is your motherboard?

Petrus · Jan 27, 2007, 09:55 AM // 09:55

finaly nvidia have released vista drivers for 88 series :P 100.40
installing them now. will be testing them later tonight on the 32bit

darksiege · Jan 28, 2007, 12:25 AM // 00:25

I heard the 100.40 drivers were only for the laptop versions or something? :S

Veneficus · Jan 28, 2007, 05:49 PM // 17:49

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Originally Posted by AOD_EaSyKiLL

I just got my system formatted and installed with Vista. A few more hours of the -image and I will be playing. I will post in my results.

Im running the following setup:

Athlon 64 X2 5200+
Gigabyte 8800GTX
2gb OCZ ddr2
MSI K9A Platinum

I was getting 150+ fps in most areas (about 80-100 fps in Kamadan 1) at max settings 1280x1024 at full in game AA under XP, so we will see.

Thats actually pretty bad.

I get 150+ with Crossfired X1950's.

titan_gwguru · Jan 29, 2007, 12:22 AM // 00:22

Vista isn't even out for regular consumers yet. Sure, some corporations have a license so they can start preparing a roll out if they want, no responsible corporation was putting expensive 8800s in their work PCs so it doesn't matter. The only others who should be running Vista are developers, and they can get drivers. Heck, drivers were even linked to in this thread.

It would be nice if they had quality drivers ready, but they don't so I don't mind them concentrating on making the drivers instead of making early public releases. The OS was done in November, but MS didn't want to put people through the driver problems so they delayed it to January. That's the key, MS doesn't want you running Vista early because it's not ready because of drivers. If you're running Vista before you supposed to then you've made your bed, now you've got to sleep in it.

Of course if nvidia doesn't have public drivers out this week then you should totally bitch about it.

j_unit66 · Jan 29, 2007, 12:36 AM // 00:36

veneficus, im pretty sure two x1950's in crossfire should be faster than the 8800 atm because nothing uses dx10 yet, wen dx10 is being used it should be much faster, im pretty sure the 8800 isnt even the fastest card nvidia has useing dx9.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2874&p=17
look at the fps' the x1950 is very close to the 8800 as a single card.atleast for bf2, didnt bother checking the other benchs

ElinoraNeSangre · Jan 30, 2007, 06:53 AM // 06:53

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Originally Posted by RinLian

PS Elinora, what socket is your motherboard?

775.

Specifically, I have a Pentium D 2.66 Core Duo with 2 gigs of RAM and an x1950XTX. It's a freakin' sexy beast by my standards, and just to be a goof I slapped an Apple sticker on the front.

I'm actually really excited to see Vista about to hit the general public. My useage of Vista could be measured in years (before it was "Vista"). Heck that's how I found a lot of my driver issues, I've been using this puppy for so long it hurts. So current driver issues? They've got nothing on a year or even two ago (or heaven forfend, 3...).

BTW, Vista coming out in Jan wasn't so much a matter of drivers as business model. Once an OS is "finished" (released to manufacturing), it still has to go to print - the CDs and boxes don't come out of nowhere.

I don't know the specifics on why OEMs and businesses got a first crack, but it's really none of my business either.

-kelkel