Make sure you are running (XP) games in Compatibility mode: Windows XP.
Doing that improved game startup times and framerates considerably for me
(though YMMV). Vista tries to use DirectX 10, which is incomapitble with
DX9, so DX10 and DX9 are installed side-by-side. Using Compatibility Mode
tells Vista to not even try to use DX10.


"Ryan" wrote in message
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I have a Celeron D (3.06GHz) + 2.0GB DDR2-SDRAM + nVidia GeForce 7600GS PCI
and Windows Vista build 5728 and game performance is pretty crappy.
Can anyone tell me if they have better performance with the Microsoft WDDM
drivers or should i be getting the nVidia beta drivers.

Also, does anyone know when nVidia will be releasing new drivers for
Vista?

I posted an entry down in the thread Battlefield 2 poo performance

On an X1900XTX, I'm seeing slower performance under Vista than I am under
XP. Some of the performance drops are Major (like 30% in HL2 and FEAR) other
performances are only a few hundred points in benchmarks like 3dMark05 and
06.

I'm of course, still tweaking with my system, so maybe I'll find something
that ups\helps the performance at some point, but right now, Vista in
general and the beta drivers from both Nvidia and ATI are probably not very
polished and probably won't get the same level of attention as XP until
around new years, ot a few months before Vista is actually going to be
released.

I've included my numbers from the other posts for your viewing pleasure.


Here's a list of benchmarks I've ran so far with the X1900XTX, using the
beta Vista drivers from ATI and Vista RC1 (build 5600).

3dMark06
XP - scored: 5061 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=256235
Vista - scored: 4873 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=509085
Vista XP2 mode - scored 4852 -
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=509124

Half-life 2: Lost Coast
XP - scored: 101.71
Vista - scored: 70.22

Aquamark03
XP - scored 81,999
Vista - scored 65,39

FEAR with patch 1.07.
XP - scored: 141
Vista - scored: 94, in XP mode scored the same

Under Battlefield 2, the performance seemed fine at first, but as I starting
playing, I noticed alot of stuttering and drops from a normal steady 99-100
fps to 50 fps.


"Ryan" wrote in message
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I have a Celeron D (3.06GHz) + 2.0GB DDR2-SDRAM + nVidia GeForce 7600GS PCI
and Windows Vista build 5728 and game performance is pretty crappy.
Can anyone tell me if they have better performance with the Microsoft WDDM
drivers or should i be getting the nVidia beta drivers.

Also, does anyone know when nVidia will be releasing new drivers for
Vista?

I have a Celeron D (3.06GHz) + 2.0GB DDR2-SDRAM + nVidia GeForce 7600GS PCI
and Windows Vista build 5728 and game performance is pretty crappy.
Can anyone tell me if they have better performance with the Microsoft WDDM
drivers or should i be getting the nVidia beta drivers.

Also, does anyone know when nVidia will be releasing new drivers for Vista?

It seems the nvidia driver for vista rc1 doesn't have good support for DX10,
I tried to play Company of Heros, but the performance of the video is poor.
Is this my problem of my computer?

CPU: P4 2.6C (HT)
MEM: 512M * 2
HD: 80G IDE
VGA: 7600GS AGP.

"Ryan" wrote in message
...
I have a Celeron D (3.06GHz) + 2.0GB DDR2-SDRAM + nVidia GeForce 7600GS PCI
and Windows Vista build 5728 and game performance is pretty crappy.
Can anyone tell me if they have better performance with the Microsoft WDDM
drivers or should i be getting the nVidia beta drivers.

Also, does anyone know when nVidia will be releasing new drivers for
Vista?

When play this game, the video flicks too much makes me can't play it anymore.

"younker" wrote:

It seems the nvidia driver for vista rc1 doesn't have good support for DX10,
I tried to play Company of Heros, but the performance of the video is poor.
Is this my problem of my computer?

CPU: P4 2.6C (HT)
MEM: 512M * 2
HD: 80G IDE
VGA: 7600GS AGP.

"Ryan" wrote in message
...
I have a Celeron D (3.06GHz) + 2.0GB DDR2-SDRAM + nVidia GeForce 7600GS PCI
and Windows Vista build 5728 and game performance is pretty crappy.
Can anyone tell me if they have better performance with the Microsoft WDDM
drivers or should i be getting the nVidia beta drivers.

Also, does anyone know when nVidia will be releasing new drivers for
Vista?

It flicks too much that makes me can't play it anymore

"younker" wrote:

It seems the nvidia driver for vista rc1 doesn't have good support for DX10,
I tried to play Company of Heros, but the performance of the video is poor.
Is this my problem of my computer?

CPU: P4 2.6C (HT)
MEM: 512M * 2
HD: 80G IDE
VGA: 7600GS AGP.

"Ryan" wrote in message
...
I have a Celeron D (3.06GHz) + 2.0GB DDR2-SDRAM + nVidia GeForce 7600GS PCI
and Windows Vista build 5728 and game performance is pretty crappy.
Can anyone tell me if they have better performance with the Microsoft WDDM
drivers or should i be getting the nVidia beta drivers.

Also, does anyone know when nVidia will be releasing new drivers for
Vista?

I have an Athlon 64x2 3800+ with an NVidia GeForce 6600, and 5728 seems to
be faster than 5600. Video benchmarks give frame rates that are within a
couple percent of what I get on WinXP.


"Ryan" wrote in message
...
I have a Celeron D (3.06GHz) + 2.0GB DDR2-SDRAM + nVidia GeForce 7600GS PCI
and Windows Vista build 5728 and game performance is pretty crappy.
Can anyone tell me if they have better performance with the Microsoft WDDM
drivers or should i be getting the nVidia beta drivers.

Also, does anyone know when nVidia will be releasing new drivers for
Vista?

Well, guess I'll just have to wait for the next release Canidate. Has I'm
just a lowly MSDN subscriber.



"Roberto Baggio" wrote in message
news:O9KSg.66829$R63.56021@pd7urf1no...
I have an Athlon 64x2 3800+ with an NVidia GeForce 6600, and 5728 seems to
be faster than 5600. Video benchmarks give frame rates that are within a
couple percent of what I get on WinXP.


"Ryan" wrote in message
...
I have a Celeron D (3.06GHz) + 2.0GB DDR2-SDRAM + nVidia GeForce 7600GS
PCI and Windows Vista build 5728 and game performance is pretty crappy.
Can anyone tell me if they have better performance with the Microsoft
WDDM drivers or should i be getting the nVidia beta drivers.

Also, does anyone know when nVidia will be releasing new drivers for
Vista?

Well Ryan, I'm running a Pentium 4, 3.0ghz and 4.0 SDRAM, and a GeForce
7600GS 8X AGP and it is working just fine with the build 5782 and the WDDM
driver.

It was a little sloppy with the 5600 version, but now is working smoothly, I
have maximum resolution that my monitor can handle (1280x1024).

I usually play Elders Scroll Oblivibion which is a game who takes a greal
deal of the machine power and it is running fine.