Gaming on Windows Vista - ATI vs NVIDIA

All the buzz this month has been about Microsoft Windows Vista RC1 so Legit Reviews has posted the results of a weekend’s worth of gaming on the new operating system. 32-bit gaming performance on XP Pro and Vista RC1 is compared using ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards and the latest and greatest drivers:

The purpose of this article was to see how the drivers from ATI and NVIDIA are doing and how they are coming along. Neither are what we would call shipping-caliber as both companies lack a ton of features. The NVIDIA drivers don’t offer overclocking, GPU temperature monitoring, SLI graphics and many other features that I would call required. I’m a gamer and if my games play ~30% faster on XP Professional then you wont see me switch operating systems till the DirectX 10 titles come rolling out.

Right now we only advise those with an extra hard drive sitting around to try out Windows Vista RC1 and we hope that by RC2 that we will see improved gaming performance and more games working correctly on Windows Vista! Neither ATI or NVIDIA drivers are perfect, but luckily for them they still have time to fix these issues.

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