Vista Game Performance with F.E.A.R. :0
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:17 pm
From extremetech:
Will Vista Beta 2 Run Your Games? - tech
(hx) 04:53 PM EDT - May,30 2006 - Post a comment
The chaps over at Extreme Tech loaded up Windows Vista Beta 2 and 14 of the latest games to see how well they played under the operating system:
It's well-known that F.E.A.R. is a real system hog. Sure, it's one of the most technologically impressive action games yet released, but to really enjoy it with all the bells and whistles you need a hefty PC with lots of RAM and a beefy video card. It just so happens, that's what we have here. And boy, do you want a lot of RAM. With only 1GB of RAM in our system, gameplay was a bit choppy with frequent hard drive access. Upgrading to 2GB fixed this problem.
Performance is a bit of an issue, too. F.E.A.R. is one of our standard benchmark games. When we ran the built-in benchmark at 1280x960 with all the visual detail levels maxed out, but with no AA or AF enabled, we saw a whopping 30% drop in performance against a similarly configured Windows XP machine (though our average frame rate was still around 60fps). Enabling 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering only made the situation worse: the frame rate dropped from an average fps of 70 down to a pitiful 32! Clearly, some driver work or OS optimization needs to be done here - most of the other games we tested didn't exhibit a drop in performance this dramatic.
Will Vista Beta 2 Run Your Games? - tech
(hx) 04:53 PM EDT - May,30 2006 - Post a comment
The chaps over at Extreme Tech loaded up Windows Vista Beta 2 and 14 of the latest games to see how well they played under the operating system:
It's well-known that F.E.A.R. is a real system hog. Sure, it's one of the most technologically impressive action games yet released, but to really enjoy it with all the bells and whistles you need a hefty PC with lots of RAM and a beefy video card. It just so happens, that's what we have here. And boy, do you want a lot of RAM. With only 1GB of RAM in our system, gameplay was a bit choppy with frequent hard drive access. Upgrading to 2GB fixed this problem.
Performance is a bit of an issue, too. F.E.A.R. is one of our standard benchmark games. When we ran the built-in benchmark at 1280x960 with all the visual detail levels maxed out, but with no AA or AF enabled, we saw a whopping 30% drop in performance against a similarly configured Windows XP machine (though our average frame rate was still around 60fps). Enabling 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering only made the situation worse: the frame rate dropped from an average fps of 70 down to a pitiful 32! Clearly, some driver work or OS optimization needs to be done here - most of the other games we tested didn't exhibit a drop in performance this dramatic.
