Will Windows 7 RC improve gaming?

how is XP better for gaming than Vista?mfp16

You aren't likely to see any performance gains just from going to 7.

You aren't likely to see any performance gains just from going to 7.

chefkw

Remember though Vista is a memory hog ... it uses nearly 20% of RAM on my friends computer just sitting at the desktop doing nothing and he has 8GB of RAM someone with 4GB of RAM or 2GB of RAM will be better off with Windows 7 then Vista. I use 15-18% of my 4GB at desktop ... Vista would use nearly double.

[QUOTE="chefkw"]

You aren't likely to see any performance gains just from going to 7.

nVidiaGaMer

Remember though Vista is a memory hog ... it uses nearly 20% of RAM on my friends computer just sitting at the desktop doing nothing and he has 8GB of RAM someone with 4GB of RAM or 2GB of RAM will be better off with Windows 7 then Vista. I use 15-18% of my 4GB at desktop ... Vista would use nearly double.

Vista will use 40% of your ram no matter how much you have. Thats a good thing. It means your memory isnt just sitting around bineg mostly idle all the time. It will release that ram when another program asks for it so its just as if you had low ram usage.

You're likely to get a performance decrease going into Win7 because drivers for video cards havent fully matured yet. Differences between XP and Vista for gaming performance tends to be less than 5% - an imperceptible amount. In some cases Vista is slightly better ( by about 5%), one example is World in Conflict.

I wouldnt really worry about it.

[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"]

[QUOTE="chefkw"]

You aren't likely to see any performance gains just from going to 7.

XaosII

Remember though Vista is a memory hog ... it uses nearly 20% of RAM on my friends computer just sitting at the desktop doing nothing and he has 8GB of RAM someone with 4GB of RAM or 2GB of RAM will be better off with Windows 7 then Vista. I use 15-18% of my 4GB at desktop ... Vista would use nearly double.

Vista will use 40% of your ram no matter how much you have. Thats a good thing. It means your memory isnt just sitting around bineg mostly idle all the time. It will release that ram when another program asks for it so its just as if you had low ram usage.

You're likely to get a performance decrease going into Win7 because drivers for video cards havent fully matured yet. Differences between XP and Vista for gaming performance tends to be less than 5% - an imperceptible amount. In some cases Vista is slightly better ( by about 5%), one example is World in Conflict.

I wouldnt really worry about it.

[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"]

[QUOTE="chefkw"]

You aren't likely to see any performance gains just from going to 7.

XaosII

Remember though Vista is a memory hog ... it uses nearly 20% of RAM on my friends computer just sitting at the desktop doing nothing and he has 8GB of RAM someone with 4GB of RAM or 2GB of RAM will be better off with Windows 7 then Vista. I use 15-18% of my 4GB at desktop ... Vista would use nearly double.

Vista will use 40% of your ram no matter how much you have. Thats a good thing. It means your memory isnt just sitting around bineg mostly idle all the time. It will release that ram when another program asks for it so its just as if you had low ram usage.

You're likely to get a performance decrease going into Win7 because drivers for video cards havent fully matured yet. Differences between XP and Vista for gaming performance tends to be less than 5% - an imperceptible amount. In some cases Vista is slightly better ( by about 5%), one example is World in Conflict.

I wouldnt really worry about it.

[QUOTE="XaosII"]

[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"]

Remember though Vista is a memory hog ... it uses nearly 20% of RAM on my friends computer just sitting at the desktop doing nothing and he has 8GB of RAM someone with 4GB of RAM or 2GB of RAM will be better off with Windows 7 then Vista. I use 15-18% of my 4GB at desktop ... Vista would use nearly double.

Daytona_178

Vista will use 40% of your ram no matter how much you have. Thats a good thing. It means your memory isnt just sitting around bineg mostly idle all the time. It will release that ram when another program asks for it so its just as if you had low ram usage.

You're likely to get a performance decrease going into Win7 because drivers for video cards havent fully matured yet. Differences between XP and Vista for gaming performance tends to be less than 5% - an imperceptible amount. In some cases Vista is slightly better ( by about 5%), one example is World in Conflict.

I wouldnt really worry about it.

Thats the main reason I want to upgrade to 7.

[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"]

[QUOTE="chefkw"]

You aren't likely to see any performance gains just from going to 7.

XaosII

Remember though Vista is a memory hog ... it uses nearly 20% of RAM on my friends computer just sitting at the desktop doing nothing and he has 8GB of RAM someone with 4GB of RAM or 2GB of RAM will be better off with Windows 7 then Vista. I use 15-18% of my 4GB at desktop ... Vista would use nearly double.

Vista will use 40% of your ram no matter how much you have. Thats a good thing. It means your memory isnt just sitting around bineg mostly idle all the time. It will release that ram when another program asks for it so its just as if you had low ram usage.

You're likely to get a performance decrease going into Win7 because drivers for video cards havent fully matured yet. Differences between XP and Vista for gaming performance tends to be less than 5% - an imperceptible amount. In some cases Vista is slightly better ( by about 5%), one example is World in Conflict.

I wouldnt really worry about it.

Windows 7 is like Vista 2.0 imo its faster (in my case) and boots up much quicker then vista did. Since Vista uses that much RAM I wouldn't be able to play a game (Crysis or COD4), listen to music, and download stuff at the same time without running out of memory.

Windows 7 is like Vista 2.0 imo its faster (in my case) and boots up much quicker then vista did. Since Vista uses that much RAM I wouldn't be able to play a game (Crysis or COD4), listen to music, and download stuff at the same time without running out of memory.nVidiaGaMer

[QUOTE="nVidiaGaMer"]Windows 7 is like Vista 2.0 imo its faster (in my case) and boots up much quicker then vista did. Since Vista uses that much RAM I wouldn't be able to play a game (Crysis or COD4), listen to music, and download stuff at the same time without running out of memory.Makari

Either way theres no going back to Vista for me ...

how is XP better for gaming than Vista?mfp16

Windows 7 is beta. So that right there if you run into issues its probably just the os. I got vista 64 and have had 0 issues and will probably move to 7 once its official sometime late october.