Should i upgrade to vista for gaming.

Hi all

My system specs are as follows:

Asus Crosshair motherboard
AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu
2 GB Corsair Pc6400 800Mhz Dominator 4-4-4-12 DDR2
XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
Tagan 580 watt Psu
32 Bit Windows XP

This Pc is only for games and I was running 64 bit windows but then got told
32 bit is better for gaming,(At the moment) so I reinstalled 32 bit,but now
I was thinking about buying 32 bit vista but would like to know whether it
is worth doing at the present time keeping in mind that this Pc is only for
gaming and if I would have any problems with my hardware.

Any advice would be great
Thanks in advance
Neil

I would wait on getting Vista for at least a month after the public
release... I have been beta testing it for a long time, on a few different
setups, and have never gotten frame rates i get in xp. this is especially
true with nvidia cards (i have a 7900gtx), which unless they have updated it,
do not even have RTM graphics drivers on the nvidia web site yet.

"Neil Catling" wrote:

> Hi all
>
> My system specs are as follows:
>
> Asus Crosshair motherboard
> AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu
> 2 GB Corsair Pc6400 800Mhz Dominator 4-4-4-12 DDR2
> XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
> Tagan 580 watt Psu
> 32 Bit Windows XP
>
> This Pc is only for games and I was running 64 bit windows but then got told
> 32 bit is better for gaming,(At the moment) so I reinstalled 32 bit,but now
> I was thinking about buying 32 bit vista but would like to know whether it
> is worth doing at the present time keeping in mind that this Pc is only for
> gaming and if I would have any problems with my hardware.
>
> Any advice would be great
> Thanks in advance
> Neil
>
>
>

ok i spoke too soon. they have added rtm drivers for builds 5744 and higher
to the nvidia web site. i still would wait a few months to purchase vista
just for better gaming performance, unless of course you have the extra money
sitting around.

"Joe" wrote:

> I would wait on getting Vista for at least a month after the public
> release... I have been beta testing it for a long time, on a few different
> setups, and have never gotten frame rates i get in xp. this is especially
> true with nvidia cards (i have a 7900gtx), which unless they have updated it,
> do not even have RTM graphics drivers on the nvidia web site yet.
>
> "Neil Catling" wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > My system specs are as follows:
> >
> > Asus Crosshair motherboard
> > AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu
> > 2 GB Corsair Pc6400 800Mhz Dominator 4-4-4-12 DDR2
> > XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
> > Tagan 580 watt Psu
> > 32 Bit Windows XP
> >
> > This Pc is only for games and I was running 64 bit windows but then got told
> > 32 bit is better for gaming,(At the moment) so I reinstalled 32 bit,but now
> > I was thinking about buying 32 bit vista but would like to know whether it
> > is worth doing at the present time keeping in mind that this Pc is only for
> > gaming and if I would have any problems with my hardware.
> >
> > Any advice would be great
> > Thanks in advance
> > Neil
> >
> >
> >

I would wait for a while before upgrading. Until the first service pack,
possibly-- unless you find something you absolutely need that requires it.

"Neil Catling" wrote:

> Hi all
>
> My system specs are as follows:
>
> Asus Crosshair motherboard
> AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu
> 2 GB Corsair Pc6400 800Mhz Dominator 4-4-4-12 DDR2
> XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
> Tagan 580 watt Psu
> 32 Bit Windows XP
>
> This Pc is only for games and I was running 64 bit windows but then got told
> 32 bit is better for gaming,(At the moment) so I reinstalled 32 bit,but now
> I was thinking about buying 32 bit vista but would like to know whether it
> is worth doing at the present time keeping in mind that this Pc is only for
> gaming and if I would have any problems with my hardware.
>
> Any advice would be great
> Thanks in advance
> Neil
>
>
>

At the time there is nothing that Vista can specificially take advantage
with for games. There are games coming down the pipe in a few months that
will require Vista in order to run.

Other games that have DirectX 10 Support will also still run on DirectX9.
So it is more of a personal preference. I have had no issues playing games
with Vista.

"Neil Catling" <neil@ncatling.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2KadnSFB-PtqnjDYnZ2dnUVZ8sSrnZ2d@eclipse.net.uk...
> Hi all
>
> My system specs are as follows:
>
> Asus Crosshair motherboard
> AM2 5200 X2 2.6Ghz Cpu
> 2 GB Corsair Pc6400 800Mhz Dominator 4-4-4-12 DDR2
> XFX Geforce 8800 GTX
> Tagan 580 watt Psu
> 32 Bit Windows XP
>
> This Pc is only for games and I was running 64 bit windows but then got
> told 32 bit is better for gaming,(At the moment) so I reinstalled 32
> bit,but now I was thinking about buying 32 bit vista but would like to
> know whether it is worth doing at the present time keeping in mind that
> this Pc is only for gaming and if I would have any problems with my
> hardware.
>
> Any advice would be great
> Thanks in advance
> Neil
>