dbarrow
01-18-2007, 11:00 AM
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/17/gameplay-only-gets-worse-with-vista/
*Good article on video components of Vista
...In its current state Vista is too unstable at least from a graphics perspective and cumbersome in a number of ways to be attractive to gamers and even professional consumers. I'm not too keen on some of the networking issues I had to deal with in transferring stored performance data and getting the test system ready. Some of the gadgets for the desktop looked cool but lost their pizzazz within 30 minutes of installing a new one. Pong and Tic-Tac-Toe tend to get boring after a while and some of the other gizmos are built into applications I currently use.
I do look forward to some of the games that are scheduled for this year such as Supreme Commander, which will make good use of geometry shaders, and the star of 2007, Crysis. Like other platform renewals, Vista will take a year to achieve reliability and stability and up to an additional year for data and infrastructure critical environments to move to it.
*Good article on video components of Vista
...In its current state Vista is too unstable at least from a graphics perspective and cumbersome in a number of ways to be attractive to gamers and even professional consumers. I'm not too keen on some of the networking issues I had to deal with in transferring stored performance data and getting the test system ready. Some of the gadgets for the desktop looked cool but lost their pizzazz within 30 minutes of installing a new one. Pong and Tic-Tac-Toe tend to get boring after a while and some of the other gizmos are built into applications I currently use.
I do look forward to some of the games that are scheduled for this year such as Supreme Commander, which will make good use of geometry shaders, and the star of 2007, Crysis. Like other platform renewals, Vista will take a year to achieve reliability and stability and up to an additional year for data and infrastructure critical environments to move to it.