- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Heyyo,
Posted by: ROBO LEADER
Mard, you have single handedly restored my faith in Vista.
Hmm, I jumped the gun on this one actually... got soo psyched Halo1PC ran soo well, turns out I get the same benchmark or so on HaloPC before the vista patch. Not fully used to new cpu parts. =P
Date / Time: 23/11/2006 12:00:45 AM (547703ms)
1900MHz, 2032MB, 512M ATI Unknown (DeviceID=0x724b) Driver=6.14.10.6648 Shader=3.0
D:\Games\Halo\halo.exe -timedemo (Version=1.0.7.614)
Frames=4700
Total Time=51.07s
Average frame rate=92.03fps
Below 5fps= 36% (time) 0% (frames) (18.601s spent in 9 frames)
Below 10fps= 36% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 15fps= 37% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 20fps= 37% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 25fps= 38% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 30fps= 38% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 40fps= 38% (time) 0% (frames)
Below 50fps= 39% (time) 1% (frames)
Below 60fps= 41% (time) 2% (frames)
###Sound Options###
Hardware Acceleration= Yes
Sound Quality= High
Environmental Sound= No
Sound Variety= Medium
###Video Options###
Resolution= 1024 x 768
Refresh rate= 75 Hz
Framerate throttle= No Vsync
Specular= Yes
Shadows= Yes
Decals= Yes
Particles= Off
Texture Quality= High
so slightly higher in WinXP mainly cause Aero does take a bit of CPU and RAM, but not a lot actually. Hmm, cause yeah, when I benched with my AMD A64 3200+ cpu I averaged 60F/S.... maybe the game's multi-threaded????
Anywho, that aside, when bungie supports their games they do it well, cause I remember trying Halo1PC pre-bungie's patch, and I couldn't even get past the error message "you need DirectX9 to play this game, please install DirectX9".... and now it gets ingame and runs great. No hardware acceleration but that's due to Creative's drivers I'm sure, cause last time I tried Vista, there wasn't even Beta2 drivers out.
Meh, still, can't wait for more Vista games to roll out... there is one thing I'm loving right now... Craig has a Asus 8800GTS... ya know "the first DirectX10 card on the market?".... there's no Vista drivers for the Geforce 8800 series yet! hahaha, me and me other bud couldn't stop laughing... he went to bed early, probably to cry himself to sleep.. I'm sure underneeth our evil-ness we're good people. =)
I'm gonna try Far Cry and some of the other 64bit games and see if my framerates totally kickass over 32bit WinXP Home/Pro non-64bit editions.