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Gaming on Windows Vista - ATI versus NVIDIA
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Last week ATI sent out a press release claiming that ATI is ready for Microsoft Windows Vista with
their latest Catalyst drivers, which is a pretty bold statement as Vista is still the primary release candidate. Legit Reviews likes to stay far and clear of pre production operating systems, but when the hardware companies we work with are making claims in press releases it means that LR has to take a look and see how legit these claims are.
We downloaded the recently released Windows Vista RC1 Build 5600 from Microsoft and wanted to compare gaming performance on Vista to that of a system running Windows XP Professional. ATI makes it sound like driver performance is where they want it, so it’s time to take a look at both ATI and NVIDIA drivers when it comes to gaming.
While the idea of comparing performance levels between the two operating systems sounded great on paper it wasn’t too easy to complete in person. After taking a pair of identical Western Digital 250GB hard drives we put fresh installations of both operating systems on the respective drives and started benchmarking. We quickly found that DOOM 3, Quake 4 and PREY all do not run correctly on Vista making them useless for benchmarking purposes with the drivers that come loaded in Vista RC1. Other games like X3: Reunion use StarForce software, which is blocked by Microsoft and rightly so. Legit Reviews - Gaming on Windows Vista - ATI versus NVIDIA - Gaming On Vista — Are the Video Card Drivers Ready?
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