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Vista and Your Games
Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Windows Vista Beta 2 is a landmark. While it’s too early for us to say with confidence that you can
use it all day for your normal tasks, Beta 2 is solid enough for us to report on this important question: How well will your games run on this new OS?
To find out if Vista’s got game, we set up the 32-bit version of Vista Beta 2 on a high-end gaming test rig using a 2.8-GHz AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 chip, an nVidia nForce 590 SLI chipset, 2 gigabytes of memÂory, an ATI Radeon X1900 XTX graphics card, a Creative sound card, and a 160GB Seagate hard drive. ATI released new drivers on the Web to coincide with Beta 2, and nVidia did the same with platform drivers, so we used the latest and greatest.
The good news is that most of the games we ran worked well. Not everything was rosy, however. Here are some of the details: ABC News: Vista and Your Games
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