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| I don't know a lot about how the new Vista Aero works or what kind of resources it uses, but I've heard now that it is fully 3D accelerated and would use up more resources of my graphics card.
Would it make sense to turn off Aero and revert to the Vista Basic scheme while running graphics intensive games, or does Windows free up those resources when its running in the backround? I have plenty of system RAM but its my video card resources I'm worried Vista is hogging them all and effecting my game performance.
Thanks in advance, any advice is appreciated!  |
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| It's my considered opinion that Vista is not for the serious gamers yet. Vista performs better with the more-expensive video cards. Vista Business works okay on my ATI 9550 256MB card and works even better on my Vista Ultimate with an ATI 512MB X1300 PCIe 16X card but definitely not as good as it would with a much more expensive card [I've yet to pay over $80 for a video card and the X1300 was that amount]. I got only a 1.0 performance rating on Business because of that 9550 card and a 4.8 rating on Ultimate. The Ultimate rating would have been higher with another 1GB RAM.
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| Well my video card is a Nvidia 6600gt with 128mb, it runs the Aero interface very well at 1680 x 1050 my monitors native resolution. Windows Index rates my graphics as 4.9 for desktop, 4.6 for games.
I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore gamer or anything, basically I use my PC for my older games and World of Warcraft. But after moving to Vista I did have to turn down some graphics settings.
I believe MS said pre-DX10 games will never run as good as they used to, and I believe newer Nvidia drivers have managed to fix the performance a bit, but I wonder if I can squeeze any extra performance by disabling Aero. I'll probably play around with it tonight. |
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| Disabling Aero will help a little. Overall, Vista has been good to me for light gaming.
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