Vista and games Other Vista Discussions Discuss Vista and games in the Windows Vista forums; I recently installed Half-life 2 and CS:Source on my computer after getting vista. I love vista by the way but i noticed a 30 fps drop on my ...

[kfree187]

I recently installed Half-life 2 and CS:Source on my computer after getting vista. I love vista by the way but i noticed a 30 fps drop on my benchmark test for CS. Thats unacceptable when playing online so I was wondering if I can boot up XP while still keeping Vista.

System Specs
3 ghz
1 gig ram
160 hd
Radeon 9800 Pro

[dazzlin]

It depends. Did you install Vista over XP? You can dual-boot if you have a separate partition or separate hard drive, with Vista and XP installed on each.

[ninikins]

I hadn't even thought about my games and vista yet. i suppose I'm going to have to test this out. Thanks for the reminder.

[triumph]

This is a concern for me as well. (I am just looking for excuses not to install Vista). Some of the games I play are very graphics dependant, and a slowdown would make them unplayable on my current rig. I guess I am not using vista to test out game playing right now, but still would be nice if we could stay in there.

I wonder how much more optimizing they have to do on the support for gaming, especially the ones that are graphically intensive.

[minimugmike]

The only game I have tried to run so far, still working out nugs on applications, is Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion... I have had NO problems at all...I think this is the ONLY program I have installed with NO problems...HA I did have to turn off the sidebar...