Nexuiz on Windows Vista

[Psychcf]

There's only one thing I have to say about vista. It could be nice to you on one PC, but when you use it on another it craps out on you. Why? I have no freaking clue. Probably involves the video drivers or something. I have vista, so I think I'll make a new partition for it to test it out I guess...

[[RBI]Karl Ranseier]

Windows Vista has the same problem Windows XP had in the first year after its release: Sub-optimal drivers. From what I've gathered on the forum ATI users are worse off than nVidia users. Still, the current nVidia drivers are not as good as the XP drivers. OpenGL games like Nexuiz are suffering more than DirectX-based games.

One example: TORCS. Running in windowed mode, at the exact same graphics settings, I get 25-30 fps under Windows Vista, and >60 fps under Fedora 7. Note that I haven't tried running TORCS with Aero turned off; I doubt that it's going to make much of a difference though.

Bottom line: As long as ATI and nVidia don't get their act together, gaming under Windows Vista will always be an adventure in itself.