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ExtremeTech has a comprehensive article up about the tests they've run on the Vista beta with various games.
Windows Vista just hit the Beta 2 milestone, and it's frankly too early for us to confidently say you can use it (on a non-critical machine) all day for all your normal tasks. But there was one thing we've wanted to check for a long time, and had to keep telling ourselves, "it's just too early." How well will our games run on Vista? Are there going to be major compatibility problems? Will the performance stink?We feel that Beta 2 is the appropriate time to start looking at compatibility and performance issues in Vista, and that goes for gaming (one of the big selling points of Vista) as well. So we spent the better part of a week installing a bunch of modern, popular games on the upcoming OS, noting what works and what doesn't, and trying to find some simple workarounds
They test games like World of Warcraft, Grand Theft Auto, Black and White 2, FEAR, one or two older games like Sims 2, etc. Their conclusion is that overall, Vista will be easy to game on, but still could use a little work. This is encouraging, to say the least. Hopefully the tweaking being done between Beta 2 and launch will iron out the rest of the kinks.
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