Vista sp1 Gaming Benchmarks

A look at how well ten popular games work on XP SP2, Vista RTM and Vista SP1.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1390

"...On the whole, applying SP1 to Vista makes little difference to most games.
Seven out of ten of the games tested produced frame rate averages which were lower under Vista than XP SP2.

However, a closer look at the numbers shows that when Vista is slower than XP SP2, the actual frame rate differences are only in the single digits.

The three games which performed better on Vista than on XP SP2 were Call of Duty 4, F.E.A.R. and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion."

"Well, XP SP2 is still the better OS when it comes to gaming. However, Vista is getting better."