Why would you say to go with XP when I have a DX10 video card ?
You have a 2600XT. For gaming, Vista performance won't be very good so XP-64 is indeed a good option. If you had a more powerful card then Vista would be OK. But with your HD2600XT under Vista it would lower your performance.
Just because it's a DX10 card it doesn't mean you should go with Vista
Message edited by Pollux on 12-10-2007 at 10:00:50 PM
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Windows Server 2003 is still DX9 - it's identical code base to XP
You will have to enable DX as it comes disabled out of the box - then it will behave just like XP but enable 4GB RAM with 32bit - see the following for guidance http://www.visualwin.com/DirectX/
Pollux - you really think this card cant handle DX10 ?
I didn't say it can't hande it, but it will perform much better on DX9 than DX10 obviously.
Anyways, I don't see the need to go with 4Ghz of RAM since there won't be any noticeable performance boost
You asked why go with XP if you had a DX10 card, and your thread's question was about Windows Server 2003, so why go with Windows Server 2003 if you have a DX10 card?
I'm just saying you will get better performance under XP than Vista, and your card can cerrtainly handle DX10 but I don't think you'll be happy playing DX10 games under 10fps (10 beng too generous)
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Crysis - DX10 - 1024x768 0xAA 0xAF : 7.5FPS
Call of Juarez - DX10 - 1024x768 0xAA 0xAF : 18.8FPS
World in Conflict - DX10 - 1024x768 0xAA 0xAF: 15FPS
Company of Heroes - DX10 - 1024x768 0xAA 0xAF: 20FPS
But of course, why would you play at 1024x768 on a 22 inch screen? turn resolution a bit higher and then you get the 10FPS i was talking about, nevermind the AA and AF
And consider the system that was used on the tests has:
In my experience server 2003 makes a poor gaming platform. Largely due to it, for some inexplicable reason, disabling advanced graphics capabilities when it is in use as a domain controller. Maybe it is to encourage you to not use a server for software better left to a workstation where a crash won't take down the network.
Regardless it is not a very good performer even without a domain running on it.
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