ATI's Vista Benchmark

[POGE]

ATI has released a system benchmarking applet that tells you whether or not ATI thinks your computer is Vista ready. When I tried this on my laptop, it told me I needed to buy an X1900 XTX to run Vista.

Source: ATI (http://www.ati.com/technology/windowsvista/AreYouVistaReady.html)

[Azn Tr14dZ]

We already had a thread about this POGE;) . Right here:http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=16933

[POGE]

Yes, but we dont have a newspost about it. Notice this is in the news forum? This allows hundreds of people to see it who have news feeds to this site and dont frequent the forum.

[Azn Tr14dZ]

Oh, ok. I didn't notice that...sorry.

[SPHERE]

haha thats great :p

wander if that was a bug or if they are realy thinking you would do that since the app said too

[Judas]

I geuss this works only with ATI cards then? ..Ms has thiere own version or some thing similar ?

[Agility]

It works on ANY computer that can connect to it. Lol.

[breakfromyou]

i passed!

i really doubt that 1gb of RAM will be enough.

[warup89]

lol i passed the optimun requirements :laugh:

[Casheti]

I passed everything apart from the optimum settings, who care's if I have SM2.0 or 3.0, makes no difference to me...

[Alec§taar]

Gaming on Windows Vista - ATI versus NVIDIA:

(Oddly enough, using the ICD 96.33 VISTA OpenGL shim driver from NVidia worked, & ATI apparently didn't! See the quotes from this article regarding that next)

"If you do want to try out some gaming on Vista RC1 then your best bet is to use an NVIDIA graphics card as it just worked on more games without issues than ATI graphics cards."

&

"After another fresh instal of Vista RC1 we were able to get the 8.29.100.0 drivers up and benchmarking, but was still unable to run OpenGL games like DOOM 3. After giving up on the newer drivers we benchmarked the WDDM drivers that came on Vista. The 7.15.11.0 drivers were found to be pretty stable for us, and like NVIDIA lacked support for multi-GPU support. Without Crossfire support we stuck with a single ATI X1900XTX graphics card for testing."

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/385/1/

:)

* Enjoy the read... especially regarding OpenGL gaming on VISTA!

APK

[Casheti]

Painful...