OS Vista SP1 with Windows 7 RC game performance

The so-called RC version, that is, the official version of a software release before the last public beta. In the case of Windows 7, if there are no major vulnerabilities in its RC version, the official edition will not be able to make significant additional functional adjustments.

Microsoft said that from 30th this month, the participating Microsoft TechNet and MSDN two projects of external testers will be able to download to the Windows 7 RC version, and the public release of the date is this May 5. Microsoft Partner Project website earlier this week leaked Windows 7 The release information of the RC version. According to the official news released by Microsoft in Friday, the information that was exposed early last week is completely true.

There have been rumors that the Windows 7 RC version uses build 7100. Affected by this message, many file-sharing sites have provided a build 7100 download over the past few days. Another rumor is that Microsoft has released a build to some external testers Version 7100. But Microsoft declined in Friday to confirm whether the rumor was true.

After the Windows 7 RC outflow, which has been installed on many people's hard drives, how does the performance of the new system change compared to Windows Vista SP1? First look at 3D games.

Note: The test from ZDNet blog author Adrian Kingsley-hughes, according to the Convention or can not disclose specific test scores, can only do simple intuitive contrast.

The test platform uses the Core 2 Duo E8500 OC 3.6GHz processor, 2X2GB memory, the parametric graphics card has Radeon HD 4870 X2, Radeon HD 4850, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce 8800 GTX Four, the game is the " Crysis warhead, "Far Cry 2", "Left 4 Dead", all games are run at the 1680x1050 resolution.

The test results are as follows:

In general, the Windows 7 RC and Vista SP1 are basically the same, no obvious outcome, both on a card and n cards. This is both good and bad: The good news is that the player's gaming experience will not be compromised after the system is upgraded, and the bad side is that the new system will not lead to faster speeds.

Although Windows 7 is now in the development phase, however, the RC candidate phase has become stereotyped, and will not change much, so the burden of improving the performance of the game fell to the graphics driver (the test used to drive not named), the AMD and Nvidia efforts.