> "raviNe" <raviNe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EF60B1B4-FA38-48B4-877A-6ABAF3FEC8DB@microsoft.com...
>>I hav a laptop Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505 and was thinking about upgrading
>>it
>> to vista. but i'm confused whether next gen games like Crysis,
>> Bioshock,or
>> even Gears of War, will work on it properly after I'll install vista. Its
>> got
>> a Core 2 duo processor 1.8Ghz - 1.8GHz, 1 gigabyte of RAM and ATI
>> Mobility
>> Radeon X1300 256 MB PCI Express card. Pls tell me whether upgrading would
>> be
>> a wise decision or not!
>> Currently I have XP media center edition and Rainbow 6 Vegas has to be
>> played in 640x480 resolution keepin all other graphics options ultra
>> high.

"TheNetAvenger" <thenetavenger@thenetavenger.net> wrote in message
news:OPWPW6z0HHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Some of the games you like are tough even on the latest and greatest
> systems. (Also don't let the post about the speed of your Intel CPU scare
> you, a 1.8ghz Duo or Core 2 Duo processor is faster than most 3-4ghz
> processors like the older Pentium4 series.
>
> However, installing Vista should not cause any problems and may allow you
> to get higher quality textures out of the games do to the way the WDDM in
> Vista can virtualize VRAM.
>
> So you have nothing to lose, and at the most you would lose 3-5fps in even
> the most die hard game compared to XP, and on a lot of games Vista will
> gain you fps, especially with the newer drivers from ATI and NVidia
> compared to the Vista drivers when it was launched that got bad reviews.
>
> The only thing I would consider doing is since you are a gamer, moving up
> to 2GB of RAM will help a lot, even if you stick with XP.

Dude, change your name to TheMSAvenger.

More I think about this message from RaviNe the more I think it wouldn't be
worth it to upgrade. Only game that may require Vista is Gears of War, but
no announcment about that has been made yet, and DirectX 10 won't work with
a x1300 video card, so even if you do get Vista none of the games listed
that support DX10 (all but bioshock) will still run in Dx9.

So save your money, get the 2 gigs of ram and a cooling system for your
laptop because you're gonna burn out your mobo pretty **** fast playing all
those games.