Testing Valve Games on Vista Beta: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 16:55, 10 March 2006
This space is for people (the user community) testing the compatibility and/or the performance of current Valve games as well as the Steam platform, on the next generation Windows.
Purpose
The idea is to help Valve optimize their games for the next consumer platform by giving them performance samples similar to what they gathered with their stress tests.
Current Vista
- Build 5308.17 (2006-02-17) - Staged build. Released on February 22, 2006.
- Build 5308.60 (2006-02-23) - Unstaged build. Released on February 28, 2006. This build was released as a result of Windows Server "Longhorn" having many issues. There are supposedly no changes to Windows Vista since build 5308.17, but some people claim that this build is "faster, smoother, and without memory leaks".
Community Discussion & How to get the CTPs
Drivers downloads
These are the latest drivers, but might be for an older Vista build. For each of the following set of drivers, please read the readme for the list of supported devices.
ATi Catalyst Video Drivers
Nvidia nForce System Drivers
Nvidia Forceware Video Drivers
Possible Format to Post results
You might just use the same as given here
Reports
User: nba1341 OS: Windows Vista Home Basic (6.0, Build 5308) DX: Version 10 CPU: iP4 3.06 GHz 533 MHz FSB Video: NVIDIA Geforce FX Go5600 (Driver Version: 6.8.0.0) Memory: 1.25GB PC2700 DDR So-Dimm CSS Video Settings: 1024x768 and 800x600 Shader Detail: High Model Detail: High Shadow Detail: High Texture Detail: High Filtering: Triliniear Water: Simple Reflections AA: none VSync: off '''Average FPS''' 57.43 FPS (800x600) 39.58 FPS (1024x768)
Bugs
Disclaimer
Valve currently doesn't support Windows Vista as a gaming platform.