Testing Valve Games on Vista Beta

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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

Beta 2 Build 5384.4 (public beta)

Note.pngNote:This beta requires a CD key. You can get one for free, or order the OS on DVD, here.
  • English - 32-Bit (x86)

http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x86/download.htm

  • English - 64-Bit (x64)

http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x64/download.htm

  • German - 32-Bit (x86)

http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/de/x86/download.htm

  • German - 64-Bit (x64)

http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/de/x64/download.htm

  • Japanese - 64-Bit (x86)

http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/jp/x86/download.htm

  • Japanese - 64-Bit (x64)

http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/jp/x64/download.htm

Steam Forums Vista Discussion

Steam Forums Vista Discussion

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

Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows Vista Beta 2

The OOB drivers for 5308 are the same as the drivers from ATI's website.

Nvidia nForce System Drivers

Nvidia nForce Beta2 x86 Drivers

Nvidia Forceware Video Drivers

Windows Vista x86 February CTP 32 bit
Windows Vista x86 February CTP 64 bit

Creative Sound Cards

Creative Vista Drivers Availibility Chart

Results

Windows Vista Build 5308

Suede

  • Game: Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Source
  • OS: Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, Build 5308, x86)
  • DX: Version 9L
  • CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.21GHz (Overclocked from 2.01GHz)
  • Video: NVIDIA Geforce 6600GT (Driver Version: 6.14.10.8682)
  • Memory: 1GB PC3200 DDR So-Dimm

Video Settings

  • Shader Detail: High
  • Model Detail: High
  • Shadow Detail: High
  • Texture Detail: High
  • Filtering: Antistropic 16X
  • Water: Reflect All
  • AA: None
  • VSync: Off
  • HDR: Full (Where available)

Average FPS

  • 60.22 FPS (1024x768)


nba1341

  • Game: Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Source
  • OS: Windows Vista Home Basic (6.0, Build 5308, x86)
  • DX: Version 9L
  • 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

Video Settings

  • 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)


DogGunn

  • Game: Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Source
  • OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (6.0, Build 5308, x86)
  • DX: Version 9L
  • CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 3200+
  • Video: ATi Radeon 9800 Pro (Driver Version: 5308 Vista Beta)
  • Memory: 1GB PC3200

Video Settings

  • Shader Detail: High
  • Model Detail: High
  • Shadow Detail: High
  • Texture Detail: High
  • Filtering: Antistropic 4X
  • Water: Reflect All
  • AA: 2x
  • VSync: Off
  • HDR: Full (Where available)

Average FPS

  • 20 FPS (1024x786)


TecShdw

Video Settings

  • All settings on high as detected by HL2 (same as in XP)
  • HDR: Full (Where available)

Average FPS

  • (1680*1024)

Comments

  • Everything looks great
  • Must turn off Desktop Composition via ctrl-shift-F9 (will make play perfect)

Windows Vista Build 5342

Ry Jones

  • Game: Day of Defeat: Source Day of Defeat: Source
  • OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (6.0, Build 5342, x64)
  • DX: Version 9L
  • CPU: AMD Athlon64 3200
  • Video: ATi Radeon X300
  • Memory: 1GB

Video Settings

  • Defaults (1600x1200)

Performance

  • A-OK


LOKI415

  • Game: Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2 and Garry's Mod Garry's Mod 9
  • OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (6.0, Build 5342, x86)
  • DX: Version 9L
  • CPU: PENTIUM D 820 3.2GHZ Per core (Dual Core)
  • Video: ATi Radeon X1300 512MB (Driver Version: 5308 Vista Beta)
  • Memory: 1GB PC4800 DDR 2

Video Settings

  • Shader Detail: High
  • Model Detail: High
  • Shadow Detail: High
  • Texture Detail: High
  • Filtering: Antistropic 16X
  • Water: Reflect All
  • AA: 4x
  • VSync: on (75hz)
  • HDR: Full

Average FPS

  • 34 FPS (1280x1024)

bugs

  • In windowed mode screen doesn't fit window and offsets mouse
  • Jumpy with desktop composition enabled



Priyajeet

  • Game: Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
  • OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (6.0, Build 5342, x86)
  • DX: Version 9L
  • CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ 2.2GHz (Dual Core)
  • Video: ATi Radeon X1900 XTX (Driver Version: 5308 Vista Beta)
  • Memory: 2GB PC3200 DDR 2-2-2

Video Settings

  • Shader Detail: High
  • Model Detail: High
  • Shadow Detail: High
  • Texture Detail: High
  • Filtering: Antistropic 16X
  • Water: Reflect All
  • AA: 6x
  • VSync: Off
  • HDR: Full (Where available)

Average FPS

  • 45.74 FPS (1280x1024)

Comments

  • Very minor texture corruption at places
  • Pink textures still a problem



Windows Vista Build 5384 (Beta 2)

Zips

  • Game: Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Source & Half-Life 2 Half-Life 2
  • OS: Windows Vista Ultimate (Beta 2, Build 5384, x86)
  • DX: Version 10
  • CPU: AMD AthlonXP 2500+ 1.83GHz
  • Video: NVIDIA Geforce 6800GT (Driver Version: 87.98)
  • Memory: 1GB PC2700

Video Settings

  • Shader Detail: High
  • Model Detail: High
  • Shadow Detail: High
  • Texture Detail: High
  • Filtering: Antistropic 8X
  • Water: Reflect All
  • AA: 2x
  • VSync: Off
  • HDR: Full (Where available)

Average FPS

  • 45.33 FPS (1280x1024) On CS: Source Stress Test
  • Couldn't measure accurately in Half-Life 2 due to random glitches.

Comments

  • CS: Source - Stress test ran without issue. In-game it ran ok with minor hitching here and there (only 15 mins of gameplay though).
  • HL2 issues - After a period of about 20 minutes of playing, the game completely froze for over 30 seconds and when control returned to me all sounds have disappeared. The only way to fix this was to restart the game.
  • Textures and world geometry completely disappared. Antlions would only appear as shadows on the ground as well.
  • The game ultimately hardlocked my computer multiple times prompting me to use the reset button on my machine each time. Vista is using an early version of DirectX 10, and there seems to be a number of issues for games using DirectX 9 (and possibly earlier).

TomEdwards

Video Settings

  • Shader Detail: High
  • Model Detail: High
  • Shadow Detail: High
  • Texture Detail: High
  • Filtering: Antistropic 8X
  • Water: Reflect All
  • AA: 2x
  • VSync: Off
  • HDR: Full (Where available)

Average FPS

  • 60.72 FPS (1280x1024) On CS: Source Stress Test

Comments

  • Massive shader corruption in the stress test. About half the time there was no problem, but the other half of the time can be seen in the link. The two states were flickered rapidly between. The first, second, and forth shaders in the corridor performed normally, but the third (orange ripples) had the same problem as the water.
  • I also experienced corruption of facial textures in Episode One. So far, I have found Alyx and Breen to be affected, but other characters are normal. I've seen this sort of thing before in another game, so it could be an issue for ATI rather than Valve. Then again, why only the faces?
  • Episode One suffered from dreadful stutter, far worse than anything in XP. This might be down to the increased use of resources by Vista, or it might be a proper problem.

Required

  • Adding publisher details to steam client/game executables. Will help in publisher verification at Vista security checks.
  • Using CTRL-SHIFT-F9 to turn off Desktop Composition will be extremely helpful.

Links

Screenshots

  • HWresults.JPG
  • Survey.JPG
  • Progress.JPG
  • Store.JPG
  • Dods1.JPG

Videos

HL2 in a Window This video was made by Suede. Settings can be found further up the page.

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