XP faster than Fista, with tests!

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 27th, 2007, 12:54

I in no way support/condone/denounce/reject or even yesno this article, but I did find it a fairly interesting read.

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/601470/v ... lower.html

Edit for berk being a lazy, well, berk.

Fista is slower at encoding stuff, and they had to overclock their whole system 12.5% to get it to match the speeds set in xp. 2d apps run slower on fista, dvd rips are slower on fista, microsoft, being tarts, have given a bit of a shaft to openGL because its not directx API, 3d apps run slower because of the new drivers, hardware lighting rendering in cinebench was 250% slower on fista.

Games wise, xp is in front except for stalker, which runs like a dream on fista, everything else (oblivion, nfs:c, prey, fear) was slower overall or had graphics/sound problems most games run flaky, needing compatability modes. 3d mark was slower in fista. No eax in fista so you'd need basic sterio mode go unless you used creatives fettle.

Even shorter version - Fista still sucks, use XP.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 27th, 2007, 12:58

tl;dr.

summary?

Guybrush · Post by **Guybrush** » October 27th, 2007, 18:20

upshot is Fista blows? Amazing scenes

I'm going to have to use and support it in work soon enough so have ordered a copy - legit just cheap! Gonna duel boot as it's sure to break loads of stuff

Post by **deject** » October 29th, 2007, 0:40

Is this actually news to anyone?

These kind of results have been around as long as Fista has...

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 29th, 2007, 10:05

It's not news no, hence it not being in the news bit. I'd have got berk to throw it in there if I thought it was. It's a different source of tests on a Fista-XP comparison, that confirms once again that Fista blows goats. That is all.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » October 29th, 2007, 15:53

Let’s be clear about this. Fista is not just shite because it is slower, it is also shite because in trying to rename a folder on my desktop it gives a pop-up asking my permission to do the thing I just bloody told it to do, and then the pop-up needs permission from me to actually pop up to ask my permission to do the thing I asked it to do. Now my desktop is broken and won’t do anything, probably because it is going to ask permission to run each clock cycle necessary to do the renaming.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » October 29th, 2007, 16:12

Lateralus wrote:Fista pop-ups are shit

Ohhh soooo true

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » October 29th, 2007, 16:29

Quite easy to turn off though.
Of course, you might be leaving yourself open to teh haxxors then.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » October 29th, 2007, 16:40

Persuaded one of the guys at our IT company to just give me the admin password, so at least half the popups are gone and I have the rights to do the other stuff, but it's just damn annoying most of the time.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » October 29th, 2007, 17:23

As I mentioned during Teef last night, had to quickly prod a flatmates laptop to find Werd and other Orafice programs.

Fista annoyed me much more in that (fucking slow for a decent spec laptop) 5 minutes than I'd have thought possible, BUT, that may have been down to the fact it was a new laptop for a girl with pretty much 0 IT experience, I didn't want to play with it, even though it seemed to be double clicking by itself and was driving me MAD.

I wasn't impressed in that short demo due to it being shitly slow, and the apparent re-iconing of dll files, which made me click on a couple.