It is quite clear as can be seen from our highest playable settings evaluation and our apples-to-apples tests that Windows XP is simply faster. It was at the level where we could now run the game with higher in-game settings on dual and quad-core. What we discovered immediately was that performance was much faster under Windows XP. This operating system supposedly has better support for multi-core processors but scored much worse in the benchmarks. However, they were disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista.
HardOCP mentions scaling the cores of their Core 2 Duo in Supreme Commander yielded positive results. For their test they used Supreme Commander in Windows XP and Vista, this is one of the first games that features out-of-the-box multi-core processor support.Īs expected, this game takes good advantage of multiple cores. Brent from HardOCP had some quality time with Intel's Core 2 Quad processors to find out how multi-core processors improve gaming.
