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Well just bought a Macbook Pro 17 Hd 2.6ghz 4gig ram. And was thinking about using bootcamp to install a windows partition for games. . . As a mac user my game selection is a little sparse to say the least.

So of the two which is a better platform for PC gaming Windows XP or Windows Vista?


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vista sucks over all, for everything, and certainly gaming. I'd stick to xp over vista. XP has been out for a good amount of time, so there's hardly, if any noticable ones, bugs for it, vista is full of them, and doesn't like a lot of games.

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Thats what I have been hearing, but Vista supports the Newest and best Direct X, and according to MS Vista is more for gaming the XP. . But thats MS saying that. Im leaning towards XP. Any one else want to add any thing?

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It depends on what game you're playing

If its a new game, then you should definately go with Vista, but if its old go with XP ( old = Starcraft, Diablo II, etc)


but personally I think Vista is crap, so I'd suggest you go with XP
Besides, there aren't that many games that will show a huge amount of difference graphics wise while transfering between XP and Vista anyways.

Its not like XP sucks anyways

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Yea... its crap I know

you can run almost any game with XP
but it depends on how good is your video card, you should have one with at least 128 MB Video RAM for new games to work on your PC

and if you wanna have it tested, to see if it meets the requirements of whatever game you wanna play, new or old take this test...

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awesome !!!
I'm sure with that you can get any game to work for you!!!
Vista or XP ...
you'll have a great time ^.^

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Please give me your PC

Well, you can install the new directx on XP. Overall XP is more stable, but with a PC like that you might as well just put vista on :P

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thanks beefjurky ;p
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All I can say is that It should. . . Cost me enough that It should run any program that I can think of. .

Apple Thinks really Highly of there stuff. . . They charge enough for it.

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yea that fits Vista so well but XP is kinda more trusted ...

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