General Info Vista or XP for gaming? [Archive]

Shadowstab

01-31-2009, 09:04 PM

I personally like XP for my gaming. Games just run smoother and I'm more familiar with it. However, I plan on building a newer gaming platform and with the newer and better video cards/cpu's/mobo etc. comes better gaming from Vista's unique DirectX 10. Is it really worth all the trouble of getting a new HDD just to write XP on it, when I can run stuff from Vista. I figure I'd ask the audience since there are a variety of opinions and users out there that can offer their input.

LiNuX

01-31-2009, 09:06 PM

I've never played any big time games on Vista - the only computer of mine with vista is one of my laptops and I don't generally use laptops for gaming anyway.

So XP for me

Trunks

02-01-2009, 01:52 PM

I have Direct x 10 running with XP right now, you don't have to have vista.

But I like XP better, awhile ago when I had vista, I kept getting errors when I tried to play WoW, probably fixed by now. But XP is just faster and don't have to worry about glitches.

Shadowstab

02-01-2009, 02:13 PM

That's what I was looking for. A user who had Vista at one point and tried playing WoW on it. For now I'll stick with XP then. If someone out there is currently playing WoW on Vista, after the new patches/releases etc, please post your opinion.

BTW Thanks for the update on DX10, I wasn't aware you could run it on XP.

Blackleo

02-03-2009, 11:05 PM

Yea I heard many WoW related issues with Vista instead of XP. So yea XP is ftw.

Shadowstab

02-04-2009, 06:47 AM

Thanks a lot everyone for all the help and info you've all provided. I have decided that I'm going to stick with XP.

MoleDoulk

02-17-2009, 01:34 AM

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Raw!

02-17-2009, 06:54 AM

For me, Vista is horrible. I've got it running on my computer now, and it's really slow, horrible for gaming
XP ALL THE WAY ;D

Blackbird

02-18-2009, 08:43 PM

Shadowstab

02-18-2009, 09:13 PM

Yea that's true about the Max Graphics. I'm now running one All-In-One on Vista and one All-In-One on XP. So far I love the XP performance but I love the Vista graphics and most of the gaming bugs that have been reported or talked about are seemingly gone right now. I honestly have no issues with WoW on either but I play Eve on Vista and it's just beautiful. Again, thank you all for your views and input from both sides.

LiNuX

02-18-2009, 09:36 PM

I think Vista suited your best while gaming in max becuase the XP doesn't support More Ram Memory & Processor what I think.
I'm using Vista becuase I can played every games in MAX without lagg in 60FPS.

xp 64bit can handle more than enough ram. and it can handle a pretty big cpu as well.

Shadowstab

02-18-2009, 09:45 PM

ya know honestly, I didn't think this thread would be this popular. I'm proud of myself lol. True about the 64bit, unfortunately I'm using 32bit xp :(

LiNuX

02-18-2009, 10:01 PM

ya know honestly, I didn't think this thread would be this popular. I'm proud of myself lol. True about the 64bit, unfortunately I'm using 32bit xp :(

I have 32 bit as well, but i have 4gb total ram, the system can only recognize 3.5gb

and you won't use more than 2.5gb ram that easily - I run a crapload of programs and I rarely go above 2gb ram usage - the only time I went to almost 3gb was when I was designing a new site, i had photoshop and dreamweaver open and I turned on CS when I took a break lol

32 bit isn't so bad and most computers won't need more than 2-3 gb ram - servers will need more since they tend to have more users.

wifi

02-26-2009, 11:57 AM

i dont think i ever played a game on vista lol so i go with xp :-P

Exodyus

02-26-2009, 03:15 PM

I use Vista merely because I haven't found any flaws with it since the crappy, preemptive launch it had. D:

It helps to let your 3rd Party Developers know when you're going to put out your produce.
Duhr duhr Duhr.

CGCentre

03-17-2009, 01:48 PM

We have a gaming center in Irvine, CA. You'll never see Vista machine running our games.

CGCentre

LiNuX

03-17-2009, 01:51 PM

We have a gaming center in Irvine, CA. You'll never see Vista machine running our games.

CGCentre

don't know how the location of your gaming center relates to the thread

jcowns

03-18-2009, 05:45 AM

whoa so many people chose XP?
i personally think Vista is better for gaming.
nothing really bothers me about Vista.

Drake14

03-18-2009, 06:40 AM

I don't like Vista. Too flashy, too much security crap. It's a pain in the ass.

I always game on, and use XP and only XP. i would use Linux but i don't know how that is on gaming. I think i heard it's not that great for gaming but i could be wrong.

Blackleo

03-18-2009, 06:59 AM

Linux is not for gaming cause he sucks at it ! (Pun intended) Haha

Drake14

03-18-2009, 07:03 AM

Linux is not for gaming cause he sucks at it ! (Pun intended) Haha

hahahahah my bad for not being specific! :D

Let me try that again!

I'm not sure how the OS Linux is for gaming!

better? :-P

LiNuX

03-18-2009, 09:07 AM

you can't play modern games on linux, well most distros of linux but I believe Red Hat Linux can play a few modern games, but I've never tried it - you can still play the old school games like pac man and stuff on it lol, I run Fedora Core 8 at home and it has a few games in there, never tried them though

Linux is not for gaming cause he sucks at it ! (Pun intended) Haha

+1

Drake14

03-20-2009, 07:28 AM

Linux....i REALLY hope this forum doesn't turn out like yurx.

Exodyus

04-04-2009, 04:05 PM

Linux....i REALLY hope this forum doesn't turn out like yurx.

... Epic Fail.

omgodzilla10

04-04-2009, 08:59 PM

XP. Because lots of games aren't compatible with Vista.

memoryhunter

04-04-2009, 11:03 PM

<3 vista, its for the win!

Strickin

04-11-2009, 11:44 PM

Windows XP is a lot better in my opinion if you are going to be mostly gaming on it. I find that Vista just had too many errors and incompatibility issues with many games.

loeedd

09-16-2009, 09:01 PM

ya know honestly, I didn't think this thread would be this popular. I'm proud of myself lol. True about the 64bit, unfortunately I'm using 32bit xp

suesam21

12-11-2009, 01:46 AM

I prefer XP for gaming. I found vista crashing my system and making display like 128colors sometimes.

joshr

01-24-2010, 12:45 PM

XP. Because lots of games aren't compatible with Vista.Such as?...Anything that I've ever had problems running on xp could be run through compatibility mode anyway. Ive never had a game that couldn't be run on vista, not just vista but the 64bit version of vista. Granted there are some old old games that will give you problems but I feel as if saying lots of games aren't compatible with vista is a huge exaggeration...

Anyways I prefer playing game on Vista 64, guys your really going to have to move on some day because dx10 definitely is better. Not to mention that vista 64 is more stable as I understand it than xp 64. And playing games in 64bit mode is definitely a FPS booster (Crysis for example).