Vista or XP for gaming?

[Shadowstab]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Shadowstab]

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]

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[Raw!]

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

[Blackbird]

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.

[Shadowstab]

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.