Gaming machine Windows?

XP or Vista?

  • XP

    Votes: 24 43.6%

  • Vista

    Votes: 31 56.4%
  • Total voters
    55
  • Poll closed .
I'm gonna say Vista. While everyone has there own preferences, i for one haven't had any real problems gaming on Vista. From what many ppl on here have stated, there isnt much (if any) performance loss using Vista over Xp while running in dx9.
 
I'd say for new games, Vista would be fine. If you wanted to play a bunch of older, games, like some original Star Wars games, you should definitely stick to XP.
 
If you already own a license, XP. If you need to buy an OS anyway, get Vista.
 
I'm also going to have to say Vista. I've been using it since July and have had zero problems gaming on it.
 
This completely depends. If you have both and have newer hardware (and enough of it), Vista for sure. If you have both and have older hardware, XP. If you have XP, sticking with that is probably easier than going out to buy Vista right now. If you have neither and are going to buy one, go Vista.

Myself, I game on Vista all the time. No more XP for me. Performance is basically the same anyway (not to mention drivers have since gotten better).
 
If ALL you're going to do is play games, go with XP for a while longer.

If you're going to be doing anything at all besides playing games, go with Vista.
 
All of those that say Vista, why?
Slower preformance?
Makes no sense...
 
Atech said:
All of those that say Vista, why?
Slower preformance?
Makes no sense...
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Well if you read people's posts that might help, for one. Secondly, if you could make smart, informed comments that'd also help.
 
l3ender said:
Well if you read people's posts that might help, for one. Secondly, if you could make smart, informed comments that'd also help.
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I did, and see no reason to go Vista yet?
(Not before SP1 anyways)

And I want the people that recommend Vista to elborate, perhaps your reading skills need tuning?
 
Atech said:
I did, and see no reason to go Vista yet?
(Not before SP1 anyways)

And I want the people that recommend Vista to elborate, perhaps your reading skills need tuning?
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No, like I said before, read people's posts to see. If you had, you'd have found that 3 different people said that they used Vista because "they had no problems" with it. I even posted a fricken link that gives detailed reports on Vista vs XP gaming performance. I guess I should have gone ahead and assumed that you wouldn't read that, either.

So in case you STILL don't get it, people use Vista because the performance is just fine (similar to XP in most cases). Stop throwing around crap that is uninformed.
 
Hardforums is simply not the place for questions/polls like these. :) Too many people like vista here :D
 
Gigamo said:
Hardforums is simply not the place for questions/polls like these. :) Too many people like vista here :D
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yeah.

I'd personally stick with XP, unless you just have to have DX10. It's more stable. period.

If I were in the situation where I needed to buy a new copy of an OS, I would buy vista. over xp. It does not make since to invest in an older OS.
 
l3ender said:
No, like I said before, read people's posts to see. If you had, you'd have found that 3 different people said that they used Vista because "they had no problems" with it. I even posted a fricken link that gives detailed reports on Vista vs XP gaming performance. I guess I should have gone ahead and assumed that you wouldn't read that, either.
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You posted a link where XP wins, stop acting like a 12 year old girl.
So games is a win for XP.
I await more links from you as they prove my point? :)

Besides "no having problems" says nothing about preformance.

So in case you STILL don't get it, people use Vista because the performance is just fine (similar to XP in most cases). Stop throwing around crap that is uninformed.
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Whining like a sissy isn't going to pass as an argument....but I do like your links, got anymore? :)
 
Atech said:
You posted a link where XP wins, stop acting like a 12 year old girl.
So games is a win for XP.
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LOL, did you read it? (Why do I ask?) Here's a brief recap:

if you were holding off on upgrading to Vista due to the driver situation, the problem has mostly been resolved
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Yeah, that definitely looks like "XP wins." :rolleyes:

I wipe my hands clean of this conversation. Obviously all logic is disregarded.

Oh, and BTW, it's 'performance.'
 
Dual boot both until you are comfortable that Vista can run all the games you play at visual settings you can accept.
 
l3ender said:
LOL, did you read it? (Why do I ask?) Here's a brief recap:



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Yeah, that definitely looks like "XP wins." :rolleyes:

I wipe my hands clean of this conversation. Obviously all logic is disregarded.

Oh, and BTW, it's 'performance.'
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Ewwww. People still use XP?! :)

Yeah, I agree, no difference in performance between the 2. I use vista 64 and love it.
 
I use xp and vista boxes for gaming and I prefer vista due to the way it handles the gpu drivers(removed from kernel). much more stable than xp!
 
I prefer Vista in general and the performance difference is so small anymore that a dual boot to XP setup just isn't needed.
 
I game on Vista x64 and x86 no problem. I don't notice any difference in performance compared to XP. I have a very wide selection of games and all of them work great.. from the newest ones, even back to Q3 and Duke Nukem.
 
If you already have an xp license use xp but if you are investing in a new system go with vista 64bit. Gaming performance is about the same but productivity and encoding performance is slower in vista.
 
I use Vista on my laptop and xp on my desktop. As far as gaming goes I see no difference between the two.

As far as compatibility goes, Vista works fine for me as well. Heck I just got finished playing Baldur's Gate 2 under Vista. That game wouldn't work correctly under xp and yet I have no problems running it under Vista.

It wouldn't make any sense to invest in an old operating system anyways. Regardless of gaming performance Vista is the future. You are going to have to purchase it sooner or later.
 
As others have already said, if you need to buy a windows license, might as well make it Vista 64. If you already have an XP license that you can use, stick with XP for now.
 
I was reading here and people were saying if I'm playing old games, I should stay with XP. I'm running Super Nintendo and other retro games on the new computer I'm gonna buy. Dual monitors and all that good stuff. Should I stay with XP?
 
I have had good luck playing older titles on Vista. I actually discussed this in another thread. It is much much much better at running older software than XP was after its launch. Some of the older games I had trouble in XP with that installed and ran flawlessly in Vista were C&C Red Alert, European Air War, and MechWarrior Merc.

As for emulation, I assume you mean like SNES9x or something. That will work fine in Vista. Dual monitors isn't really going to push you towards either OS.
 
I voted XP. If I was building a pure gaming box I would use XP because there is really no reason to use Vista. If you use it for other things vista is great as you can't beat the looks.
 
Right now I would want to game on XP but because of Alan Wake, I will go to Vista.
 
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