Is it true that Vista is a terrible OS for gaming?

Hi. I'm planning on buying an XPS when I save up enough money. The one I want (most of the XPS also) has Windows Vista. I was talking about it with my friend and he told me that getting a PC with Vista was a terrible idea because they are horrible for gaming. He told me that developers care about XP most (or something like that) and he said a lot of games won't install on Vista. I'm wondering how much of this is truth. Any help or comments would be appreciated.

Get Vista, it's fine for gaming. Cheers

Just have 4GB of RAM. 2GB is not enough unless you want hard drive caching in the backround (you dont).

Umm no I love Vista and would never go back to XP, and I game a ton.

Vista was a terrible OS for gaming ebfore SP1 came along. I am enjoying it now.

I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the guy saying xp is more stable, it is "stable", but it is 7 years old too, and I had more trouble on XP with bsods than i ever have with vista! lol unless he was being sarcastic, I being an early adopter of vista and from sp1's update swear by it, its got features I like and enjoy, with some tweaking its even faster, 4gb I recommend and 64-bit version of vista, its solid as a rock not a single bsod using my sig rig.

Your friend may have been really misinformed, vista is fantastic for gaming just requires slightly better hardware than xp does, vista has dx10 and soon dx11, framerates in games are perfectly fine high and all. It's been out for over 2 years now, your friend may be riding on the fact nvidia and other companies didnt have matured enough drivers from the get go, but that was resolved quickly and is now and has been for a long time an awesome OS. It might do you well to wait til around june/july to buy a machine from dell was it?, I hear they and other companies will be offering a cheap upgrade to windows 7 when it releases early 2010.

Developers care about XP most because some games don't install on Vista? Try the other way around - developers have stopped updating their games, and some of them used code that is incompatible with Vista. So yes, some older games won't work - however, you can say the same thing about every OS since Windows 95 when DOS was de-integrated, since they'll all have older games that won't run due to incompatibilities either.RayvinAzn

Thanks a lot; you guys have been such a big help! Now I'm not afraid to get Vista. Should I wait for Windows 7 though?

Get Vista now. Windows 7 is like just more user-friendly, alongwith new features for tech-geeks. Gamers could care less about it.

Get Vista now. Windows 7 is like just more user-friendly, alongwith new features for tech-geeks. Gamers could care less about it.

redneckdouglas

XP 32bit=Awesome

Vista 32bit=crap for gaming

Vista 64bit=a little better than XP

Windows 7 64bit=better than XP and Vista

DX10=useless waste of FPS, if you could see the difference you've got amazing eyes. If you can't see the difference you sure can see the FPS drop.

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Best 32bit gaming performance is XP, don't waste your time with 32bit Vista

Best 64bit performance Windows 7

XP 64 and Vista 64 tie.

Last I looked NSR34GTR more games actually worked on XP than Vista.

Hi. I'm planning on buying an XPS when I save up enough money. The one I want (most of the XPS also) has Windows Vista. I was talking about it with my friend and he told me that getting a PC with Vista was a terrible idea because they are horrible for gaming. He told me that developers care about XP most (or something like that) and he said a lot of games won't install on Vista. I'm wondering how much of this is truth. Any help or comments would be appreciated.

mECHwARRIORx2

DX10=useless waste of FPS, if you could see the difference you've got amazing eyes. If you can't see the difference you sure can see the FPS drop.zaku101

if you want to play really old games then most people would recommend XP, or 2000 (lol) or use vista and run in compatibility mode, but for people with hardware from the last 3-4 years and wish to play awesome games that are now, then vista is the way to go for the normal user, I suggest 64-bit vista though, 64-bit support for vista is rather good I think, some old 1995 printers might not work though lol!

There are some cases where pretty dated games such as kotor 1 n 2 don't seem to work either on install or crash while playing, but games dating back to 2004 Farcry 1(maxxed out, high fps all the time), elder scrolls oblivion 2005 (while playing check i get between 70-130fps ultra high), CoD2 (run in compatibility mode with xp sp2 works great), fear 1 2006 (i get 300+ fps on its bench) as examples of games made a while back all work great.

My question with vista: will OLD games work? You know, stuff like the old C&C games and all and the old quake games.

That seems to be the biggest deterrence for me. I remember when I swtiched from 98 to XP half my game library wouldnt work on XP, and that was after downloading all necessary patches and using compatibility mode. Im worried this would happen with my current library. Even then, what about CSS and the battlefields?

not true every new game works fine on vista and some run better on vista than xp. imprezawrx500

Vista is a superior operating system to XP for gaming and home use. It's plain and simple at this point.

xp is supposed to be more stable but if you have good hardware and arent running vista youre just wasting it...

As far as gaming goes, the only upgrade for Vista DirectX10

XP 64 and Vista 64 tie. zaku101

Was a good post until that... Vista 64 is much more stable than XP 64, and less buggy.

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Hi. I'm planning on buying an XPS when I save up enough money. The one I want (most of the XPS also) has Windows Vista. I was talking about it with my friend and he told me that getting a PC with Vista was a terrible idea because they are horrible for gaming. He told me that developers care about XP most (or something like that) and he said a lot of games won't install on Vista. I'm wondering how much of this is truth. Any help or comments would be appreciated.

roulettethedog

I game just fine with Vista and can even play old games from the Apple2e era. MOST who hate Vista have low-end systems.

Download the Windows 7 RC1. (legally) on May 5th.

Its WAY faster then Vista. Atleast for me this is the case.

Download the Windows 7 RC1. (legally) on May 5th.

Its WAY faster then Vista. Atleast for me this is the case.

Jamiemydearx3

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Download the Windows 7 RC1. (legally) on May 5th.

Its WAY faster then Vista. Atleast for me this is the case.

gamer082009

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Hi. I'm planning on buying an XPS when I save up enough money. The one I want (most of the XPS also) has Windows Vista. I was talking about it with my friend and he told me that getting a PC with Vista was a terrible idea because they are horrible for gaming. He told me that developers care about XP most (or something like that) and he said a lot of games won't install on Vista. I'm wondering how much of this is truth. Any help or comments would be appreciated.

gamer082009

I game just fine with Vista and can even play old games from the Apple2e era. MOST who hate Vista have low-end systems.

vista has dx 10 some games dont work on xp so vista winsNSR34GTR

Really? Name one game that doesn't run on XP.

I think XP beats Vista in gaming, since any older game is gonna have problems running on Vista, but any newer game will run on both Vista and XP.