Vista For Gaming?

Hi guys I am getting a laptop, which comes with Windows Vista. Now, there are probably only two games I will be putting on it, these are Rome Total War, and Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30. I want to know if these will play OK on Vista? I have read in some places that Vista is bad for gaming, but I have also read that it is fine.

Can anyone help? Thank you very much.

Vista is fine for most games. You need to make sure you have a decent amount of RAM (2 gb) before you get vista because it eats about 600mb when running pretty much no programs. KingRoyW

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