Yes, this is in the right forum.
I just purchased a new MacBook Pro (the least expensive one) and I'm planning on running a Windows OS in Bootcamp so I can play a few games. I was wondering whether I should run XP or Vista. I have free access to both, so price isn't an option. In case it matters, the games I'm looking at playing are:
Heroes of Might and Magic V, Dreamfall, and when is comes out Penny Arcade Adventures. I also want to keep playing a bunch of old games (1985-2000). Should I run Vista to take advantage of DirectX 10? Will Vista run my older games? What should I do?
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For games, go with XP.
No guarantee Vista will run old games. -
Personally, I'd choose XP. It is more stable than Vista and has none of the problems. If all you are going to do is play games, then you won't need any of Vista's 'advantages.'
DX10 is in shambles right now, and nothing is working correctly (yet)...and I think it is merely a drivers-related issue. But it will take some time to fix all those issues, and no game is DX10-only right now...so my view is 'who cares about DX10?'
My vote: XP -
xp.........
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If you only need it for gaming, you might as well go with XP...
I should add though that I much prefer Vista for general use. I'm using it on my 3 year old desktop, and haven't encountered any of the rumoured instability or compability problems people always seem to bring up when they try to convince someone to stick with XP. My experience this far has been solid, haven't encountered any old games that didn't work that worked on XP. Haven't noticed lower performance in games either. Compability mode + "Run as Administrator" ftw!
Might be a whole lot different with an NVidia GPU though (I have an Radeon 9800 on my desktop) since NVidia seem to outright suck at releasing good drivers on time nowadays. -
Vista is pretty good, but it still flakes out on me every so often, and XP is pretty much as good as it's going to get.
XP or Vista
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mbfield, Jun 24, 2007.