What Operating System Is The Best Games Base ? - A little Quizzy...

Well on my other computer which I use for only gaming that has Windows XP Gaming Edition basically a Big tweaked version of Windows XP but runs a lot faster and better graphics a bit like Windows XP Performance Edition.

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I would say windows XP, there is virtually nothing incompatible with windows XP, whereas many things dont work with 2000 or are not officially compatible with NT (even though XP is built around it)
Although most things are now made for vista, it uses a lot of resources, I have 4GB of RAM in my desktop, but it also makes apps less stable, and lots slower.
Although vita does have the advantage that it can run directX 10, something that XP cannot do.
If you look at game system spec, youll often find that it recomends 512MB more RAM for vista, because its so resource hungry...

Of course there are some games which will work with linux, and most linux distros dont use much memory atall, but unfortunately there are so many different distros, that it isnt possible for the game companies to make games universally compatible with linux.

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I would have to go with XP as well. It doesn't need alot of resources(256megs) to run, alot of drivers are for it, and there are many great games that run only on XP. When games don't require modification to run on Linux, then Linux shall outperform them all. Linux is a much more complex OS but there are so many different versions for it, hackers don't bother writing viruses for it. If XP didn't have such a huge virus target due to so many users, it would be a great OS but Linux once again doesn't get viruses.

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Windows XP because basically every game nowadays requires XP or higher. Problem with that is just running xp nearly burns out my computer... neva mind running Flight Simulator X wif full gfx

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Honestly I would say that Vista would be the best operating system for running games, were it not for the fact that it has flaws.

The first is that it is still too new. Because of this fact alone it is still full of bugs and issues that are still needing to be resolved. Over time, Microsoft should be able to fix some, if not most of the bugs. Until then, however, it will be XP that is top.

The reason Vista would be the better choice were it not for all the bugs are because of how smoothly it runs, along with all of the protection on it file wise. Although some people hate how it requests permission for every file you want to edit(A lot don't know that you can actually disable that protection), I find it to be a great feature. It helps keep people from being able to hack you through games. For example, on some games you can easily implement virii into the maps that are automatically downloaded and ran. Vista would keep that from being able to happen(Unless, of course, you were running the program in Administrator mode).

The other great thing about Vista is that you can take things like external hdd's or memory sticks and take some of that space to become like RAM. I have not really messed with that feature yet, so I don't know a lot about it, because I'm already fine ram-wise. It could help those who have a small amount of ram, however.

Overall I'd still have to vote Vista as best for gaming, although it does have it's downsides. The positives more than take up for negatives.

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