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Sileon

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I've recently been saving up for a new computer, and have almost reached the date of the final paycheck before I order it. It's going to be a gaming computer, and Mac is out of the question.

My question is, which OS should I get? I've been eying Windows Vista. I'd love to have a brand new OS with a brand new computer, but I haven't heard great things about it. Mostly concerning backwards compatibility, which would be a big problem for me. I've had Windows XP for years, and wouldn't mind sticking with it.

Anyway, it's no big deal. My main concern would Vista not being able to run some file types that XP could, and some of my games may not work. To me, this sounds ridiculous, but I can't be too careful.

So is this just some stupid rumor?
 
Besides a Welcome to the Computer Forum! http://www.computerforum.com/70672-official-welcome-thread.html and the usual reminder to all new members about reviewing the http://www.computerforum.com/52038-forum-rules.html it seems you need some practical advice on both versions.

If you have plenty of XP compatible files and programs the choice becomes obvious there. Stay with XP since you can find even OEM releases for system builders for good prices. For Vista expect any new version of Windows to need newer versions of many things plus the wait for improved driver support. Here Vista was a secondary OS on a multiple drive system where even games like HL2 are now seeing sound problems despite full version not beta drivers coming out. I had to reset XP as the default OS.
 
Yes stay with XP. Besides some bad things (viruses, spyware, adware) that people say Vista has, XP is the best. Most of everything is compatiable with XP. Besides, the pro/Home is cheaper these days. 3 months ago i got xp pro for $70-80
 
XP is definitely the way to go right now. And as for Vista, personally I think we should wait until Service pack 1 is release for it.
 
As for now, go with XP. You will get 2%-50% performance loss in gaming with Vista. Most software are made for XP. It's cheaper, more stable and more responsive (faster). I like Vista and I installed it like 2-4 times on my computer (I remove it after 2-5 days after installation because of slowness and some apps don't 100% work on Vista).
 
I think vista is the way to go for gaming. DX10 support for next gen games. Why buy something that is old for a few extra frames per second in games. Buy an affordable dx10 card and vista, you will not be disappointed. I bet most of the nay says for vista don't even own it. I do, and have had no problems with games, and having used xp for a long time have noticed very little decrease in 'game performance.'
 
Hi Sileon, my opinion this is that if you already had an XP OS disk I would have stuck with that but since you don't I would get Vista simply because its more future proof. I don't think its gonna be too long until XP is gonna phase out and then you're gonna have to get Vista anyway and what you pay now gwtting XP will be a waste of money.
 
oscaryu1 said:
i would listen to that... wait until SP1 comes out...
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You keep repeating something that isn't going to happen with Vista namely any large service packs! With this latest MS flop? you have to download and keep downloading the regular small updates for Windows and now included Windows Defender! That gets annoying fast. Vista still lacks drivers that will hold up over a period of time.

I reset XP for default boot due to the detioration of Creative's own sound updates seeing problems in HL2 while the first beta drivers there saw no problems. DX10 has no problems otherwise seen on DX9 cards now available and won't. Direct X is simply a Vista compatible set of 3D rendering and Direct Sound type driver enhancements for the new Windows. DX9c runs on Vista as well as 10.

Any new version of Windows leaves stuff behind as far as programs. Backward compatibilty doesn has limits that some don't seem to reailize apparently whether it's just a newer 32bit or going 64bit as far as the OS is concerned. With 98 dropped by MS last year the next to go will be 2000 and somewhere down the line after the next Vienna? comes out then XP will eventually have had it's day. One way to get around the problems seen for either was solved here by multi OSing. Vista takes longer to shutdown then XP with less programs installed. Why? more startup items built into it!
 
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