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How do games run on Windows XP?

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paruhd0x

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I wonder if we will ever see Win98SE gaming performance in Windows XP... or will it be like Windows 2000? (Ugh)
 
from what I have heard it will be better than 2000 for games since it is also the upgrade to Win98/ME

 
I read (on cnn.com or microsoft.com i think)it will use the same driver model as Win2k, since XP is really NT 5.1. In light of that i would expect most games to perform similarly to how they do in Win2k.
 
I think M$ is finally commiting to a SINGLE kernel.

This means that gaming people can no longer claim that the NT kernel is not designed for gaming, which is one of the stupidest excuses not to support a game on a more stable platform as I have ever heard. Do they think Windows 9x WAS designed for gaming???

I say that this is a great move for the gaming industry; maybe we'll start to see fewer BSODs!

Kyle
 
Yeah. WinXP will work the same as 2000, but since it'll be the new consumer standard the game developers are going to have to write their new games to be 2000/XP friendly.
 
I seriously hope XP runs games better than Win2k does... I HATE my Windows 2000 performance in games... it is nothing compared to Win98SE.
 
Seeing that you have 256mb of ram... I would think that gaming performance under w2k would be smooth!! I thought it was bad because I only had 128mb's worth... Maybe not.
 
Hmmm, don't seem to be having any trouble with any games on 2419........ones that wouldn/t or were crappy under 2K even seem to do fine.......😉
 
My performance loss in games was very minimal moving from Win98SE to Win2000....I have a lot of RAM though (384MB) so maybe that's it....not sure what to tell you..but XP is pretty much the same OS as Win2000, so performance will be similar...in my case that's very good.

Check around....NVidia's Win2k drivers perform even better than their Win9x drivers in some cases....I don't think that consolidating to NT5.x is a bad move for anybody....
 
i was under the impression that me was the last "dos" based operating system and from here on out nt was the kernel.
 
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