Which OS is best for gaming?

SuperToo · Apr 1, 2003

I have always withheld installing games because they always ended up causing problems with our past puters.
Now we have dual HDD's and I would like to dual boot with one HDD for nothing other than games. Which OS is better, 98 or XP? Anyone have experience with both sytems and using them for gaming?
I would like to play Quake and several other of the newer games, I'm just not sure if the new games will make full use of the system we have if something less than Win XP is used.

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moonshinemadness · Apr 1, 2003

I find XP best for most games but a lot of my old games needed 98 so i put dual boot 98 on and used that only for the games that wouldnt run on XP.

ProviaFan · Apr 1, 2003

Clearly, the answer is Windows XP. Please refer to this article, which I need to bookmark so I'll have it handy each time this topic comes up (and it comes up quite frequently in this forum, just use the search button).

Montano · Apr 1, 2003

Spyro · Apr 1, 2003

Originally posted by: moonshinemadness
I find XP best for most games but a lot of my old games needed 98 so i put dual boot 98 on and used that only for the games that wouldnt run on XP.

spyordie007 · Apr 1, 2003

EHobaX · Apr 1, 2003

What's the best OS for games?

pac1085 · Apr 1, 2003

Originally posted by: EHobaX
What's the best OS for games?

GNU/Hurd, Solaris, or HP-UX.

spyordie007 · Apr 1, 2003

Originally posted by: EHobaX
What's the best OS for games?

Windows 93

Good year, very good year

-Spy

ProviaFan · Apr 1, 2003

Originally posted by: Vortex

Originally posted by: EHobaX
What's the best OS for games?

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GNU/Hurd, Solaris, or HP-UX.

Well, SGI did port several versions of Quake to IRIX/MIPS, and I wouldn't be surprised to find similar rare gems for Solaris and maybe even HP-UX. But Hurd, well, I just don't understand why some parts of it are so f***ed. From the Hurd homepage:

it's scalable

And from the installation document:

The Hurd can only support partition sizes of up to approximately two gigabytes; anything larger than this will not work.

Ok, sounds like this OS that has been around for a long time already has been growing and scaling quite well.

civad · Apr 1, 2003

originally posted by:spyordie007

Originally posted by: EHobaX
What's the best OS for games?

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Windows 93

Good year, very good year

-Spy

lol..

Spyro · Apr 1, 2003

Originally posted by: EHobaX
What's the best OS for games?

Debian.....

civad · Apr 1, 2003

originally posted by: wizardLRU

Originally posted by: EHobaX
What's the best OS for games?

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Debian.....

Sigh! only if that were true..

spyordie007 · Apr 1, 2003

Originally posted by: EHobaX
What's the best OS for games?

Pocket PC, there are some slick emulators out there for the Pocket PC!

Or DOS, I have probably spent much more time gaming from within DOS than all other OSs combined. In fact it's what I spent most of High School doing

-Spy

Spyro · Apr 1, 2003

Originally posted by: civad

originally posted by: wizardLRU

Originally posted by: EHobaX
What's the best OS for games?

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Debian.....

Click to expand...

Sigh! only if that were true..

Baileybbk · Apr 2, 2003

nethack on DOS

Bob151 · Apr 3, 2003

Originally posted by: jliechty
Clearly, the answer is Windows XP. Please refer to this article, which I need to bookmark so I'll have it handy each time this topic comes up (and it comes up quite frequently in this forum, just use the search button).

Bummer. That articale doesn't address the IP stack. I've heard numerous admins that support MS servers say the IP stack is improved in w2k substantially. I don't have any objective proof, just what I've heard. So, maybe another factor would be the processing and assembly of bits to datagrams and the pushing of such to the processor.

Can anyone make a definitive statement on the IP stacks of W2K or XP over that of 95/98?

eklass · Apr 3, 2003

Which OS is best for gaming?

...the OS that runs all your favorite games...

oh were you referring to which windows version is the best... that's somethign different </smartass>

spyordie007 · Apr 4, 2003

Originally posted by: Bob151

Originally posted by: jliechty
Clearly, the answer is Windows XP. Please refer to this article, which I need to bookmark so I'll have it handy each time this topic comes up (and it comes up quite frequently in this forum, just use the search button).

Click to expand...

Bummer. That articale doesn't address the IP stack. I've heard numerous admins that support MS servers say the IP stack is improved in w2k substantially. I don't have any objective proof, just what I've heard. So, maybe another factor would be the processing and assembly of bits to datagrams and the pushing of such to the processor.

Can anyone make a definitive statement on the IP stacks of W2K or XP over that of 95/98?

I'm not from Microsoft but I'll make a "definitive" statement on that subject.

"Windows 2000 and XP are built on the same networking capabilities, stability, scalability, and security that was established with earlier releases of Windows NT. The network stack in Windows 9x underperforms, breaks, is less secure and by far less scalable than any Windows NT based OS since NT 4 (and arguably even 3.5)."

-Spy

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