OS Comparison - On Which Operating System Do Games Run Best?

[flow``]

read the article here -> http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/02q3/020930/index.html

 

[ra5555]

winxp ofcourse

 

[t0rek]

winxp ofcourse

Damn, I was going to say exactly the same thing

 

[AlphaWolf]

I don't think theres much of a difference in the games, its more so the responsiveness of the OS itself. Though they shouldn't have tested SP3, because IMO its a tad slower than SP2, just like how that benchmark shows XP SP1 being slower than plain old XP. Something they did in the latest service packs...perhapse it relates to their new Digital Restrictions Management plan?

I prefer 2K by far though, I use both and its overall feel is a lot better.

 

[flow``]

well _most_ 2k users run sp3 i dare say?

so why not test it on os's that people run, whether or not a service pack might slightly slow it down.

not to mention.. sp4 beta testing has started ^_^

 

[crhylove]

imao xp rules, you just have to turn off the crap default eye candy junk. i'm not especially familiar with 2000, though, so that's a caveat. i will say initially xp sucked, but after some serious hacking. IT RULES!

rhy

 

[Eagle]

XP rulez even with the "eye candy" turned on, turning it off just makes it better.

 

[2bzy4ne1]

not to mention.. sp4 beta testing has started ^_^

already?? that's pretty quick. :satisfied

 

[crhylove]

2 bad wine wasn't GPL, linux would be trouncing win by now.

rhy

 

[Macca]

Widows XP would have to be one of the greatest things MS has ever done. I haven't had many problems with it at all both before and after SP1.

 

[vampireuk]

I would say Wink2k was one of the best Microsoft have done. Even after the computer peffed up when I installed it. I have forgiven it now

Win2k is a rock for me, never crashed once. XP crashed many times for me perhaps I should have formatted and reinstalled it but hey I'm lazy

 

[Trotterwatch]

Win2k or WinXP - the differences in my experience are slight. Both have been in my experience stable, and compatible with the vast majority of games I have used them with.

WinXP by default can be a little infuriating, as it won't let you do anything without warning of impending doom should you do so. It only takes a few minutes to tweak it so that it stops doing this though. I also take a few minutes to disable any services I don't need or intend to use. By default the amount of services enabled is astounding.

At the end of the day, you want the best of all worlds, then triple or dual boot your system. I used to dual boot XP and 98, but in the end got rid of 98, as I didn't use it at all.

 

[FAR]

I still use 98SE because of the old games and for the speed increase.

 

[flow``]

yea thats a good point.. 98se has better compat with older games vs 2k/xp, although most of the better games have been patched to work with 2k/xp unless they were quite old

 

[0_Avenger_0]

2 bad wine wasn't GPL, linux would be trouncing win by now.

rhy

Wine and WineX are both GPL. Only thing is that the CVS version of WineX is very hard to get compiled and there isn't any documentaion.

 

[AlphaWolf]

Hard to compile? actualy theres instructions included in the CVS repository. The only thing you are missing by doing that, is the copy protection code wont ever detect your CD. You have to crack the game instead.