I have been playing Age of Mythology and FEAR and no problems with RC2. I
would assume with better drivers the final release will be even better for
games.

If u have the money go the 8800 with the new Pentium duo chip ( or whatever
its called )  and go with Vista. Also get 2 gig of memory and you will be up
to date for at 6 months  :-)

My suggestion is XP. It's a matured operating system and every company has
good, solid drivers written for it. I played WoW. Do you really want to be
trying to group with people or in a 40 man Raid that took hours to get into
and then run into driver or technical issues all because of Vista? Stick with
what works. Give Microsoft a couple of years to shake out the Vista bugs and
then look at it again.

I'd personally go with Windows XP for gaming, most older games lose
performance under Vista, thanks mostly to the sound changes that have been
made. If you are using only new titles release from January onwards, or ones
marked as "Games for Windows" then Vista will be fine. I'd also want to wait
for the DX10 card prices to drop!

If you are running an 8800, let me put in my two bits.

If you wait till after the first of the year, most computers are going to
come with XP, with the Vista upgrade. Seeing as you already own a dynamite
card, you are going to have an awesome advantage.
My bet is that you aren't going to be running a cheap, half useful computer.
If you are buying a computer like you bought your card, you can get
something like an HP Media Center Computer, probably one a lot like I just
bought. It costed me about $900US (not sure about the dollar/pound
conversion).
If you do it right, and get it XP, with the ability for a mail in, or
instant upgrade, you are going to be able to try the best of both worlds.
Install the Vista upgrade (with your fancy video card, and probably a
stronger power supply) and see how it plays. If you don't like it, you can
always hit the restore, to bring XP back to the beginning, and run that. But
you will have both. Another note, if you are upgrading from a Media center
computer, you will be receiving the Vista Home Premium upgrade, most likely,
which will be even better.
My point is this, you don't have to settle, you can have the best of both
worlds. But if you are going to do that, you only have a couple months left.
Between now, and probably February. Act now!

Hope this helps :-)

nVidia gForce 4 4200 ti 128mb doesn't work on Win. Vista. I must buy a new
card,
if I want to play samo games on stupid Vista. On XP evertyng is apsolutly OK
and work 100%.

My chose---XP defently!

I'm waiting until they ship an XBox with Vista embedded on a chip and a 300
Gig SATA drive lol.
Until then stick with XP.
The next 2 years should be dramatic changes in architecture to an instant
on/off OS and chipset.
The tech has been available for quite awhile but everyone keeps side lining
it.
Curious what the AMD/ATI partnership will bear as well.

All in all the console game/pc is where MS should make a stand with Vista.
If they build it without the retarded proprietary connectors and MS only
compatibility they could actually breathe some good business into it.

Hello,
First i want to apologize if this is the wrong forum for this question or
it's already been answered but it's very hard for me to find a right answer
that i know i can trust.

I plan to get a new computer as soon as i can so i wondered if i could get
some advise on if i should use windows xp or the new windows Vista when it
comes out(the cheapest version).

I will play World of Warcraft mostly maybe with a direct x 10 card
(8800gtx), my thoughts were that if i buy a geforce 8800 and Windows Vista i
will not need to upgrade my pc again for a long time.
But i read in some places that Vista won't run older games as well as Xp, so
i thought maybe windows xp and a older card like Geforce 7950GT would be
better for me.
Could someone please shed some light on the subject and advise me what to
get and when/if i would need to upgrade it and if/why Vista would run games
like World of Warcraft any slower/differant.
Answers would be very much appreciated.Thanks alot,
Paul

i will stick with xp, until vista gets included in that education thing and i
can get a legal version for free... then ill give it a shot if at least 60%
of the games i play work i might stick with it but considering the quality of
new releases over the last year or two i cant say that i am going to care
that much if i have to stick with xp and my older games... what i means is
all the game companys seem to be trying to make thigns that look hot then the
gameplay sucks badly, a new release these days i can usually finish in a
weekend what happened to all the games that you could play for months and not
get to the end with plenty of new and interesting stuff, if they release a dx
10 for xp that would also be nice at least then might be able to try new
releases, also the amount of resources vista uses peh, for a load of
graphical features im used to seeing on the macs at uni i am really not
impressed shiny != good, my desktop is a platform not something i want to be
looking at; as long as its neat, usable and fast (and i dont want to have to
spend a small fortune on my system just to make it fast, mine is plenty fast
with some old stuff p4 3.4 1 gb ddr geforce 6800gt ) thats all i care about