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[skazi]

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[NuHoaXuLa]

I don't think you have a good topic when it only have a topic with no comment !

A OS good for game , i belive it is win98se ! Suitable with very lots of games , Win xp and version later not support many as so !

[sanweikui]

DOS! I think.
It uses much less system resource , so there are more left to the game .

[riao]

I can see the point about DOS, but really.. what or when was that last game released that could be played on a DOs system?

I agree with NuHoaXuLa. Windows 98SE is fairly stable so long as it is regularly maintenanced. And it supports the most games by far.

[norbert]

i think that is DOS!

[Saint_Michael]

well if you look at the early gamming scene with most fps you notice that most of them are dos look at duke nukem very popular game but with dos you have to have either windows or mac to rum dos, yeah back in the days of apple and apple 2 dos was right thier but if you think about it now you would want to hang yourself.


but yeah i would agree windows 98 is suitable for most gaming but it doesn't mean me or xp can't do as well it all depends on what you have for your os like video card sound card and all that good stuff.

btw mac SUCK!

[alperuzi]

well DOS was great for gaming yes. But that was when all the Developers used to write their own hardware interfaces.

Now that there is a standard (directX) how can DOS be suitable for gaming? It can't. Actually it can't be suitable for anything really.

One point in Saint_Michael's post though, you don't need windows to have DOS. Windows was actually installed on top of DOS, especially with Win 3.1 and Win 95. They tried changing it in 98, but it was still there, just kinda invisible. And totally got rid of it in 2K and XP.

Anyways, want a gaming OS? How about the OS in arcade machines such as Konami?

[Shadow]

ey well DOS was good for games, but, as games get better, quality and graphic wise, DOS isn't so good, I use windows xp for my games but most of the games you have to set a compatability level, like for example, red alert 1, i have to set to windows 98.

[goddess]

Windows 98 SE all the way. The compatiblity and stability records speak for themselves. *cough* DOS blows *cough* ... *cough* nowadays at least *sniffle*

[X3r0X]

Well duh! Windows (any version). Your are asking the OS. Now the version.

[2091]

Hi There!

I think the best OS 4 Gaming is Win98SE or WinXP, but the better choce is Win98SE, cuz u can use trueDOS with it.

[Chocobo Cookies]

I'd agree with the others, of course. Win98SE is by far the best.

[buddystuart]

I have windows 98 and I agree it is the best for gaming. I love all those classic old dos games, thats why I have a windows 3.11 computer which runs games with the sound

[hansley]

Windows Longhorn....lol
We don't know about it just yet....but we will, we will....
Does anyone know when it is going to be published pubically?
Btw, the thing with Win98 is that it sometimes hang when your game is too "heavy", XP however has very little encounter with this hang time.

[darksaber]

i think Xp is best for gaming

[timmattl]

Windows 98se is great at playing old games, xp is great at playing new games. why not dualboot your system and have both?

[badinfluence]

Win XP Pro
but thought hardware support could b more important nowadays...as Microsoft still havent launch for next OS gen...
older games are other story,thou

[AMVfreak]

XP works great for me. It can play XP-compatible games while having 95/98/2000 compatibility mode to play old ones.

[capeto]

XP

[laniczech]

id have to say vista because with dx10 standard and a good dx10 capable video card your ready for the new games on the market, add 64bit and dual monitors and your set, all though very few games are available that require dx10, but all my old games work fine with this setup

[webishqiptar]

I always played games on windows, but as far as you don't have a good dedicated graphic card, your Os plays no such important role.

[k_nitin_r]

The best OS for gaming, according to me, is Microsoft Windows XP. It doesn't add the overhead and compatibility issues that Windows Vista does, and it supports most modern games. CounterStrike, Grand Theft Auto, and Age of Empires run perfectly well for me on Windows XP.

You might be a fan of abandonware games, in which case you'd have to use an emulator to get the games working or would prefer to use an older version of Windows (Windows 95/98) or MS DOS. My favorites from the old days are Crusader: No Regret and Protostar.

You might find 're-mastered' versions of a game you are looking for, such as OpenTTD (a re-mastered version of Transport Tycoon) and WinDig (Digger re-mastered) that can run on your OS.

If you happen to be on a Linux box, the ease with which you can use yum to type a single command that can download the game off the Internet and install it for you is simply amazing, but most mainstream games don't run on Linux, unfortunately.

[buherath]

For me the best OS to play games is Windows Xp Service Pack 2.

It almost never crashes during a bug in a game. Even if it does you can always switch to task manager and end the game process.
You also can remove start up programs and save as much resources as possible for games. And besides many games work without a problem in windows xp. You can easily assign, re size or remove the pagefile as well.

What I hate about Win xp is the refresh rate problem where it gets stuck at 60Hz no matter what you do to make it go higher. In some games like Call of Duty 4 you can definitely see the difference of 60Hz and 75HZ such as the terrible mouse lag.

As for vista it clearly wastes too much ram and other resources. It's clearly not made for gamers.

But overall windows xp is much better. But I wonder how windows 7 will be for gamers........

[iGuest]

Win7 FTFW!Best OS for gaming?

XP is not the best.  DOS would be hella faster than anything IF softheads (nice term for computer illiterate, aka noob, people with no common sense when it deals with a computer) were not flooding the market.  Now days everything, hardware and software has to be user friendly, so we all deal with the bloated windows os while I still use dos to this day since I can do more things faster than I can in windows.

This can't be a debate as there is no correct answer.  Someone with an older pc is going to have an older os most likely be better for them.  While a person that can afford a top of the line custom pc they put together, they can have Vista actually out perform XP because they have the hardware for Vista to take advantage of it.  Currently my pick for my system is Windows 7 x64, then Vista x64.  I've found at the beginning of last year that the x64 version of Vista ran more software than xp could, and run it the way it was designed.  An example is Sanitarium.  You try to run this on your xp machine and its going to crash (I'm talking about the original big boxed, unpatched version too), you have to use a program to slow down your machine.  Now with Vista x64 the os automatically does this and your installing it and playing it like you should, no problems at all.  I then look at Divine Divinity, try installing this on Vista x86, your not going to be able to change discs when it asks, but in Win7 it works like a charm.  The most noticable is FAUST.  On XP this will be a big biiatch to even get it to run and the voice/music will be skipping like mad.  Now play this on Vista or Win7.  Works again, like a charm.  The lip sync is PERFECT.

So this is why I choose, for my needs and system, Windows 7 as the ultimate gaming OS.  Its less of a resource hog as all the other os after 2k, looks damn nice and its more compatiable than all the ms oses to date.  I really suggest people, make a partition and install Win7 x64 (if you have a 64bit cpu, if not, go x86 (32bit)) and just try it.  First get rid of the ugly desktop, pick something nice or simple for the best memory management.  I guarantee, you will be wanting to buy a copy when it hits the streets for sale.  

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[ivan98]

Gaming OS?Winodws XP SP3 X64 (I think)