I haven't set up my Mac with Boot Camp because I don't own any copies of Windows yet. When I do it the Windows partition will be almost exclusively for gaming. I've been thinking of XP because everyone says it's more reliable and because I prefer older games, but I worry about not being able to play newer games without Windows 7. Particularly I worry that with XP I may not be able to play the new Elder Scrolls game Skyrim. What do you guys think?
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Mac Gamers: XP or Windows 7?
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I went with Windows 7, no complaints here. I haven't had any stability problems at all, and all of the programs I've tried to run have worked great. XP really is showing it's age now, it doesn't even have DX10 support, let alone DX11
Unless you can get xp for free, you might as well go with 7. It won't be long before Microsoft stops pushing updates for xp.
I still use Windows XP, but most of my games are really old (from Windows 95 + 98 era) and XP is the last OS they work on.
Modern gamers should definitely use Windows 7 especially since some hardware manufactures are no longer making drivers for XP. Which means you're stuck with whatever Apple gives you if you choose to use XP.
Modern gamers should definitely use Windows 7 especially since some hardware manufactures are no longer making drivers for XP. Which means you're stuck with whatever Apple gives you if you choose to use XP.
