#42 - Question/Answer: Best Operating System for Gaming

Q. What's the best operating system for gaming; Linux, MAC or Microsoft Windows?

A. The best operating system for gaming would be Microsoft Windows. Go with Windows XP if you have an older computer system with a DirectX9 compatible video card. Go with Microsoft Windows Vista if you have a fast computer system with a DirectX10 compatible video card.

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Science & Technology

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• computer
• electronics

[oblivion9122]

vista is garbage... haha i hate it so much

[JERB69s]

@MissRLA Windows 7 is great, I highly reccomend you give it a try at your local best buy, or other electronic stores.

[tarek12mig]

i got windows xp and im playing video games on it , hahaha ..hah... OH FUCK IT!

[beinebeine01]

OR! Put a dual boot menu, On your computer. On my HP a6313W and HP n3200s. I have Windows XP and Windows 7 on them. There are tons of tutorials on YouTube. To show you, how to partition your hard drive. So you can put, 2 operating systems or more. On one hard drive.

So, you can run old programs and new programs, on one computer. Just stay away from the VISTA....JUNK! From personal experience

[sideoshovideo]

bull vista is junk if your going to use vista go with the 32 bit with a high end video card for a smooth frame rate vista it self is not stable 64 bit would crash

[MRGOATWILLIAMS]

@JERB69s why do that when theres the piratebay

[abergethirty]

The best OS would be none. They need to create a gaming OS for PC hardware so game developers can directly access the hardware instead of all the software layers they have to go thru. You would have simple menu system like the old Xbox and thats it; Games would really if they could dump slow crappy windows. You could create another partition on your computer and boot windows or boot your game console. I really miss when we could reboot out of windows 95 and boot games in Dos

[jfzelda]

xp is the best to go with

[SBwingman]

hmm, dunno if anyone else thought the same, but some of the still shots for '3DGAMEMAN"s videos make him look like Les Stroud (Survivorman)

[SBwingman]

i would like, and would definitely buy, an OS that was specifically made for PC gaming, maybe some permutation of Win7 that has been modified, streamlined and well thought out to offer the maximum performance and smoothest experience for it's specialized task.

[cipher10000]

Yeah but on some level every microsoft operating system is unstable

[izlude2]

Solaris would be the best, except... you can't install anything on it (quake is really the only one that does work, but it's old.)

Like a game console, Solaris as an OS actually "gets out of the way" when you game. It's incredibly stable. It's a pity it isn't even considered by folks who simply want to surf or type documents. If all my programs installed on it, I'd use it for sure. I've benched the hell out of it and tried to crash it on purpose with bit changers.. ya can't crash it xD