It would, and it won't stop you from playing, whatever you decide. New games will be played probably good enough to attract you, but you know game addictions can the worst. You know people playing on CStrike, not only because of the trend, don't you? Well, CS can be played on P2
. What about using 256 MB of video memory with some old ballistic or paranoid or similar? Age of empires 2, how many hours of lesson has it made friends of mine loose because they could not decide who won and would not save and go away.
My addiction happened with Heroes3, which required win9x and I kept dual boot for so long until I got my hands on a virtual machine (VirtualPC from Microsoft, WMware does not quite work with that, despite being better accelerated into everything, or maybe just because of that)