What is best operating system for gaming Xp or Win 7

carlos_101

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I just need to know that can win 7 slow down the games as compare to xp
as win 7 is more advanced,so iam confused on gaming on xp or win 7 and
how much space does it take for win 7 as i have 20 gb on C drive .

Specs are:

dual core E5400
9800 gt
2gb ram

wish for the best replies
 
Lol. If you are gonna run Windows 7, grab another 2 gb of ram. I've got Vista and just bumped my old dual core desktop to 4 gb of ram(Athlon x2 5400, 4 gb of ram, 9600gt). And it's pretty quick now. Ram is cheap enough as well. That's what I'd do personally. XP was great, but is now old and going to be more unsupported as time goes by, plus you can't use dx10 and dx11 with it either.
 
Win XP is great for games, but some developers have started to drop support for DX9 like Just Cause 2 and Battlefield 3. You need at least Win Vista to play games like that.

Actually, Halo 2 was the 1st game you could not play on Win XP even though it was a DX9 game. Microsoft used it to force people to upgrade to Win Vista by integrating Dx10 code into the game.