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Old 04-09-09   #1 (permalink)
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On a Mac, via Boot Camp, which of Windows XP (DX9), Vista (DX10) or 7 (DX11) would give me the best gaming performance?

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With your setup I would go with Vista considering more and more games are being optimized for DX10. It really depends on what you want to play though. That and xp is getting soooo boring .
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With your setup I would go with Vista
What about Windows 7? ive tried it on my Vista machine and it A LOT more faster, but not sure about how it would perform in Boot Camp, i know its still in Beta but, most of the stuff for Vista works on it...
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How about you try it out and tell us
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How about you try it out and tell us
LOL, if i could, i wouldnt be asking...my MacBook is due for arrival on Monday and i really dont want to have to go through installing and benchmarking 3 different OS's
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What about Windows 7? ive tried it on my Vista machine and it A LOT more faster, but not sure about how it would perform in Boot Camp, i know its still in Beta but, most of the stuff for Vista works on it...
The only reason I didn't recommend 7 is because it is still in beta and drivers aren't as good as in Vista. But the only way to find out is to try it .
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Well then if it's between XP and vista, XP wins when it comes to gaming. ESPECIALLY for such a weak graphics processor as the integrated "junk" that comes on the macbook.
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Well then if it's between XP and vista, XP wins when it comes to gaming. ESPECIALLY for such a weak graphics processor as the integrated "junk" that comes on the macbook.
Not really. I'd say Vista and XP are equal and Windows 7 is a shade faster depending on whether you have 2GB+ of RAM or not.
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it will fail with a macbook no matter what you use. no graphics/processing power
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bootcamp xp, it runs games better on my 2.4ghz alumi MB.. obviously with a 9400M you arent going to get stellar performance, but games are playable ;p
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