WinXP for Gaming?

Buying new machine ... gaming a priority. Will Windows XP be as smooth a system for running current games as 98? Also, what about my older games that specify 95/98 but never anticipated XP? Safer to stick with some version of 98 or maybe 2000 ... if so, which is considered optimum for gaming? A lot of questions--Thanks!

 

fubart,

four pages on the very topic see the link below, however the long and the short of it is that WinXP delivers slower gaming performance than its Win9x brethren – definitely food for thought. ...

http://www.sourcemagazine.com/csm/Forum1/HTML/000054-3.html

Hope this helps.......

DS

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