Gaming on XP or 7... which is better?

If I wanted to game, would it be better to game on XP or 7? Which uses less "resources" and will give me a better gaming experience?

(I can get drivers and utilities for either or)

 

You're better off using Windows 7 if you want to game, Microsoft stopped official DirectX driver updates for XP since DX9 and newer titles require at least DX10 or later. Plus Windows XP is primarily a 32 bit OS so it can't take advantage of anything more than 4GB RAM anyway.

Windows 7 is a pretty lean OS as long you do the right tweaks, clean installations are generally recommended if you wish to go down that route.

 

in a nutshell.

Good advice, cant divulge any-more on it than that

 

well, I used xp 64 bit for a loooong while (but on a workstation), definitely it was not popular back in the time, but xp had 64 bit version too. Also, all games support all DX too, however DX11 definitely looks much better than DX9. Still I also would say windows 7, as it is really not the ram bothering your gaming experience, it is the GPU

 

Today there is zero reason to use XP unless you "have to." XP vs Vista was a contentious issue for a while after Vista's release, especially for people with older hardware. Modern hardware and/or Windows 7 makes the point moot.

 

Wow thanks for those pointers everyone! That solves that issue, put it right into perspective.

 

Today, XP is not even a choice. It has major design-level security issues which are left open, because xp is 2 1/2 years beyond the end of mainstream support.

There are major new AAA titles which simply won't run on xp, but they might be out of the performance range of the HD 3000.

 

There is nothing XP can do that 7 can't do better.

 

it also depends on the game you're playing, some games built for xp has issues running in windows 7 (mostly because of high screen resolutions unsupported at the time).

but if you have windows 7 use it's virtual xp to run windows xp for games like those

 

ah the good old 1280/1024 resolutions