Gaming on Leopard or Windows XP

Hi

i have a macbook santa rosa and am putting xp and leopard on. I dont have any games yet but if I do will they run better on xp or leopard?

I have the x3100 graphics card so I assume I need to install the latest drivers to windows and leopard?

thanks

macbook santa rosa 2.0 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 4, 2007 8:45 AM

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Dec 4, 2007 11:48 AM in response to Arl_ln

There would be no reason for the Mac to run a game faster than XP (provided you're talking about a game which has been developed for both platforms). XP video drivers tend to be more optimized than OS X video drivers and game developers who develop for both platforms tend to put a bit more effort into the XP versions as that is where their money is. And you can install Windows and run all of your Windows games natively on a Mac using BootCamp in Leopard. Gaming is less than ideal when using "emulators" (virtualization is the more accurate term... you are not actaully emulating anything). Running Leopards free BootCamp and using Windows via that method gives the best results for Windows gaming.

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