Do I really need vista to play games for windows?

[LXIX]

My cousin told me that I needed to have Vista to play games marked with the Games for Windows Live header. (i.e. Every game out) I usually buy my games through digital download but I was going to go to the store and actually pick up hard copies of some games. Is that true that I need Vista to run "games for windows" games or will it work on XP. Seems that making the games that way would make them lose a lot of money.

 

[Tmagic650]

It depends on the video card you have in your XP machine. If you only have on-board video or a crappy video card, Vista and it's approved hardware would be better at gameplay

 

[LXIX]

Well I definitely can run the games but he was telling me there was a lock kind of like trying to run DX 10 without vista, it won't work. So from what you say I can play the games for windows games if I have a vista approved Graphics card, I do, so I can play them on XP right?

 

[Tmagic650]

I would say... Yes you can play "Vista" games, even with DX9

 

[Ricky54326]

Yeah. It's "Approved" hardware, sucks balls most of the time. No offense to you or anything, that was directed towards microsoft. Our school computers are "Built for vista" with a GeForce 6200 in it, 512MB ddr, and an 80GB hd. I don't think that's so good.