Some of the games you like are tough even on the latest and greatest
systems. (Also don't let the post about the speed of your Intel CPU scare
you, a 1.8ghz Duo or Core 2 Duo processor is faster than most 3-4ghz
processors like the older Pentium4 series.

However, installing Vista should not cause any problems and may allow you to
get higher quality textures out of the games do to the way the WDDM in Vista
can virtualize VRAM.

So you have nothing to lose, and at the most you would lose 3-5fps in even
the most die hard game compared to XP, and on a lot of games Vista will gain
you fps, especially with the newer drivers from ATI and NVidia compared to
the Vista drivers when it was launched that got bad reviews.

The only thing I would consider doing is since you are a gamer, moving up to
2GB of RAM will help a lot, even if you stick with XP.

Good Luck,
TheNetAvenger
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"raviNe" <raviNe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I hav a laptop Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505 and was thinking about upgrading it
> to vista. but i'm confused whether next gen games like Crysis, Bioshock,or
> even Gears of War, will work on it properly after I'll install vista. Its
> got
> a Core 2 duo processor 1.8Ghz - 1.8GHz, 1 gigabyte of RAM and ATI Mobility
> Radeon X1300 256 MB PCI Express card. Pls tell me whether upgrading would
> be
> a wise decision or not!
> Currently I have XP media center edition and Rainbow 6 Vegas has to be
> played in 640x480 resolution keepin all other graphics options ultra high.