Dual Booting

[Gray Fox]

Lets say I have a 500GB drive on my pc. I want to dual boot Vista & XP.
I create a 100GB partition for XP.
Now will XP only be able to use Apps and games on it's own partition.
Lets say I install Riso of Nations on the Vista 400GB partition, will I still be able to play Rise of Nation if I boot in to XP, and vice versa.

For that matter is it even worth to have vista on your PC if you do not have a directx9 card, I was kind of curious about vista, and I am going to get a DX10 card in a few moths anyway.

 

[Alan00000]

Yes you can play your games on Vista and Xp just pick the OS at start up and it loads as usual.

Having vista with a dx 9 card isnt bad if your going to get one anyways. Plus it has cool features and stuff.
http://www.windowstalk.org/dual_boot_vista.htm

 

[giant384]

imo you dont need vista if it doesn't fulfill a need that you couldn't use on xp.