Games on WinXP via Bootcamp

Please post your exeriences playing games on WinXP via Bootcamp. Please post the name of game and how well it plays.

Okay, the skinny on Half-Life 2 on XP on the iMac.... IT ROCKS!!! And I don't mean 'oh yes, it plays pretty good, well, pretty good on a Mac anyway'... I mean - IT REALLY ROCKS!
I'll calm down a bit now and explain.
I bought Half-Life 2 went it first came out, but at the time I had a fairly low spec PC. So the following Spring (2005) I got a bit of cash saved up and I treated myself to a new PC I built from scratch with the following spec:
Athlon 64 3000+, 1gb RAM (later 2gb), ATI Radeon X800XT, 19" TFT monitor, Audigy 2zs soundcard etc etc
Now this was pretty **** good at most things and fairly tore up Half-Life 2 at the highest resoltion my monitor would go to, being 1280x1024 - though it had some problems with stuttering and the odd bit of jerkiness.
So now, a year later and I've ditched my PC and got an iMac which I BootCamped XP onto yesterday without hitch.
After installing Half-Life 2 and waiting for Steam to do its thang, I started it up and immediately put all the settings to high, the AA to 2x and the AF to 16x. I then set the screen rez to 1280 x 1024 and started a new game.
Wow! It was as smooth and fast as anything!
So, suitably impressed, I then whacked the rez right up to the 20" iMac's native widescreen 1680 x 1050.
Double wow! It dealt with that with no problems either!
And I don't know if Valve have sorted out the stuttering since I last played it but there was none of that here!
Absolutely marvellous! It seems the combination of the Mobility Radeon x1600 and the Intel Dual Core cpu, along with the superfast bus and memory speeds, are spot on for fairly recent games. By the way I've got 1gb ram but only went for the 128mb graphics chip.
I'm next going to be trying F.E.A.R which should up the ante a bit!
The only bad thing about all this excitement is that I havent booted into OS X for 2 days! Oops!

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