Windows Partition Gaming Issues

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I bought myself am iMac, and I love it, but I have always been a windows person before this. This means that my extensive library of games collected over the last ten years is purely windows, and so I installed a windows xp operating system in a separate partition so I can play them all. Some of my games work fluently, or at least they do so far, but in others, like Star Wars Battle Front II, my computer just freezes up in the middle of the game, then the screen goes black, and the only thing I can do is turn my computer off with the power switch. In other games, I can't even play them at all, no matter which compatibility mode I use or how I set my graphics, an error message always comes up, or the game doesn't play clearly enough to see anything (it just appears to be boxes, or odd blobs). This happens with games like Star Craft and Worms II. Any help would be fantastic.
 

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14" MacBook Pro M1 Pro, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
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Mac Mini i5 (2014 High Sierra), iPhone X, Apple Watch, iPad Pro 12.9, AppleTV (4)
Please post the specs of your Mac (ideally add them to your profile).

A few things to try although you may have already done them:
- get the latest graphics drivers
- get the latest game patches
- get the latest XP updates
- get the latest bootcamp update
 
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Computer's spechs:

• 20-inch (viewable) widescreen active matrix LCD display
• 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• 4MB shared L2 cache
• 1GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM; supports up to 4GB
• 250GB Serial ATA hard drive
• Slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
• ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT graphics processor with 128MB of GDDR3 SDDRAM
• Built-in iSight video camera
• Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (external DSL and cable modem ready)
• One FireWire 800 port; one FireWire 400 port; three high-speed USB 2.0 ports; two high-speed USB ports on keyboard
• Built-in Airport extreme wireless networking
• Built-in Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
• Audio: built-in stereo speakers; integrated microphone; optical digital audio input/audio line in; optical digital audio output/ headphone out
• DVI video output; VGA video output; S-video and composite video output
• Apple Remote, Apple Keyboard, and Mighty Mouse
 
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do you know how to see what version I have now?
Just to make sure I don't download the same one.
 

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