Vermiculture wrote:When I use another operating system does it reset the PC memory?
not sure what you mean.
Do you mean, does it replace your existing operating system? By installing the system, it must use some Hard Disk Drive / Solid State Drive space. You can erase completely your existing operating system ( simple install ) or install along side your existing operating system ( more complex install ).
as suggested by germ, try one of the Live .isos first by burning / flashing it to a USB stick / thumbdrive. They allow trial without making any changes to your existing system.
another option is to try it in a virtual machine - oracle virtualbox is a good example. it creates a virtual machine running on your existing operating system and so can be tried without rebooting your machine.
cant answer the games question, as I do not play games.