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    Help with downgrading to Windows XP

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mikey19, Dec 26, 2007.

  1. mikey19

    mikey19 Notebook Guru

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    Hi guys,
    I have a toshiba satellite p100-st9752. specs in the sigs.
    so it came with windows vista ultimate (which is nice) and toshiba only has drivers and supports windows vista.

    but i only need this for gaming, so i would like to run windows xp.
    Seriously, Call of Duty 4 fps is lower on this 7900GTX 512 GDD3 than a freaking mobility radeon hd2600xt 256mb in my iMac.....

    im pretty sure vista is the blame here. I uninstalled almost everything (toshiba came with soooo much bloatware) have turned off almost every service (even printspooler). It still takes up 26% of 2GB at idle :(

    Has anyone used winxp on this or other similar laptops before? where can you get software/drivers for the hard ware. I tried to install winxp on another hdd and got a lot of question marks in the device manager.

    Any help appreciated,
    thanks, mike
     
    mikey19, Dec 26, 2007
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  2. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    1. Is your windows updated?
    2. Are they both on same resolution?
    3. FPS difference is no more than 5-6 under newest games when comparing Vista-XP
    4. Is it a go 7900GTX? Perf should be about the same as the HD2600XT
    5. It's not just a question of deleting bloatware but doing a clean install :)

    The system RAM is freed when a game needs it BTW.
     
    JCMS, Dec 27, 2007
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