Thinking of downgrading from Win7 x64 to WinXP Pro/2000 x64

While doing some recent research, it appears after all that winXP still may be the reigning champion of OS's when it come to shear gaming performance. (in many cases)

I am currently running Win7 x64 on HP HDX 2.26ghz 4GB/1GB VId memory for 130M nVidia GPU. Notebook came stock with Win Vista Home Edition, and months ago I updated to Win7 Ultimate Edition x64.

For general usage it's great, not many problems to speak of however I do run into compatibility issues now and again with some games, and other games run quite sluggish even thou I realize my GPU isn't meant to pump out 50 FPS on MAX settings in Crysis.

However, given the stability and performance increases winXP allows, and overall-compatilitly issues that will be elimiated with most of the games I seem to be having problems with, I am considering either performing a separate partition and installing XP pro x64 on my system and set it up thru a dual-boot configuration.

I would obviously have to download ALL the supported winxp drivers that are necessary for the correct operation of my system. But I may have some doubts as to whether or not the Mboard is pre-configured to Vista in some form or another.

If anyone has any experience on this topic or has any input it would greatly be appreciated. I would really like to squeeze as much performance out of the system as I can, and if Win7 is hampering this I would definiteily like to try out XP to see if there is any noticeable difference. But again, I am not sure if this even feasible.

thanks for any replies and/or help with this...

EDIT: Just browsed at all the drivers for my HDX, and it appears as thou they only support vista and win7 x86 and x64.. Guess Im SOL... =(

 

DX10 and DX11 > DX9

 

No, it does better in synthetic benchmarks. In real world performance Vista/7 pull ahead.

 

The performance gain depends on which games you are playing. The games I'm playing gain negligible performance in XP: CoH, L4D1, L4D2, Rome TW, Medieval II TW, Sins of the Solar Empire, COD4 and MW2.

CoH especially looks better on DX10 v DX 9.

Plus, I don't feel like sitting in front of another computer watching the progress bar climb.....

 

Yeah. Older games seem to gain a few FPS but with the newest games, they run perfectly on Win7. Devs are soon gonna forget about DX9 altogether for games that are not console ports.

 

Gotcha.. Ok well I thanks for replies I suppose I wont be installing XP.. o well .. win7 does seem to b working great i suppose Im always up for a new challenge now and again.. =)

 

What are you trying to run and at what settings? Its probably due to the 130m being more of an entry level card.

 

Yeah, definitely don't fall back to XP (64-bit). Vista and 7 were designed natively for 64-bit and will perform much better as opposed to XP's 32-bit. You research is probably for 32-bit and possibly dated as Vista and 7 are more stable and aren't slower than XP in real gaming performance. Above from the stuff already mentioned. But I guess things are moot as they don't have drivers for XP 64-bit...

 

Can you tell us about where you found this information?

 

no more new or improved device drivers for XP. Probably Vista too.

 

Yeah sure. Google "Best Gaming Windows OS" and read the first 50 results.

 

OK, done.

Let's see:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/os-comparison,524.html (1:08 PM - 09/30/2002)

http://www.trap17.com/index.php/operating-system-games-base_t3951.html (Nov 10 2004, 11:52 PM)

http://www.devhardware.com/forums/operating-systems-18/best-os-for-gaming-1784.html (June 28th, 2002, 02:55 AM)

http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/features/133761.20090901.Windows-7-Best-OS-for-gaming/ (Win7 beats XP)

http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?/topic/22834-best-windows-for-gaming/ (Recommends Vista since it's pre-Win7 dated)

http://www.techjunkeez.com/archive/games/which_OS_is_cut_out_for_games.htm ( June 2004)


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This is the research you did?

 

Gotta agree with SubZero. Ever since Vista SP1, Vista has been the recommended OS for gamers (and before that it was kind of neck and neck). Now it's W7.

 

I wouldn't ever consider going back for any reason. If anything I would upgrade from 7HP to 7 Ultimate to gain the XP compatibility mode which would provide the same effect as dual-boot or a downgrade. Sure, I so far have failed to successfully install Vice City on my 7-equipped laptop. But I also have three computers in this house running XP and two more on Vista. I don't have to play THAT game on THIS computer.