Windows 7 vs XP

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I’m currently running Windows XP 32bit on my brand new system, I was going to upgrade to Windows 7, but after reading all the performance decreases I don’t know now. I’m a gaming freak and any decrease in my FPS is a big no, no!

Core I7 2.6Ghz overclocked to 4.00Ghz, 6GB DDR3 Corsair RAM 1600Mhz...

You're a fool if you don't get win7 x64. First of all you bought 6 gigs of ram, 3 of which you can never utilize using XP32. Second your i7 runs multicore and w7 is best optimized for that. Lastly your hardware is way more than enough to run AH or any other game on w7.

[eagl]

For an intel core 2 duo E8400 system with an nvidia GTX260 and 4GB memory, is there any benefit to installing the 64bit version of win7 instead of the 32 bit version?  I do some photo editing so I might eventually drop another 4GB of ram into this system, but of course I'd have to be using 64 bit win7 to do that.

Any downside to using 64 bit win7?  Have the driver issues been sorted out?

And yea, I'm one of those people who are going from winXP to win7.  I've been using win7 beta and release candidate on my laptop, and I have to use vista at work, so I want to move to win7 and just get the migration over with.  It's past time to reinstall winXP on my main computer anyhow, so as long as I'm reinstalling something it might as well be win7.  That way I also get DX10 support for my vid card too.

Thx

[TheZohan]

Skuz, does Microsoft still plan on supporting XP Pro till 2014?

my understanding is MS will continue support for 2014 meaning code and bug fixes etc.. active support will end at the of the year i am told meaning if you want to ask questions about it you will have to pay it unless you have some other agreement etc etc etc..

[Bronk]

Will there be do do list to tweak W7 for best  performance?

He  asked hopefully. 

[airhog99]

For an intel core 2 duo E8400 system with an nvidia GTX260 and 4GB memory, is there any benefit to installing the 64bit version of win7 instead of the 32 bit version?  I do some photo editing so I might eventually drop another 4GB of ram into this system, but of course I'd have to be using 64 bit win7 to do that.

Any downside to using 64 bit win7?  Have the driver issues been sorted out?

And yea, I'm one of those people who are going from winXP to win7.  I've been using win7 beta and release candidate on my laptop, and I have to use vista at work, so I want to move to win7 and just get the migration over with.  It's past time to reinstall winXP on my main computer anyhow, so as long as I'm reinstalling something it might as well be win7.  That way I also get DX10 support for my vid card too.

Thx

Driver issues?
Wasn't that years ago?
I suppose if you have some older hardware there might be a problem, but otherwise I would be surprised if there was any problems.

[TequilaChaser]

the original question of this thread was there?

Any gain for AH using Windows 7 over XP?

I posted my personal experiences, in regards to what I have experienced between WinXPpro 32 bit vs Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit..... for AH

as far as my personal results/findings & beliefs of how much better Win7 is over WinXP......

certian software programs I use, for instance AutoCad MEP, performs 500 times better, since I have the use of my 4 gigs of memory, the better utilization of my dual core AMD cpu.etc.............as well as a good handful of other software I am(was since I am hurt/out of work ) required to need use.......

as for having an old 2 or 3 or 4 yr old installation of WindowsXP(pro) and it being bloated down from years of use....this is very much so the case for most common users.... on the other hand lets say a small 2 to 5 % of select users stay on top of their PC systems and keep them running in top performance regardless of what they might have installed OS wise, or how they have set them up......this is the exception and not the morm.......

so it is a toss-up in the air for each individual user if they will see positives or negative performance issues in regards to switching from WinXP to Windows 7......  again..this is just another person's observation.........but as I have posted in other threads I have seperate HD's  for work and for gaming.... total of 4 seperate OS versions installed on my Current PC set up using 4 different HD's...... and again the exception to the norm of most people.....

not sure if this helsp or not, maybe it will......  I have not had any driver issues to date since beta'ing win7 starting back in January of 09.......

[Getback]

Skuzzy, should I upgrade via the upgrade method, or do a reformat? I'd much like to just upgrade...

Sorry for jumpin' in. I was told a fresh install is best by several IT guys. Back up your data.

[cattb]

I  would have to think going from XP to windows 7 that it would reformat the drive and not overwrite. Acedemic versions of windows 7 upgrade are 43.00. Of course you have to be in school or affiliated with education system somehow, ie teacher etc.
Cattb

[Spikes]

Sorry for jumpin' in. I was told a fresh install is best by several IT guys. Back up your data.

No worries! Backed everything up and am doing an upgrade (before I saw this response)...my OS is pretty fresh so I will probably wait on a reformat after Christmas or so.

[airhog99]

There is no need to reformat if you already use the NTFS file system!
Windows 7 moves the old windows folders out of the way and calls it Windows.old. Then installs itself in Windows.
This is for a full installation (not upgrade).
Windows.old gets the old "Documents and Settings", "Program files" and "Windows".
Not reformatting allows you to find stuff you may have placed in weird places (some programs tend to do that), even after having installed Win 7.

Of course, none of the old programs will work (they just sit and waste space untill deleted from the Windows.old folder). But that's the point of installing a fresh version. All horrible old baggage disabled at once.

[Spikes]

Never going to do the "upgrade" crap again, screwed up my whole system like people said it might. Time to reformat.

[Spikes]

Aside from my little incident earlier, W7 is GREAT!

[airhog99]

Never going to do the "upgrade" crap again, screwed up my whole system like people said it might. Time to reformat.

You can do a full install what is not an upgrade without doing any reformatting.
The two are not directly related.