Morris 2 Posted February 5, 2010 dear gentlemen, pls give me advise. I would like to setup a dual boot on my existing windows 7 system. i want to run OFF on XP. I have a quad core CPU, 8gig Ram, ATI 5970 card and things aren't in synergy. My FPS are in the 20 to 30 and it should be better. thanking you. Morris Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest rscsjsuso5 Posted February 5, 2010 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html use at own risk and good luck enjoy your weekend Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Von Paulus 8 Posted February 5, 2010 The link provided by rscsjsuso5 is really a good tutorial. I'd advise you to have 2 HD at least. One for XP and another for Win7. But you can do it with 1 HD and 2 partitions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Morris 2 Posted February 5, 2010 thanx for the link and the info. I do have two hard drive. m Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
almccoyjr 7 Posted February 6, 2010 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html use at own risk and good luck enjoy your weekend This is what I used when I went back to dual booting. When Nvidia decided to drop DX7 support for drivers written for DX10+ cards, I was no longer able to run OF4.7 or FF5.3 . The tutorial is excellent and I had no problems. I had W7 ULT_64 and added XP PRO_32. plug_nickel (Al) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Morris 2 Posted February 7, 2010 dear uncleal, please give me more info. thankig you m Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bandy 3 Posted February 7, 2010 Morris, If anything, but only in my humble opinion, OFF improved in FPS when I installed Win7 x64 after running OFF in XP x32 on my 3 year old workstation. The extra RAM has to help all others things being relatively equal system wise. I do NOT run OFF in XP compatibility mode under win7, just as admin, though many say they seem to need to run it under XP SP2 compatibility. Who knows!?! Make sure you try various compatibility modes first using the very same quick combat mission. Hardware related? Who the h_ll knows... If you have multicore look at a process affinity utility. Put all system/background processes on core 2, run the sim and TIR on core 1. Split it up more if more cores, leaving just OFF on one cpu... Although I must agree with you, I expected much better performance of this sim than I'm getting (though I'm sure people are sick of hearing that) . I can run CFS3-ETO nearly maxed out, and it is just as system intensive. Out of sheer necessity I fly only in 1916 to 1917 because any later campaign is pure painful in FPS and stutter, my alternatively being I turn it all down and it looks like the bloody dog and cat's breakfast on the farm. It gives me a sheer headache. HitR is terrible performance wise, I uninstalled it... 4 x 2.66 GHz 11 GB RAM 667 (like I said, a 3 year old system) XFX 4870 1 GB etc... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Morris 2 Posted February 7, 2010 Bandy, thanx for the info. I'm going to keep quit about performance (FPS) and just wait for P4. thanking you m Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Von Paulus 8 Posted February 7, 2010 I do NOT run OFF in XP compatibility mode under win7, just as admin, though many say they seem to need to run it under XP SP2 compatibility. The same here. And like I stated in another thread it seems the loading times seems better when we are not running with XP compatibility. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Morris 2 Posted February 9, 2010 well, i been working on the settings for OFF. Today Im getting max 52 FPS during game play with 3 X 24' monitors in eyefinity (Redeon 5970). much better. morris Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UK_Widowmaker 571 Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 You may find this very useful too...for setting up the Boot Options (although it's for Vista...works fine with W7 too) Edited February 16, 2010 by UK_Widowmaker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FastCargo 412 Posted February 16, 2010 EasyBCD is a VERY useful tool for multi-boot setups...works great for my Win7 / WinXP / Mac OSX tri boot install. FC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Von Paulus 8 Posted February 17, 2010 True. EasyBCD can be very useful. FastCargo now you only need Linux, and you'll be full covered. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FastCargo 412 Posted February 17, 2010 True. EasyBCD can be very useful. FastCargo now you only need Linux, and you'll be full covered. I've actually thought about it.... FC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
almccoyjr 7 Posted February 17, 2010 I've kept this bookmark because the endeavor is so intriguing: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=147959 Now this is MULTI-BOOTING! plug_nickel (Al) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
