Will I get a performance increase with Windows Seven and DX10?

[liamp51]

Hi all,

 

I'm sorry if this question has already been answered, but I have to go to bed and can't look right now! I just got Windows Seven Pro 64bit for Christmas and am going to be installing it over my current Windows XP Pro 64bit OS. I was wondering if I'll get a noticeable increase in performance using DX10 or 11 with Win 7 Pro, since SF2 was built for DX10. Here are my computer specs:

 

Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 at 3.61Ghz

 

Nvidia GTX 260 896MB memory

 

Windows XP Professional

 

Samsung SyncMaster 2233SW 1920-1080 Res monitor.

 

My GPU was built for DX10 and using it with DX9 seems to be slowing it down currently so I am upgrading.

 

If you guys can give me any pointers/advise for SF2 in Win 7 I would really appreciate that!

 

Thanks so much!

liamp51

[SFP1Ace]

With your hardware you should see significant performance improvement under Win 7! Just make sure that you have UseAdvancedShaders=1 set in Options.ini and that detail level is set at least to HIGH to enable DX10. Also remember that mods for SF2 series are installed in a different folder than under Win XP. (usually c:\Users\Username\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFIghters2 XXXX

[xclusiv8]

How much RAM you got?

[liamp51]

I have 4GB of DDR3 RAM. Sorry, I forgot to mention that! :L

[Panama Red]

Win7 64 OS uses more RAM than XP OS. Most places will tell you that for Win7 64, you need at least 6 GB of RAM, and preferably 8 GB of RAM to operate really effectively. I have 12 GB of RAM with my Win7 64 so I sould never have any memory problems .

Edited December 27, 2010 by Panama Red

[SFP1Ace]

Oh, I believe 4GB of RAM is enough for gaming these days. Unless you're using you're PC for 3Dmax stuff or encoding movies or crunching numbers or other "scientific" stuff....

[SFP1Ace]

Besides one time I compared free memory available under WIn 7 32 bit and 64 bit and I had more under 64 bit! Although 64 bit windows itself was "eating" slightly more RAM than 32 bit, at least I had access to full 4GB instead of 3.2 GB like with 32 bit.

[+suhsjake]

8gb is over kill on RAM. 4GB is the industry standard currently I believe. Some games can't handle 6+ GB of RAM. I just upgraded from 2 to 4gb and still have 2+ GB of available RAM.

[+Fubar512]

The most RAM that any single 32-bit application can be allocated, is 2048 mb, or 2 gb.

[SFP1Ace]

Yep, unless it's Large Address Aware, then it can handle some more.

 

EDIT: Provided that Windows has been enabled to allocate more than 2 gig to 32bit apps.

 

EDIT2: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112556

Edited December 27, 2010 by SFP1Ace

[SFP1Ace]

Apparently, SF2 series *.exe files have LAA flag set to 1 .

[Panama Red]

Here is a long article on how much RAM 32 bit and 64 bit OS will use (it will surprise you). As you can tell after reading this article, your OS can use a lot more RAM than have been mentioned above: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ram-memory-upgrade,2778.html

[liamp51]

Hey,

 

Thanks so much guys! My frame rates have doubled after installing Win 7.

 

Thanks for the advice!

liamp51

[+EricJ]

Overall I'm just glad I moved on to Win7 regardless, life has been so much less painful in this regards...