duel boot question??

Associate
Joined
11 Jul 2006
Posts
576
Location
small island in cornwall
Hi all. Im thinking about dual booting xp and vista64 from separate partitions on the same disk, what i need to know is do i have to two separate instals of say crysis if i want to try it on both os's??
 
Hi all. Im thinking about dual booting xp and vista64 from separate partitions on the same disk, what i need to know is do i have to two separate instals of say crysis if i want to try it on both os's??

afaik yes as the game needs to make changes to stuff on the os and not just plunk data in a folder if that makes sense. might be wrong so wait see what other people say
 
a lot of games you dont need 2 copies.. saying that you could always install it twice on the same directory is crysis is a bugger about running the game without reg files.
you could also find the reg files needed on the net, and manualy add them..
 
Hi all. Im thinking about dual booting xp and vista64 from separate partitions on the same disk, what i need to know is do i have to two separate instals of say crysis if i want to try it on both os's??

You may well know this already, but here's some hopefully useful info regarding the dual boot process...

This applies to the following specifics - 2 physical HD's, XP x86 SP2 & Vista HP x64.

I initially had XP on my C drive and planned on installing Vista over it after a format. However, I need XP to get into work and so I first installed XP SP2 on a second drive and checked I could dual boot between the two (i.e. XP on C:\ & XP on X:\).

I then went ahead with the clean install of Vista HP x64 on C:\.

What I was unaare of is that Vista manages the boot process in a different way and so does not recognise the presence of boot entries other than it's own.

This can be resolved fairly easily, and I'll not go into it now - search for some info.

Hope this helps.
 
Back
Top Bottom