win 7 64bit or XP 32?

wupwup · 4 Jul 2009 at 13:59

i have both and im not sure what to use. with 4 gb or ram wich will be fastest and most reliable? if i wanted to dual boot would have to partition the HDD? thanks

Glaucus · 4 Jul 2009 at 14:02

xp is dead and rubbish.
W7 64bit all the way. However if you are playing multiplayer games with punkbuster. Then punkbuster may not work in w7.

Spyhop · 4 Jul 2009 at 14:04

XP isn't dead - it's just old.

1337z0r · 4 Jul 2009 at 14:14

Windows 7 is the fastest by far, XP is not totally dead as their is still a lot of apps which only run right under XP. For instance many music production apps run a lot better under XP than Windows 7 or Vista.

wupwup · 4 Jul 2009 at 17:37

thanks

woohoomoo · 4 Jul 2009 at 20:04

If you can install 64-bit and dont rely on old and obscure drivers, then definately go for it. Remember you can install 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS, so the only real issue is driver support, for which so far Windows 7 doesnt seem to suffer from... i've not had any driver issues yet.

And obviously your full 4GB memory will be usable under 64-bit... 64-bit has more pro's than con's, though im not yet convinced there's much of a performance difference (if any) apart from it being able to access more than 4GB total system memory.

Mr-White · 4 Jul 2009 at 20:14

W7 and just use XP as a VM

MW

Mattus · 4 Jul 2009 at 21:24

I'd never install XP on a new rig.. it's a waste of a good spec.

Bony Maloney · 4 Jul 2009 at 21:31

AcidHell2 said:
xp is dead and rubbish.
W7 64bit all the way. However if you are playing multiplayer games with punkbuster. Then punkbuster may not work in w7.

This

sWiZzLe · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:29

If people are still in 2 minds whether to go with XP or W7, why not dual boot?

Or try Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop - You get XP for free

Personally i wouldnt bother with XP anymore and will probably dual boot Vista and W7 as i always like a 2nd os in case i cannot boot in to the main one for some reason.

But i only use Vista to play Call of Duty :/

theheyes · 5 Jul 2009 at 12:37

XP is FAR from dead... Windows 2000 hasn't died it's death yet.

However for the home user, there is really no reason not to go with Vista/W7.

OspreyO · 5 Jul 2009 at 16:21

sWiZzLe said:
...But i only use Vista to play Call of Duty :/

Why? COD4 works for me on Windows 7.
Weird bug meant I needed something in the mic port for it to work.

sWiZzLe · 6 Jul 2009 at 11:21

World at War doesnt! Keep getting booted

Saying that, i aint tried it recently.

Ive never managed to get the mic working in COD :/ Works fine in TF2

OspreyO · 6 Jul 2009 at 12:16

The mic thing is a bug running on Windows 7 for COD4 for certain soundcard chipsets.

There may be other workarounds for WAW.

I'd still move to Windows 7 regardless. Its worth it.

sWiZzLe · 6 Jul 2009 at 15:07

Ive tried getting mic to work on 3 different soundcards on CoD - none work

Just updated Win7 to build 7264 and gave WaW another go and it works