So I recently got a laptop with a 1.9ghz dual-core, 2gb ram, and nvidia 7150m on it. It has vista on it, and doesn't play games for anything. If I was to put XP on it, would that fix it? or is it more trouble than its worth, with finding drivers and all that.
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Vista to XP question
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Who Replied?depends - what brand is it?
i'd check the availability of, for instance, video drivers (3rd party included if you're comfortable with that) and other important related software before moving back to XP
some companies, like hp, have both xp and vista software on their official website for those who want a choice
i'd check the availability of, for instance, video drivers (3rd party included if you're comfortable with that) and other important related software before moving back to XP
some companies, like hp, have both xp and vista software on their official website for those who want a choice
make sure you've got decent video drivers.
my girlfriend's laptop came with Vista on it, and the video drivers on it were absolutely useless. I'm fairly certain there was no hardware acceleration going on at all. Had to use the ATi desktop->mobile driver hack, and then everything was good
still ended up switching to XP though
my girlfriend's laptop came with Vista on it, and the video drivers on it were absolutely useless. I'm fairly certain there was no hardware acceleration going on at all. Had to use the ATi desktop->mobile driver hack, and then everything was good
still ended up switching to XP though
You would see a performance boost; not sure how much though.
I have a laptop with 2.4Ghz core 2 duo, 3GB RAM, 8600M and upgrading to XP really improved my performance in games.
In my case, people had created XP driver packs so it was as easy as downloading the driver pack, slipstreaming the sata driver into XP with nLite and installing winXP. Takes a few hours but it was definitely worth it.
I have a laptop with 2.4Ghz core 2 duo, 3GB RAM, 8600M and upgrading to XP really improved my performance in games.
In my case, people had created XP driver packs so it was as easy as downloading the driver pack, slipstreaming the sata driver into XP with nLite and installing winXP. Takes a few hours but it was definitely worth it.