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Old October 31, 2009, 02:31 PM
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Question i7 x64 or XP x64 for gaming PC?
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Installed Windows 7 x64 and how i see most of games aren't compatible for it, do you recommend switch to XP x64 ?
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Old October 31, 2009, 02:40 PM
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i7 x64. You're pretty much guaranteed to not find drivers for XP x64. Any relatively new game will run in Windows 7. What made you think they wouldn't run? They simply run as x86.
Any game that runs in Vista will run in Windows 7. Same with the drivers as long as they're the same bit-version.
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Old October 31, 2009, 02:59 PM
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Windows 7 hands down.
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Old October 31, 2009, 05:33 PM
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win 7 for sure. What game cant you urn on win7??? I have never saw a game witch don't work with it. you only have to install it in the X86 program files instead of the program files ( witch have no X86 in folder name )

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Old October 31, 2009, 06:09 PM
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In Program Files x86 ? Really ? All XP stuff will work ?
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Old October 31, 2009, 06:14 PM
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In Program Files x86 ? Really ? All XP stuff will work ?
As long as it's a 32 bit or 64 bit game, it will work.
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Old October 31, 2009, 06:17 PM
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Knights of the Old Republic doesn't like 7 very much. Pretty much everything else I have been running works on 7. And again, XP x64 isn't going to be very useful to you due to a almost zero driver support for hardware.
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Old October 31, 2009, 06:44 PM
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Thanks guys, i'll post results after getting my BACKORDERED 5850.
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Old November 1, 2009, 10:55 AM
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I've got Windows 7 Enterprise installed, and everything seems to be running fine. I was most worried about Solidworks, but that works well too.
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You'll want to go with Windows 7

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