Best ancient OS

Chris_306

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OK ill be short, i have an old pc that i want to make it run some light games like WoW and neverwinter nights 2 and football manager..

The PC is pentium 4 3.06Ghz (1core)
old medion motherboard
2gb RAM
Windows XP (cause i wanted to use the lighter OS)
GPU: Geforce GT 240

Nvidia though doesn't upgrade the drivers anymore for windows XP so i have problems (crashes) with some old games like Neverwinter Nights 2 for example.

The thing i wanna ask is: If i will upgrade to windows 7 i know i can upgrade my GPU drivers, BUT i'm wondering if i will be having problems on heavy raiding 25m with World of Warcraft or while playing football manager.

I have a newer laptot but i can't always use it cause i have it for work. I'm not burning to buy or spend money on new pc. If i can't solve the problem it's still ok.

I just wanna ask: If i upgrade to windows 7, will i have benefits at all games or it will be slower (cause of ram) more than windows xp?
 
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It will run with Windows 7 as it is more efficient than XP. I have an old Dell Dimension with Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz and 1GB RAM.. (it's gone bad recently) but I had XP before and I later switched to a lightened down Windows 7 that worked better than XP in it. In comparison, a relative has another Pentium 4 PC with the same 3.06 Ghz as your's and 1.5GB RAM and that one, compared to mine was like the rabbit vs the turttle race.

So I'd suggest using RT 7 Lite to slim down a Windows 7 ISO/DVD/ or installation files... make it the Starter Edition for a starting advantage, and install it on a second disk partition so you keep Windows XP and you can format the Win 7 partition if you're not satisfied with it. Just keep a Windows XP Boot disk...


well i kinda have zero problems playing my 3 games (medium graphics but i have no problem), either football manager, world of warcraft etcetera.. the only problem i have is with the old games, because nvidia isn't providing support (drivers) for them.

The question is windows 7 (even starter) or windows xp. Or even linux or a different OS. Actually installing windows 7 will push my pc to the limits while playing, thus making gaming worse than playing on windows xp?
 
Installing windows 7 will use more resources that xp so you probably will have less memory which could cause issues. You may want to maybe image your workstation then install windows 7 and see how it runs. If you don't like it re-image your machine back to XP.
 
It will run with Windows 7 as it is more efficient than XP. I have an old Dell Dimension with Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz and 1GB RAM.. (it's gone bad recently) but I had XP before and I later switched to a lightened down Windows 7 that worked better than XP in it. In comparison, a relative has another Pentium 4 PC with the same 3.06 Ghz as your's and 1.5GB RAM and that one, compared to mine was like the rabbit vs the turttle race.

So I'd suggest using RT 7 Lite to slim down a Windows 7 ISO/DVD/ or installation files... make it the Starter Edition for a starting advantage, and install it on a second disk partition so you keep Windows XP and you can format the Win 7 partition if you're not satisfied with it. Just keep a Windows XP Boot disk handy to load XP after formatting Windows 7... you can later copy the bootdisk to C:\ to repair the boot sector.

Download from: XP Quick Boot Diskette xpquick.zip | xpquick.exe | Read.1st
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/10-tools-for-creating-custom-windows-installation-discs-679477

And if you really want a noticeable difference, a Light Linux distro would perform much better... the only inconvenience would be installing games... as I've never have real success in installing software in any Linux distro.

 
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