Question Can I dual boot and still record to a drive that is shared?

[tomseurocat]

Because I play and record an older game, Madden 08, I was contemplating dual booting my system with W10 as the primary and W7 as the secondary. If I play Madden 08 on the W7 partition, can I record that game to another drive that is shared by both OS's and if so how would I accomplish that? Forgive me if this is a newby question, but I am a newby when it comes to dual booting. I've never done it before and I don't know what and what can't be done.

Thanks

 

[TerryLaze]

Yes you can.
If the drive you want to record to doesn't show up you will have to run disk management it's a windows program ,just type this into search and give the partition a drive letter.
After that it's as normal you just tell your recording software where you want it to store the file.

 

[tomseurocat]

If I find that my program doesn't do any better creating the new partition for W7, can I delete the partition and make the C: drive whole again? How big a partition should be made for the W7 OS and one game folder? 50 GB large enough?

 

[TerryLaze]

Yes you can delete it again,just make sure you don't use bitlocker or any other drive protection on it.
Since the game only asks for ~2Gb yeah 50Gb will be plenty enough.

Also since the game is win XP era I doubt it will run any better on any OS,my guess is it's single threaded and would need a faster CPU core.

 

[tomseurocat]

Please explain for this simpleton. What do you mean by a faster CPU core? My CPU is OC'ed with the Motherboard's on-board game boost from 3.0 to 3.65. Is core number one not fast enough for the game? Or am I thinking too simple?

Edit: I think I need to digress a little. I was hoping that a different OS may help with that game, but both M08 and M19 are affected by a certain amount of jittering in the video. If you take a look at this post you will know what I mean. Bad Video post I've done everything that I can think of down to replacing my motherboard and it just doesn't seem to make a difference. Well...replacing the MoBo has made a slight improvement, but not much. Any ideas?