XP to Win7 upgrade and Ram?

[SEE]

Anyone offer advice on OS upgrade for my current XP?

I have a Win 7 64bit upgrade disc but only have two memory slots with 2 x 2Gb sticks installed. If I installed it I would then have DX10 but my memory would be seen as 2Gb. Would it be better to wait untill a 64bit patch comes along and run with 2GB or go for Win7 32 bit and have DX10 + 4Gb?

[Gryphon_]

I don't understand why you think Win7 64 would only 'see' 2Gb of RAM. I have just upgraded from XP with 4GB RAM - where XP only saw 3.4GB - to Win7 64 where it sees all of it.

[335th_GRAthos]

The Win7 32bit will behave like your WinXP (32bit)
It can only address 4Gb TOTAL including the RAM on your GPU

The Win7 64bit does not this limitation so you wll be able to see full 4Gb RAM.

[Surge]

Anyone offer advice on OS upgrade for my current XP?

I have a Win 7 64bit upgrade disc but only have two memory slots with 2 x 2Gb sticks installed. If I installed it I would then have DX10 but my memory would be seen as 2Gb. Would it be better to wait untill a 64bit patch comes along and run with 2GB or go for Win7 32 bit and have DX10 + 4Gb?

not sure about the above in detail but what i have found out thus far is when i got the game i tried the game on all 3 of my OS's

Xp 32bit home sp3 = quite good stable platform with decent performance
Vista 64bit sp1 = aload of cack not really going to say much more
Windows 7 32bit = outstanding performance with a few jitters over the land

i would definitely state that windows 7 OS is the better OS to use on this game

[SEE]

Ah, thanks, I thought that 2 x 2GB sticks (4GB) on a 64bit OS was seen as 2Gb. I must have misunderstood.

[BLR_Tonin_fr]

i would definitely state that windows 7 OS is the better OS to use on this game

+1

I'm actually impressed.

Just upgraded xp sp3 --> Win7
Big changes.

Game no longer crashes, performances are still a bit lowish and stutters a lot but at least I can play the game... I mean, I can take screenshots ! lol

My "Old" rig :
CP Intel E6750
Ram 4 Gb
GPU Ati 4890

[RocketDog]

Same here. It was hopeless on 32-bit XP, on 64-bit Win 7 it's better. Still far from what it should be, of course, but at least I can fly around a bit now without graphics problems.

[SEE]

OK, I have a 150GB partition on my current XP install for various files and copies of Il1946, etc. I could install Win7 on this and create a dual boot easily thus keeping XP for my current Il946 installs.

I am completely new to steam, are there any procedures for uninstalling Steam on the XP partition once I have Win 7 installed and ready?

[sod16]

OK, I have a 150GB partition on my current XP install for various files and copies of Il1946, etc. I could install Win7 on this and create a dual boot easily thus keeping XP for my current Il946 installs.

I am completely new to steam, are there any procedures for uninstalling Steam on the XP partition once I have Win 7 installed and ready?

Honestly, stop being a Noob. Delete Xp, IL-2 Sturmovik runs on Windows 7 (once you get it installed) from the disk.

XP is pre dated slow, and slowly decreases in peformance over time. Some how I doubt ul be able to run Cliffs of Dover.

[Oldschool61]

+1

I'm actually impressed.

Just upgraded xp sp3 --> Win7
Big changes.

Game no longer crashes, performances are still a bit lowish and stutters a lot but at least I can play the game... I mean, I can take screenshots ! lol

My "Old" rig :
CP Intel E6750
Ram 4 Gb
GPU Ati 4890

Did do an upgrade of fresh install?? Ive heard a lot of people have trouble with upgrading and end up doing a reformat and full install of win7

[335th_GRAthos]

I am completely new to steam, are there any procedures for uninstalling Steam on the XP partition once I have Win 7 installed and ready?

You do not need to uninstall anything.

Use Win7, install STEAM and log in. It may ask you for a check (if you have Guard on) and that's it.
AFTER THAT you have a choice of two options:
1. let STEAM Win7 downlod the whole game
2. Start WinXP or if you can, change to the partition of WinXP from within your Win7 and:
- copy or move the directory from \Steam\steamapps\common\ (where the CoD is placed)
- copy the directory from the WinXP \MyDocuments\ (the one where the settings for CoD are) into your Win7 My Documents


I hope it helps

~S~

[BLR_Tonin_fr]

Did do an upgrade of fresh install?? Ive heard a lot of people have trouble with upgrading and end up doing a reformat and full install of win7

I did a fresh install.

Dunno if you really can do an XP-Win7 upgrade... Sounds weird to me.

Anyway,
S!

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

you cant , but win7 will save all your old files and settings for you in a handly "old system folder"

[Killerwatt]

you cant , but win7 will save all your old files and settings for you in a handly "old system folder"

Yes you can http://laplink.com/pcmover/pcmoverupgradeassistant.html