Core Confusion!!! Any help please?

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Originally Posted by TX-EcoDragon

Did you see my post? I might be misunderstanding you, but once again:

I've compared identical hardware (dual boot of the same machine), with identical software as much as possible for a 32 to 64 bit OS, and Win 7 clearly does perform MUCH better than XP! The raw data shows that, but from a user experience it's even more obvious. In Win 7 the sim never slows down, doesn’t stutter, even with hundreds of objects moving near you (my benchmark fps are much lower than usual in game fps).

Maybe pasting my other post here was just too long, so here's an example of the benchmark data from stock cpu/vga clocks:

Windows XP Avg 33.803 - Min: 5 - Max: 61 (capped)

Windows 7 Avg: 45.236 - Min: 23 - Max: 62 (capped)

So min fps are 4.6 times better in Win 7 vs XP, and average fps increase by 11.4 fps - turn off vSynch and of course the gains become even more obvious. I wanted to see more real world fps gains and since I usually enable vSynch to play (and since it lowers not only avg but min fps)most of my benchmark data was with it on. The avg fps gain is nice, but it's the huge minimum fps increase that really improves the experience on Win 7 vs XP.

As I stated it could be related to drivers being made for the new OS and Windows 7 is now surpassing Win XP. Did you read that part?