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On my laptop playing orbiter, I get decent framerates--for Vista. In the VC of the XR1 orbiting over Seth Eden's level 10 textures, with 16x anistropic and 16xQ antialiasing, I get around 50--sometimes as high as 60, sometimes as low as 40. I understand this is very good for a laptop with vista, but, in some situations, like when Jupiter is in view with its 40 moons, I get like 20, sometimes 15. If i had windows XP, I could easily get 60+ fps everywhere and anywhere in orbiter, or so i hope.
I tried to get a friend to help me do this, and we got XP dual booted, but...after hours of searching, we couldn't find nvidia video drivers.
My specs are:
Laptop with Vista Home edition.
Intel core 2 duo 2.0 GHz.
4 GB DDR2 RAM.
250 GB HDD.
GeForce GTX 260M.
My questions:
Obviously, I can google a tutorial, pull one up, and set up the dual boot. There are many tutorials out there, which one do people recommend that have done this?
Also, (important) where exactly do i get a copy of windows XP?
Last and probably most important: I have a free upgrade to Windows 7 from when I bought my laptop. Should I get the Windows 7 upgrade first, then partition the hard drive, or can I set up the dual boot (which would make it Vista and XP), and then use the upgrade to replace the Vista portion of my hard drive with Windows 7?
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.
Mark
I tried to get a friend to help me do this, and we got XP dual booted, but...after hours of searching, we couldn't find nvidia video drivers.
My specs are:
Laptop with Vista Home edition.
Intel core 2 duo 2.0 GHz.
4 GB DDR2 RAM.
250 GB HDD.
GeForce GTX 260M.
My questions:
Obviously, I can google a tutorial, pull one up, and set up the dual boot. There are many tutorials out there, which one do people recommend that have done this?
Also, (important) where exactly do i get a copy of windows XP?
Last and probably most important: I have a free upgrade to Windows 7 from when I bought my laptop. Should I get the Windows 7 upgrade first, then partition the hard drive, or can I set up the dual boot (which would make it Vista and XP), and then use the upgrade to replace the Vista portion of my hard drive with Windows 7?
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.
Mark