Can U use 4GB Of RAM in Windows XP

[PP Mguire]

Even with SLI ive always used a mid tower

what controller is that afaik if you have a 64bit proc you can run vista, or do you mean a raid controller x64 has no drivers for ? you really should clarify

I meant like Xbox controller Im to lazy to do the XBCD 64bit fix and since i dont have 4gig+ of ram then x86 is fine for me.

 

[Kursah]

When you transferd the whole thing? With RDC on while transfering the 6gig Crysis ISO to my dads machine (10/100) it will slow down about the 1/4 mark to about 6mb/s. That is just unacceptable for me.

It stayed pretty stable throughout the transfer, didn't take very long to complete. I now have RDC disabled on both rigs...I'll do another transfer in a little while...I have some other things to tend to today...gotta finish my current run of Bioshock and a few other games I've been meaning to play.

I don't do a lot of transferring either, but all of my transfers have been quick, the only time I can recall dropping speed like that is when I wasn backing up multiple multi-gb folders from her rig at the same time.

I had enough things to do to not worry about how fast it went as long as it got done within a reasonable ammount of time, which it did. To me this is a small issue, but I know to others it is a bad bad situation. Maybe this RDC will be the cure for those that hate Vista for that reason...who knows.

 

[DrPepper]

Chipset drivers I think.

I prefer mid towers but I can't fit all my HDD's in them comfotably

 

[X-Terminator]

Please read what i said. 3gig, 8000 series or comparible, and i forgot to put dual core and it will run fine games wise. Im running X2 4200+, 8800GS, and 3gig DDR400 and x86 runs quite smooth for me even playing DX10 games. But when i was running SLI 7950GTs id take about a 10-15fps hit. No im not kidding.

Also X-Terminator a file transfer to a mid range laptop will usualy be slower becasue then your transfer speeds are bogged down by a 5400RPM drive. Usualy anyways. I know when copying files over the 10/100 to my laptop its real slow due to my slow 5400rpm drive.

it is a 7200rpm hard drive and i just transfered 2GB's of porn and got 17.1mb/s with the Remote Differential Compression feature turned off it was 13.2mb/s

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

Sorry but I have to object once again My laptop a single core celeron at 1.7ghz, 512mb of ram and onboard gfx run vista quite well.

As did my A64 3200+ 1GB Geil DDR400, Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939, and BFG 6800GS (AGP). Ran it AND games just fine. (FEAR did like 2GB along with GRAW)

 

[PP Mguire]

Well glad i could help.

Yea i do big LAN parties so i had to figure out a way to fix this file transfer problem OR find out why it seems so slow in Vista. Well i did both and people are happy now. If youve ever been to any kind of decent LAN its l33ch city. And usualy in XP that Crysis ISO takes about 11 minutes to transfer whereas in Vista it takes 9-9.5.

Edit: Isnt that laptop your sons? And your transfering 2gig of porn to it?

 

[X-Terminator]

Well glad i could help.

Yea i do big LAN parties so i had to figure out a way to fix this file transfer problem OR find out why it seems so slow in Vista. Well i did both and people are happy now. If youve ever been to any kind of decent LAN its l33ch city. And usualy in XP that Crysis ISO takes about 11 minutes to transfer whereas in Vista it takes 9-9.5.

Edit: Isnt that laptop your sons? And your transfering 2gig of porn to it?

that's why they invented the Delete Key

 

[DrPepper]

Omg that was well spotted lmao.

 

[MatTheCat]

Can U use 4GB Of RAM in Windows XP

If you are gonna upgrade to a HD 4870 X2, I would advise that you look into installing either XP64 or Vista 64.

x86 XP (32 bit) only recognises 3.2GB Ram in TOTAL. This means that your graphics card will leave the op system capable of recognising just 1.2GB Ram!

I use XP64 and have experienced very little of the driver/compatibility issues that are spoken off. (of course, some old games wont run and even some new games fail to install, i.e. PES2008).

As for Vista, the writing is on the wall. If you are a gamer you will not be willing to take the performance hit of Vista. Sure, Vista has DX10 but so far DX10 effects are implemented as an afterthought and thus sre not really anything to call home about.

If it is any help, STEAM conducted a survey that indicated 85% of PC gamers use XP as there platform of choice. Vista may get there in the end...(SP2 perhaps), but for my money it sure aint there now.

XP64 ftw

 

[redwings0921]

pornshadedshushadedshushadedshu

or

 

[PP Mguire]

As for Vista, the writing is on the wall. If you are a gamer you will not be willing to take the performance hit of Vista. Sure, Vista has DX10 but so far DX10 effects are implemented as an afterthought and thus sre not really anything to call home about.

Vista is fine if you have 3gig, 8000 series or comparible vid card, and a dual core proccy or anything better. You dont get such a performance hit if anything at all.

 

[Darknova]

As for Vista, the writing is on the wall. If you are a gamer you will not be willing to take the performance hit of Vista. Sure, Vista has DX10 but so far DX10 effects are implemented as an afterthought and thus sre not really anything to call home about.

HAHAH, sorry but that's hilarious. I've just come from XP x64 which I was a huge fan of. I loved it to bits and I bashed Vista in favour of XP x64, now it's the other way around. I'm getting better performance in some games than I got in XP x64 and the same performance in the rest, as well as that some of my older games that didn't work on XP x64 now work on Vista x64.

The writing may have been on the wall once, but it was painted over and now has "you're all wrong" on it.

 

[ShogoXT]

It will work, you just will miss like 200MB of it. I wouldnt use that reason to use 64bit though, as it has a larger "footprint", so it will use 500MB more anyway.

 

[MatTheCat]

HAHAH, sorry but that's hilarious. I've just come from XP x64 which I was a huge fan of. I loved it to bits and I bashed Vista in favour of XP x64, now it's the other way around. I'm getting better performance in some games than I got in XP x64 and the same performance in the rest, as well as that some of my older games that didn't work on XP x64 now work on Vista x64.

The writing may have been on the wall once, but it was painted over and now has "you're all wrong" on it.

I was having this argument with a mate the other week.

He has Vista installed and was telling me all about how good it is and how much it has improved since its release etc etc.....then in mid appraisals, he got a random Blue Screen of Death!

P.S. And are you telling me that you haven't dropped like 15FPS in Crysis under Vista? (I am interested to know as you and I have similar systems).

 

[PP Mguire]

Ive only dropped around 5fps. When i had SLI 7950GTs though it was a different story.

 

[LiveOrDie]

if you want xp go with the 64bit version its alot faster and you can have more ram than your board can take lol

 

[DrPepper]

I was having this argument with a mate the other week.

He has Vista installed and was telling me all about how good it is and how much it has improved since its release etc etc.....then in mid appraisals, he got a random Blue Screen of Death!

P.S. And are you telling me that you haven't dropped like 15FPS in Crysis under Vista? (I am interested to know as you and I have similar systems).

With DX10 enabled yes you lose 15fps, Enable DX9 only and there is no performance difference end of story I keep repeating this in numerous threads.

 

[MatTheCat]

With DX10 enabled yes you lose 15fps, Enable DX9 only and there is no performance difference end of story I keep repeating this in numerous threads.

Well, there sure is a lot of articles and reports on the interweb that tell a very different tale.

I really dont know myself as I have never tried Vista simply becuase I want to be sure I am not letting myself in for a lot of dissapointment and headaches if/when I do.

 

[LiveOrDie]

Well, there sure is a lot of articles and reports on the interweb that tell a very different tale.

I really dont know myself as I have never tried Vista simply becuase I want to be sure I am not letting myself in for a lot of dissapointment and headaches if/when I do.

i've been using vista sence it come out i've never had a problem with it, i had alot more problems with xp, ill say if your system hardware is upto date you wont have any problems, and for crysis for get about it the frist game was just one big bug, the game was made for DX9 and was rushed for DX10, wait a month get crysis warhead and all those people that had problems with running it in DX10 wont.

 

[Darknova]

I was having this argument with a mate the other week.

He has Vista installed and was telling me all about how good it is and how much it has improved since its release etc etc.....then in mid appraisals, he got a random Blue Screen of Death!

P.S. And are you telling me that you haven't dropped like 15FPS in Crysis under Vista? (I am interested to know as you and I have similar systems).

I get no more BSODs than I did with XP x64 lol. Only thing I had to change was pump a bit more voltage into my overclock to stay stable, but I was running voltage as low as I could with XP.

And no. Not dropped a single FPS, but then I never got high FPS anyway. I get 30-35 and that's perfectly smooth and stable for me

 

[SerenadeRB]

Well glad i could help.

Edit: Isnt that laptop your sons? And your transfering 2gig of porn to it?

O_O

Fell of my chair

Anyway, I run Vista and Xp and I do a lot of file transfers (to a backup comp.) and I never really thought about the XP/Vista differences, but I've never noticed (Running Sp1) so I'm sure if it isn't better, than it's not that much worse.
And I don't think that made much sense X_x Cut me some slack, I had a long night -_-

 

[MadClown]

XP does detect 4GB, it can only use 3.25GB

 

[MatTheCat]

And no. Not dropped a single FPS, but then I never got high FPS anyway. I get 30-35 and that's perfectly smooth and stable for me

eh?

With your rig you should be getting a solid 60FPS with some FSAA thrown in for good measure (with V-Sync enabled) in practically all games except Crysis and the odd poorly optimised deviant title.

 

[Darknova]

eh?

With your rig you should be getting a solid 60FPS with some FSAA thrown in for good measure (with V-Sync enabled) in practically all games except Crysis and the odd poorly optimised deviant title.

You said Crysis

Every game I have runs smooth and stable. Do I really need to see how many FPS I get? Not only that but thanks to the 4870 I can now run 4x AA with next to no performance hit. I'm happy. Very happy.

 

[PP Mguire]

Thats how i am. Idc about what the # says. Jsut as long as the dip dosent lag me out im happy.