Dual booting XP and W7 64-bit worth it?

[Bart1975]

I read the wiki for DWM and did not notice anything that would seem to slow down game performance with it disabled. Unless I overlooked something that is.

[Squall Leonhart]

because wikipedia has all the answers -_-

[Bart1975]

Tell me what I am missing then. Because the MS site did not state anything obvious either. How much of a performance hit is it having it disabled? I was under the impression and maybe wrongly so that having DWM on or off did not matter much with direct x while in full screen.

[Aerosol]

(01-06-2011, 11:14 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: Oh god, why would you do that? The improvements in Windows 7 are what makes installing and using it worth it, why would you disable core features/enhancements and hinder the usability/functionality of the operating system? Your GPU is capable of handling aero just fine, just the cpu is not up to par at least for Dolphin.

I also don't believe Pentium 4's support 64-bit, maybe there was one that did. Have you verified if your processor supports EM64T? You can use CPU-Z to check, if not then you are only installing for DX10/DX11, and the DX10/DX11 plugin in Dolphin isn't that far developed yet and the DX9 plugin is recommended to use for now.

It was precisely CPU-Z that told me I have a 64-bit cpu.

Besides that, the reason why I mentioned having a widescreen monitor is that, for all of Aero's bells and whistles, not having much space on my screen makes little difference. When my patient is asleep and I'm working my home health shift, I use his Win7 computer and all the nice things I'm able to do on it just wouldn't function so well on my tiny 4:3 monitor.

Apart from that...seems like there's little reason for me to install Win7, seeing as how I dont have 4gb of ram and the speed boost to Dolphin will be marginal at best.

Aren't there guis for XP that are gpu accelerated anyway?