Its tough, but true. XP support dropped a while ago, and x64 bit XP never really ran well at all. (unless you do that compiling thing yourself, which you did)
Windows 7 isn't that expensive (8 is so different from XP/Vista/7 that you might not like it).
Or you can go free - Ubuntu is a free OS, pretty easy to install along side XP, and you can get official support for it on the forums.
Windows 7 isn't that expensive (8 is so different from XP/Vista/7 that you might not like it).
Or you can go free - Ubuntu is a free OS, pretty easy to install along side XP, and you can get official support for it on the forums.

