zakblood
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Joined: 10/4/2012 Status: offline
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don't want to go off topic, but i agree with you. xp is great, one of the best and now 2nd best gaming o/s windows 8 was rubbish, poor driver support at start, a massive step back in many ways and areas. i've had it from the start and alpha and beta'ed it so it's been a bumpy ride for me. only changed my mind with windows 8 when 8.1 came out tbh now i wouldn't go back to anything else, or want to use an older version on my main gaming rig. yes most programs and games are still written in 32bit code, which runs no quicker on a 64bit o/s, and thats a fair point for many not to upgrade. but as more stuff is run on a modern pc, the limits of 2.75-3.5GB of RAM is too much for me, so opted to go 64bit and have more stuff running in the background if i want them to. i've only had 1 memory error in a game, and that was a leak with the game exe as well and got fixed in the end, so fault wasn't the o/s for that, this game seems to hog memory when you play for long hours, something i haven't come across as yet as never played it for more than an hour max as yet as busy doing other stuff atm.. a temp fix for the above mentioned game in question run on wind 8.1 was to run it in compat mode, i chose windows xp sp3 and the game worked flawlessly but wasn't as quick or as fluid when used, but did make it more stable for longer until the fix game out... anyway i digress and have gone way off topic
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