very slow xp · DIGIT-ARC

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My computer has become very slow though the startup is fast but the computer is very slow
i was playing vice city today and the game was crawling .
Was this due to the virtual drive as today i mounted the Cd contents on the virtual drive through a NERO imagedrive or i yesterday intalled a new windows xp on the same drive.is that the reason
I have a 256mb ddr1 ram,nvidia geforcefx5200 graphic card and intel i845g mother board and i am currently working on windows xp proffesional.

Installing two OSes on the same partition can be a problem.

256MB for memory is going to make any game crawl. It is not essential for any computer today.
Installing 2 OSs on the same partition is not recommended and may make the whole system slow down.
If you installed a new Windows XP, you should first partition, next format and then install.

^^My friend played Vice City on 128MB RAM and 845 onboard gfx card. eXperience counts my friend.

128MB playing a game? I play games on my 512MB and man, are they slow!

^He played on the lowest resolution with the lowest setting and it ran. Beleive me or not ..... IT RAN

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Anyways, install a single OS per partition.

i don't think he partitioned and formated the partition. I read somewhere it is hard to install 2 OSs in one partition. But I know it is possible but highly not recommended

^^I had installed Windows 98 and Windows XP on the same partition

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Why install Windows 98 if you have XP??

Ok, I hope the author gets it, though he's offline

^^98 was installed before XP

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I played NFS most wanted on 128 mb ram and 8 MB onboard graphics

@R2k ,how onearth is it possibl coz the min req 4 nfs most wanted is 256 mb ram,it crawled on my old pc p4,512 ddr,gigabyte81845g mobo

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believe it or not it was running just fine....
my proc was AMD athlon XP 2600+ running at 2.1 ghz

even my friends pc with p4 256 mb ram 8 mb gfx memory was able to this game