I made the leap to Vista (32-bit) a couple of years back for photo editing and other business work. It seemed very obvious to me to set-up a dual boot and keep using XP on another drive for my gaming (heck, the games ran visibly faster to me as well as every magazine espousing it).
Now Windows 7 is out, I went and got a copy last week (for installing 64 bit version from scratch) and upped the memory to 8GB (all good for my photo editing)
The question is, should I keep a dual boot with XP on the second drive for running games faster? Is there much differential between a 32-bit XP effectively running <4GB (i.e. less video card memory) and windows 7 64-bit running the full 8GB when I'm playing, say, Grid, Bioshock 2 or latest Total War?
I'm moving off my prior Raid 0 setup so the XP and games will have to be re-loaded from scratch aswell - hence why I'd like to get people's advice before spending a lot of time on a second install.


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If you use steam however, I would say the majority will run instantly
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