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Can you change a windows 7 64 bit computer into a windows xp 32 bit computer?  I have bought a new HP computer with Windows 7 Premium to help my games play faster,  however only about a 3rd of my games will play on it.  What I would like to do is turn this new computer into a windows xp pro 32 bit system computer.  would anyone have any suggestions I can try to accomplish this?Windows 7 ships with both 32 and 64bit versions....switch to 32 bit 7 instead...

Or travel to MS's site and grab what you need to run XP mode on Win7.....no charge. Quote from: danyjjb on December 22, 2010, 08:26:38 AM

however only about a 3rd of my games will play on it. 

Which games? I've yet to encounter a game that outright refuses to play on Windows VISTA or 7 X64, but some of them just need a little "coaching". Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 22, 2010, 09:21:51 AM
Which games? I've yet to encounter a game that outright refuses to play on Windows Vista or 7 x64, but some of them just need a little "coaching".

Same here, I keep going back to the first Age of Empires and it used to keep crashing. After a little research i found out that if i changed the theme to windows default and kept the screen resolution box open, it doesn't crash. I do not know why, but it works, it has not crashed since. Quote from: reddevilggg on December 22, 2010, 11:03:49 AM
Same here, I keep going back to the first Age of Empires and it used to keep crashing. After a little research i found out that if i changed the theme to windows default and kept the screen resolution box open, it doesn't crash. I do not know why, but it works, it has not crashed since.

faster method: right-click on empires.exe, choose COMPATIBILITY options and choose "disable desktop composition". Although your's seems to be a special case, so I don't know if that would work. for me neither the first, it's expansion, nor the second or it's expansion outright crashes, but unless I terminate explorer it has transparency issues.

The only game that's seriously put up a fight to GET working was Need For Speed III and High Stakes; they sorta-kinda worked but had pretty terrible generic software rasterization. Thankfully there are user/fan-created packs that fix vista and windows 7 issues (specifically those related to the hardware renderer setup) that fixed it.

I still hardly play it though. I guess I like the challenge,
Thank BC, gonna try that now!

i'll let you know how i get on! Quote from: BC_Programmer on December 22, 2010, 09:21:51 AM
Which games? I've yet to encounter a game that outright refuses to play on Windows Vista or 7 x64, but some of them just need a little "coaching".
  What kind of coaching for Call of duty 2 Single player, It lets me play multiplayer.
Quote from: patio on December 22, 2010, 09:18:23 AM
Windows 7 ships with both 32 and 64bit versions....switch to 32 bit 7 instead...

Or travel to MS's site and grab what you need to run XP mode on Win7.....no charge.
This computer came pre installed, all I have is restore disks.


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