rabidpuppy Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 I was in the process of updating a full size upright cabinet I built in 2009, which had a PC from that year running Windows XP x32. I only got halfway done, having bought new components with Windows 7 x64 and ripped out the old stuff. (I chose Win7 because it's what I use on my main PC, so I'm familiar and happy with it. Have never tried Win 8. So my vote goes to Win7.)I was looking at this "old stuff" and was thinking that it still all works. Given that the cabinet was never connected to the internet, it was also kind of irrelevant that XP support was ending.So now I am using the old stuff to build a new cocktail cabinet. Bugger it, I paid for that retail full price (i.e. non-upgrade) Windows XP licence so I'm going to use it until I have no hardware left that supports it!Sadly this means the main cabinet will be sitting there gutless until I have time.. (also thinking about making 2 mini bartops with the spare timber, buttons & joysticks I have.. it never ends)
djrobx Posted March 17, 2014 Posted March 17, 2014 I went through the process of installing XP on a newer machine, because XP works better with DirectX 7 games (Visual Pinball in particular).I was successful in getting it to work, but, I can wholeheartedly say I will never try to install XP on a reasonably modern piece of hardware again. Driver support is not there anymore. NVidia video drivers for newer cards exist but they're full of strange bugs. Older machines from the XP era, I'm not too worried about the implications of not having security patches for something like a cab. I'd just avoid running IE when browsing the web from it. I went with Win 8.1. I detest the UI but it doesn't much matter for something that auto-boots to a different UI most of the time.
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