"Luvrsmel" > wrote in news:mDBfo.449$89.378@edtnps83:

> that being said and agreed upon in a "told ya so" kind of way, I was
> surprised to see that my old (3.0GHz) overclocked to (3.4GHz)P4 system
> runs NFS undercover more smoothly in Win7 than it did in XP. I have
> much better frame rates. FYI, the system is a dual boot running all
> the same hardware. How many others are having this success with other
> games as well?
>
>
If you want to *really* speed up your computer, check out 98lite.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98lite

I haven't got into the nuts and bolts of it, but apparently you can run
anything that can run in XP with it.

Of course disabling all the crap in startup always helps in any case.