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"Daniel" <zen6575@zen.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
> I have 2 seperate boot partitions on my PC, both have Windows XP pro 
> installed with exactly the same setup. Both have all the same patches etc 
> applied, and are running the same programs. Both have exactly the same 
> drivers for everything.
>
> PC is an athlon xp 3200+, geforce 6800gt (agp), 512mb dual channel ram, 
> abit an7 motherboard (nforce2).
>
> I have a weird problem, where in one partition, everything runs fine - I 
> have all the geforce settings to absolute maximum, and any game runs 
> perfectly - such as pro evo soccer 4, knights of the old republic etc.
>
> In the other partition, I have a lot of slowdown and jerkiness in these 
> games. The games have the same performance options set up - they are 
> installed in the same folder on a seperate partition, so they share the 
> same files from both operating systems.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this in the 2nd 
> partition - it has to be Windows related, since it does work in the other 
> partition, but other than the drivers, geforce setup and game settings, I 
> can't really think of anything to try changing...

The second boot partition is on a much slower part of the HD.

How many partitions do you have?  How are they organized?

E.G.

WinXP1 10GB
Games 140GB
WinXP2 10GB

on a 160GB HD?

Have you defragged?

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Work it out!

Dave