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The partitions are 10GB (xp1) 10GB (xp2) then 60GB (storage/games) which are 
on 2x western digital 7200rpm 8MB cache hard drives, arranged in a RAID 0 
array, using a highpoint raid card.

Hard disk performance is the same on both partitions, when the games slow 
down, it is not reading from the hard disk, it has already loaded - it is 
simply the frame rate slowing down.

"Dave" <dave2972@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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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...
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> The second boot partition is on a much slower part of the HD.
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> How many partitions do you have?  How are they organized?
>
> E.G.
>
> WinXP1 10GB
> Games 140GB
> WinXP2 10GB
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> on a 160GB HD?
>
> Have you defragged?
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> Work it out!
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> Dave
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