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Unkins

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I reformatted the HDD on my Lenovo Ideapad Y560P and dual booted Windows XP and Windows 7. The problem that I have is that Windows xp has an annoying lag. I ran a benchmark (3dmark 05) and got 30-90 FPS on GPU rendered graphics, but only 6-9 FPS on CPU rendered graphics. This is completely unacceptable for a 2nd generation Core i7 @ 2GHz. I can't even watch a flash video without it stuttering, but I can play Knights of the Old Republic with a tolerable amount of lag. The CPU usage is generally about 1-15%.
I have 2 theories:
1. The hardware is being used very inefficiently.
2. The hardware is being bottlenecked.

Windows XP Professional SP3 is aware of my quad core. I tried to find information on google, but I did not have much luck. Windows 7, on the other partition, is running perfectly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Basically my computer:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7213655
 
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Most likely the problem you have is that the hardware in that laptop isn't designed to run on XP efficiently, possibly no drivers available. Usually anything that has windows 7 preinstalled will have a hard time running XP.
 
That is what I was worried about when I installed XP. I tried the Lenovo drivers for XP. The XP partition is primary for playing old games that won't work on Windows 7, so it is not really a huge problem if I can't fix it. I was hoping someone had the same problem and fixed it. Really the only problem I have is bad CPU lag and a little HDD lag.
 
You did install the chipset drivers correct? Also, have you tried using the compatibility mode on windows 7 to play the older games?
 
Yes, I did install the 2010 intel chipset driver. The games that I want to play are Star Wars games from the Windows 95/98 era, so it is very hard to get them running in my 64 bit Windows 7 Professional. Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 is the most useless thing that I have ever downloaded and used, so that doesn't work either.
 
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