Thread: Operating System for Gaming

With a system like that, changing the OS won't be much of a difference on newer games like Left 4 dead 2. You might be able to get a bit of performance increase, but not a whole lot. If you want to play new games like Left 4 dead 2 I'm afraid the only thing that's gonna give you a worthy performance increase (with a system like you've got) is a full upgrade. I'm not even sure extra RAM will take you all that much further since the rest of your equipment will bottleneck it ( that is to say, if free memory is indeed a problem for the game, you might reduce lag and increase your FPS, but it still wouldn't be running at awesome speeds with the rest of the system being outdated ). Still, upgrading your RAM is the cheapest way to gain extra performance boost, not really disagreeing there, even though you didn't want to hear that there really isn't much else to suggest, and even with that suggestion I'm still doubting it'll do you all that much good.

What settings are you running the game on? And have you tried toning down all the visual effects in Windows 7? There's a lot of ways to squeeze out some additional performance by altering the Windows configurations ( and a lot of guides on it, too )