Topic: Windows7

[Sipin]

Installed the beta for the next windows OS, much better than Vista...so far

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[Andro-blahhhhh]

Are you running it on a Pre-Intel P35 chipset? I heard people had the most issues with motherboards older than 2007. My motherboard uses the 955 chip and I haven't touched Vista for fear of performance issues.

[Sparks]

Pics or it never happened 

[MistaObvious]

LOL   I'm still afraid of Vista...  I've read some negative things about 7, but comparison to Vista puts it in better shape.  I'll probably keep my distance from it for a while.

[Sipin]

Pics or it never happened 

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[Sipin]

Are you running it on a Pre-Intel P35 chipset? I heard people had the most issues with motherboards older than 2007. My motherboard uses the 955 chip and I haven't touched Vista for fear of performance issues.

I put it on my Toshiba laptop. Not sure which intel chipset it is running.

[Sipin]

LOL   I'm still afraid of Vista...  I've read some negative things about 7, but comparison to Vista puts it in better shape.  I'll probably keep my distance from it for a while.

So far it seems better.
Plus, they moved on to DirectX 11.
We'll see how it plays W@W tonight.

[MistaObvious]

LOL   I'm still afraid of Vista...  I've read some negative things about 7, but comparison to Vista puts it in better shape.  I'll probably keep my distance from it for a while.

So far it seems better.
Plus, they moved on to DirectX 11.
We'll see how it plays W@W tonight.

HA HA!!!  Finally an edge over ya!

Pics or it never happened 

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[Sipin]

Ok.
Here is a better pic then.....

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[Hiker]

have read of 7 being tons better than vista and that for 7 MS actually listened to all the problems ppl had with vista, heard it uses less to run than what vista does

tbh i have had no problems with vista since i got it, but also have read that most that have problems with vista is cause not having enough to run vista , but i dunno 

[Andro-blahhhhh]

have read of 7 being tons better than vista and that for 7 MS actually listened to all the problems ppl had with vista, heard it uses less to run than what vista does

tbh i have had no problems with vista since i got it, but also have read that most that have problems with vista is cause not having enough to run vista , but i dunno 

For 60-70% of PC owners, their systems are 3-5 years old, if not more. Vista was designed to take full effect of the dual core chipsets and DDR-3 memory that was coming out that same year. So what they hope for was by making Vista a performance hog people would have no choice but to buy new machines and MS would get more sales for upgrades and license fees. Didn't happen and they lost confidence from a majority of PC users. So now Windows 7 is there way of making up with the PC crowd. I hope so. I mean, Apple doesn't create obsolete machines for people when they upgrade their OS.

[MistaObvious]

have read of 7 being tons better than vista and that for 7 MS actually listened to all the problems ppl had with vista, heard it uses less to run than what vista does

tbh i have had no problems with vista since i got it, but also have read that most that have problems with vista is cause not having enough to run vista , but i dunno 

For 60-70% of PC owners, their systems are 3-5 years old, if not more. Vista was designed to take full effect of the dual core chipsets and DDR-3 memory that was coming out that same year. So what they hope for was by making Vista a performance hog people would have no choice but to buy new machines and MS would get more sales for upgrades and license fees. Didn't happen and they lost confidence from a majority of PC users. So now Windows 7 is there way of making up with the PC crowd. I hope so. I mean, Apple doesn't create obsolete machines for people when they upgrade their OS.

I'm no fan of M$, but I can't tell you how much I hate Apple.  I used to like using Mac back in the day, but have always wondered how a company can afford to sell their stuff for 4x the cost of everyone else AND make it completely proprietary.

Seriously, even with Apple's big advertising budget in recent years, the SBD of competition is Open Source (Linux).  The trend of Linux-based OSes has been on the rise steadily.  And you can pretty much watch Mozilla for how that trend will eventually take hold.  Firefox, according to trendnetworks, has taken 20% of the browser market-share since October.  Seems more and more people are becoming impressed with the scalability of software designed by a collective rather than a single company.  Eventually this will take hold in the OS world as well.

Only thing I'm waiting for, personally, is for game developers to start seeing the light as well.  As soon as I see that the games I enjoy playing are released for Linux at the same time or before Windows, I'll be off to Linux world permanently.

[Sparks]

So which system crashes Cod5 faster Window7 or Vista ?

[Andro-blahhhhh]

So which system crashes Cod5 faster Window7 or Vista ?

[MistaObvious]

I'll find out tonight...  installed 7 today.  Figure by the time the beta is done, I'll be on my new system, anyway. 

[Nyck]

Ive used vista on my laptop with no problems...though im not using older software/games/hardware

[MistaObvious]

Well, here's my input after a few days...

(I never used Vista, so bear with me if this sounds like something old)

• I enjoy the new themes...  pretty sleek.  Overall, system feels much nicer because of it.
• Am finding it hard to find system-related utilities.  Seems like I have to jump through hoops to get at anything I want to be able to tweak or fix.
• Gadgets are nice, but no actual sidebar as I understand Vista had...  it's more like a dockable system.  Selection of gadgets, btw, sucks.

COD:

• Game performance is actually better than XP.  Figured I might see some decline, but it's pretty good.  I'm running a higher resolution now and enjoying it.
• Occasionally I start up with a massive collage of colors.  Wait 30 - 60 seconds, it refreshes and fixes itself.  Very weird.
• Some textures now have these rainbow-like colors to them.  Not sure if that was a fluke, but never saw that before.

Overall, I'm enjoying it more than XP.  Think it's still got that new-car smell.  I'd really like to get more under the hood to see how things work, but haven't had much time yet. 

[Andro-blahhhhh]

Looks like they are fixing the old system issue. Well done. I wonder if the lay offs will slow the production of this?

[jeff]

I've been running Windows7 since Gene first mentioned it. I'm using the 64bit version and it is fast and stable for me so far.

I had random lockups and crashes in Vista on my gaming rig before. I haven't experienced a single problem with Windows 7.

Now that I'm building a new rig, it will have Windows 7 64 on it too.

[MistaObvious]

Not sure what it is, but that colors thing...  well, I still get it, but not all the time.  Seems if my system is being taxed pretty good, textures will start showing odd colors to them (rainbow and quite trippy).  Didn't have this issue with XP.  And the video restart issue is still there (30 seconds or less after joining the server for the first map only), but now it seems there's a limit to how many maps I can play before it becomes a more prominent issue (actually requiring a vid_restart command issued into the console).