Windows 7 beta

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by DarKStar

I run XP SP3 as my primary OS and VISTA as a secondary OS - *ONLY* used for DX10 games - I do all of my DX9 gaming in XP SP3 and my work on another dedicated partition for another XP SP3 install.

The tweaking part doesn't bother me - I think M$ intended these OS for people who like visual interfaces - don't get me wrong, the OS runs great even if I don't tweak it, because my system is powerful enough but the idea to tweak is getting rid of this gay interface and all the bloat that is loaded in memory at startup, that is useless to me - looks I'll be sticking to XP too - as far as games as far as I know, from games currently in dev - most are DX9 anyways, one thing I must say that VISTA has gone a long way comapred to what it was. And I recall with Windows XP people said the same thing when it came out :D

Windows Vista and Windows 7 just prove to people if it ain't broke don't fix it.

[Squeetard]

Running Win7 Beta 1 now and really liking it. The superbar is the best UI they've ever had. Zero issues so far.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Squeetard

Running Win7 Beta 1 now and really liking it. The superbar is the best UI they've ever had. Zero issues so far.

Again.. with the UI :P Tell us more about the other stuff :P

[Squeetard]

Well, I just installed Far cry 2 and am getting 2fps faster in dx10 than I was with xp dx9.

The task manager shows more than xp's.

Install it and try it yourself, I highly recommend it.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Squeetard

Well, I just installed Far cry 2 and am getting 2fps faster in dx10 than I was with xp dx9.

The task manager shows more than xp's.

Install it and try it yourself, I highly recommend it.

I have and I wasn't impressed.

And the only thing different about the task manager is it shows running services.

[kirk_d]

How's memory usage and PF size?

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by kirk_d

How's memory usage and PF size?

This is installed within a Virtual Machine with just over 1gb of ram. OS install size is 8.1gb.

[kirk_d]

Thank's Enaberif,

Memory usage doesn't seem to bad, unless there's nothing running in the background!
Wow, 8.1 gb, Holy!

The same 'ol dog!

[JD]

*sigh* the battle goes on with enaberif about Vista and now 7...

Running Windows 7 on a virtual machine is a totally different experience from actually installing it directly onto your hard drive and allowing the OS access to real hardware. I imagine you might have different thoughts if you ran it for real rather than virtually.

My friend was playing with 7 on VMWare last night and said it was pretty crappy so I convinced him to install it onto his PC instead and he was just totally amazed with it. Commented how much better it ran and said it was what Vista should of been. He also likes the new GUI since it makes things easier to do and redefines the original Windows-taskbar setup.

And for the OS taking up 8.1GB, you need to consider all the programs, APIs, the whole GUI and everything else that makes the OS tick. Windows 7 is a lot more complex compared to XP IMO. Since we all have 500GB+ hard drive these days, why does it really matter? Even cheap computers from Future Shop have large hard drives.

[kirk_d]

I think I see a dual boot in the very near future