TheVirus Posted June 19, 2009 Content Count: 3391 Joined: 06/12/09 Status: Offline Share Posted June 19, 2009 I'm using it now at home and at work. It's great. Looks great and feels smoother than Vista. I like the new taskbar but I do miss the right-click context (move/restore/etc). All games run flawlessly and Windows 7 detected, downloaded, and installed drivers for every piece of hardware (including my GTX 280). Also found the RAID controller I use at work. I didn't have to download a single driver. I love it. It is by far the best Windows release. It's like going from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, it's that good. There's a lot of performance enhancements and other tweaks but I don't want to get into all of that, there are plenty of articles that do. Link to comment
Guy Posted June 19, 2009 Content Count: 166 Joined: 06/16/09 Status: Offline Share Posted June 19, 2009 Warning, windows 7 is buggy with ati hd4xxx series cards right now. I would advise sticking with the microsoft provided driver for ati cards at the moment Link to comment
Wrathek Posted June 19, 2009 Content Count: 1839 Joined: 09/28/08 Status: Offline Share Posted June 19, 2009 Warning, windows 7 is buggy with ati hd4xxx series cards right now. I would advise sticking with the microsoft provided driver for ati cards at the moment i would advise with sticking with nvidia for forever (j/k) 2 Link to comment
RedOctober Posted June 21, 2009 Content Count: 222 Joined: 01/17/09 Status: Offline Share Posted June 21, 2009 i used it for gaming and it worked great. no problems with steam or downloading anything. some games even ran faster because Win 7 uses less memory. Link to comment
Caution Posted June 21, 2009 Content Count: 11501 Joined: 10/19/08 Status: Offline Share Posted June 21, 2009 I've been running it for a few months now and I love it. Link to comment
Guy Posted June 21, 2009 Content Count: 166 Joined: 06/16/09 Status: Offline Share Posted June 21, 2009 Make sure to run the 64-bit version if at all possible. supurisingly windows 7 runs best with 64 bit mode. if you have some 32-bit only programs, microsoft also has the virtual pc thing out for free, that puts a windows xp vm in your os (kind of like when macs had "classic mode for mac os X/9" Link to comment
Psyche Posted June 21, 2009 Content Count: 3343 Joined: 06/03/08 Status: Offline Share Posted June 21, 2009 Been using W7 for a while now, I might actually buy a W7 key so I can keep it. Link to comment
TheVirus Posted June 22, 2009 Content Count: 3391 Joined: 06/12/09 Status: Offline Share Posted June 22, 2009 i used it for gaming and it worked great. no problems with steam or downloading anything. some games even ran faster because Win 7 uses less memory. It's not that Windows Vista uses a lot of memory, it's that Vista is optimized to take advantage of unused resources. It might look like it's using 1.6GB/2.0GB, but the moment a program runs and needs memory, Vista clears it up. It's quite intelligent and a very smart move. Windows 7 does the same thing but it uses even less than Vista. With Vista, I had about 2-2.5GB/8GB used at any given moment. In Windows 7, it's using 1.9GB currently. Granted, I have a shitton of RAM, but at work I only have 2GB and it utilizes about 400MB. Link to comment
Loganator456 Posted June 27, 2009 Content Count: 555 Joined: 07/28/08 Status: Offline Share Posted June 27, 2009 I really love the idea of Windows 7, but I'm going to wait a while for Microsoft to get some service packs and patches out before I move over completely. Link to comment
Psyche Posted June 28, 2009 Content Count: 3343 Joined: 06/03/08 Status: Offline Share Posted June 28, 2009 Preorders are availible at Amazon, the Home Premium upgrade pre-order is only $50 dollars. I just preordered it, while Pro upgrade is $100 and Ultimate is $220. Link to comment
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