Anyone Trying Windows 7 Yet?

[D. Hayes]

Just for fun I tried running GR3 on it and it won't run. I get (sorry, not at home right now) something like unable to find DirectX 9 capabilities. I updated my DirectX and downgraded it and still won't run. I am running it on Sun Virtualbox which might be part of my problem even though I enabled accelerated video.

No issues here, course I'm just using the 32bit version even though my desktop and laptop could run 64bit. I use to run Vista 64 on my desktop and GRLx ran fine there also.

I did just load w7 on my laptop last night. It's a lot faster now and so far no issues. I just hope the MS monster don't charge a arm and leg for this release.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

Well I found an issue that can be pretty critical in my opinion.

Windows 7 Photo Viewer Quality Issue - The Left is the picture as it should be viewed opened in Photoshop, The right side is what Windows 7 Photo Viewer is outputting. It is a low quality corrupted view. I can find no settings to change it nor do I know what caused it to start doing this.

 

[Skip Talbot]

A low quality, corrupted view? Could you screen capture the photo viewer, enlarge, and crop it for us to show us how the image has been degraded? I see that there is a difference in contrast between the two images, but at this scale I can't see any degradation in the quality. Perhaps photo viewer has an auto contrast correction?

I really loathe Photoshop, it goes off and does its own thing with the colors half the time. It also doesn't play nice on my computer at work. Everything that runs through photoshop comes out with a brown tinge. It doesn't surprise me that you are seeing differences between the two.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

Well after resetting some stuff it went away for now, If I were to guess it was adding a custom desktop picture causes windows to alter some settings.

This is a comparison from yesterday.

 

[Drew.Gardonia]

i just finally made the jump to Vista, and Im sticking with Vista for now. i miss xp dearly, it was so easy to use, Vista is nothing but a pain, but as I figure things out it'll become easier. I want to let all the bugs get out of Windows 7 before I make the jump again.

 

[D. Hayes]

funny thing is if you just bought vista full version you get a free upgrade to windows 7 comparable version.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

funny thing is if you just bought vista full version you get a free upgrade to windows 7 comparable version.

What about someone who just bought a system with it on it?

 

[J Kinkaid]

What about someone who just bought a system with it on it?

After June 26th you will get a free upgrade

 

[Chad Cowan]

Well I found an issue that can be pretty critical in my opinion.

Windows 7 Photo Viewer Quality Issue - The Left is the picture as it should be viewed opened in Photoshop, The right side is what Windows 7 Photo Viewer is outputting. It is a low quality corrupted view. I can find no settings to change it nor do I know what caused it to start doing this.

I had this same problem using Vista's Picture Viewer after I bought my new LCD. It was loading the wrong color palette and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to change it. Even though the program is otherwise worthless, I downloaded Google's Picassa because it has an excellent picture viewer (it doesn't load the whole program, just a viewer). I made that my default viewer and the colors are as they should be with it and it's very convenient.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

I had this same problem using Vista's Picture Viewer after I bought my new LCD. It was loading the wrong color palette and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to change it. Even though the program is otherwise worthless, I downloaded Google's Picassa because it has an excellent picture viewer (it doesn't load the whole program, just a viewer). I made that my default viewer and the colors are as they should be with it and it's very convenient.

I reset to a normal theme then brought my background picture back and it is cured picture wise but is taking a long time to load them now.

 

[Greg Campbell]

Still running XP-pro, and have no plans to buy 7. About the only thing that would induce me to 'upgrade' would be a killer DX10 game.

 

[Chris Nuttall]

I'm getting ready to upgrade from my old single core AMD to an Intel Core 2 Quad tomorrow. I've been running the 64-bit Windows 7 RC on my old machine, and it's been just fine, except I haven't been able to run anything else real intensive. Then again, I don't really expect to, as it's doing pretty good just to run Win7. I'll be going with Win7 for the new build.

The main draw for me is the 64-bit OS. I'm not going to spend the money to build a system with 4GB of RAM only to have 1GB of it going to waste. Keep in mind that the RAM limitation on 32-bit XP extends to total memory...video card and system RAM. I know there is a 64-bit version of XP, but it never had much support (software and drivers) and all the reviews I've read indicate that it's buggier than Vista ever was. As far as my hardware goes, most of them already have 64-bit Win7 drivers available. For the ones that don't, I've been able to use 64-bit Vista drivers.

If I experience any signficant problems with the new build, then I'll probably go back to XP. But, I can't imagine my new system performing worse than my current single core 2.4GHz AMD. I'll probably run the Win7 RC until the OEM versions are available.

 

[Rob Wadsworth]

I'm getting ready to upgrade from my old single core AMD to an Intel Core 2 Quad tomorrow. I've been running the 64-bit Windows 7 RC on my old machine, and it's been just fine, except I haven't been able to run anything else real intensive. Then again, I don't really expect to, as it's doing pretty good just to run Win7. I'll be going with Win7 for the new build.

The main draw for me is the 64-bit OS. I'm not going to spend the money to build a system with 4GB of RAM only to have 1GB of it going to waste. Keep in mind that the RAM limitation on 32-bit XP extends to total memory...video card and system RAM. I know there is a 64-bit version of XP, but it never had much support (software and drivers) and all the reviews I've read indicate that it's buggier than Vista ever was. As far as my hardware goes, most of them already have 64-bit Win7 drivers available. For the ones that don't, I've been able to use 64-bit Vista drivers.

If I experience any signficant problems with the new build, then I'll probably go back to XP. But, I can't imagine my new system performing worse than my current single core 2.4GHz AMD. I'll probably run the Win7 RC until the OEM versions are available.

XP 64 hasn't been buggy for me in practical usage. Vista 64 has been a nightmare - on the other hand.

AMD or Intel? Depends what 'intensive applications' you are talking about. Videos, games, and a few others - I'd go with AMD...Cheaper too...

 

[Chris Nuttall]

AMD or Intel? Depends what 'intensive applications' you are talking about. Videos, games, and a few others - I'd go with AMD...Cheaper too...

I did a lot of research and almost all of the benchmarks point to Intel right now. The release of the Q9xxx series of Core 2 Quads are outperforming the Phenom II 940 in almost everything. Of course, the Intel Core i7 is killing everything, but that's way out of my price range. The difference in price between the Q9550 C2Q build I'm doing and the Phenom II 940 build I also researched is about $30.

Every computer I've owned since I graduated high school in 2000 has been an AMD, except my Dell laptop. My AMD machines have been great and have lasted a long time. The first system I put together myself was an AMD 2400+ back in 2003. It finally died last year. All the reviews I've read, and all my friends that I've talked to said to go with Intel for gaming and multimedia use, so I thought I might give them a try this time.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

Every computer I've owned since I graduated high school in 2000 has been an AMD, except my Dell laptop. My AMD machines have been great and have lasted a long time. The first system I put together myself was an AMD 2400+ back in 2003. It finally died last year. All the reviews I've read, and all my friends that I've talked to said to go with Intel for gaming and multimedia use, so I thought I might give them a try this time.

LOL, I have been building my own since 8088's and only ever remember using AMD but for one other brand I forgot the name of from way back when but am now considering the intels for the next build.