Windows 7 Release Date Announced

[Hoarach]

Looks like its an official late October release....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31068292/

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Looks like its an official late October release....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31068292/

I installed W7 on my main gaming box last weekend. I was under the impression W7 was blazing fast untill I benchmarked the new graphics tool with it.

It scored 200 fps. The same box scored 250fps both at 1920x1200 using Windows XP. So while I still have plenty of room it did give a sizeable performance hit.

[Fulmar]

I wouldn't sweat RC benchmarks.  It will give you a general idea but official drivers may make a significant performance improvement.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I wouldn't sweat RC benchmarks.  It will give you a general idea but official drivers may make a significant performance improvement.

W7 is nothing but a glorified Vista service pack. It uses same driver model so the latest drivers are pretty much it already.

I don't expect to have 30% speed gains by any driver update.

[Skuzzy]

Like Ripley said, Windows 7 is just an update to Vista, but it is what Vista should have been the first time it was released.  It will be slower than XP, just as Vista is.  It cannot help but be a bit slower.  Microsoft keeps adding new services to it.

By the time it gets released, it could be more bloated than Vista, but it will still be better than Vista due to all the bug fixes.  Think of it as Vista w/SP3.  Although there are rumblings a SP3 will be released for Vista, so maybe Vista w/SP4.

Microsoft got a big black eye over Vista and cannot move fast enough to shed that name from its parts bin.  I hope they do the right thing and offer a limited time free upgrade for those who got stuck with Vista, just to expedite Vista's removal from the marketplace.

[Sincraft]

7 Ultimate is available for download and unlimited use for 1 year currently.

That's not too shabby if you ask me.

I'm running the 64 bit version and coming up with some great benchmarks except for my hd's in raid 0 that are showing a seek time of 15ms.  That will cause game stutters but will the drives load data fast as the throughput is fast.

I'm thinking (if I recall properly) that seek time is increased while overall read/write times are decreased with raid 0.  Parity size can adjust that possibly but my intel raid on this new mobo didn't allow me to change it to a lower # vs my asus board on my amd chipset that allowed me to go from 16 - 256 I believe...I'm currently at 128. 

[Spikes]

I installed W7 on my main gaming box last weekend. I was under the impression W7 was blazing fast untill I benchmarked the new graphics tool with it.

It scored 200 fps. The same box scored 250fps both at 1920x1200 using Windows XP. So while I still have plenty of room it did give a sizeable performance hit.

Pff....I only get like 30 FPS haha.

[Getback]

When we say faster in regards to OS's is that the time it takes to complete a certain task? For instance accessing a file. Would this have any effect once connected to the internet or will that be slower as well? What affect will that have on game play over the internet?

[Tigger29]

All I know is I just upgraded my system (more like built a new one).

E7300 C2D (2.8GHZ), 4GB DDR3, GeForce9800GTX+ 512MB DDR3, all setting maxed (16XAA, all video options set for eye-candy), and I have a dual-boot setup with WinXPPro 32bit on one hard drive, and 7 Ultimate (RC) 64bit on another.  1680X1050 @ 1024 Textures (Hi-Res PACK) and all graphics settings turned up full from within AH.

XP is streamlined, 7 is not.

I get a solid 59FPS no matter what on either OS (VSYNC ON), however with Win7 even though NET STATUS looks solid as a rock, I get a lot of lag.  Moving airfields takes several seconds.  Lots of rubber bullets (In a panzer shooting a Wirbel.. first hit turreted it but the next 10, most of which were at point-blank range.. did nothing then someone else killed it with one hit and I got an assist).. and everything in general just feels 'sloppy' and 'heavy'.  On XP, however, everything works instantly in AH and feels light and nimble.

Now I haven't spent any time disabling services or processes in Win7 so alot of this may have to be with the auto updater or firewall or what not... but there's definitely some network goofiness going on there...  And of course, it's still in BETA stage as well.

[Motherland]

All I know is I just upgraded my system (more like built a new one).

E7300 C2D (2.8GHZ), 4GB DDR3, GeForce9800GTX+ 512MB DDR3, all setting maxed (16XAA, all video options set for eye-candy), and I have a dual-boot setup with WinXPPro 32bit on one hard drive, and 7 Ultimate (RC) 64bit on another.  1680X1050 @ 1024 Textures (Hi-Res PACK) and all graphics settings turned up full from within AH.

XP is streamlined, 7 is not.

I get a solid 59FPS no matter what on either OS (VSYNC ON), however with Win7 even though NET STATUS looks solid as a rock, I get a lot of lag.  Moving airfields takes several seconds.  Lots of rubber bullets (In a panzer shooting a Wirbel.. first hit turreted it but the next 10, most of which were at point-blank range.. did nothing then someone else killed it with one hit and I got an assist).. and everything in general just feels 'sloppy' and 'heavy'.  On XP, however, everything works instantly in AH and feels light and nimble.

Now I haven't spent any time disabling services or processes in Win7 so alot of this may have to be with the auto updater or firewall or what not... but there's definitely some network goofiness going on there...  And of course, it's still in BETA stage as well.

Works identically as the way it does in XP for me, except that I can't take screenshots using PrtScrn. W7 doesn't seem to like that for some reason. Works in the skin view and film viewer (including when maximized), but not in Aces High or any other game I've tried. I just get a window with nothing in it for the SS.

[Tigger29]

EDIT:  I meant E7400, not E7300.

Anyways, I just realized that that thing that slows down your processor automatically (to save on energy) was turned on in BIOS.. I dasabled it.. maybe this had something to do with W7's laggy behavior.... I'll keep you posted

[Hajo]

I'll stay with Windows proven best product so far.  XP Pro.

It would be  imho to microsofts best interests to introduce a gaming only platform OS.

I think it may sell very well.  Maybe include explorer and outlook express. 

Without services that quite frankly aren't needed or wanted.

(I can dream can't I) 

[Skuzzy]

They will not do that because they want you to buy an XBox.

[Hoarach]

They will not do that because they want you to buy an XBox.

Even those sales are getting beat out by PS3.....

[Spikes]

Because PS3 is a good quality product and doesn't redring out after the 3rd time you use it.