Is Windows 7 any good for Gaming?

[JT8D-9A]

Bjoern,
Premium is enough. Premium E (E=Europe=without IE).
For Backup and security solutions i tend to not use MS products and i don't plan to carry my PC to work, to connect to a domain-based network...

Regarding "WinXP mode".. you can download Virtualbox for free and you will have your WinXP mode (WinXP mode= virtual machine + WinXP license).
I'm already using a virtual machine under Linux but it's not very fast, so it's not really fun...

 

[FAC257]

There are actually at least 11 or 12 different versions of Windows 7 if you count the 64bit ones. Partly in order to reduce the Vista multiple version nightmare only a few are going to be available off the shelf.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...d_in_six_versions?taxonomyId=125&pageNumber=1

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/160287/windows_7_the_six_versions_explained.html


FAC

 

[robrealair]

I'd say yes. I've been running FSX on a Win7 RC1 machine for a while now, and performance has been rock solid. Whatever lessons they learned from Vista seem to have been applied here. In fact, Win7 almost reads like an apology note from MS for the Vista debacle. Have no fear of running games on 7.

I'm considering getting Win7 but what disappoints is that it is clearly still over the top bloatware. Any operating system that needs a gig or more of RAM just to run, let alone effectively use, is by definition a ludicrously over bloated piece of software. A run down the list of default active services in any recent version of windows demonstrates just how absurd the whole O/S is. MS seems to have learned nothing from Linux over the years.

Of course you can download software which obliterates some of it when running FSX, but this barely scratches the surface.

It would have taken so little effort to offer various boot up options which loaded a "barebones" system over which efficient software can be run. When you add the now stone age FSX core engine over the top, it is hardly surprising that you need a stella system to run FSX half decently.

Rob

 

[txnetcop]

All my games and FSX especially play well on Windows7 RC. No complaints
Ted

 

[some1]

All my games and FSX especially play well on Windows7 RC.
Ted

I can say the same about Vista, so I think the question is do they play better

 

[hey_moe]

W7 to me plays better than Vista64/32. For one W7 doesn't use nowhere near the resources that Vista does and the video drivers so far have been better to me...but that's me.

 

[Bjoern]

Regarding "WinXP mode".. you can download Virtualbox for free and you will have your WinXP mode (WinXP mode= virtual machine + WinXP license).
I'm already using a virtual machine under Linux but it's not very fast, so it's not really fun...

Have been using Virtualbox already back in my XP x64, Vista x64 and Server '08 x64 testing phase.
It's okay to use, but well...it's nothing but a second PC running on your PC, whioch has to be started and shut down seperately. I hope the "XP mode" is quicker to respond and well integrated into the OS.

Of course you can download software which obliterates some of it when running FSX, but this barely scratches the surface.

Why using software if you can just take a wrench and fix it yourself?
Been doing that to XP ever since and would do it to 7 as well.

You're basically right though. Windows has lots of unnecessary features, but then again it's "Average Joe/Jane"'s OS which has to run well straight out of the box, no questions asked.

 

[big-mike]

Actually, the benchmarks that can be found over the net like: http://www.pcformat.co.uk/article/xp-vs-vista-vs-7-02-07-09 (just google for "vista versus 7" to find more) say that there's not much really difference between vista and 7, sometimes one system wins, sometimes other. Given the fact that they are both very simillar systems that use the same driver model (7 can even use the same graphics drivers than vista), I wouldn't expect 7 to be the ultimate cure for FSX problems with performance Some time ago I made a FSX test run using the standard benchmark from avism (FSXmark07) and the performance was almost identical that on Vista, with difference less than 2%.

I´ve read something similar than this.
I run Vista Ultimate 64bit SP2 and never had any trouble with this OS.
Why spend money for a new OS that`s not faster,or only marginally?
Making a fresh installation of Vista,i also mean it`s faster now and i think,the same is with W7.So i`ve not tried it.
Maybe it`s only the hype about something new.
Michael

 

[rwmarth]

I like the fact that the desktop icon in Win7 is of a Vista desktop and not Win7.... Wonder if that one gets fixed!

 

[Naismith]

CFS1 - crashes on opening screen
CFS2 - no mods, the 2D panels flash on and off
CFS3 - don't know cant be bothered with it
Lock On Flaming Cliffs - Win7 does not like starforce, wont run
FSX - fine slightly faster, micro stutters seem reduced
FS9 - ditto
IL2 1946 - yet to try it.