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OT Two Questions for Current Win7 Users

PutPut

PutPut

Charter Member 2014
I managed to skip completely past Vista on my design-flight sim computer and will be going from XP SP-2 to Win7 when it arrives. Does Win7 have the same version of DX10 as Vista, or, hopefully, is it improved? Also, does Win7 have the Aero feature which everyone with Vista says to turn off?

Thanks, Paul
 
I've been under the impression that W7 is going to ship with DirectX 11.

At least when I run the DX Diagnostic it shows up as DirectX 11 on this system.

W7 still has Aero. Under the Control Panel options I have choices between Aero Theme and non-Aero Theme desktops.

FAC
 
Paul you can download a beta copy of Windows7/74 or 32 bit. I have been using the 64 bit and have had no problem. It is very user friendly and also has some outstanding features. All the flight sims work fine and all the add-ons work fine too. I haven't seen any problems so far. It is also faster than Vista and to me is more stable....Mike
 
Windows 7 comes out of the box with DirectX 11. In order to see the new DX11 features, however, you'll need a new DX11 graphics card and a DX11 game platform.......it'll mean diddly squat to FSX/FS9 users though.
 
kilo delta said:
Windows 7 comes out of the box with DirectX 11. In order to see the new DX11 features, however, you'll need a new DX11 graphics card and a DX11 game platform.......it'll mean diddly squat to FSX/FS9 users though.
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My fear of that is that it may lose its ability to run DX10 based games, such as FS9.

Is that possible?

Here is a 'for instance'... I cannot get ACM to work anymore. The little program cannot run on my rig. I can only figure the latest updates in the GC and OS have caused this. Will FS9 be next in the near future? (Note, I have WinXP, not Win7).




Bill
 
And by the way Aero is an awesome feature. As long as you aren't running just 1gb of RAM, you will never want to run without it. You may instead be thinking of the UAC which is a nag with Vista. It's still there with 7, but much less a bother so you'll probably want to see how things go before turning it off as it does provide enhanced security. (Though it may still be wise to install programs with the UAC set to off - now with 7 you don't need to restart the computer to make this change).
 
Lionheart said:
My fear of that is that it may lose its ability to run DX10 based games, such as FS9.

Is that possible?

Here is a 'for instance'... I cannot get ACM to work anymore. The little program cannot run on my rig. I can only figure the latest updates in the GC and OS have caused this. Will FS9 be next in the near future? (Note, I have WinXP, not Win7).




Bill
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Don't worry ,Bill....DX11 is/will be backwards compatible with all previous DX versions. :)

What is ACM? methinks it's not Air Combat Manoeuvring :kilroy: :icon_lol:
 
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