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[Godak]

I'm happy with Windows 7. It seems to process things faster than Vista/XP.

[Oak Tree Leaf]

I'm not, Have nothing but issues with my older games on it (some won't even run right unless I do plenty of extra work!).



But I've also seen plenty of people talk about how they havn't had an issue since they've installed it, while others like me have had nothing but problems!



I think alien ware sent it to me for free as a sick joke on their part!

[Seagloom]

If you can afford it, take the upgrade. I would too if I could afford it. For now I'm stuck with XP64. Besides, Microsoft is stopping support for XP in 2011. You'll be forced to upgrade eventually if you don't want your PC to be open to any exploits crackers come up with. I don't run Windows 7 myself, but one of my friends does and is very pleased with it. She's only had issues running the original Neverwinter Nights so far.

[ObserverStatus]

I have Vista, so I can't help you =P

[Loerwyn]

Depends what rig you have now.

[Daewan]

I love Win7. It has repaid me for all the crap I had to put up with from Vista. If at all possible, you want to do the upgrades (RAM especially) as soon as you can.

However.... I did cheat. I did not *upgrade* to Win7. I bought a new hard drive and set up a dual-boot, which has worked wonderfully for me. The clean install was painless, and new hard drives are cheaper than ever before. Your mileage may vary.

[ObserverStatus]

Damned Vista won't run Warcraft 2

[Seagloom]

OnlyShallow89 wrote...

Depends what rig you have now.

Oh yes, this reminds me. Don't ugprade at all if you won't have at least 4GB RAM in that PC or it's going to get ugly at times. Win7 is needier than XP.

[the_one_54321]

I have Win7 in 64bit, and it's absolutely fantastic.

[darkshadow136]

Windows 7 for me. XP was great in it's day but people just need to let the old OS die. XP is not even supported anymore by Microsoft.

[Loerwyn]

darkshadow136 wrote...
XP is not even supported anymore by Microsoft.

Ah, so those updates I had the last week or so didn't happen?
XP is still supported, and the support is dropped next year.

[Genoq]

If you like too play older games (i.e. good games) and like your 4 gigs* of memory to be used by something other than your OS, stick with WinXP. If you like shiny GUIs and compulsively buy broken software because it's new, get Win7.

*Edit: should have said 2 gigs.

Modifié par Genoq, 26 mars 2010 - 09:22 .

[darkshadow136]

OnlyShallow89 wrote...

darkshadow136 wrote...
XP is not even supported anymore by Microsoft.

Ah, so those updates I had the last week or so didn't happen?
XP is still supported, and the support is dropped next year.

It's good they extended your support, but it was supposed to be ended months ago. I used to be a die hard XP person, and then went to Vista. I hated the bloat from Vista but like the interface for it and some of the added abilities for it. Then Win7 comes and for me it is the best of both worlds no bloat, and great for gaming or anything you really want to do. The only game I have ever had issues with with Win7 was DAO everth other game runs like a dream including ME2.

[Loerwyn]

@Chan, you might get some increased smoothness. I know someone with a rig similar to mine (and it's similar to yours, except a bootload more in the graphics department), and he runs 7 (or is it Vista? I forget) fine.

New GPU, 2GB of RAM and I think you'd be sorted for some time - even for XP.

[joey_mork84]

I've got vista atm. I like it for the most part but am looking forward to a 7 upgrade. I heard it's like Vista on steroids lol

[joey_mork84]

OMG that is the one thing I hate about Vista.. I didn't know 7 used less resources.. Yea, that's at the top of my PC Upgrade list.. right above more ram and a new cpu lol

[Seagloom]

Ah. I thought it was more of a hog than that. My mistake then. That uses waaaay less than I thought, really. Kinda makes my PC's 8GB RAM overkill.

[Eurypterid]

darkshadow136 wrote...
It's good they extended your support, but it was supposed to be ended months ago.

There are 2 types of support from Microsoft: Maintstream and Extended.

Mainstream support ended last year. Extended support continues until April 2014.

Extended support gives you security updates to all users, but non-security hot fixes are only provided to companies that have signed support contracts with MS.

Basically this means it's sitll supported for the average user until 2014.

That being said, I've installed Win 7 64 bit on my new rig. Haven't had much of a chance to use it though, due to various factors, but in the very near future (likely next week), it will become my default gaming rig.