PROBLEMS WITH WINDOWS 7

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Gee golly jeepers! You not having an issue makes it all better.

You weren't exactly asking for help. You expect everyone to wallow in your shitty luck? =)

Yes.


To elaborate a bit, I'm just venting because you hear this crap everywhere someone is asking for help.

"Help, I just installed Windows 7 on a brand new hard drive. I did everything including doing a thorough SMART scan on the drive, and did research to ensure all of my components ar..."

"WELL IT WORKS FINE FOR ME WINDOWS SEVEN IS THE BEST"

post=120229
The way it sounds to me is that Windows 7 is as bad as or worse than Vista. Most RM games I play work comfortably in Vista so I don't think I want to upgrade now.

It's not as bad as Vista at launch, that I can pretty much agree with; but the amount of hoops I had to jump in order to get things running well is rather ridiculous considering how reliable XP has been for me, a dated product. (Progression usually means going FORWARD, not down and then sideways)

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post=120229
The way it sounds to me is that Windows 7 is as bad as or worse than Vista. Most RM games I play work comfortably in Vista so I don't think I want to upgrade now.

It's not as bad as Vista at launch, that I can pretty much agree with; but the amount of hoops I had to jump in order to get things running well is rather ridiculous considering how reliable XP has been for me, a dated product. (Progression usually means going FORWARD, not down and then sideways)

I have grown fond of how reliable XP is. So instead of upgrading to a newer operating system, I've used Virtualbox's support for 64-bit guest OSs in a 32-bit host for the past two years.

edit: i.e. virtualization is the solution to 67.345% of everything

Most of us were kids when windows XP first came out, so you probably don't realize it had way more hardships than the current generation of Windows when it first came out. If you think this is a step backwards, I don't know what to tell you.

Vista was pretty bad though (I skipped right to W7).

For reference, he's one of the few absurdly rich people who realizes that he could live off the interest of the interest of his interest, and therefore spends a very considerable portion of his income on charity.

yes I'm in business math and yes we just went over this on friday

EDIT: I doubt Bill has even laid a finger on W7's code, so.

I haven't had any issues with RM games and Windows 7. Way fewer than Vista!

Same goes with PC games that Nightblade had trouble with. However, some PC games don't work at all (I bought Thief 3 for $5 and I couldn't play it :( ).

EDIT: Also Nightblade let's see how well YOUR operating system runs >_<

I have a fantastic computer and I run XP. I don't see any real reason to upgrade. I stay away from the ~3 games that require DX10 and I am pretty much doin' fine!

Oh, yeah I know that it isn't perfect. Problems are bound to come up when there are billions of computers out there. I was just saying it could be a lot worse. I've always had to make tweaks to my systems in order for them to be running exactly the way I wanted. I think that will always be the case. But XP had bugs that completely froze your system if you had a certain chipset. Also, the product activation (oh god). If you have ever read the horror stories on WPA, you'll know why it's the main reason there are so many pirated versions of XP out there.

I didn't get it under the impression it would magically run my system better, though (everything was fine under xp). But I didn't realize how much easier life was once I used the new taskbar in W7. Seriously, that thing is the best.

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He stole the inital Os for windows from steve jobs, back when steve jobs was working at atari as a programmer.

A swing and a miss; Steve Jobs ripped the concept of a GUI-driven OS off of the GUI developed at Xerox's PARC lab, just like everyone else did.