Windows 7 Club

[HookeyStreet]

I want to give Windows 7 a whirl.............what version do I need to download? I have the upgrade version (Windows 7 RC) that upgrades Vista to 7, is that any good?

 

[Mussels]

you really want to get the RTM version, and dont upgrade. upgrades are always bad.

 

[HookeyStreet]

you really want to get the RTM version, and dont upgrade. upgrades are always bad.

Cool, can this be legally downloaded?

 

[Mussels]

Cool, can this be legally downloaded?

if you have a technet account, yes. you can also get CD keys for it right now from the same account.


Its a grey area, but you CAN torrent the ISO's as well - its technically not illegal unless you crack it, or use a stolen key on it. (i suggest using Re-arm, and not a crack, btw)

 

[Castiel]

Does Punkbuster still work for Win 7?

 

[Mussels]

Does Punkbuster still work for Win 7?

according to reports, PB have finally updated so that it works now.

Just manually update your games punkbuster files, should you have any problems.

 

[Conflict0s]

^^ I REALLY hope this is true. To be honest I haven't had that many problems with punkbuster but some servers in Crysis don't like me, evan though I have added Crysis in the PB updater program. Must think I have modified the files, when really it is because of Windows 7.

 

[Mussels]

well i've heard reports of people playing CoD4 and WaW online with windows 7 with no issues, as long as the game and PB are up to date.

I dont know anyone who still plays crysis, so i cant help there.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

One thing ive just noticed & also confirmed with a little research WMP 12 does not come with the advanced tag editor - hence does not connect to M$'s online servers to update the music tags (to my understanding) ....I thought something was a little fishy when I transferd music to my Sansa E280 & most of bands werent 'listed' - they all show up as <Untagged> is there another player that updates tag information??

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Looks like the RC of Win7 is no longer available.

 

[suraswami]

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and just one word 'WOW'. It is fast. Running with my Old X2 5600 @ 3 Ghz with 6GB DDR2 800 ram.

This is just my test install and I will be installing on my main machine soon.

I installed W7 on a separate partition on the drive. When I installed it asked if I want to go the Upgrade route? Did anyone try that one? Does it work? Will it eliminate the need for installing and configuring all the programs? I am running XP pro 32bit so not sure if it will upgrade.

Somebody please advise.

Thanks,

 

[EastCoasthandle]

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and just one word 'WOW'. It is fast. Running with my Old X2 5600 @ 3 Ghz with 6GB DDR2 800 ram.

This is just my test install and I will be installing on my main machine soon.

I installed W7 on a separate partition on the drive. When I installed it asked if I want to go the Upgrade route? Did anyone try that one? Does it work? Will it eliminate the need for installing and configuring all the programs? I am running XP pro 32bit so not sure if it will upgrade.

Somebody please advise.

Thanks,

From XP SP3 I did. What it did was convert all XP related folders (my documents, program files, etc) into folder called Windows.old. I don't think you can recover back to XP but, it did allow me to get to certain files that I had forgotten to back up . So that was pretty handy.

I found no left over drivers, no left over registry entries. Overall from XP Sp3 it is a fresh install as far as I know.

 

[Mussels]

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and just one word 'WOW'. It is fast. Running with my Old X2 5600 @ 3 Ghz with 6GB DDR2 800 ram.

This is just my test install and I will be installing on my main machine soon.

I installed W7 on a separate partition on the drive. When I installed it asked if I want to go the Upgrade route? Did anyone try that one? Does it work? Will it eliminate the need for installing and configuring all the programs? I am running XP pro 32bit so not sure if it will upgrade.

Somebody please advise.

Thanks,

upgrade can work, but then you end up with lots of leftover programs and registry entries - say, old drivers that wont work anymore.

its always, ALWAYS a good idea to do a fresh format (not upgrade, not dual boot to another parition - wipe the drive, start clean)

 

[suraswami]

From XP SP3 I did. What it did was convert all XP related folders (my documents, program files, etc) into folder called Windows.old. I don't think you can recover back to XP but, it did allow me to get to certain files that I had forgotten to back up . So that was pretty handy.

I found no left over drivers, no left over registry entries. Overall from XP Sp3 it is a fresh install as far as I know.

Good to hear it does work. I haven't updated XP to SP3 yet lol. So do I need to do that first?

upgrade can work, but then you end up with lots of leftover programs and registry entries - say, old drivers that wont work anymore.

its always, ALWAYS a good idea to do a fresh format (not upgrade, not dual boot to another parition - wipe the drive, start clean)

Yes its always a good idea to do a fresh install, but thought I would ask and if it really really works then may be I can save time.

I can put on a separate drive but no more space to put another HDD. I might just install W7 into the second partition and keep XP on the first partition just incase if some program doesn't work or I need to go back to see something.

 

[EastCoasthandle]

Good to hear it does work. I haven't updated XP to SP3 yet lol. So do I need to do that first?

No you don't need to do that.

 

[drumdbeat]

Im running Windows 7 RTM as my primary OS.

 

[rampage]

just a curve ball question, what is the weakest system you have had win 7 running on with no serious problems, we all know it loves fast hardware, but what about older slower hardware..

me i have it running happy on my laptop, HP Pavilion DV6000 series 1.73ghz intel C2D (socket 479 (merom)) with 1 GB of generic 5-5-5-15 ram


(at the punk buster questions) - i have cod4 working happy with no issues on win 7 unltimate X64 (technet key)



*EDIT* can i join this club too do we have a cool tree house or just a seceret moon base to hang out in??? (running win 7 on 4 machines with technet keys)

 

[Mussels]

just a curve ball question, what is the weakest system you have had win 7 running on with no serious problems, we all know it loves fast hardware, but what about older slower hardware..

me i have it running happy on my laptop, HP Pavilion DV6000 series 1.73ghz intel C2D (socket 479 (merom)) with 1 GB of generic 5-5-5-15 ram


(at the punk buster questions) - i have cod4 working happy with no issues on win 7 unltimate X64 (technet key)



*EDIT* can i join this club too do we have a cool tree house or just a seceret moon base to hang out in??? (running win 7 on 4 machines with technet keys)

did you forget our mums PC?

Sempron single core 1.6Ghz (socket 754)
2x512MB DDR 400 @ 333, single channel
40GB seagate IDE drive. damned quiet. completely inaudible.
Radeon x1650 i think, for DVI output. (might be something weaker, i really didnt pay attention to what it was. its got SM2.0 support)

 

[rampage]

nope didnt forget mums pc, just counting the ones in my house, not all the ones i "own" with it on

 

[Mussels]

our mum has enough technical know how to google for naughty images and email them to her boss, but apart from getting lost and not knowing where she saves her files she'd had no issues with 7 on her antique PC.

I've also installed it on an MSI wind (U100 i think) with no issues (after a BIOS flash it worked, beforehand it wouldnt install) - seemed to run fine on it. (1.6GHz atom, 2GB 533Mhz ram, 120GB HDD)

 

[Deleted member 74752]

Maybe just a glitch in Win7 RC...When using Paint to take a screen shot you must be in basic theme, otherwise you come up blank screen.

 

[Mussels]

Maybe just a glitch in Win7 RC...When using Paint to take a screen shot you must be in basic theme, otherwise you come up blank screen.

works for me.

I get that black screen, screenshotting DX10 games sometimes.

 

[Deleted member 74752]

I first ran across this while benching Aquamark 3. I will try it with other apps.

 

[suraswami]

our mum has enough technical know how to google for naughty images and email them to her boss, but apart from getting lost and not knowing where she saves her files she'd had no issues with 7 on her antique PC.

I've also installed it on an MSI wind (U100 i think) with no issues (after a BIOS flash it worked, beforehand it wouldnt install) - seemed to run fine on it. (1.6GHz atom, 2GB 533Mhz ram, 120GB HDD)

Will it work on a PIII 850 Mhz with 256 MB ram Laptop? May be W7 Basic? hmm may be I should try it

Ok now few different questions,

1. Can I use Hybrid CF using onboard HD3200 and 4850 video card in W7? If so will it save energy (I am new to this CF so please excuse me)?
2. When using CF which HDMI connector should I use to connect to the monitor the Onboard one or from the Video Card.
3. Is Physics processing good with 4850 video card? Reason for this question - in order to go with Hybrid CF I have to swap my Gaming machine board to a AMD chipset (780G), is it worth it? Or with the current Biostar GF8200 board can I enable onboard NVidia 8200 vga for Physics and just use my 4850 along with it? Will it work that way in W7?
4. If CF is not good is Hybrid SLI good? Sell 4850 and get a 285 or something and use onboard GF 8200 with it?

Sorry not sure if I need to create a new thread.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Will it work on a PIII 850 Mhz with 256 MB ram Laptop? May be W7 Basic? hmm may be I should try it

Ok now few different questions,

1. Can I use Hybrid CF using onboard HD3200 and 4850 video card in W7? If so will it save energy (I am new to this CF so please excuse me)?
2. When using CF which HDMI connector should I use to connect to the monitor the Onboard one or from the Video Card.
3. Is Physics processing good with 4850 video card? Reason for this question - in order to go with Hybrid CF I have to swap my Gaming machine board to a AMD chipset (780G), is it worth it? Or with the current Biostar GF8200 board can I enable onboard NVidia 8200 vga for Physics and just use my 4850 along with it? Will it work that way in W7?
4. If CF is not good is Hybrid SLI good? Sell 4850 and get a 285 or something and use onboard GF 8200 with it?

Sorry not sure if I need to create a new thread.

Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 7
Architecture 32-bit/64-bit
Processor speed 1 GHz processor
Memory (RAM) 1 GB of RAM/2 GB of RAM
Graphics card Support for DirectX 9 graphics device with 128MB of graphics memory (for Windows Aero)
HDD free space 16 GB of available disk space 20 GB of available disk space
Optical drive DVD drive (only to install from DVD/CD Media)

#1 - if you got a 4850 plugged in, no it wont save energy

#2 - plug the one from the 4850 into the monitor

#3 Physics processing at the moment is still what i would call in its early stages, despite being around for a long time no graphics manufacturer made any REAL move to support it until just recently. - there are still only a handful of games that actually make full use of Proper physics at the moment so its not really important unless you got money to throw away

#4 Hybred SLi will never be as effective as a full on SLi or Crossfire rig as embedded graphics processors only have so much power to give & its not enough.

a 285 will run circles around your 4850