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ssj12 on 19 November 2009
priteshmodi said:
Also CaseyDDR, you are kind of correct that under the hood Vista and Windows 7 are fairly similar but Windows 7 incorporates a ton of tweaks for greater efficiency and is also more capable of fully utilizing newer hardware and technological advancements due to these tweaks.

Also for another graphics comparison check this: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2343316,00.asp

they should be similar considering, if I have my Windows NT versions correct, Vista is NT 6.0 and 7 is 6.1.



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IllegalPaladin on 20 November 2009

My processor doesn't support virtualization so I have to dual boot XP since older games have some issues (ex - colors are messed up in Age of Empires 2).

Another weird thing that's happening is that my frame rates are locked at my refresh rate, but v-sync is forced off. I'd update my driver, but apparently the screen stretch setting in the driver options is broken so if I don't want to constantly run in 1600x1200 and 60hertz just to be in full screen, I have to use a slightly older Nvidia driver.



twesterm on 20 November 2009

What is the advantage of W7? It's not fucking Vista.

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soulsamurai on 20 November 2009
CaseyDDR said:

So after all the hype of this new OS, I finally installed it W7 Ultimate x64, and I don't really get the big deal. It's an uglier version of Vista, and don't see the advantages... What am I missing?

It's already been proven that Vista actually runs games better with higher FPS, why should I keep this OS and not go back to Vista Ultimate? 

First off.....go to your personallization....you can make 7 look the exact same as vista as I have it now.

 

Second, personally going from vista to 7, i have to say you're crazy for thinking its slower as I got speed increases in every program especially games...



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wwmli on 20 November 2009

Well I do feel 7 does process programs faster than vista and that was quite obvious. But the bad thing is my desktop has 4GB of ram but it's only using 3.5GB. I think I can find ways to 'unlock' that 0.5GB of unusable ram but.... too lazy...

But gaming wise, I think vista is slightly better in terms of framerates (using FIFA10 as example)...



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Xoj on 20 November 2009
darklich13 said:

Win7 is faster than Vista in most games according to MaximumPC.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/windows_7_review?page=0%2C3

2-3 fps don't seem faster.

though i do notice my p8600 being used better.



jefforange89 on 20 November 2009
wwmli said:
Well I do feel 7 does process programs faster than vista and that was quite obvious. But the bad thing is my desktop has 4GB of ram but it's only using 3.5GB. I think I can find ways to 'unlock' that 0.5GB of unusable ram but.... too lazy...

But gaming wise, I think vista is slightly better in terms of framerates (using FIFA10 as example)...

You need to use the 64-bit version of the OS, not the 32-bit one.



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priteshmodi on 20 November 2009
ssj12 said:
priteshmodi said:
Also CaseyDDR, you are kind of correct that under the hood Vista and Windows 7 are fairly similar but Windows 7 incorporates a ton of tweaks for greater efficiency and is also more capable of fully utilizing newer hardware and technological advancements due to these tweaks.

Also for another graphics comparison check this: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2343316,00.asp

they should be similar considering, if I have my Windows NT versions correct, Vista is NT 6.0 and 7 is 6.1.

Correct. I'm not saying there will be an insane difference in performance but there will be a difference there. It's like the case with a lot of multiplat console games. It's normal the lead platform will have an edge but unless you put them side by side you won't see a whole lot of difference. Just that one will be smoother and will show slight performance benefits over the other.



CaseyDDR on 20 November 2009

Alright well I'll stick with 7 for now, I am going to tweak it however back to the Vista start bar.



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Mummelmann on 20 November 2009
CaseyDDR said:
darklich13 said:

Win7 is faster than Vista in most games according to MaximumPC.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/windows_7_review?page=0%2C3

I'm sorry but I don't take anything from somebody who's clearly proven to be bought out several times in their publishing history.



www.guru3d.com is who I've been following for years, along with other user-based test/modding sites. Yes they said they liked it, but with no performance increase there really is no reason for me to see why I should stay... Windows 7 (as I've been saying all along) is Vista with a different skin. 


http://www.guru3d.com/article/windows-7-vs-vista-vga-game-performance/10

Why would Microsoft pay them to rag on one of their products in favor of another one of their products? I'm just hoping Win 7 is good, as opposed to Vista.