Who got Windows 7?

[Zlejedi]

Squilliam said:

Naraku_Diabolos said:

My post meant did anyone else notice some major/minor graphical/physics updates? Like I mentioned for me on FFXI. I mean, my Paladin was attacking REALLY fast (including the Goblin Smithy) and more fluidly than before. Plus my character ran more fluidly as well. And my armor/weapons and the Goblin's armor was all shiny too.

Windows 7 comes with a pretty good software renderer, so perhaps the CPU was running a higher spec Direct X version than your GPU could provide?

Let's be serious - last game that could have been run comfortably on CPU only was Quake 2 or 3 something around that date.

If significant performance difference is visible  then it's probably coming from GPU drivers.

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3666&p=7

here's another bunch of performance tests than show performance differences  to be well below measurement error margin (only area of improvement here is moving huge amounts of files through storage system).