Windows 7 Vs Vista Vs XP - Gaming

Okay, I found quite a few graphics apps in XP and Vista couldn't be minimised and then restored correctly. Maybe it was down to the drivers / card I was using, but instead of restoring, they simply created a blank screen. Th eonly option then was to close the app through the task manager and restart it. That hasn't occurred since I installed Win 7
 
I think i know what you mean, one of the HL games was well known for that (may have been the first one actually, as it was years and years ago now :p), if you minimised it, you were buggered, as when you maximised it again, it was just a black screen, or it went straight to a black screen, one of the two, got fixed in a later driver.

I never had Vista, used XP till 7 came out, but must admit, its an absolute cracking OS, solid as a rock, ive had no crashes, nothing, and it runs games etc... perfect, not bad for right off the bat, as i didn't go XP till Service Pack 1 came out for it, as i think it was ***** till then. :)
 
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Strife212 said:
I like Vista better than 7.

Wait, hear me out.

If you have good hardware, there is 0 noticable performance difference; and the UI is better in Vista. It takes so many clicks to ****ing do anything in 7 :S

Simple things like MSN being on your start bar constantly, because 7 doesn't put any apps in the tray also are irritating.
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Can you explain this in more detail?

This is my task bar.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4721/taskbaro.jpg

Most things can be solved by running the programs you want in the taskbar, in compatibility mode.... Or fixing taskbar related settings

yes yes, "why should i have to run things in the first place within compatibility mode"

just offering solutions :D
 
Hotwired said:
£80-175 and the hassle of reinstalling an OS to have the same is a legitimate reason to not change from a working OS.

Ain't broke? Change it anyway, mike wants more cash.
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It's £70 and it offers performance improvements all round, from games to even browsing hard-drives. It's also optimised for SSDs with TRIM support, which will be important as prices drop and they become more mainstream. Sometimes it's worth paying a bit of money for a better product. I spend so much time on my PC it seems like a waste not to take full advantage of it.
 
aowc02 said:
Can you explain this in more detail?

This is my task bar.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4721/taskbaro.jpg

Most things can be solved by running the programs you want in the taskbar, in compatibility mode.... Or fixing taskbar related settings

yes yes, "why should i have to run things in the first place within compatibility mode"

just offering solutions :D
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Thank you so much, that was angering me to no end!

Running Windows Live in compatability mode fixes it. You would think they would have made such a flagship program work properly in the first place though!
 
Hotwired said:
£80-175 and the hassle of reinstalling an OS to have the same is a legitimate reason to not change from a working OS.
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But, for me, £45, the opportunity to switch from OEM to retail was too much to miss. Also, reinstalling stuff has not been too painful + its given me to clear out a load of stuff that I once installed but never use anymore! (N.b. my XP setup was probably 5 or 6 years old!)
 
really tempted to get 7 now; starting to get bored with xp; problem is I'd want to completely wipe hard drive and there's so much stuff i dont want to and cant afford to lose...
Could back up some of the programs on my external hdd i guess, but copying it straight over to a w7 system isn't going to be such a good idea right?
 
When I first installed win 7 64bit as another dual boot option (kept Xp 32 as well)

I did a lot of benches on the games I play , on both Xp 32 and win7 64

Result: Only ONE game ran faster under win 7 64bit (Dcs black shark)
EVERY other game ran faster smother under XP32.

I even tried disabling a lot of the bloat from win7 64 ( un-needed / un-used services etc) ,
but its just a sad fact the win7 64 has a lot more running
in the back ground than XP32 eg the wmplayer runs for no apparent reason in
the back ground ( I think its something to do with widget carp - which I dont use)

I mean , pull up your task mananger under xp , tick show processess from other users and count up what running in the process tab......
Now do the same under win7 , there is a hell of a lot more running , which
is what I assume is making stuff run slower than xp on the same hardware.
 
bJN said:
really tempted to get 7 now; starting to get bored with xp; problem is I'd want to completely wipe hard drive and there's so much stuff i dont want to and cant afford to lose...
Could back up some of the programs on my external hdd i guess, but copying it straight over to a w7 system isn't going to be such a good idea right?
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It depends on the individual program

I copied over from my xp to my win7 install , about 60% of my programs
and they ran without problem , some I had to export reg keys form xp and import them to win7.

ALL of my games run form my R drive , all I had to do to get them working under
win7 was to export reg settings from xp and import them to win7 , job done.
 
Strife212 said:
Thank you so much, that was angering me to no end!

Running Windows Live in compatability mode fixes it. You would think they would have made such a flagship program work properly in the first place though!
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Np =)

if you look around, there are solutions to quite a few nagging problem users have with Windows 7.

Im sure if people ask, they will recieve some help :P
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Major releases

Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows NT/XP
Windows 7

Everything else that has been in between was just fluff.

Really VERY impressed by Windows 7.
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Windows 7 is not a major release, Windows Vista was, and is the reason Windows 7 has hit the ground running.

I like the graphs for the simple fact it shows Vista clearly isn't a dog for gamers.
 
Well I haven't opted for W7 simply because I shelled out out 200 sheets on Vista Ultimate and from a purely gaming angle, it just doesn't offer enough of a gain to warrant me shelling out again for W7 Ultimate.
 
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