anyone still on XP?

Metatron · 29 Nov 2010 at 08:22

I'm gonna set up an XP boot partition to play old games on, fed up of all the fuss you have to do on 7.

Sleepery · 29 Nov 2010 at 09:47

God help us is this not dead yet?

Anyway, after all the arguments I loaded up Windows ME again and haven't looked back since

Swifty55 · 29 Nov 2010 at 10:47

Paul_cz said:
BTW I hate arrogant people making comments like

"The problem isn't Windows 7! You're the problem.

Each to their own though. "

So retarded it hurts to read.

Aww bless. Want some cheese?

FoxEye · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:23

One reason I couldn't go back to XP is the vast improvement to Cleartype in Win7.

XP non-aliased fonts now look bad to me, and XP's Cleartype looks bad with thin italic text.

Win7 has changed Cleartype in some way, because win7's aliased fonts are fantastic. Miles better than XP, and better than Linux too, which has the same problem with thin italic text so I've found.

Ozzie Dave · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:24

Pffft.....Workbench 2.x was the greatest OS ever

But old Uncle Bill stitched me up good and proper years ago so I guess I'm stuck with his brainchild now

dirtydog · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:25

FoxEye said:
One reason I couldn't go back to XP is the vast improvement to Cleartype in Win7.

XP non-aliased fonts now look bad to me, and XP's Cleartype looks bad with thin italic text.

Win7 has changed Cleartype in some way, because win7's aliased fonts are fantastic. Miles better than XP, and better than Linux too, which has the same problem with thin italic text so I've found.

What?

Windows 7 cleartype is exactly the same. The only way it might be different is because it is 'tuned' differently by default, which you can change in XP using the free MS cleartype tuner tool.

FoxEye · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:30

dirtydog said:
What?

Windows 7 cleartype is exactly the same. The only way it might be different is because it is 'tuned' differently by default, which you can change in XP using the free MS cleartype tuner tool.

Oh believe me I've spent hours tuning XP's cleartype. It's not the same, at all.

But don't take my word for it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/06/23/engineering-changes-to-cleartype-in-windows-7.aspx

The ClearType technology has continued to evolve and the latest improvements have been made in Windows 7, as discussed in this earlier E7 post.

dirtydog · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:33

Can you point out the part of that article which says Windows 7 cleartype is different to XP's please?

Chronictank · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:51

Margaret said:
Windows 7 is far quicker, more stable than XP and has a host of interface and usability improvements.

Upgrade, XP is garbage now, it was outdated when Vista hit and it's even more so now.

XP is still quicker than W7 on most machines

, exception being x64

FoxEye · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:54

More:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/...pography-and-text-rendering-in-windows-7.aspx

dirtydog: I can take screenshots of XP's Cleartype and 7's Cleartype rendering the same text, if you like. There is a huge difference.

dirtydog · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:56

Fair enough - I can't tell the difference but I'm glad you're happy

Swifty55 · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:58

Chronictank said:
XP is still quicker than W7 on most machines , exception being x64

Same can be said about some PCs that Windows 7 is quicker.

dirtydog · 29 Nov 2010 at 12:59

FoxEye said:
dirtydog: I can take screenshots of XP's Cleartype and 7's Cleartype rendering the same text, if you like. There is a huge difference.

Go on then

FoxEye · 29 Nov 2010 at 13:08

dirtydog said:
Go on then

Will take a while. Have to set up a VM, since there is no XP in my house

Devz · 29 Nov 2010 at 14:01

I'm still on XP , Windows 7 inc

dirtydog · 29 Nov 2010 at 14:36

FoxEye said:
Will take a while. Have to set up a VM, since there is no XP in my house

Just do some text in Windows 7 and I will do it in Windows XP for comparison.

dirtydog · 29 Nov 2010 at 14:47

Here you go... PNG format where no detail is lost.

Chronictank · 29 Nov 2010 at 14:49

Swifty55 said:
Same can be said about some PCs that Windows 7 is quicker.

the only ones i have seen which are quicker are those which require 64bit OS (because of the additional ram), if you have anything to proove otherwise (like for like) feel free to post

Swifty55 · 29 Nov 2010 at 14:57

Chronictank said:
the only ones i have seen which are quicker are those which require 64bit OS (because of the additional ram), if you have anything to proove otherwise (like for like) feel free to post

I don't need to prove anything, the fact is; some PCs run Windows 7 faster, some run Windows XP faster.

This is strictly speaking of 32bit.

dirtydog · 29 Nov 2010 at 14:57

I read in the Black Ops thread that it runs better on XP than Windows 7. Just another example of there being life in the old dog yet