Windows 7 problem

casey · 31 Jan 2009 at 15:42

Tried running a game (Law & Order) on windows 7. It installs OK but some of the music plays & not other. Also some people speak but not others. Not worried just interested to know why. Just seems odd.

SlyReaper · 31 Jan 2009 at 17:24

Because it's an incomplete operating system. There are bound to be errors. My guess is your sound drivers may not be 100% compatible, so don't recognise some of the sound files.

casey · 31 Jan 2009 at 18:45

Thanks for that. I quess it must be something like that. It's just that I could have understood it had been either the sound or vidio missing as I would have thought that all the sound and all the music would had the same format each.
Never mind, not important.

philjohn · 31 Jan 2009 at 19:44

Apparently they are going straight to RC, no further BETA's, and a BETA is meant to be feature complete so if it doesn't work please file a bug report (don't know if this is done on MS Connect, or on the Windows 7 homepage).

ROfu · 31 Jan 2009 at 21:54

it does sound like Audio driver issues, i had some strange ones with the windows 7 defaults - my headphone jack worked, but the inbuilt speakers on the laptop didn't.. the nice thing about windows 7, is you can just download and install most Vista drivers.. which i did .. and it works perfectly.

Cheers
ROfu

casey · 1 Feb 2009 at 15:04

I have taken your advice and sent a bug report. I had already installed the latest Realtek Vista r_214 sound driver.

stoofa · 1 Feb 2009 at 17:34

philjohn said:
Apparently they are going straight to RC, no further BETA's, and a BETA is meant to be feature complete so if it doesn't work please file a bug report (don't know if this is done on MS Connect, or on the Windows 7 homepage).

There have been quite a few beta releases since the "public" release - it's just most people can't get their hands on them.

Don't expect any further "public" beta releases - major problems will simply be patched out rather than a brand new release.

jvowles · 1 Feb 2009 at 22:12

Agreed. There are quite a few bugs in the beta, inclduing gadgets and crashes. However it does seem to be a step.

CurlyWhirly · 3 Feb 2009 at 00:34

philjohn said:
Apparently they are going straight to RC, no further BETA's, and a BETA is meant to be feature complete so if it doesn't work please file a bug report

Microsoft seem to be rushing it out :eek:

jvowles · 3 Feb 2009 at 08:58

well it is better than vista...even with bugs!

ROfu · 3 Feb 2009 at 14:14

its not being rushed out, like people before mentioned its being updated as we speak, unlike previous versions of M$ Os', there are no Major releases in the beta schedule.. no "Beta 2, 3 etc" they are just constantly revising in small amounts and through live updates. so its not a rush out its actually just a more gradual process.

And yup it seems considerably better than vista overall - I personally liked vista and had little issues running the 64bit version (once all the drivers were properly released) but Windows 7 seems like Vista SP1 already (a bit snappier to navigate too).

Cheers
ROfu