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| 839308 | 2009-12-15 01:12:00 | Actually there is next to no real difference between XP,Vista & Win7 with gaming now. Its a we bit of a outdated view thinking XP has a tangible advantage like it used to in the early days of Vista (dont get me wrong Vista sucks lol). www.behardware.com |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 839309 | 2009-12-15 01:16:00 | Can't be bothered looking up loads of games. Games are what matters, not some magazines theory. That is a matter of opinion......games are for the majority, secondary to the actual PC....and as win 7 x64 can be loaded up with RAM, it is faster in MOST games...period! What makes you say it is a theory anyway, as you obviously havent read the article! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 839310 | 2009-12-15 02:03:00 | I have W7 32bit on a Dual core AMD with 2g RAM. It launches programs quicker than XP, but the operating speed seems the same. Very stable. I like the big control panel which allows you to make adjustments without looking for the correct panel. I also like being able to pin progs to the Start menu & Task bar. I also have W7 in my Asus Eee701 which I am using at the moment, (a bit like a V8 in a Mini), just as an experiment. Despite the fact that most of the software is on a 8g SD Card, as the ST Hard drive is only 4g, it is no slower than the XP was and is stable. The drivers are not quite right at the moment. I wonder how long the SD Card will last being used like a hard drive? |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 839311 | 2009-12-15 04:15:00 | I noticed a *huge* performance increase on Borderlands when I went from XP to Win7. Previously had the latest drivers, nothing really running in the background, but it struggled at 12080x1024 with details at medium. Now in 7 I can run it at that resolution with detail levels turned up to max and it's still a *lot* smoother, over the same "start" of the game too (started another campaign just to test) Unfortunately there's no hard evidence, I don't have actual framerates etc :( Deliberately hosed my XP Partition a while back... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 839312 | 2009-12-15 08:17:00 | I wonder how long the SD Card will last being used like a hard drive? Turning off the page file will help if you haven't already:) |
Blam (54) | ||
| 839313 | 2009-12-15 21:11:00 | The page file is required because there is only 512mb Ram. W7 refuses to place the page file on a removable drive (makes sense) There is 365mb free on the hard drive with the 554mb page file on auto. Not enough room to Hibernate, unless someone knows a way to persuaade Windows to Hibernate to a removable drive? Runs well! |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 839314 | 2009-12-15 22:23:00 | Upgrade the RAM and that'll go a long way ;) Apparently there *was* a workaround a while ago I saw which lets you store it on the SDHC card, but I can't remember sorry ... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 839315 | 2009-12-15 23:00:00 | The page file is required because there is only 512mb Ram. W7 refuses to place the page file on a removable drive (makes sense) There is 365mb free on the hard drive with the 554mb page file on auto. Not enough room to Hibernate, unless someone knows a way to persuaade Windows to Hibernate to a removable drive? Runs well! You should upgrade the RAM...DDR2 RAM is cheap as chips:D |
Blam (54) | ||
| 839316 | 2009-12-15 23:11:00 | I noticed a *huge* performance increase on Borderlands when I went from XP to Win7. Previously had the latest drivers, nothing really running in the background, but it struggled at 12080x1024 with details at medium. Now in 7 I can run it at that resolution with detail levels turned up to max and it's still a *lot* smoother, over the same "start" of the game too (started another campaign just to test) Unfortunately there's no hard evidence, I don't have actual framerates etc :( Deliberately hosed my XP Partition a while back... This doesn't surprise me, Borderlands is a huge processor hog, one of the few games that dual cores struggle with, even higher resolutions. The game engine itself stutters its not just a FPS thing. Win 7 does multi-thread a little better than XP from my own observations. Hate to admit but so did Vista. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
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