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 Post subject: Re: which operating system works best for gaming?
PostPosted: 06 Mar 2009 15:45 
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Personally, I'd install Vista Ultimate x64 and try all of you old games out. If you have grief with any, go for dual boot with XP or try MS Virtual PC 2007 within Vista (although the hardware emulation of the VM is pretty basic so only low spec games will run in it). For any really old games use DosBox ftw :D



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 Post subject: Re: which operating system works best for gaming?
PostPosted: 06 Mar 2009 16:00 
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i installed vista ultimate x64 and didnt seem to have many problems. the only issues are the razer tarantula keyboard drivers dont work and the razer diamondback software is minimal now. a load of the features aren't available now.
the source stress test is 10% higher than xp x64 was (220fps). i thought it was gonna be a fair bit lower. DX10 must have improved some since i last tried vista.
I still need to try some of the old games like racedriver 3, NFS series and grid.


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 Post subject: Re: which operating system works best for gaming?
PostPosted: 17 Mar 2009 20:42 
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think windows 7 sp1 gonna own


Lol you might have to wait a while for that, since 7 is stated for release in 2010, and service packs usually follow a year / two years after that :p


Enligt nyhetssajten Neowin-net planerar Microsoft att släppa den första releaseversionen av Windows redan i maj.

Nyhetssajten Neowin.net har gjort sig känd för att göra träffsäkra förutsägelser om Microsoft planer för Windows. I går släppte nyhetssajten en rapport som hävdar att Microsoft kommer att släppa en publik releaseversion (RC1) av Windows 7 i slutet av maj.

Rapporten hävdar dessutom att en förhandstitt av releaseversionen kommer att skickas ut till utvalda betatestare i slutet av april. Enligt Neowin-net kompilerade Microsoft den senaste versionen av Windows 7 (build 7061) den 11 mars.

Microsoft har ännu inte officiellt bekräftat att releaseversionen av Windows 7 kommer att släppas till allmänheten. Microsoft vicepresident för Windows, Steven Sinofsky, har dock vid flera tillfällen antytt att så kommer att ske.


Källa: PC För ALLA


to make a long story short windows 7 will be released in may 2009



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W00tsicles!


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 Post subject: Re: which operating system works best for gaming?
PostPosted: 19 Mar 2009 15:10 
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Vista x64 is SUPERB :) Got it on my new PC :D

You may have issues, though, if your PC has an Intel 4-Core Processor, such as the i7! The Hyper Threading within the processor is to emulate 8 Cores, and a hell of a lot of games try to Run on 8 Core, but get confused and Crash.

If it happens, you can always change the game's configuration, by Over-Writing the 8 Core configuration File with the 4 Core configuration File, which has helped me with a few games - but a hell of a lot of games still won't run!

Apart from waiting for Developers to catch up with the PC, I'm VERY impressed :D

My advice is the same as DM, install it but keep XP too...


  
 
 Post subject: Re: which operating system works best for gaming?
PostPosted: 19 Mar 2009 18:35 
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I do appologise, i should have read the rules properly.

Must have missed that one.

But i run Vista home premium x32 and i have no problems at all.


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 Post subject: Re: which operating system works best for gaming?
PostPosted: 19 Mar 2009 20:09 
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Thats illegal.. read the rules of the forum :ugeek:



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