Windows 7

[Deann]

I believe I can get Windows 7 from their website still... And i'm entertaining the possibility when upgrading my pc.

I'm looking for some feedback, Has anyone here got Windows 7, and what is your experience with it?

Thanks :)

[Borsch]

I've been running the RC 7100 build for a solid 6 months or so. And I love it... to death.. seriously. Its like the differance between windows ME and XP (sp2+) of course. Its been 100% rock solid, boots nice and clean, and WOW the WoW performance on my 2nd and third montiors has been just tremendous. I used to run 5 windows on my single 260gtx, but now I can split em around. I am running the main on the 260, and my 4 slaves on an old 8800 gtx I had floating around. Solid solid.. Love it

Hate to be a M$ fanboy, but they did it right this time around. Would gladly spend the coin on the retail when it comes out.

(I still have Vista64 ultimate on another drive.. just in case, but I groan when I need to boot into it for something)

edit: sig messed up

[Fizzler]

I thought the Win7 Trial was over? Either way I am running Win7 on a few boxes. The only issue I had were related to some drivers. It took me a fair amount of time to find the right sound drivers for my board. I ended up finding an obscure post on some random forum pointing to another driver that would work.

[Lax]

If you have access to Windows 7 -- I believe last time I got a key from MS that it said the download is not available (or will not be after some date), but you can still get keys for it if you have the iso already up until I think October? I could go look but it doesn't really matter.

Anyway, if you can do that, it's definitely worth using over any previous Windows, from a performance standpoint. Hard disk access time is improved, and video rendering is improved, and these alone are a massive benefit to multiboxers.

[jstanthr]

only problem im having with 7 atm, is a darastic increase in latency, and a problem with ventrillo not working if its not the active window, did any1 else have this?

[Fizzler]

only problem im having with 7 atm, is a darastic increase in latency, and a problem with ventrillo not working if its not the active window, did any1 else have this?

Try running Vent as Admin. Not sure what to say about the latency.

[Mubox]

I've been running W7 X64 retail for a few months now, no problems. It performs on-par with Vista, I still get slightly higher FPS with XP, however, I get 45-60fps average in the foreground so I'm not terribly worried about my FPS at this point.

I don't use Vent or any other 3rd party tools, so I can't comment on them. I haven't had any show-stopping problems, though. As a matter of fact, my video drivers are actually supported under W7 X64 (they were unsupported with Vista X64) and since switching away from Vista an odd "random deadlock" issue has gone away (my box used to deadlock, then the fans would kick up to compensate for immediate CPU heat increase, and I'd have to power-cycle my box to recover. I blame the video drivers, I only had this problem in X64 installs.)

I'm a dev, and have access to MSDN downloads for testing. I also write my own multiboxing tools, thus, I have tested 2000, XP, 2k3, Vista, 2k8 and now W7 in both x86 and X64 configs. I prefer W7 at this point for a number of reasons, and don't have any reasons (yet?) to not use it.

[zanthor]

Try running Vent as Admin. Not sure what to say about the latency.

Vent has to be run as Admin on Vista too if you don't disable UAC.

[coupas]

Latency fix for Win7 and Vista:

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html


I went from 200+ to 50-60's

[Mubox]

Latency fix for Win7 and Vista:

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html


I went from 200+ to 50-60's

And some good geeky info to go with it, in the odd chance it does nothing for you or actually degrades network throughput:

http://smallvoid.com/article/winnt-nagle-algorithm.html