Windows 7!!! omg amazing

Don't be too excited about the new OS. There is NO visible performance improvement for multiboxers over Vista. New UI changes are nice, UAC is much less annoying and is actually usable now, but system performance under heavy load stays the same. I'm having exactly same framerates and memory consumption as I had in Vista. And it is not a "OMG I INSTALLED IT 5 MIN AGO AND IT IS TOTALLY AMAZING" post. I've been heavily using for last 3 days for multiboxing and I do not see any noticeable improvements.
If you're interested I'm 5 boxing on q9550@3.8GHz\8Gb\AMD4870 1Gb\30'' display. It still lags in crowded areas.

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Originally Posted by 'weeep',index.php?page=Thread&postID=167189#post16 7189

Don't be too excited about the new OS. There is NO visible performance improvement for multiboxers over Vista. New UI changes are nice, UAC is much less annoying and is actually usable now, but system performance under heavy load stays the same. I'm having exactly same framerates and memory consumption as I had in Vista. And it is not a "OMG I INSTALLED IT 5 MIN AGO AND IT IS TOTALLY AMAZING" post. I've been heavily using for last 3 days for multiboxing and I do not see any noticeable improvements.
If you're interested I'm 5 boxing on q9550@3.8GHz\8Gb\AMD4870 1Gb\30'' display. It still lags in crowded areas.

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Must be your computer then. I'm not alone in people who have experienced significant frame rate increases as well as the ability to run around in crowded areas without issue. Not only that, but I'm able to use 2 monitors (2x 24" monitors, no maximizer... so each wow ran in an independent window) now while maintaining my frame rates. This simply was not possible under vista x 64 on my machine. After spending about 4-5 hours in WoW running my standard quests and battles, I noticed a significant dps increase on my hunters (100 dps per character increase). Nothing has changed about my setup at all except for the OS. I was also able to run around in Dalaran (on Burning Legion, which is a high/full pop. server), without any issues. Slight video lag when I ran into a busy area (60+ people moving around at once).

Also, while flying I am able to maintain full fps; there's simply no video lag while travelling across different zones in Northrend. I flew from Borean Tundra->Dragonblight->Howling Fjord last night, with 0 lag, both video and server side. And before you ask, no, my settings are not on low; actually I've turned them up just to see what I could do in order to get my machine to "stop", if you will. To add to my experiences, I was also able to keep Wowhead up and running, and I was able to lookup quests within seconds (e.g. Wowhead.com took less than 1 second to load, quest data also took less than 1 second to laod). For a maximum load test as well, I ran youtube in the background while having 5x internet explorer windows up, 5x wow's up, flash streaming media, and I was able to do all of this without any problems.

Edit too: All sites seemed faster overall, and this is coming from a guy who builds sites for a living :), so I'm well versed on the "load times" of everything. I should also note that I didn't even do a clean install (did not reformat my PC, I just simply upgraded because I was in disbelief after reading the Original Poster's information. For an OS to be the bottleneck seemed pretty dumb, but I guess Vista is just that - the bottleneck for much of my performance.)

Also, load times (going from the old world to the new world have improved greatly); going from Origimmar to Howling Fjord ran me about 10-11 seconds prior to Windows 7. With windows 7 all of my guys load up at the exact same time, all within 3-4 seconds maximum.

Are your anti virus programs on with Win7? Maybe everything is better cause Norton isn't on ......

iI have tried Windows 7 for a couple of days now, and it works great. The The downside atm is that I cant install kavoom km in W7. It sais that it doesnt support this OS.
In the meanwhile, what other programs can i use to broeadcast 1 mouse and 1 keyboard to 2 computers.
And, can i install W7 beta on two computers and use the same beta key i got when i registered for beta?

just go back and get another key...

I think the beta keys given out by Microsoft for Windows 7 come from a very small pool, only 20 or so.

If this is true, then you can be assured that tens of thousands of other users of the beta have the same key as you. I doubt theres a problem using the same key on two machines.

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Originally Posted by 'Rin',index.php?page=Thread&postID=167214#post1672 14

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Originally Posted by 'weeep',index.php?page=Thread&postID=167189#post16 7189

Don't be too excited about the new OS. There is NO visible performance improvement for multiboxers over Vista. New UI changes are nice, UAC is much less annoying and is actually usable now, but system performance under heavy load stays the same. I'm having exactly same framerates and memory consumption as I had in Vista. And it is not a "OMG I INSTALLED IT 5 MIN AGO AND IT IS TOTALLY AMAZING" post. I've been heavily using for last 3 days for multiboxing and I do not see any noticeable improvements.
If you're interested I'm 5 boxing on q9550@3.8GHz\8Gb\AMD4870 1Gb\30'' display. It still lags in crowded areas.

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Must be your computer then. I'm not alone in people who have experienced significant frame rate increases as well as the ability to run around in crowded areas without issue.

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Nope you're not alone. I've seen noticeable performance inprovements in both single- and multi-boxing.

Single-boxing I can now have shadows on full in Dalaran and it remains playable. Not so with Vista.

Multi-boxing, with five chars in Dalaran, they'd get around 10fps each under Vista. Now my main is up around 25fps and the four clones are at the 15fps cap.

I'm sure it does still lag in crowded areas. It just lags less than Vista.

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Originally Posted by 'Rin',index.php?page=Thread&postID=167214#post1672 14

Must be your computer then. I'm not alone in people who have experienced significant frame rate increases as well as the ability to run around in crowded areas without issue.

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Must be your old OS then. Probably people who are experiencing performance boost were using Vista in its default state without turning off features that noticeably slow down its performance like Superfetch. Or its just the effect of clean install when your old OS is all garbaged and the new one does not have all that bloated software.
This OS is built on the same kernel as Vista, there is absolutely no reason to expect some dramatical performance boost. There are some default optimizations to system services, but you could just do them on your old OS on your own.

BTW those who are experiencing like 5-10 fps in Dalaran, did you try minimizing and restoring all your WoW windows? I found that doing this once or maybe twice magically boosts your performance to normal 30-40 fps/

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Originally Posted by 'weeep',index.php?page=Thread&postID=167189#post16 7189

Don't be too excited about the new OS. There is NO visible performance improvement for multiboxers over Vista. New UI changes are nice, UAC is much less annoying and is actually usable now, but system performance under heavy load stays the same. I'm having exactly same framerates and memory consumption as I had in Vista. And it is not a "OMG I INSTALLED IT 5 MIN AGO AND IT IS TOTALLY AMAZING" post. I've been heavily using for last 3 days for multiboxing and I do not see any noticeable improvements.
If you're interested I'm 5 boxing on q9550@3.8GHz\8Gb\AMD4870 1Gb\30'' display. It still lags in crowded areas.

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If u read my first post then u would have seen that at least I am getting a huge boost, And many many others gets it to. U gotta remember playing on a 30inc with a res over 3000x2000(if u got a good 30inc that is) could be ur issue. And my vista sp1 64bit was tweaked as much as it can. If u knew what u where talking about u would have known that the kernel in W7 has been reamped and made way smaller for faster usage. Its BASED of the same as vista, thats why u can use XP and vista drivers on W7. But hey if it dont work for u go back.

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Originally Posted by 'Oternakn',index.php?page=Thread&postID=167465#pos t167465

If u knew what u where talking about u would have known that the kernel in W7 has been reamped and made way smaller for faster usage. Its BASED of the same as vista, thats why u can use XP and vista drivers on W7. But hey if it dont work for u go back.

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Well, if you knew what you're talking about, you'd knew that smaller kernel is NOT faster ;) There are two options in compilers - generate small code OR generate fast code.
Anyway I'm not meaning to offend anyone. If it works for you, then fine, it's just a warning to those who doubt if this OS is worth wasting their time - it is not a 100% guaranteed boost. And since it is in beta stage, be ready for incompatibilities and blue screens. Personally I'm not using W7 because Avivo movie acceleration is not working properly here.