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Windows 7 Gaming Performance Tested
Timmus writes "Gamers holding onto Windows XP may not have to fear sluggish performance when Windows 7 debuts. While Windows Vista's gaming performance was pretty spotty at launch, the Windows 7 beta build seems to handle most games well. Firingsquad has tested the Windows 7 beta against Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 on midrange and high-end gaming PCs across 7 different games. While the beta stumbles in a couple of cases, overall it performs within a few percentage points of Windows XP, actually outrunning XP in multiple benchmarks."
http://www.firingsquad.com/print_article.asp?current_section=Hardware&fs_article_id=2404
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>Their mid-range also seems a bit ambitious - more like mid-range of new hardware for serious gamers, which means high-end for the rest of us.
Mid-Range
AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition
Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5
2GB OCZ Reaper DDR2 OCZ2RPR8002GK
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
nVidia ForceWare 181.20
Seagate 320GB 7200RPM SATAII ST303204N1A1AS-RK
sounds about right to me none of its less than a year old and none of it was top of the line then and now is even cheaper you could probably build it for less than $400
Keep in mind that XP x64 is not actually XP, but Win2003 x64 with some changes to make it look and feel like XP.
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hab136, you are being extremely unfair. How will the OP get his views affirmed by everyone else?
Demanding that people use logic and reasoning is extremely elitist.
This post deserves more coverage here. The "additional" DRM in Vista (And 7) does not in any way affeact anything you could do on XP, OTHER than being able to play HD content from a Blu-ray or HD-DVD (if you still have one lying around) device.
It doesn't monitor your MP3s, it doesn't scan your XviDs or anything like that, it's just HDCP crap. If you have a problem with this, go complain to the likes of the MPAA who forced this crap on us, not Microsoft who just wanted to make sure future content would play on future OSs.
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No, don't.
Google "Protected Media Path" instead.
Vista provides process isolation and continually monitors what kernel-mode software is loaded. If an unverified component is detected, then Vista will stop playing DRM content, rather than risk having the content copied.
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Presumably that is talking about while the content is playing.
Plus, it's only checking the kernel for tampering (pretty sensible with the threat of viruses forever hanging over Windows's head), not scanning your mp3 collection.
I've done some quick benchmarks on identical hardware using PerformanceTest.
Yeah, 64-bit executables are a bit bigger than 32-bit executables, so they take marginally longer to load from the disk. That's probably why you're confused.
But looking at the benchmarks, integer operations are much faster (2-3x), floating point and memory operations are a bit faster (10-20%), and disk access is marginally faster (5%-10%). There was no difference on memory writes for some reason.
There was no difference on 2D or 3D video card performance, but PerformanceTest still used 32-bit routines for that sequence of tests at the time.
No, you can choose between custom kernel mode software, and watching blu-ray / HD-DVD.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to take some random bloke's word for it that their kernel mode software isn't going to trash my Windows kernel or use kernel hooks to keylog or spy on me etc. I'd much rather trust the people who made the kernel itself to say what's safe. On Linux that would mean only installing kernel stuff from distro repros, on Windows it means driver signing.
Not that I'm expecting to watch blu-ray or HD-DVD on my pc for quite some time.