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Gaming On Windows 7

Posted by Soulskill on from the extreme-minesweeper dept.

Jason Wilson writes "Windows 7 comes out Oct. 22, and many gamers are wondering whether it will be a boon for gaming, as Microsoft promised Vista would, or a disappointment (like Vista was at its launch). Former ExtremeTech editor Jason Cross, who's covered games and tech for 13 years, discusses the pluses and minuses of Windows 7 for gamers — how it differs from Vista, if it'll run older games, and the benefits of 64-bit computing. 'Windows 7 basically takes the Vista codebase and rewrites, refines, optimizes, and overhauls most of the internal stuff without making dramatic changes to the driver stacks that Vista did over WinXP. The changes to the fundamental driver models are small and mostly serve to improve performance. Plus, the hardware makers — especially the graphics guys — are on top of the changes this time around. Nvidia and ATI have been shipping quite good Win7 graphics drivers for months now.'"

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  1. Re:Everything works for me by abigsmurf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you know, Troll actually means "I disagree". Although in this case it likely means "lalala I can't hear you"

  2. Re:Everything works for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, of course! Xrandr! My grandma told me about how she plugged in a second monitor and had no idea how to get it to start up. Then she thought carefully ... how would Linux handle this? So she typed a random fucking combination of characters into the command line. Lo and behold, she stumbled upon Xrandr, which solved all of her problems! Good job, granny!

  3. Re:"2GB-maximum 32-bit" by lagfest · · Score: 2, Funny

    And he's right, there is a 2GB Application memory limit, 3GB with LargeAddressAware. And then there's the 4GB OS memory limit, which you were sarcastically referring to.

  4. Re:Works like a charm... and is available earlier. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Mod Parent Down, -1 Overuse of Emoticons

  5. Re:Vista left me with a 3rd degree burn by kamatsu · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you mean "Fool me once.. shame.. shame on you, Fool me.. you can't get fooled again!"

  6. Re:Works like a charm... and is available earlier. by Dragonslicer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod Parent Down, -1 Overuse of Emoticons

    Maybe he just has a facial tic?

  7. Re:Everything works for me by qmaqdk · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...This isn't France. We don't censor free speech.

    This, on the other hand, can quite appropriately be modded Troll.

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  8. Re:Everything works for me by Draek · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Windows, all drivers are "restricted drivers".

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