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Gaming On Windows 7
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.'"
You mean Vista 6.2 to Vista 6.3 (falsely named 7 by the liars aka marketers). Yes it should be a free upgrade since it's still the same major version number.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
As long as they did away with the hand-holding that was pervasive in Vista, im sure Win7 will be much better.
The problem with Vista was all of the BLOAT and EYE CANDY. Having to click through a bunch of selection menus in Vista just to do what took 1-2 clicks in XP was, and still is, ridiculous.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
>>>Although I had no problem with the remainder of the post "This isn't France. We don't censor free speech" is obvious trolling.
Grow a sense of humor, prude.
And no that wasn't a troll either. It's called an insult.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
>>>Apparently, someone disagrees with you on that, agreeing that they should be able to mod posts as Troll if they disagree with them :)
Yeah well, although most of the persons here are "adults" they are still stuck in junior hihg mentally. They think it's funny to subtract points from other people, simply because they disagree. i.e. Censorship.
Apparently they disagree with you too, since they modded you "0" and made you invisible. Isn't censorship of free speech fun?
I feel like I'm in Iran.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
No it doesn't. You have to fart around with settings to stop it putting all the dialog boxes in the bit inbetween the two monitors, for a start. Then maximise a window. Oops it just made a huge window crossing both monitors. And god help you if you're running monitors with different resolutions.. maximise does *precisely* the wrong thing and chops half the contents of your windows off.