Windows 7 nVidia Opinions & Review

So I just downloaded Windows 7 RC a couple days ago, backed up everything and upgraded it, it actually did so with 3 clicks if I remember correctly!
It fixed many problems vista had etc... but I still have a few minor things to clear etc...

My CPU: IDLES 1-4% AVERAGE ! ! ! Vista usually had Opera running heavy on the CPU for no apparent reason... Even though I am running 63 processes and have 35 tabs open in opera right now, Windows 7 handles it like a champ.

I love how MSN is embeded in the task bar, I love how you can arrange every icon window and shortcut in the taskbar and so on...



GPU wise, Day of Defeat: Source runs at 100+FPS, when it usually ran at 30-60 on vista (O_O)
And every other game I have feels and certainly runs better, I am still using DOX custom drivers 182.22 DOX Custom


What is UAC Virtualization? User Account Control Virtualization? I see it checked when I right click on a task in the task manager.
So what do we have in Windows 7? DX10.1? DX11?
Anybody else have Windows 7?


All I can say is Windows 7 is INSANIUM IN THE CRANIUM
I <3 W7 just as much as I love my Mac OS X

But once Snow Leopard officially comes out, and so does Windows 7, I will be happy to see what happens since i'll still have both

 

If you are comparing a clean install of Win7 to a old bloated installation of Vista than thats not really fair, of course you will have huge differences in performance.

On a "performance" laptop with clean installs of Win7 and Vista SP1 I've seen a marginal difference in performance with Win7 usually pulling ahead.

Where I really see Win7 pull miles ahead is on a low-end laptop with a single core or low Mhz CPU with 1G of RAM. It destroys Vista and is more or less XP performance.

Yes, I love Win7 and think its a great improvement to Vista especially for netbooks but what I don't like is what they are most likely going to charge for it and the fact that the Basic version will have the 3 app cap.

 

That pretty much summarizes everything I have read so far on Win7

 

Well then will Basic be like the Starter edition of Vista, just funky naming convention differences?

 

I believe it will still be called the Starter version but the difference with the Vista Starter will be that you cannot run more that three simultaneous applications. This will force more people to upgrade to the more expensive versions.

 

Compare Win7 to Vista SP2 not to SP1

 

Its still an RC (as is Win7) and just released but I see no performance difference between SP2 and SP1 in Vista so far.

 

There is diffrence between SP1 And SP2, I will not start a discussion about it here becouse it will be off-tropic. Just do a quick search and you will find information about it.

 

Yeah i know the differences, but what I was trying to say was that most people will be using SP1 so it is more appropriate to use SP1.

The only thing I haven't done yet is try Vista SP2 on a netbook, if I get some free time I'll give that a go and compare it to Win7.

 

This really doesn't have anything to do with gaming or GPUs, so I'm going to move it to the W7 forum.