(Unofficial) Windows 7 RC Build Out

[InnerGoat]

H2V works great with the W7 beta, so it should be fine in this build too.

[Syuusuke]

Except it's also useless to get gold membership since they removed that restriction from GFWL already =D

[=sw=warlord]

Anyone notice any difference in Crysis on windows 7 at all?
I heard with windows 7's warp system crysis runs Very well indeed

[sdavis117]

I have installed W7, and I must say that I am glad that the DVD issue I had when I installed build 7000 is gone with 7100. I do though have another issue.

Whenever I try to connect to my WRT110 Linksys Wireless-N router when another device is connected to it by any means, both my W7 PC and the other device are kicked off, and I have to restart the router. Any fixes for this?

Edit: Slightly more urgent issue, I thought installing W7 would delete all my old files, yet instead all it did was move them to one massive 110GB folder named Windows.old. I backed up everything that I have that I wanted to keep, like images, documents, and Halo CE maps, so I don't care about this folder. Would just straight up deleting everything in Windows.old mess anything up?

[Phopojijo]

Anyone notice any difference in Crysis on windows 7 at all?
I heard with windows 7's warp system crysis runs Very well indeed

Yeah... Microsoft always creates reference software renderers for DirectX -- but, well...

Sweeney: GPU hardware. And you can implement DirectX entirely in software, on the CPU. DirectX software rendering always has been there.
Microsoft writes the reference rasterizer, which is a factor of 100 slower than what you really need. But it is there and shows that you can run an entire graphics pipeline in software. I think we're only few years away from that approach being faster than the conventional API approach - and we will be able to ship games that way. Just think about the Pixomatic software rendering.

Looks like they actually created one that runs... somewhat well this time... unlike the quoted case for DirectX 9.

[Syuusuke]

Would just straight up deleting everything in Windows.old mess anything up?

No.

[Dr Nick]

Thanks for this, I'm still using build 7000, so this should be a nice refresh!

Anyone know if this version has Windows XP mode?

[Nick]

Anyone know if this version has Windows XP mode?

XP Mode is a separate download that will be freely available to Windows 7 Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate users. You run the installer and it sets everything up.

The ISOs do not include XP Mode. An RC version was released on TechNet, so it is probably up on a torrent site somewhere by now. If somebody finds the torrent (and someone has generated the SHA1 hash for the files so I can verify it's clean), I'll update the first post with the info.

Out of curiosity, what software do you expect you will have to run under XP Mode? There is still the "compatibility mode" that works for most software, just like in Vista, and XP Mode is for the cases where that fails.

Nick

[Dr Nick]

XP Mode is a separate download that will be freely available to Windows 7 Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate users. You run the installer and it sets everything up.

The ISOs do not include XP Mode. An RC version was released on TechNet, so it is probably up on a torrent site somewhere by now. If somebody finds the torrent (and someone has generated the SHA1 hash for the files so I can verify it's clean), I'll update the first post with the info.

Out of curiosity, what software do you expect you will have to run under XP Mode? There is still the "compatibility mode" that works for most software, just like in Vista, and XP Mode is for the cases where that fails.

Nick

Nothing really, I'd just like to try it out and see how it works.

Thanks for the info, I'll probably look around for it.

[Cortexian]

It's basically just Microsoft Virtual PC tbh. Don't see why you can't just use that.