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Posted May 12, 2009
I installed it this weekend, and haven't noticed any problems yet, other than the curiosity that a game as popular and recent as World of Warcraft isn't automagically detected by the game explorer (or whatever they're calling it this time), but Sacrifice, Arx Fatalis, Fallout 2, and Abe's Odysee are (though abe doesn't get box art), those also got double icons in the Vista Game Explorer, which was a tad irritating... the rest of my GOG games also show up, though in the "Unspecified" category, instead of under "Games", and they don't get box art or even decent icons for most games, also they can't be run from there.
I can't try out XP mode though, as my CPU doesn't have any virtualisation tech built-in.
This is now my main OS until it decides to crash and burn (or there's a new release before that)
Post edited May 12, 2009 by Miaghstir
Posted May 12, 2009
I've been using it since release..got two blue screens, one related to my ATI driver..can't remember the other. Oddly this wasn't while gaming, once I think was completely random and the other I'd opened a video. Other than that, great stuff.
Posted May 13, 2009
Been using 7 since Beta and they finaly corrected all the annoyance I had in the RC :
- Explorer not responding after sleep mode
- No sound after sleep mode
This RC is working great on a laptop that came out before vista was available. I'll get the final version once it comes out, and get my desktop and laptop on 7.
Posted May 13, 2009
Has anyone tried XP SP3 virtualisation thingy with games they've had problems with in Vista/Windows 7?
Post edited May 13, 2009 by Petrell
Posted May 13, 2009
I installed RC last week. I am really enjoying it. My GOGs play without any issue.
Posted May 14, 2009
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Petrell: Has anyone tried XP SP3 virtualisation thingy with games they've had problems with in Vista/Windows 7?

XP virtualization is not meant for games, at least not for games using hardware acceleration.
Posted May 14, 2009
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Petrell: Has anyone tried XP SP3 virtualisation thingy with games they've had problems with in Vista/Windows 7?

XP Mode has no hardware acceleration (as tomba4 has pointed out), and so the only games that are going to be properly playable are those that use DirectDraw or have a software rendering option; games that rely on hardware acceleration may still run, but will probably not work very well (I tried MechWarrior 2; it was a jerky, unplayable mess with bizarrely discoloured textures).
Additionally, the VM uses 16-bit color only; games that refuse to launch without the 256-color compatibility mode (such as Pirates! Gold) will not work at all. For those you would be better off with another VM such as VirtualBox.
Note that the XP Mode VM is a 32-bit OS even if you are using the 64-bit version of 7; this means that you can easily run 16-bit software in it (except for those that require running in 256 colors, or other special functionality).
Post edited May 14, 2009 by Arkose
Posted May 14, 2009
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Arkose: *snip*

That's a shame :(. So all in all Win7 does not offer better backward compatibility for games than crap they call Vista. I guess I'll stick to my XP Pro even on my next PC I'll eventually have to buy.
Posted May 14, 2009
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Arkose: XP Mode has no hardware acceleration

Bah, I had hoped they would've figured out a better solution to that than VMWare's.
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Arkose: Note that the XP Mode VM is a 32-bit OS even if you are using the 64-bit version of 7

This is pretty much understandable, and logical, XP Professional x64 wasn't very common, and had pretty crappy hardware and software support, as many companies didn't make 64-bit drivers until Vista came about, with it's "Vista Compatible" label requiring support for both versions, also some software refused to work on NT5.2, as that was the version of Server 2003 (and, by happenstance, XP Professional x64), whereas the 32-bit version of XP was NT5.1.
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