One Question BEFORE i download W7 Beta

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Neowinian

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I have windows Vista x64, i just want to know will W7 be more like VISTA or more like XP? and i dont mean looks or anything..i mean the compatibility issues, i havent been able to play video games i used to play before i bought this computer with Vista already on it. I just want to know before i download it for no good reason, just because it looks pretty haha. Thats my MAIN problem with Vista..compatibility with video games pre-Vista.

Compatibility, speed, those are my main problems on this computer...when i first got it, it was fast as HELL going where i needed to go...but now only a year into owning the computer, its slowed down quite a bit..its not lagging too much..its bearable..but i just get annoyed that it shouldnt be running that way.

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Same here, all my games and apps that worked on Vista work fine on Windows 7 as well, it's not a big jump like XP to Vista was, Windows 7 is basically what Vista should have been, it's based on the same version of the NT Kernel (6.1) it's just they have fixed all the annoying bits and made it run the way Vista should have done from the start, at least they learnt from their mistakes.

For example with Vista, the first thing I always do after installing it is to disable UAC, it annoys the hell out of me, however they hav made it quite a lot smarter by the looks of it in Win 7 as I have it on and it hardly bothers me at all, much more friendly, I'll actually leave it switched on now.

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Windows 7 is quite compatible compared to what Windows Vista was when it was released. Microsoft have done a lot of work in regards to compatibility and stability with Windows 7 as well as performance, so I think you'll be quite impressed once it is installed.

Neowinian

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yeah my main games were like the Dungeon Keeper series, stuff like that. I have vista at this moment if i didnt mention it before but im starting to do alot of ROMs now....i like to go old school with my games...Dungeon Keeper was one game id always love to play again....

theres another question if anybody could answer this for me as well....

I BOUGHT the computer with Vista installed already....is there anyway i could go back to XP? where can i get XP since they stopped selling it to push Vista?

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If you bought the computer with Windows Vista installed and it has 2GB or more of RAM I just wouldn't touch XP. XP also gets slower over time, and the performance gain at this point is minimal.

Neowinian

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If it is your main pc you do not want to install windows 7 as it is a beta. You should install it on another hd or partition. As far as games windows vista x64 has many issues with games but x86 has less.

so x86...vista ultimate?

im just not sure cause i know i have x64 but im not tech savvy...if you ppl couldnt tell already. Will that solve some of my video game compatibility problems?

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If it is your main pc you do not want to install windows 7 as it is a beta. You should install it on another hd or partition. As far as games windows vista x64 has many issues with games but x86 has less.

Does it? Like what games...

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so x86...vista ultimate?

im just not sure cause i know i have x64 but im not tech savvy...if you ppl couldnt tell already. Will that solve some of my video game compatibility problems?

I would install x64 . I had vista 64bit running with no compatibility problems. (have windows 7 x64 running now).

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so x86...vista ultimate?

im just not sure cause i know i have x64 but im not tech savvy...if you ppl couldnt tell already. Will that solve some of my video game compatibility problems?

Probably not as I think your gaming issues are not OS related. Latest drivers, patches well looked after Windows ie not installed load crap don't use etc.

Most issues are caused by user habits not OS.

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Probably not as I think your gaming issues are not OS related. Latest drivers, patches well looked after Windows ie not installed load crap don't use etc.

Most issues are caused by user habits not OS.

well i had a couple games i tried to play that i used to on my old computer and i had ME at the time and i had no problems but since i had vista i cant play em anymore...

i tried my friends version of the game, and i tried one i bought off amazon, and both had the same problem....

oh well i guess???

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