Yeah I tested it in the 32-bit version and it seems to be working fine. If anything I get a little bit of a performance boost from XP.

 

Great thx.

 

I'm useing the 64bits version and it seems to work even better than Vista64

 

Nice to know about that!

Please understand that you have Windows 7 BETA and you will need a fully Windows 7 version when the BETA expire this August. Correct me if I am wrong.

 

set your bios clock back before august comes then you can use it longer xD untill you get the retail windows 7

 

I knew that.. but I will wait for August anyway. Now, I know that it is better than Vista.

 

I asked elsewhere about this - beta 2 will be out in August. The full version won't be out until 4th quarter 09/early 10.

 

I knew that.. but I will wait for August anyway. Now, I know that it is better than Vista.

Testers who provide alot of feedback may get free licenses for the RTM release.

 

Testers who provide alot of feedback may get free licenses for the RTM release.

Cool, that's nice. I don't mind buying windows 7.

However, if it is more than 200 dollars then forget it.

 

apparently if you've bought a new pc after july you'll get 7 discounted or free.

i hope students get discounts on windows 7, it's such a brilliant OS. faster even (dare i say?) than the legendary windows xp

 

I've tried it on Win7-x64 and it doesn't work at all I get an OpenGL error that says;

... which I guess is down to only having "preview" drivers from ATi. I can't use D3D for "Umbrella Chronicles" either (black screen, just audio)

=Edit=

Fixed it! As I said in the OpenGL thread, the issue WAS caused by the preview drivers. I simply uninstalled them and ran the standard 8.12s for Vista x64 and they work great. No more OpenGL issue. Shame going to 64bit hasn't given any performance increases on Umbrella Chronicles, heh.

 

Tested and work perfect on Windows 7 Beta

 

No problems with windows 7 being buggy in general?

 

I have Windows 7 for ~2 month and run with no problem

 

Great I think it'll be downloaded by the time I get home from work. Within the next few days I want to have it up and running.

If I choose the upgrade option, will it import over all my documents and programs, or do I need to do everything manually?

 

I recommend you to Dual Boot Windows 7 with XP or Vista you have.

 

Eh, you know what I'm actually just going to do a clean install. My XP has been giving me problems anyway, it was getting time to do a fresh install.

 

omg windows seven is fabulous!!! Everyone whos using vista should upgrade now, seriously. Its as fast as xp and looks like vista with alot of improvements. I have had a HUGE performance increase in media playing. Ironically i have had a big decrase in performance in dolphin. It may be the graphics drivers, im still using 178.91 or something from nvidia for vista x64

 

Im very happy with Windows 7,it run munch faster as Vista and all emulator that I have tested has no prob with it

 

...the only drawback of Windows 7 is the fact that its still beta.
Hence I'd also recommend going for Dual Boot, or even just VM if you only want to try it out.

Knowing from other Microsoft MVPs, Windows 7 is going to have Version Number 6.1 (you can also check that in the beta), and in general be an improvement to Windows Vista, along with some new features like the kicker-like Taskbar, and Multitouch for Surface-like Hardware. The main improvements are performance things (like someone said already), whereas some people even say that the beta even beats XP performancewise. I tried it in a VM, and have to say its fast (a lot faster than Vista), and its going to be my next OS when its out.

Oh crap, went off-topic :x

- Jack

 

yeah...dolphin runs just fine... but with some slowdowns once in a while (but only in some games)

 

Saikai,

Thanks for rev 1856 and latest pcsx2. Good job!

 

Can u help me with this?

I have the full version of W7 (not BETA). Before it I had W Vista. The emulator worked very well on it. But now on W7 it breaks at the beginning after a few seconds from emulating the game. For instance When I enter in Muramasa: The Demon Blade it gets stucked after a few seconds hearing the same fragment of the background song repeating....

What can I do?

I use the 32 bit version.

 

I have the full version of W7 (not BETA). Before it I had W Vista. The emulator worked very well on it. But now on W7 it breaks at the beginning after a few seconds from emulating the game. For instance When I enter in Muramasa: The Demon Blade it gets stucked after a few seconds hearing the same fragment of the background song repeating....

What can I do?

I use the 32 bit version.

Hi. I use x64 windows 7 enterprise and sometimes muramasa hangs in my pc too. I notice that: it hangs when windows change the desktop. I have active the desktop change every 30 minutes. Not sure but it seems so (svn 4012). Have to test again...

 

set the compatibility properties in dolphin to disable Desktop composition and themes.