The Pook

80% of the time I'm just playing around the desktop on Pidgin, listening to Music through Foobar, watching movies/.avis, Firefox, etc. No problems with computability there, I'm sure.

But the rest is playing games. I'd be happy if L4D and CS:S worked to be honest.

They work?

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JTD92

You could dual boot to help decide. All my games ran fine under Windows 7 and it may run faster than Vista.

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sgdude

my brother uses w7 for everything, and all the source games in the orange box work fine. He has had no issues.

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Quantum Reality

That's actually something I've been debating as well.

I use Vista Ultimate, and for the most part I've been OK with it though it seems to have its weird quirks; if I could just force it to consistently display "Detail view" all the way through like in XP Pro, I'd love the ever-loving love out of it.

But I've been hearing Win7 cures a lot of Vista issues, so would it be worth plunking down the ~$100 for the Win7 Pro upgrade? I could just use Vista Ult on another machine anyway as I purchased the full retail copy.

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gbrilliantq

Yes.

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The Pook

Guess I back up all my stuff and go install the Release Candidate. I needed a reinstall of Vista, anyway. That's why I asked.

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gbrilliantq

I enjoy Win7 so much, I completely got rid of my Vista Ultimate x64 and replaced it with the Win7 RC. I was on a dual boot. I just quit using Vista altogether.

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Puscifer

Go for it, its way better than Vista if ya ask me. As far as games go I haven't had any issues with any of my games at all, so you should be fine. I can say for sure that Source engine games don't have any problems with Windows 7.

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Lord Xeb

All of my games work in W7 and I play the following:

Crysis
CSS
Mirror's Edge
TF2
COD4
COD:WaW
Portal
Fear 2

I play a few other games but I do not remember them. All of them play nice. Also I am playing crysis at around 40-60FPS (sometimes I hit 80 sometimes). <.< Vista I was doing a little worse and max I hit was 70 sometimes

Also everything runs much better under win7 for me. It runs lighter, cooler, faster, everything is just better.

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The Pook

Cool deal ... you guys got me all excited. It's about 50% done burning ... had the ISO on my computer since the RC became available for TechNet subscribers and I just never got around to burning/installing it.

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