Gaming On Windows 7 554
Jason Wilson writes "Windows 7 comes out Oct. 22, and many gamers are wondering whether it will be a boon for gaming, as Microsoft promised Vista would, or a disappointment (like Vista was at its launch). Former ExtremeTech editor Jason Cross, who's covered games and tech for 13 years, discusses the pluses and minuses of Windows 7 for gamers — how it differs from Vista, if it'll run older games, and the benefits of 64-bit computing. 'Windows 7 basically takes the Vista codebase and rewrites, refines, optimizes, and overhauls most of the internal stuff without making dramatic changes to the driver stacks that Vista did over WinXP. The changes to the fundamental driver models are small and mostly serve to improve performance. Plus, the hardware makers — especially the graphics guys — are on top of the changes this time around. Nvidia and ATI have been shipping quite good Win7 graphics drivers for months now.'"
Re:Everything works for me (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Everything works for me (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, of course! Xrandr! My grandma told me about how she plugged in a second monitor and had no idea how to get it to start up. Then she thought carefully ... how would Linux handle this? So she typed a random fucking combination of characters into the command line. Lo and behold, she stumbled upon Xrandr, which solved all of her problems! Good job, granny!
Re:"2GB-maximum 32-bit" (Score:3, Funny)
And he's right, there is a 2GB Application memory limit, 3GB with LargeAddressAware. And then there's the 4GB OS memory limit, which you were sarcastically referring to.
Re:Works like a charm... and is available earlier. (Score:1, Funny)
Mod Parent Down, -1 Overuse of Emoticons
Re:Vista left me with a 3rd degree burn (Score:4, Funny)
I think you mean "Fool me once.. shame.. shame on you, Fool me.. you can't get fooled again!"
Re:Works like a charm... and is available earlier. (Score:3, Funny)
Mod Parent Down, -1 Overuse of Emoticons
Maybe he just has a facial tic?
Re:Everything works for me (Score:4, Funny)
...This isn't France. We don't censor free speech.
This, on the other hand, can quite appropriately be modded Troll.
Re:Everything works for me (Score:3, Funny)
In Windows, all drivers are "restricted drivers".