For those of you who are interested, have a read through some of the new things/changes for the next operating system.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

Thought I might mention the fact that there is a new Nvidia driver out if anyone wants to update to 181.20 Released January 8,2009

This is the link to the XP driver version for you vista users you will need to change the OS > http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_181.20_whql.html

normally nano u provide links about wat ur talking about so ppl can look lol

yeah just did it then haha sorry watchout mate had to add the shit in about the Graphics driver so i missed the links out.

thanks nano

I tried windows 7 it is GREAT but i don't like the taskbar changes and i had to uninstall it after 1 day because it Stuffed up my vista partition.

But it was good for that small amount of time i'm buying it as soon as it's released.

Ah ok sweet, yeah when you buy it if you install it/reformat when you install i don't think you'd have issues mainly because you'd have no vista haha, but then again with a new OS there can always be problems...

I didn't install it over vista if thats what you were thinking i'm not that stupid.

no no, i didn't mean that lol, i meant when you install it when it comes out and install it, I didn't mean u installed it over vista

I have Win 7 X64 7057 build running dual boot with Vista X64 on my second drive ATM. I must say I am very impressed, its super quick on my rig and with the new nvidia drivers 185.66 my system has never run better!
I can run Wars so much smoother with this OS even in its beta stage, so cant wait for the finished product.
I was playing on Frost the other nite on full spec 'BEST' detail at 1920X1200 and getting 60-80FPS??? With Vista I was getting 40FPS with shit loads of stuttering and lag. Its fucking amazing being able to properly play that map on full detail n see all the snow drifts and particle effects etc. running on lower specs you forget how pretty this game is lol.
BTW I havnt been kicked by pb at all using Win 7, as i know some have.
Build 7068 is out also with 7075RC1 on the way very soon.

Well done Microsoft this is shit loads faster than XP with more features than Vista lol.

I have windows 7 as well ( a cracked version so it wont expire and the send feedback and 'for testing purposes' watermarks are removed) running as my only OS and its AMAZING. It has so many great features and it runs super smoothly, definitely recommend you get the beta, i can upload the cracks on rapidshare if you want to use them.

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

I have windows 7 as well ( a cracked version so it wont expire and the send feedback and 'for testing purposes' watermarks are removed) running as my only OS and its AMAZING. It has so many great features and it runs super smoothly, definitely recommend you get the beta, i can upload the cracks on rapidshare if you want to use them.

m8 what version you using? I have a crack for the first beta 6xxx but havnt used it on my 7057 build. If you can upload it would be great.

I wonder what microsoft's goals where for vista? I like vista and yea it does make things run shit on a crappy system but i've never had a major crash, windows 7 should be the shit then, about time microsoft got thier act together.

so far what ive read, the changes sound like something for a Vista patch

the only actual useful changes (though not worthy of a whole new OS) are the Better Device management. fucking annoying having to look through different shit to play with devices
- actually not really, i have control panel in the start menu open to another menu listing everything it can do. anything else can just go to My Computer, and from there to Network Places (or control panel again..)
My computer actually lists all connected devices anyway..

and if you really needed anything just go to Computer Management under Administrative Tools - list everything. fuck i should make it a shortcut on my desktop and BOOM i just got myself a Windows 7 feature.

and improving home network management? how fucking hard can that shit be, you must be apeshit retarded to not know how to make a home network and share files and printing over it.

'take control of problems' haha makes me laugh, ive turned off all auto updates and dont have anti virus. every 6 or 12 months ill just do a format to clean the shit up. ive got spybot which already does what vista introduced about allowing programs to do shit in the background or not, and its much less annoying (doesnt ask every 5 secs if im sure i want to run word and if im sure i want to open the document i just edited 5 mins ago). browse with firefox that has NoScript installed - never have a virus ever unless i purposely give myself one.

the touchscreen stuff means you dont need to install drivers to use it, and the handwriting detection = OCR = nothing new. just its now bundled with windows.



so my correction would be; the only real useful change is that its supposedly faster and better battery life for lappys.
otherwise, its pretty much a patched vista. and vista was just a patched, better looking graphics whore for XP
all the features they list are already in xp and vista. biggest scam to get people to pay like 200 to 400 dollars for this shiz.
Zzzz..


if Cosmic's marked performance holds true however, because of the OS alone, then it may be worth getting simply to streamline how the OS runs. everything else is just more eye candy, dressing up the same old shit.

here's proof of how full of shit microsoft can be:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dd350196.aspx
2000 words to say 'it goes faster'.

CosmicFTW wrote:

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

I have windows 7 as well ( a cracked version so it wont expire and the send feedback and 'for testing purposes' watermarks are removed) running as my only OS and its AMAZING. It has so many great features and it runs super smoothly, definitely recommend you get the beta, i can upload the cracks on rapidshare if you want to use them.

m8 what version you using? I have a crack for the first beta 6xxx but havnt used it on my 7057 build. If you can upload it would be great.

i think mine only works with build 7000 but you can give it a try

this one removes the time limit - just run as an admin to get it to work:
http://rapidshare.com/files/218410297/TimerNukeSetup.exe.html

when using this one only click 'remove watermark' and 'remove send feedback' it will display an error but if you wait a while for the comand window that pops up to close and then u restart ur computer it should work on all versions:
http://rapidshare.com/files/218411193/7000_Plus_Patch_Orbit30.exe.html

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

CosmicFTW wrote:

ClerkWithKnife wrote:

I have windows 7 as well ( a cracked version so it wont expire and the send feedback and 'for testing purposes' watermarks are removed) running as my only OS and its AMAZING. It has so many great features and it runs super smoothly, definitely recommend you get the beta, i can upload the cracks on rapidshare if you want to use them.

m8 what version you using? I have a crack for the first beta 6xxx but havnt used it on my 7057 build. If you can upload it would be great.

i think mine only works with build 7000 but you can give it a try

this one removes the time limit - just run as an admin to get it to work:
http://rapidshare.com/files/218410297/TimerNukeSetup.exe.html

when using this one only click 'remove watermark' and 'remove send feedback' it will display an error but if you wait a while for the comand window that pops up to close and then u restart ur computer it should work on all versions:
http://rapidshare.com/files/218411193/7000_Plus_Patch_Orbit30.exe.html

Thx m8

Just installed the win 7 RC Build 7100 and its rockin hard.

crysis runs better than vista and hasnt crashed yet.
Win 7 has not crashed ( YET )
whole system runs faster and havnt had any Nvidia driver crashes

So far i think im keeping this free os for a year

any 1 els running build 7100? wats ya thoughts

yeah me too, ill be keeping it so far. Got a trojan that hasnt been around since XP which concerns me but other then that no problems

I ran the 7000 build and also had a brief go on the 7100 build... fucking fantastic OS. Trumps XP and Vista put together. The only problem is PB games still aren't supported so i'm stuck on Vista till then I think some may work sort of on the 32-bit version, but the 64-bit version you just get booted for unknown windows version.

Shinanigans wrote:

I ran the 7000 build and also had a brief go on the 7100 build... fucking fantastic OS. Trumps XP and Vista put together. The only problem is PB games still aren't supported so i'm stuck on Vista till then I think some may work sort of on the 32-bit version, but the 64-bit version you just get booted for unknown windows version.

i completely agree with your post, its 64 bit thats incompadible with PB thats a problem on all OSs not just win7, i can run wars fine in 32 bit

PB runs fine on Vista 64-bit, it's just Win7 that it's not supported at the moment. Although there seem to be a few fixes here and there which stop/help with the PB kicks; http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=766398

i havent had a PB kick no matter what game or mode i run...

Interesting! 32-bit i presume?

Shin my Win 7 has never kicked me off wars for PB, 32 or 64 bit. May be somthing else?

32 or 64, no kicks.

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32 or 64, no kicks.

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Win 7 has never kicked me off wars for PB, 32 or 64 bit.

You guys have tried both 32 and 64-bit versions of Win7?

I know the 7000 build kicked because that's the reason i had to go back to Vista. It's a very widely known issue that PB isn't properly supported under Windows7, all you need to do is google "windows 7 punkbuster" to get a tonne of matches.

I also know the 7100 build kicks in COD4 because the build i did this week, the owner tried it and it kicked him with the same error message;
"unknown windows API function".

Guess i'll have to give 7100 build a go with Wars to see how it goes. It might not be as susceptible to the issue as other PB games.

yeah i had the 32bit version before the 7000.....6XXX? Didnt kick me and had X64 7065 or something, now 7100 X64......only thing i can remember gettn kicked from pvt hosted servers.....like Tulzers. Node and FTW have worked sweet for me! Also a new PB update came out at start of this month i think so may have fixed and compat issues.

Shin try the RC1 7100....no probs at all for me yet....touch wood! *taps Foos head* rofl
Cos.

Haha, well sweet as! Probably get the chance to install it over next couple of days. It boots so damn quick eh. This system that i built booted in 55 seconds from button push to fully loaded desktop. Oh so tasty

Yea no PB kicks so far for me on 64bit, might have to try some other games see what happens.

Hey, I just installed build 7127 and installed all the drivers and stuff and after that the system crashed.
Now when i restart, it's stuck on the "please wait" screen for like 10 minutes. Then after that it goes to the password screen, i type in my password and it gets stuck on "welcome".
Has anyone else had this problem and anyone have any idea how to fix it?

win wrote:

Hey, I just installed build 7127 and installed all the drivers and stuff and after that the system crashed.
Now when i restart, it's stuck on the "please wait" screen for like 10 minutes. Then after that it goes to the password screen, i type in my password and it gets stuck on "welcome".
Has anyone else had this problem and anyone have any idea how to fix it?

bulid 7127 isnt an official build so you mustve got it off the torrents. Its probably been loaded with viruses or its not a working release. Get the official 7100 RC off microsofts website, the retail version should be out in october so you dont have to wait long for it

Hmm... I think i found the problem. I installed outpost security suite and then it died. I ran it in safe mode and it logged in and i uninstalled it. I think it's working now.
Windows 7 doesn't work too well with antiviruses/firewalls

Works fine with Avast

+1 to avast.

I use build 7100 with avast and spybot and its the most efficient and virus-proof system ive ever used.

Also the OS itself is fucking sweet, everything runs nice and smooth, i picked up 15 frames when i made the switch from vista

yeah i'll be upgrading to that soon, i have it downloaded and ready to go, is it worth it?

i use avg and not a problem yet, only thing thats shitting me is NVIDIA. can't wait to see what else, if anything, they do to the GUI

What do you mean Trae? What have they changed?

TraeliumFTW wrote:

i use avg and not a problem yet, only thing thats shitting me is NVIDIA. can't wait to see what else, if anything, they do to the GUI

use the vista drivers, they work fine for me

the retail version is gonna be out before the end of the year, looking forward to the changes theyre gonna make if any

1000watt antec good, worth price?

alright SHUT THE FUCK UP tulzers brother just cos he forgot to logoff doesnt give u a right to spam the forums u piece of shit

(i dont actually know its u just making a good guess)

rofl nah mate he is like 200km away from me it wasn't devilsrunner, i did this since i'm downloading crysis wars from begining on steam, 150 kb/s more then 6 hours wait

Apparently windows 7 is going to be cheaper than vista. Is it worth getting a legit copy of this? Ive got XP that ive never updated...

bob wrote:

Apparently windows 7 is going to be cheaper than vista. Is it worth getting a legit copy of this? Ive got XP that ive never updated...

def worth it imo Bobby......have been using it for a few mths now and it is really good. Maybe worth trying the RC version b4 hand for free...just load it onto a spare HD and you can boot to either XP or it on startup.
Cos