Windows 7 Beta

Monthigos · Post by **Monthigos** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:49 pm

Anyone try the open beta yet? I'm installing it on a partition of my gaming machine. I've heard that a) its faster than Vista and b) its pretty polished for a beta. I'm going to see how it holds up against XP. Nvidia already has drivers for it so we'll see if I can get SWG running on it...

Bovive · Post by **Bovive** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:33 pm

Interesting, how do you get into the beta?

Monthigos · Post by **Monthigos** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:22 pm

Anyone can get in right now. Here's the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx.

On a side note, SWG runs but it seems slower than when I run it from XP (on the same machine). I'm not sure, though, its hard to confirm. Still for an OS that is a year out its remarkable it runs at all. I remember the Vista beta. *shudder*

Bovive · Post by **Bovive** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:36 pm

Neat, I think I will avoid Beta though. I just don't want the headache.

Monthigos · Post by **Monthigos** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:59 pm

I haven't had any problems on it. Maybe you can just install it on a separate partition and check in on it with SWG every now and then to see if the performance is better. At least that is my plan.

Kurke_Aumea · Post by **Kurke_Aumea** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:37 am

Monthigos wrote:On a side note, SWG runs but it seems slower than when I run it from XP (on the same machine). I'm not sure, though, its hard to confirm. Still for an OS that is a year out its remarkable it runs at all. I remember the Vista beta. *shudder*

What are the specs on your PC? I'm curious.

Also, I would never do a beta OS on my main computer. I'd either sitck it in one of my spare boxes or grab a spare hard drive and boot to it. I enjoy Microsoft products, but I'm not sure I trust them completely... Windows ME anyone???

Monthigos · Post by **Monthigos** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:18 am

My gaming machine isn't really my main computer, my laptop is. My laptop is where I do, well, everything else. My gaming machine has pretty much nothing installed on it. I don't even surf on it. And my gaming machine has gotten dated, but it still runs my games faster than my laptop (if barely). All I really play on it, however, is older games. I do more gaming on my XBox these days.

I have an AMD Athlon 64 3700 with a 7900GT, 2 gigs of ram with some corsair gaming memory that was hot stuff about two years ago.