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Attia Wyn
Amarr
Mindstar Technology
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Posted - 2010.01.30 11:40:00 -
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 Originally by: Jim Pooley
No issues here at all, though turn off the annoying "window snap" feature if you play in windowed mode or you cant drag it up to the top!
which is accessible here... Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Ease of Access Center\Make the mouse easier to use
tick "prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen"
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Willy Nerfalot
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Posted - 2010.01.30 12:07:00 -
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Originally by: Nye Jaran
...but seriously, who wants Windows 7 without the snazzy interface.
Me, if it noticeably reduces performance in any way. This is because the primary function of an operating system is to make the physical resources of the computer available to application programs, and NOT to consume them for itself.
This is why I never bothered with Vista. It had a memory footprint of about 4x that of XP, while not offering even 2x performance increase.
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Alexander Siege
Minmatar
Empyreum
Lux Caelestia
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Posted - 2010.01.30 12:14:00 -
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Originally by: Willy Nerfalot
This is why I never bothered with Vista. It had a memory footprint of about 4x that of XP, while not offering even 2x performance increase.
Wow? What did you install on Vista to make it take up 1 gig of RAM. Mine only takes about 512 on boot with 2GB of RAM...
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Alexeph Stoekai
Stoekai Corp
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Posted - 2010.01.30 15:03:00 -
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Edited by: Alexeph Stoekai on 30/01/2010 15:03:48
Originally by: Willy Nerfalot
Originally by: Nye Jaran
...but seriously, who wants Windows 7 without the snazzy interface.
Me, if it noticeably reduces performance in any way. This is because the primary function of an operating system is to make the physical resources of the computer available to application programs, and NOT to consume them for itself.
This is why I never bothered with Vista. It had a memory footprint of about 4x that of XP, while not offering even 2x performance increase.
Show how much you know about Vista. Yes, when it idles it usually takes up about 1-1.5 Gigs of RAM, but that's not something it holds exclusively. Vista has a lot of background processes that tidies up and streamlines stuff (like searching your files, opening large indexes, file transfers). It will also call dibs on an amount of RAM that it holds just in case you need it to do some heavy lifting. To a casual observer, this makes it seem like Vista fills up an absurd amount of RAM (anywhere between 1/5 to 1/3 of the total system RAM can be expected to be held by Vista), but in reality all these things run on a very low priority - meaning that Vista is more than happy to let that RAM go if, for example, a game needs it.
Just because Vista fills a Gig of RAM when it's idling doesn't mean that RAM is unavailable.
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TheLordofAllandNothing
Caldari
United Systems Navy
Zenith Affinity
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Posted - 2010.01.30 15:12:00 -
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Edited by: TheLordofAllandNothing on 30/01/2010 15:13:53
On windows 7 ultiamte 64-bit im sitting at about 1.2gigs use at idle(1.6gigs usually as i run BOINC) , eve runs beautifully on 7 with no problems whatsoever. The only problem in full screen mode is if your using 30bit color with 2 bit alpha and tab out the whole screen dims until you ctrl-alt-delete which resets it, which is mildly annoying.
Windows 7's aero interface is pretty slick and doesnt use up much resources at all, the whole point of having a nice operating system for your home comp is so it looks all guchi. Ofc if your a user who wants to stare at the horrible windows classic interface then by all means, do.
Now ccp give me direct x 11 and multithreading, *snaps whip*
Windows 7 is also pretty nice on its caching, loading all your most used stuff into the memory for you before you actually start it. So eve has very minimal startup time(and i dont have the cache on a ramdisk). Crysis is a bit sluggish to get up and running, but thats a special case and really does make the whole system sweat.
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