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WheatGrass
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Posted - 2009.01.12 08:56:00 -
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What's the first thing a person must do once the Windows 7 Beta is installed? Install Eve-Online Premium, of course!
I'm not sure why but Premium looks even more premium on this new OS. Serious! I don't know why but it's absolutely Great!
The Eve install went ok. There were the typical Windows authorization warnings at an annoyance level somewhere between XP and Vista.
I did have difficulty launching Eve once installed. At first I tried launching it from the "All Programs | Games" menu. That didn't work. I then clicked on the Start Menu "Games" link. A "Set up game updates and options" dialog appeared which, once completed, allowed Eve to run from the "All Programs | Games" menu, a desktop shortcut, and also via the Games link. I took some screen shots of these items and will attempt to link them here once I find a home for them on the internet.
I'm using dual ATI 3870 video cards in crossfire mode. Problems were encountered getting them to work correctly with the Windows Update. To resolve this, the Windows Vista driver was downloaded directly from AMD and installed. After a reboot and enabling of crossfire in the catalyst control center, the graphics worked fine and apparently even better than on Win XP Pro x64.
Other annoyances included the Windows 7 installer not recognizing either of my SCSI/SATA/RAID controllers. As a result, the OS is installed on a slow IDE drive rather on a SATA drive or on my four disk SATA 3Gp/s RAID 0. After the OS install, the eSATA controller was enabled via Windows update. Now that I've gathered the drivers via the device manager, they will go onto a floppy. That way I can reinstall the OS at least to a single 3Gp/s SATA drive by feeding the drivers to the installer during installation.
MS could take some tips from the Ubuntu folks regarding device support but they definitely are ahead of the pack in terms of graphics. |
WheatGrass
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Posted - 2009.01.17 02:45:00 -
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Edited by: WheatGrass on 17/01/2009 02:47:15 If you experience problems with Windows 7, you might wish to consider using the "Send Feedback" link found to the right on application title bars.
Edit: I'm about to try improving my "Windows Experience Index" by moving Windows 7 to the RAID 0. Wish me luck.
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WheatGrass
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Posted - 2009.01.18 19:43:00 -
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Originally by: Bohoba what program are you using to extract the image to DVD ??
I used a version of Nero since it was included with my hardware.
I noticed that burning an iso to disc is a context menu option in Win7. I'm not sure if that's the case with Vista since I skipped that OS. If you need a burning app quick, you can easily find something at any of a number of download sites such as softpedia. I've had good luck with the timed trial version of "Cute CD DVD Burner" and a product from SlySoft. Of course if you have linux, you might already have a burning utility.
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WheatGrass
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Posted - 2009.01.18 20:04:00 -
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Originally by: Zeko Rena ....but once you start installing legions of windows patch[e]s and the files get a bit fragmented it can slow down.
Let me know how its running in a month or so :)
Well, that's probably even more the case with a Beta product.
I finally got Windows 7 installed on the RAID after shrinking the XP partition. (That was done via the Windows 7 install while it was on the IDE drive.) Would you believe that the "Windows Experience Index" for the primary hard drive actually decreased from 5.1 to 3?! There's obviously a problem with the integrated benchmarking. I've put some photos of test results at photobucket. It's apparent that the Redmond folks are still somewhat seperated from reality. I tried to benchmark with 3DMarkVantage but it doesn't see all of the DirectX files it needs on Windows 7. I also noticed that the HDDTune people are now charging for their latest version of the tool. The new free version seems to have less functionality than the old one.
The only other difficulty I've had with Windows 7 beta, so far, is with the Other beta. (Ahh. Life on the bleeding edge.) That is to say that I have not been able to get the AMD Windows 7 beta driver to install (via Windows Update or direct download from AMD.) So, I'm using the latest Vista driver instead.
Meanwhile, I'm happily getting GNULinux going on the notebook.
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WheatGrass
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Posted - 2009.02.12 14:17:00 -
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Lately I'd been noticing that whenever my Eve Online game locks up, the Sun Java update scheduler is running. Disabling the Sun Java updater seems to have resolved the problem.
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WheatGrass
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Posted - 2009.02.18 05:11:00 -
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Originally by: Flinchey
Originally by: Yuko Anekohji
Windows 7 is pretty much Vista.
fixed it for you
Your quote is not accurate but your point is noted -especially with the information which follows. Microsoft caves in, will change Windows 7 UAC
It's getting difficult to see just what there is to actually sell with this new version. The selling point of 'Sucks Less' did sell me on Windows 98 and it was looking good for Windows 7 but now I'm not so sure.
BTW, I installed the new Debian 5 linux distribution today and it was a good experience -even with manually installing (i.e. apt-get) an x server (i.e. x.org), a GUI (i.e. Gnome), and then the Firefox-in-disguise Iceweasel web browser. It was at work though. So, I didn't add Wine and an Eve client on it. :)
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WheatGrass
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Posted - 2009.02.27 05:21:00 -
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Edited by: WheatGrass on 27/02/2009 05:21:44 I've encountered a problem with Apocrypha on singularity. With Windows 7 Beta, the Eve client loads. I see the splash screen and then nothing. Task manager shows that the Eve client is still active but the game is not loading.
Does anyone have an idea for a work-around? Has anyone else experienced this?
Thank you.
Edit... I'm not seeing the intro movie either.
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WheatGrass
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Posted - 2009.02.28 17:59:00 -
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Please pardon my double posting.
Running the c:\evetest client in the "Windows XP (Service Pack 2)" compatibility mode got me past the Apocrypha splash screen to the log on. After a couple more hours, I should have the update downloaded. ;-)
A .Net 3.5 SP didn't seem to do anything for me.
I tried the newer ATI CCC which comes with the v9.2 Vista driver. It still doesn't work under Windows 7. So, I've put the previous CCC version on with the newer Vista v9.2 driver.
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