Does anyone know of any solid data that indicates Windows 7 is faster? I have seen opinions, but no unbiased lab tests like benchmarks and such.
If your "hardcore" you know what your doing, and it should be even less trouble than for casual users.
Windows 7 will still have the same problems:
"Oh noes, my unsupported, outdated, and not programed to MS specifications program doesn't work with Windows 7"
"Oh noes, Windows 7 doesn't support my obscure hardware that has had a driver update since 1999."
"Oh noes, Windows 7 is using my RAM!"
The vast m...
I was always under the impression that the consoles supporting company (Sony and MS, or Nintendo maybe) have to bite the bullet, sell their consoles at a loss, and hope to recover from software licensing and sales.
Besides, how much do they really have to pay to license Madden on any given system?
EA: "Hey Sony, we decided we arn't going to pay your fees for Madden anymore."
Sony: "You have to pay, or you can't publish on PS3."
N4G: &q...
Now devs know how to get their games to sale extra. Just leave an "accidental" security hole in the program.
I would wait for Windows 7 at this point as well.
However, most of the things people complain about with Vista will be equally applicable to Windows 7.
"I can't run it on 512mb ram."
"It doesn't run this unsupported, and no longer updated program I use."
"I doesn't support my hardware from some obscure company who hasn't released a driver update since 2002."
Only problem Windows 7 might manage to improve on is th...
The only 2 crashes I have ever had in my years with Vista were 2 memory dumps. Was Vista to blame? Who knows, it could just as well be a hardware problem.
Works just fine. Sure, there is some RAM caching to the HDD that slows things down, but not too bad.
I do manage to play Sins of a Solar Empire on my laptop, that games uses about 800 mb of ram, leaving only 200 for Vista and everything else. The game runs fine. It takes a minute to open and close or alt+tab, but it's not a big problem. So Viper, I would suggest that your "hell" is caused by factors outside your ram.
Vista also start faster than Ubuntu....
"If I play games, I just want them to make games."
Have they been doing anything else?
They don't have the manpower to support the PS3 and keep up on their PC development and continual released of FREE improvement for their past games. (Like recent TF2 update.) It's all business.
Also, I bet HL3 will be tied to your Steam account, which means you cannot play it and then return it.
They seem to always have nice and respectable things to say.
The articles speaks as though MS can't charge per use. Just because the patent fails doesn't mean they can't still do it. It just means that other companies can do it too.
Keeping our countries safe, because terrorists are too dumb to use encryption.
/sarcasm.
Serious, if you want to hide something, encrypt it and not even the government can break it easily.
Does it really matter? It's like the phrase "swiftboating." Originally used with John Kerry in the swift boat debate. Such a large issue, the word is now synonymous with any political attack. Even though few debates have any thing to do with a "swift boat."
Similarly a computer crash originally was a HDD head crash. The reader would physically crash into the disk. Now it's used in other unrelated situations. "My game keeps crashing." There is...
Maybe I am a fanboy? It's all subjective. I didn't mean any insult by it though.
Windows doesn't use to much resources IMO. Sure, it uses lots of RAM, but it pushes it all the HDD cache if the need arises. I was able to play a game that used 800 mb of ram, on 1 gig of ram. Took some time to alt-tab, but no biggie.
I am concerned about Windows fallowing the way of Trusted Computing. That is, giving secrete controls to DRM and cooperate spywares.
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Yes, I'm quite sure that's what you said?
But is that what you meant?
we examine the poor business practices of a failing online distributor.
Did it suck because of Free Radical? Or did it suck because of Activision (?), calling the shots?
LOL, what does that even mean?
Scene: Pilot, Co-Pilot, and Crazy Stunt guy in the back.
Co-Pilot: "Are you really going to let this guy jump out of the plane with only a bed sheet to use as a parashoot?"
Pilot: "Take it easy! He knows what he's doing, or else he wouldn't be doing it."
Co-Pilot: "True..."
I like using Ubuntu, I duel boot both Ubuntu and Vista64 on both my computers. On both computers Vista starts faster, yes, Vista starts faster. If you invest 20 dollars in ram, you'll have plenty to run Vista. Yes, 20 dollars!
As morgan said, Linux uses the command line for a lot of things. He said he's not aware of anything that can't be done through the GUI, but there are a lot of things. For example, the add/remove programs only lists a small portion of the programs in th...