MS: Windows 7 to be "Great for Games"

"Windows 7 will be great for games, undoubtedly," is the unequivocal quote from Microsoft's Chris Lewis on GamesIndustry.biz, saying: "It's all good news - it's even more robust, it's quicker relatively, and the early testing cycles are proving very promising overall." He promises they will have more to say on the topic later in the year, reaffirming their commitment to PC gaming and the Games for Windows program. He states: "Ultimately we're a Windows and PC company at heart, and that's not going to change, and the development on both platforms will remain central and important. The business ebbs and flows, and there will be times when we do more on one platform than the other, but they do co-exist very nicely, and as a company we're in a pretty unique position that we have a strong legacy on PC."
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That being said, the main issue for gaming in Windows 7 is if ATI and nVidia actually have their drivers up to snuff at launch

I can’t say anything for ATI, but Nvidia has been good with Win7 so far. Windows update detected what type of GFX card I had and downloaded the right driver on its own. My win7 install has a newer driver for my 8800GT than my XP install does.

The big problem, so far, is ofcourse those fucking cocksuckers at Creative, whose drivers are written by the Badly Burned Albanian Boy. I wonder if Creative even knows that another Windows release is imminent?

The only one that made gaming easier was Windows 95 because it got rid of config and autoexec files. God I remembering tinkering with those to squeeze out a little more base memory

DOS-Extender had already solved that problem by the time 95 came out. I’m not sure if it was MS who had developed that, or if some game programmers came up with it and eventually it got included with every game. In the end, 95 was basically just DOS with a graphical GUI.

As long as Microsoft learned their lessons from Vista I'll probably upgrade to Windows 7. But I hope the transition is seamless. If it's anything like Office 2003 to Office 2007 I want nothing to do with it.

Well, you can’t really UPGRADE. You’ll have to install from scratch, though I would recommend going that path every time you go to a new OS. What I don’t understand is why people upgrade versions of Office? Seriously, you buy new Office software every time it comes out? Those REALLY are just window-dressing releases. There are still bugs outstanding from Excel 2000 that MS hasn’t fixed yet (and won’t do anyways) that drive accountants everywhere fucking insane.

This time around they've been very careful to ensure all of the UI improvements are features requested by users and that they are genuinely useful.

What always amazes me is why Microsoft feels the need to revamp everything when they release a new OS. It’s probably because otherwise some people will say “It looks exactly like XP. Why do I need this again?” but for fuck’s sake, I’m getting fucking tired of learning where everything is located again every single fucking time they release a new OS. People who have to support their shit for a living should get a “Beat The Fucking GUI Designers Senseless” day.


I’ll probably get 7 when it comes out, kind of depends on the price really. The new GUI takes a lot of getting used to, though there are a few things that I like. (And a few things that I don’t, mostly everything being in a new fucking place again.)
It seems like a solid OS, except for the fact that Creative are a bunch of asstards and nothing I do seems to get my fucking sound working. MONGRELS.

Haven't really been able to test any games because of the sound issue.

And I have one thing in device manager (can't recall what it is again, offhand) that I just can't find a driver for. I don't even know what it is, I've done a side by side comparison with my XP install, and everything I've got in XP is there in 7, so where this extra mystery piece of hardware comes from, I have no idea. And it's not like I'm running hardware built by some underground voodoo bandit out of Mongolia either. It seems that every OS release, the HAL just gets smaller.

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