i can suggest you to use win 7, too. but i also never had problems with vista - maybe that’s unbelieveable now, but i had more problems with XP SP2 
but steam runs really fine with every of them wins.
I actually have that problem on xp 32. and when I shut down steam manually, I have to log off and log back on to open it again or it will say “steam is already running” if I close steam with the windows task manager, I don’t have that problem.
What in the hell are you twits babbling about? I have installed it on PC’s I’ve built from spare parts, things like AMD 2200 CPU’s and 512MB RAM etc - and it runs great. What exactly goes on in your heads that makes you feel like commenting on things you really don’t know about?
Win7 for sure, and just make sure you have 1-2GB of RAM to run it.
And remember to back up all you dataz!
Windows 7 hasn’t caused me any problems at all with Steam, so far. GO GET IT NOW.
OS: Linux Mint
Windows-OS: Windows 7
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Not necessarily, unless they are matched pairs and installed on the same bank, it could just be two sticks of RAM.
Though I too use dual-channel, the benefits aren’t that huge as people claim.
CatzEyes, windows 7 is a wonderful OS.
(XP + (vista))mod((2*sqrt(awesome)) = 7
Er, don’t know about the legality or usability of it all, but I have spare 7 keys for both pro and ultimate. I’d recomend pro, though, cuz ultimate only has two extra features (bitlocker and multi-language support, I believe), neither of which most people use/know exists.
Definately Windows 7, best OS I’ve ever used, I just had to change the task bar a little bit. I had the problem with Steam not closing on Vista and XP aswell, just opening up the task manager and ending the Steam.EXE process will work though.
Ok folks, upon your suggestions I had my IT neighbor install windows 7. it is so pretty! So now my new hard drive is c and my old hard drive is… um… what is it? I cant find anything.! CRAP! I gotta learn a new system! blarg and fluff!
Who the hell are you, anyway?
No one gives a shit if you think you’re computer savvy. Or knows who you are, for that matter.
Windows 7 is the first Micro$oft OS that the majority of PC gamers and IT professionals agree is full of win. You made a good decision. You don’t have to “learn a new system,” however, because it’s still Windows. Most of the changes took place under the hood, so to speak, with the most obvious change being the new taskbar. You can customize that to your liking within certain limits, however, so play with the options in the Properties menu until you understand how it works and have it setup in a way that you find comfortable to use (the first thing I did was change the “Taskbar buttons” option to “Combine when taskbar is full” instead of the default “Always combine, hide labels”).
don’t worry - after a week daily work with 7 i’m sure you are used to it and will like it better than any ohter win
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management
There you’ll most likely have to assign a drive letter to your second HDD.
Lol cry more tbh. “Waaaaaa I was wrong so instead I’ll try and attack you instead of learning from my mistake and accepting I was wrong”. Nice attitude, dummy. Lol.
I remember when I was on XP x32, steam stopped closing when I hit exit. It WOULD eventually, but it would usually take 5 minutes… So I… macro’d (for lack of a better term) a way to end the process via ctrl-alt-del.
W7 x64 (I was really tempted to call it WD448 ) hasn’t yet given me that problem!
EDIT: I have just started to receive errors like: “ERROR 1: Failed to take master lock to connection valve” errors, but it only seems to happen when I compile something in Hammer and it fails. When it does happen, I have to restart steam before it will find the correct locking valve thinger. Again, I’m pretty sure it’s just a side effect of my Hammer-fails.
NOTE: Didn’t realize how big the section below got.
Edit again: Yes, Shasta’s right, Windows 7 x64 will run on 528 megabytes of RAM. BUT, you’ll wouldn’t be able to run Firefox, Steam, and Hammer (or just about any game) at the same time without massive system slowdowns.
The OS can stand on the low amount of RAM, but you will notice a lessening of functionality of ancillary processes, ending up taking about 200 or so MB of your RAM. It will run a bit jerkier, but it will run (Windows might stutter when closing, opening, or performing any action that is animated, even scrolling).
Firefox is memory-heavy, especially if you like tabbed browsing or addons (ABP is my only one), coming in at between 70 and 150MB of RAM (4 tabs and ABP, just opened = 70, 4 tabs and ABP after a few hours = closer to 150), so I’ll write that one off at… 100MB of RAM.
Steam: Between 25 and 75 MB, depending on what YOU are doing, what IT is doing, and plenty of other crap. Writing off as 50 MB.
Other junk–Hammer: 150-max MB. When you compile, it eats up your ram, but since it isn’t always compiling, I can’t exactly say that. On average, it runs at 175 MB.
Half-Life 2: On average, between 225.5 MB and 226.1 MB. That alone would bog a system with W7x64 on it to near nonoperational.
Half-Life (for contrast with older games): 75 MB (not alot, but with so little to spare…)
So here’s the lowdown.
RAM | 512 MB
OS | 200 MB
Firefox | 100 MB
Steam | 40 MB (I’ll give it a little discount cuz steam usually runs cool)
Game | 150 MB (average of Hammer, HL2, and HL)
Total | 440 MB
Your computer runs slower in vital processes the closer you come to that 512 mark. In short, Windows 7 64-bit will run on 512 MB of RAM, but slower. You will be able to do less simultaneous tasks, and be more prone to crashes/freezes etc.
How do I know all this? My old notebook. 512 MB of RAM. GCCIS “Science” experiment. Windows 7 64-bit. System-monitor test. Pass, fail? FAIL.
Addendum: https://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=672
In this article, the guy starts off wowing all over the place about how “Seven ran on 512 megabytes!” But before he goes on to test anything, he upgrades it to 1024. Hm.
i wouldn’t even run vista with only 512 MB. it works, yes - but vista starts running fine with 2GB and for 7 you should have 3-4GB ram to run it fine.
All seems to be well, except for some reason there are permission issues with some of the files in my old harddrive. Example, I click on my documents/blackmesa and while I can access the blackmesacoversboxart, I could not access the blackmesafaces. I got an error that said “you don’t currently have permission to access this folder”. I continue and get “you have been denied permission to access this folder. to gain access to this folder you will need to use the security tab.” of which I use the security tab to reassign ownership. Now I can access it.
Problem… there are hundreds of files spread out in the old hard drive that I dont have access to. Some of them let me move ownership to me, others do not. Is there an easy way to tell it to give me ownership to everything in the harddrive?
I’m not sure (I only just got 7 with my new computer) but you may be able to change the permissions of the entire HDD
Make sure you have full administrative privileges… And turn off User Access Control, if you can. It causes more problems than its worth. (Just search User Access Control in the start menu, I believe that will point you in the right direction)