Windows 7 and gaming

Technology and Gaming
#1

When I got drunk a few months ago I installed windows vista on my gaming pc, if I was sober I would never have done that.
All my source games ran really, really slowly, this was with all drivers for graphics card installed and everything, i have an ATI 3850 HD.

I got XP back on the machine and my FPS went from 5 back to 70.

I am planning on installing Windows 7 (When my new HDD arrives) as I read all over the internets that it’s faster than XP, will it have the same effect on my games as when I had Vista?

Can Win7 users post their experiences with it please?

I have a shit CPU (From 2003), a pentium 4 2.66GHz.

#2

So when you get drunk you start installing operating systems? You must be great at social events.

#3

I think you’ll get around 10Fps with windows 7, it’s more similar to Vista than it is to XP, and still it’s twice faster than Vista.

I suggest at the very least upgrade to a dual core CPU.

#4

Win7 is great for gaming.

#5

I noticed no drop in framerate from XP to 7. Certainly nowhere near a 60 FPS drop.

#6

A dual core would save my life.
How do I upgrade a CPU?

I’ll try dual booting Win7, if it fails with framerate I’ll just go back to XP.

#7

If you’re upgrading your CPU to anything new, you’ll need a new motherboard and RAM too.

#8

Win7 on Pentium 4? Hm I wouldn’t but you could try, as you did before you could put xp back.

Upgrade CPU?
Basicly if you have a Pentuim 4 all other parts of your computer are out of date too. I’d get a new PC, no use in upgrading 8 year old stuff. IMHO =/

#9


Stumbles into the room Hey guys, look I’m gonna install the new Kubuntu, isn’t that fun :smiley:

#10

I can safely say that Windows 7 is a big improvement from Vista. I have a fairly advanced gaming laptop. On Vista I got around 50 FPS (a little slow) but on Windows 7 I got 60 FPS.

#11

Well first of all download cpu-z and check your socket type, if it’s a Socket 775 you could upgrade to a pentium D and keep every other part of your PC intact, but if it’s a socket 478 I’m afraid Level is right, also is your graphics card AGP or PCI express? Cpuz should tell you that as well.

#12

You’re assuming he goes to social events.

#13

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#15

If you want Win 7, you need more RAM, at least 2 Gb (since you want to play games).

My parents had someone to install a Win 7 in a machine with only 480 Mb of RAM… Big mistake. But it runs fine if you don’t push it, and I can tell that the processor is responding well; the only problem is the lack of RAM.

Installing new OSes in your PC is ALWAYS fun :wink:

I LMAO’d :smiley:

#16

Its actually pretty simple.

If you have the specs to run Vista, then Windows 7 will run better than XP.
If your PC doesn’t support Vista at all, don’t put Windows 7. Keep XP.

Why? 7 uses the resources MUCH better than Vista. It still uses close to the same amount, but its just so much more efficient.

And even Vista shouldn’t give that much of a drop in framerates, but in your case it seems Vista was the bottleneck as your computer couldn’t handle it, let alone the games. Unless you were using RTM Vista, in which case I suggest you go sober.

#17

I have a P4 clocked at 3.8 Ghz that ran W7 perfectly fine.

#18

His is 2.66, which if I’m not mistaken has a smaller cache and slower bus speed, which also affects its speed. And yours may very well be hyperthreaded while his may not be. Plus, amount of RAM also makes a huge difference, as does the hard drive speed.

#19

People are saying I need more RAM, I got 2.5GB.
I know a lot about motherboards, however, buying one ot fit my PC will be hard.

I am planning on building a new one from scratch, when I gain money I’ll do that.

Also; I installed Vista when I got home from a party. My girlfriend complained because most people steal cars or sleep in parks when drunk, I install vista and play tf2.

EDIT: Actually, I will dual boot first ever what russilker said. I could run vista fnie, just 3D games had a huge FPS drop. I could play Crysis at 40fps though.

#20

Indeed Windows 7 is great for gaming, especially the x64 version. I even gained some FPS on some games.

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