Angry? I'm FURIOUS

Darryl Licht said:

Skype said:

Yep I did a clean install.

I'm also getting a boosted frame rate in crysis with alternate-frame rendering 2 ( nvidia ) for alla you who have it also!

50+ fps yay!

Still not great, if you were at 70 fps with Hasta La Vista!

No no, boosted FPS in Crysis with w7 :)!

My FPS in crysis with vista was 30-40.

Skype said:

Hi all! Great news. I partitioned my drive, installed a clean copy of vista, and then 64bit w7 ( it was an upgrade CD ).

This doesn't sound like a clean install to me.

Tews said:

Yes, you can do a clean install with the upgrade disc...

True. But if he installed Vista first and then Win 7 over it he did another upgrade instead of a clean install.

Tews said:

Yes, you can do a clean install with the upgrade disc...

How? I tried to do so on a brand new HDD last night and the key would not work (told me that it was invalid)

I would rather be running 7 as a clean install on a clean HDD so that my games perform to the best of their ability, since I bought this new rig so that I could play my games on high settings.

Also- is there a reason that my system uses almost 100% of my RAM when I run World of Warcraft?

Specs:

Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor: Intel Core i5 CPU 750@ 2.67GHz 2.67GHZ
Ram: 4g (1.49 usable)
System Type: 32 bit
Vid cards: nVidia 260 and 9600

Thank you. Going to go nuke my computer again now.

Skype said:

Jonathan King said:

Skype said:

Are you 100% on that? I'd rather not back up everything, spend hours doing a fresh install then have the same problem. It's lightning fast for everything else, which is why I want to keep it. What I was thinking was partitioning my HDD and having vista on it, so I can just reboot to game ( my boot up time is literally 20 seconds, so it doesn't bother me at all. )
)

Yes, it is definitely advisable to do a clean install rather than an upgrade.

I understand this, but what if it doesn't fix it? I appreciate your help but I'd rather a 100% definite YES that I wont have the same problem.

Don't expect a 100% blanket guarantee! Try some things or just live with it--your option.

Set up a dual boot if you can't figure out how to live with a "measly" frame rate of 40FPS in some games in Win 7. LOL!