Gone back to Vista x64 sp1

[Boomstick777]

After having a few issues with games and software most of all, Crysis and Farcry via steam and macdrive, deamon tools etc have decided to go back to vista sp1 until w7 matures. Hopefully rc0 will be released soon enough.

w7 is a great os easily my favorite and will def buy it when released just doesn't support everything I use yet....

 

[garysgold]

Hello Boomstick777,

Did you send feedback to MS? This is the time that they will listen to you. That is one of the reasons I am on Seven. So I can tell them what I like and dislike, what I want and don't care about. This is when they want to know, not after the final release.

Gary

 

[limneos]

I don't think rc0 or a newer version would fix daemon tools and steam problems.

It's known that steam apps are buggy in W7, but I don't think it's M$'s responsibility to that, I guess steam will have to make updates and/or hardware manufacturers like graphics , would need to build new graphics card drivers, which is still early to do cause it's beta...

Newer versions will be needed by other third-party software makers like Daemon Tools for instance... If there's a new architecture or device handling on the new OS, they should adopt to that new OS with new versions of their apps, and not M$ ...

 

[Boomstick777]

I don't think rc0 or a newer version would fix daemon tools and steam problems.

It's known that steam apps are buggy in W7, but I don't think it's M$'s responsibility to that, I guess steam will have to make updates and/or hardware manufacturers like graphics , would need to build new graphics card drivers, which is still early to do cause it's beta...

Newer versions will be needed by other third-party software makers like Daemon Tools for instance... If there's a new architecture or device handling on the new OS, they should adopt to that new OS with new versions of their apps, and not M$ ...

Totally agree, just like when vista was released the problem wasn't vista but that many third party apps just didn't support it and took there time updating there software to run on vista. With the popularity of windows 7 hopefully well see apps being supported quicker than with vista. Were still in beta though so cant expect everything to work lol

 

[Boomstick777]

found that crysis and farcry aren't working on vista 64 now either (steam error x64 bit os) , those were my main gripes with windows 7... back on windows 7 now lol my next re format wont be until this beta runs out!

 

[96accord]

At least you got it installed. I am trying to run dual boot with Vista, but Vista won't let me shrink the drive enough

 

[Boomstick777]

At least you got it installed. I am trying to run dual boot with Vista, but Vista won't let me shrink the drive enough

try paragon partition manager should do the trick,

found that crysis will now load in windows 7 but only in 32 bit mode than crashes when reach the menu screen...

 

[tdk08]

At least you got it installed. I am trying to run dual boot with Vista, but Vista won't let me shrink the drive enough

yeah i had the same problem and fixed it with an acronis bootable usb. i remember thinking "i just want to try 7!!! " lol

 

[bigmamamonk]

is it just windows 7 x64?

here crysis, far cry and even orange box run fine... steam gives some issues but the games work

win7 x86 here... even though I have 4gb ram

 

[sevsman]

Acronis Disc Director Suite is the best partition tool i've ever used. Just set it to manual when you run it and it'll be alot easier to use.

 

[Neilsouth]

I went back to vista 64 it runs the same as win 7 performance wise but the big decider is my xfi xtreme audio doesn't work in win 7(compatible mode vista). So i went back to vista

p.s The realtek HD rear output is a distorted mess and put me off

 

[96accord]

Acronis Disc Director Suite is the best partition tool i've ever used. Just set it to manual when you run it and it'll be alot easier to use.

Is it free?

yeah i had the same problem and fixed it with an acronis bootable usb. i remember thinking "i just want to try 7!!! " lol

Yeah I don't have a USB flash drive... will burn it to CD if it's free

try paragon partition manager should do the trick,

found that crysis will now load in windows 7 but only in 32 bit mode than crashes when reach the menu screen...

free?

 

[96accord]

Found another way... testing the partition now. it's formatting.

 

[garysgold]

Good luck 96accord. Hope it works for you.

Gary

 

[96accord]

Good luck 96accord. Hope it works for you.

Gary

Thanks Gary.

I followed the instructions from this:

Vista Forums - View Single Post - Windows 7 public beta is available now

since i was having problems with the partitions.

 

[darkassain]

its not deamons fault (well it is a little....lol)

it is actually Duplex's coding (the guys who created STPD [currently 1.56])

since Duplex Secure wont support it Deamon is between a rock and hard place (well you know what i mean...lol)

this is the same for punkbuster games too...

as for steam games i ran Portal fine....

maybe because it was not downloaded through steam? (cd version, [i mean the old one not orange box....lol])