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***Henry*** · May 6th, 2009, 11:51

i just installed a 6800 card
and driver
seems fine so far
think ill try fs9 first
comes with dx9
H

***Dangerousdave26*** · May 6th, 2009, 11:58

Henry

Check your install my W7 beta installed with Directx11 already on it.

No need for DX9

I never tried to install FSX and see if it would work on W7 as I did not want to activate it.

Dave

***hey_moe*** · May 6th, 2009, 13:17

Well it just goes to show ya easy this OS is, cus if my man Henry can do it that means anybody can :ernae:

Originally Posted by Henry

i just installed a 6800 card
and driver
seems fine so far
think ill try fs9 first
comes with dx9
H

***Henry*** · May 6th, 2009, 15:51

Originally Posted by hey_moe

Well it just goes to show ya easy this OS is, cus if my man Henry can do it that means anybody can :ernae:

you got that right!:mixedsmi:
so far it seems good
love the way you can enlarge text me wife is allways
bitchin about the resolution i use
there dear its big aint it!
its a lot like vista in the view
im running it on a amd3000+
2 gigs ram
20" philips crt found the driver straight away
when i changed the video card to a 6800
figured that out in seconds
didnt like the 5500
but there are no drivers for that anyway
if i did not have a lot loaded on this vista machine
i would swap in a heartbeat
although it did save my files
on the xp drive that i installed over
so far i am impressed
H

***hey_moe*** · May 6th, 2009, 16:03

The MS player is nice to...have ya had a chance to view a video yet.

***Henry*** · May 6th, 2009, 16:07

Not yet but it shares the movies with my vista machine
and vice versa, i got no sound working yet
its onboard the mobo
thats next
H

**CG_1976** · May 6th, 2009, 16:24

Im enjoying my windows 7 experiance. A very fluid ops system and a array of fresh features that I didnt have in Xp Pro. My sims love this Ops system along with my Athlon Chips. So far microsoft has a winner.

***hey_moe*** · May 6th, 2009, 16:36

I think if ya went in with a positive feeling you will notice there are loads of changes to the good compared to Vista. The graphics are better and you have a lot more control over the letters,views and folders..plus loads mo

...Mike

JSpal · May 6th, 2009, 16:54

I'm up and running on the release candidate of 7 (64 bit) with FSX installed.

FSX runs alright so far. I have no add-ons, no service packs, and no acceleration added, so I would expect it to be easy on the frame rates thus far.

My computer is nothing exotic by any means, so I would imagine that 7 will run fine on anything that will run Vista. My overall 7 rating is 5.5, but that's because of the crappy numbers that the old harddrive I pulled out of storage to experiment with 7 is dragging it down. The rest of my numbers are 6.5 or higher.

I'm going to try adding some add-on and either SP2 or Acceleration this evening and see where it goes.

So far, it doesn't seem much different that Vista to me. It seems like Vista with a few changes - most notably the name - to get away from the stigma that Vista comes standard with.

***Dangerousdave26*** · May 6th, 2009, 17:15

Originally Posted by Alexraptor

Windows 7 RC1 is pants for FSX.... wont even run it.
Gives me an error about not having DirectX 9...

This is just for comparison but I loaded FSX tonight. (did not activate it).

It runs fine on W7 Beta. W7 Beta came with DX11 pre installed.

Go to your system32 folder and look for dxdiag.exe. Run it. look in the lower right hand corner and see what version of DX you have.

It will probably be a couple of weeks before I can load RC1 but to me it seems like it should run with no problem.

JSpal · May 6th, 2009, 20:35

I got FSX running no problem. Played around with it for about 20 minutes. I didn't need to do any tricks to make it work, just stuck the disk in and it worked.

When I tried to install Acceleration, it locked up and crashed Windows Explorer - which restarted itself after a few minutes, but nothing on the start menu would work. I had to hard restart Windows from within the Task Manager.

Strike one.

Second try, I right clicked on Acceleration's setup file to try to run it in XP Compatibility mode. Just right clicking on the file locked up Windows Explorer. W.E. restarted itself again, but again nothing on the start menu worked. I had to go into task manager to shut down.

Strike two.

Third time, I tried copying and pasting all the files from the Acceleration CD to the desktop to try to install it from there. I've had this work in the past, especially with slightly scratched disks - which is the case with my Acceleration disk.

It started copying the files to the desktop, said "5 minutes remaining", then it said "10 minutes remaining", then it said "16 minuted remaining". I took the dogs for along walk and came back 45 minutes later and it was still stuck at "15 minutes remaining" and the progress bar showed no progress.

I hit the cancel button on the time remaining dialogue box and surprise surprise, Windows Explorer crashed, nothing on the start menu worked, hard to go into the Task Manager to shut down.

Strike three.

I pulled the Windows 7 harddrive out of my system, hooked up my old XP X64 harddrive.

It seems to me that the 64bit Release Candidate still needs some work. I don't think in this case that it's a compatibility problem, I think it's a stability problem with Windows Explorer. The scratched Acceleration disk certainly may have exacerbated the problem, but it should not have crashed Explorer. I installed this same copy of Acceleration in my XP X64 drive no more than a month ago.

**RickN** · May 8th, 2009, 13:25

Any suggestions on a good free anti-virus to use while I am testing Windows 7?

***hey_moe*** · May 8th, 2009, 13:46

I'm using AVG security with no problems...Mike

**RickN** · May 8th, 2009, 15:15

Thanks Moe. I just downloaded AVG too.

One thing I can say about Windows 7 at this point is, it sure is purty. Now if I can figure out how to turn off all the bells and whistles and get a clean OS for work I will be happy.

I would rather have Linux but so far can not find the accounting package I need.

EDIT: I am running it on my old AMD 3700+ test rig and getting most 4.5s except for the old 6600LE video card I have stuck in it which is rated at 2.9. So far it all works OK and it even runs Firefox OK. I bet MS is going to love the information they get back from my rig. Firefox, Open Office, Quickbooks, etc. Not an MS app in the bunch.