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Windows 7 Beta
« on: February 06, 2009, 04:35:32 AM »
I asked some Admin, a little while ago, when I was getting a new install key of I could test SSM07 out on windows 7 beta out. He said yes I could and that would be great!. So with out further wait here is my results.

Space Shuttle Missions works great on Windows 7 Beta, it worked so well that I even saw an improved performance while running it. It is my honest opinion that those who do have a lower end machine will get better perfomace over all from windows 7 also. I have completely switched from Vista to Windows 7 Beta, I am finding that 7 is more stable then Vista in its most stable version on the market right now. But when August 01 2009 rolls around I will either have to buy Windows 7 if it is released by then, or reluctantly put Vista back on. So that you know what the specs are on my rig that is running 7 right now here they are:

Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit Build (6.1, build 7000)
Dell XPS 420
Q6600 @2.40GHZ (4CPUs), ~2.4GHZ
3070MB Ram
DirectX 11
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS
1576MB Ram
1920X1200

I really love this new OS it is really awesome, and very fast to boot. My downloads on the internet have improve greatly. I have found that all my programs are working better then ever on it too, I am going to true some old ones later, these old one would not function at all or correctly on vista, so I want to see how they do on 7.

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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009, 04:39:48 AM »
good to know :)
we've installed the Win7 Beta at work and it looks very stable to us too..
IE8 still hangs alot and the new Media player is great (but still somewhat buggy).

I'm a bit dissapinted, because all the things they talked about, the new kernel and the new FS seem to be "gone". and we are down to a neat sleek and working Vista..

Win7 will be what Vista was supposed to be - rather then the next step.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2009, 01:49:21 PM »
We've also tested this on an Nvidia machine with almost exactly the same specs as yours and got the same impression. Thank you for the report Conan!

Anybody with a modern ATI card + driver willing to give Win7+SSM a try?

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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2009, 09:01:00 PM »
I'm willing to try Windows 7 x64 edition again.  When I tested it last month, I got all kinds of graphical corruption on my GTX260 within SSM2007.  The same drivers worked fine on Vista x64.

BUT....since then, Nvidia has released newer drivers (January 22 version 181.22).  I'll give it a go this weekend.

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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2009, 04:07:46 AM »
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2009, 06:16:01 AM »
Your welcome admin, one new note I Had some issues with the Graphics driver that downloads in the update. THis driver seems a little buggy as it keep stop responding, I uninstalled old and downloaded the new driver from nvidia. All is very well now, just to let you all know what games I have running on 7 they are FSX, I want to take a minute and note that with fsx I noted a huge Frame rate increase, I was runing at around 25 to 35 FPS depending on scenery and what not. I set the same settings that I had in vista on 7, and was kicking out over 40 to 50 FPS! So I was able to increase the setting within FSX. The other game are Chessmaster 10, Hacker evolution. I want to also note that all my addon for FSX work perfectly if not better, they are FSPasengerX, and Active Sky Advanced. THe only software that I have had problems with is Norton 360 and CA Internet Security. On Norton the program could not reconize Windows 7 at all, and the only issue with CA is that the Spyware program in it could not reconize it also. But the antivirus on it worked find with a couple of samll issues of not being able to tell what a certain kernel in 7 is. just tell it to allow and all in fine.  Also all my drivers for my hardware is detected and works perfectly, I Have an external ONE TOUCH HDD that it detects with no prob and an IPOD Classic, X52 Joy, well everything works, so my only issue are the AV programs that all. Also I want to say sorry for any misspelling  I just get things backwards and what not. So my words and letters get confused. I don't know how to spell the learning disablity

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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2009, 07:24:41 PM »
No go for me again.  GTX260 with the latest Nvidia 181.22 drivers on Win7 x64.  Black scrolling horizontal lines run through SSM2007.

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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2009, 10:00:58 PM »
I have an ATI HD4870, and I'd be happy to test it. Will I need a new key, or will my current one work?
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2009, 10:43:23 PM »
You can download the free beta and you get a key then. But Use IE to download, as Firefox threw a spanner when trying to get the download.
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2009, 10:53:41 PM »
I've actually had the Beta installed for some time now. I was talking about the SSM key. :)
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2009, 10:58:14 PM »
ah, try using the demo for now :)
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2009, 11:31:46 PM »
D'Oh! Thanks for the tip, I would never have thought of that!
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2009, 11:36:35 PM »
thinking about it, I'm not too sure if its updated with the updates to reflect changes in the retail version
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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2009, 11:52:57 PM »
I have an ATI HD4870, and I'd be happy to test it. Will I need a new key, or will my current one work?

Correct. You only need the demo for this - no key, no hassle :)

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Re: Windows 7 Beta
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2009, 12:13:22 AM »
Well, it aeems like a no-go to me, only because I can't install the proper ATi drivers. They released a specific set just for Windows 7, and it always hangs up on the install. I've also tried updating them through Windows, but it says that the generic drivers are the most up to date. ::)

I tried the 9.1 drivers for Vista x64 on Win7, and I managed to get SSM to launch, but the screen kept flashing and the game was not playable.

I'll keep trying.
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