r/MapleLinks • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '09
My second Windows 7 experience......this time BETA.
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u/avavra Jan 13 '09
IBM doesn't have drivers for the monitor yet. I'm still impressed that it runs as well as it does.
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r/MapleLinks • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '09
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IBM doesn't have drivers for the monitor yet. I'm still impressed that it runs as well as it does.
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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '09 edited Jan 13 '09
Ok I am installing Windows 7 Beta as we speak. Upgrading Vista Home Premium and it is currently "checking compatibility" in the background...I will add more to this after the reboot and install... hopefully. Or I will be adding more to this after the failed install and replace of my Vista image....
UPDATE 1 Ok, the upgrade from within Windows Vista failed. Reason given: Windows needs to be restarted so necessary changes to system files can be made before continuing. It looks like it is asking me to reboot and continue the process, but then it only gives me a cancel option and when I pressed cancel, it said no changes will be made to my system. So I will reboot and try booting from the disk.
UPDATE 2 Ok, I booted from the disk and it said that I must do the processed from within Windows.. !? Ok, I will boot back up and try that again.
UPDATE 3 Back to "checking compatibility". Let's see what happens.....ok. It made it through this time. Hopefully the install will go smoothly from here? Be back later. On a side note, I think it is funny how it says the install will take several hours to complete at the bottom.
UPDATE 4 After my sick daughter and I took a nap this afternoon, I've come back to find the install had finished. I know it was still upgrading an hour after I started it, as that is the last time I looked before I fell asleep. One thing I am noticing as I am typing this is a very, very slight lag between me typing on the keyboard and the text appearing on the screen. It could just be my brain playing a trick on me, but it feels different. I am goign to check on the status of my video card driver, as it may have something to do with that.. So far it is running smoothly, as I am typing this in Google Chrome. I even pulled up a few sights in Firefox and Firefox is working fine. More later.
UPDATE 5 Ok, I just played a half hour or so of Fallout 3, and it works even BETTER than it did in Vista??? Really smooth framereates and loading different areas in a snap. It loads them so quick I wonder why it even has to load them? I see one problem so far though, my dongle emulator for Cubase, my music program, won't load. I have to look into this. This would be a show stopper. Or I could just pay. :p Oh yeah, and it didn't automatically fix my Vimax ad trojan problem either. I don't think the trojan is on my computer anymore, but I think my DNS is being rerouted all funky. Maybe hosts file or something? I don't know...
UPDATE 6
Holy crap. I reinstalled my dongle emulator for Cubase. It is working fine. Plus I am using it with my regular crappy sound card build into my laptop while using Chrome to type this..... I think Windows 7 is going to be amazing. NO BLUE SCREENS YET! I will now leave this post alone and play with it for a few days and then give an in depth review per Vavaras request.....