Are Hardcore PC Gamers Using Windows 7 Over Vista?

[Grahwo]

Douh?
Win XP = Old balls.
Vista = balls
Win 7 = Shaved balls dipped in honey.

Win 7 is way better to play with =)

WIn 7 deems to take half the CPu power and memory after you have worked with it (vista seems to take 75%ish) . you have DX10 (something you don't get if you still stick around to XP) so I say, win 7 is your best choice.

 

[sinny777]

Runnin Windows 7 here, and I have no intention whatsoever of going back to XP. Main reason being 64bit, which opens the door for massive amounts of memory. In my opinion, W7 offers the first worthwhile 64bit OS yet. As far as compatibility goes, I had some video driver problems at launch, but within a week nVidia had it sorted out. I haven't had a problem since then, my computer keeps itself up to date without being intrusive. I run all sorts of games, old and new, and have had no compatibility issues. Steam users will probably enjoy the way Steam integrates into the start menu, I don't remember if they did that in vista, but it is nice to be able to launch games from the start menu without having to have icons for each one. All and all, I think W7 is a worthy successor to XP. Still tryin to get used to Ctrl+Shift+Esc, though.

 

[bpm195]

I'm planning to upgrade from XP to 7 whenever I get a free license to it though I strongly prefer Ubuntu (aside from the lack of Direct X). None of the features they add are particularly compelling, and I've had much better luck with third party software than the solutions Windows provides.

However, if an Windows ever improves multiple screen support enough that I can start using my TV as a second monitor on a whim then I'd pay for the upgrade.

 

[Joey245]

Well, Vista wasn't BAD, per se, it was just a total pain in the ass.

Plus, Windows 7 is the only operating system I can get my steam copy of Mass effect to work on, so I'm going with that.

 

[NLS]

Been using W7 since th first public beta, and it's awesome. Jumped straight from XP to 7 and I love it. Of course, I've had some problems, but most of them seem solved by now.

 

[Nova5]

The last few years of O/S on my laptops:

2007 Q1 - 2008 Q2: Windows XP x64 on Toshiba A215
2008 Q3 - 2009 Q3: Windows Vista x64 Ultimate on Toshiba A215 / HP 1030US / Toshiba X305
2009 Q4 - Present: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate on Toshiba X305

Had a few issues with driver support for XP x64. Took me two days to solve; mainly the wi-fi driver. Vista had no problems going in on the Toshibas, but the HP wasn't remotely stable.

7 has been amazing from the day of installation. No driver issues, an easier-to-modify interface, and far more efficient resource allocation (compared with Vista). I've yet to see any instability, and it hasn't locked up once. MS finally got it right, far as I can tell.

 

[Bob_F_It]

Also, remember that Windows 7 actually has Windows XP contained within it (if you bought the professional or ultimate versions). So you get the best of both worlds that aren't Vista.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Have I upgraded? Yes and no. I have Windows XP Pro 32bit and Windows 7 Pro 64bit right now. Nice thing is, games are on a different hard drive, so I don't have to reinstall all of them (like all my games on Steam, they work perfect in both, except the saves don't carry over, go figure). But, eventually starting the process of moving everything from XP to 7 and just using 7.

 

[AntiAntagonist]

I'm contributing to the 19.5% using 64bit Win7.

So far everything runs smoothly. I haven't needed to use the built in virtual machine yet. The interface has changed slightly, but it's not bad. Most of what I do I have as quicklaunch icons in XP, and now the "pinning" solution works very well for me. Just wish I could get the Start menu back to its old self.

 

[Tiamat666]

I was actually suprised I like 7 so much. I got no issues with it.
Skipped Vista.
XP was insufficient, because I want to be able to use more than 3 GB RAM.

XP has nothing to do with the 3GB RAM limit. 32 bit has something to do with it, and there are 32 and 64 bit versions of XP. I have 64 bit XP with 4GB RAM installed on my computer.

There are also 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7, so I hope you got the 64 bit version if you intend to use more than 3 GB of your RAM.

 

[thenoblitt]

Go i cant tell you how much i hate vista, i much prefer XP to both of them but to answer the question yes windows 7 is so much better then vista

 

[Steve the Pocket]

My biggest reasons for upgrading from Vista were pretty minor, since like most late adopters I had never had any real problems with Vista, but they added up:

(A) All my hardware was supported out-of-box (besides my tablet), so I didn't have to load down my memory with third-party drivers. (This is generally the case when upgrading to a version of Windows that's significantly newer than the computer, and probably the strongest case for upgrading in general.)

(B) My computer had come with 32 bit Vista for some weird reason despite being a 64 bit machine with four gigs of RAM (32-bit Windows can only use up to three), as well as the usual shovelware and add-ons that probably hurt performance. A clean install of Windows 7 solved both of those problems.

(C) I had already been using the beta and release candidate just for fun and got too used to the new features to want to go back. May as well get used to the new status quo!

(D) My hard drive semi-failed (I was still able to get my files off it but it wasn't practically usable anymore) a few months ago, forcing me to get a new one, and I wasn't entirely sure I'd even be able to get a full install off my backup DVD, so I decided to just pop the release candidate on. Which of course led to even more of (B).

(E) I was able to wrangle my way into getting it as a gift because I hadn't been able to come up with anything for my Christmas list.

In the end, it was a fairly easy decision to make. The fact that I was upgrading from Vista, which meant no loss of system resources (Vista and 7 have the same requirements, both way higher than XP) or backwards compatibilty (a TON of stuff that worked in XP breaks in Vista, sometimes in hilarious ways), helped a lot too.

Also, remember that Windows 7 actually has Windows XP contained within it (if you bought the professional or ultimate versions). So you get the best of both worlds that aren't Vista.

Sort of. You can obtain Virtual Machine with XP Mode if you have Windows 7, but it doesn't come with. Same as the Windows Live Essentials.

EDIT: Oh, and one other thing. You know how they usually say getting a new version of Windows right away is a bad idea because it's always unstable until they've patched it up? That's not a problem in this case because Windows 7 is heavily based on Vista SP2's core, to the point of being basically just Vista SP3 with a price tag and some new features. Plus it had so many users during the beta phase that it's practically a year past release already.

 

[AceDiamond]

I guess since my PC is soon hitting its one year mark I might finally see a point to upgrading to 7 even though I don't feel like backing up and reinstalling almost a Terabyte worth of data when I (unsurprisingly) have had little trouble with Vista.

 

[ItsAPaul]

Well no crap, but I have XP, so I'm not buying another operating system no matter what it does differently. My computer's OS won't make me money so theres no reason to buy it as far as I can tell.

 

[Aerodynamic]

I use it, came with my new laptop and I absolutely love it, almost nothing wrong with it.

 

[velcthulhu]

I upgraded from vista to 7, and I didn't lose any of my data- even some of my programs still worked. And it's a huge improvement over vista, in that it actually works.