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Epyx:
--- Quote ---I'll NEVER own Vista and if I ever do get Windows 7 it will be for my office PC
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FrizzleFried...as an IT professional I agree with you on Vista..it is utter crap...but honestly, Windows 7 *IS* the new XP...it is everything Vista should have been but wasn't. I would strongly urge you to get a copy of 7 Pro and give it a shot.
Andy...this is awesome news! I will be ordering one *very* soon.
Haze:
--- Quote from: Epyx on February 07, 2010, 03:49:52 pm ---
--- Quote ---I'll NEVER own Vista and if I ever do get Windows 7 it will be for my office PC
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FrizzleFried...as an IT professional I agree with you on Vista..it is utter crap...but honestly, Windows 7 *IS* the new XP...it is everything Vista should have been but wasn't. I would strongly urge you to get a copy of 7 Pro and give it a shot.
Andy...this is awesome news! I will be ordering one *very* soon.
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To be fair, Vista is a bit crap, but mainly because the default settings for services etc. are awful.
Windows 7 inherits the majority of the crap from Vista, but is better configured by default, and is much more up-to-date out the box, so it seems less crap.
A slipstreamed Vista install including all the latest service packs and updates with services etc. fine tuned isn't really any better / worse than a Windows 7 install. I don't like some of the changes they made to explorer etc. in Vista / 7, but they're not going away any time soon.
Windows 7 is what Vista should have been when it came out, but isn't really a radical step away from what a nice clean install of a fully up-to-date Vista is now. Windows 7 just has even more changes to come to terms with if you're used to the XP interface. Neither OS is really what I'd call progress, but, as you've seen, support for XP64 is pretty much 0.
wp34:
Vista with the latest SP is actually pretty good. I ran the 64-bit version for about 6 months and was very happy with it. I've been on Windows 7 for about two months and am even happier. Both were very stable--especially Windows 7. Oddly enough the only issues I've had have been with Microsoft products. Visual Studio, SSMS and Visual Source Safe would hang occasionally until I moved all source files off the network onto my local drive. Windows 7 is definitely worth trying.
helpmebuild:
Wow - looks like I ordered my card 2 weeks too early.
Would have been nice to know something was "coming soon" before I purchased the older version.
Ouch...
AndyWarne:
To cover all questions:
I will consider XP64 drivers but its a real handful supporting 5 versions already. I have resisted XP64 as it is no longer supported by MS nor virtually all hardware manufacturers.
Advanced MAME I dont believe works with any Radeon cards. Not sure why use Advanced Mame?
On this subject, although the card supportd DOS, I would never recommend anyone use DOS for Mame on modern hardware. It will be very limited, slow, no hardware stretch (in case you do need it for some games), very difficult to get sound support etc etc. Modern motherboards are pretty useless at running DOS.
There is no benefit in using a TV as these cannot support any other resolution other than TV res. The exception is SCART RGB connected TV which will work just like an arcade monitor.
Using a W-G D9800 at VGA-only resolutions is a huge waste because these monitors are designed (expensively) to be able to run at standard resolution (15Khz) and 25 and 31 Khz (VGA) as well. So you might as well buy a VGA monitor if you are not using the D9800 at anything other than VGA resolutions.
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