Win 7(what doesnt work on it?)

[Paul Adams]

i just installed win 7 on my new hdd. seems like i dont have to install any drivers?? my sound, network and display worked straight away!

is it because i got teh drivers installed in a different hdd on vista? i still have vista installed on a diff hdd and dual booting atm

The automatic installation of drivers is still the same afaik - first check online for latest version if available, then check the local ("in box") driver store.
It doesn't trawl the whole disk or other partitions for possible drivers to my knowledge (that would be a very slow process and very rarely useful - plus tricky to handle situations where multiple driver files might be present in sub folders).

I too was impressed with how smooth the installation went on my home rig, only the RAID controller driver (which I don't use) doesn't have an immediately available driver.

I've also had use of the "check for solutions" feature in Vista, where missing drivers are later added to the store and the system provides the link to download them directly from the manufacturer (e.g. Intel).

[Georgy291]

i just installed win 7 on my new hdd. seems like i dont have to install any drivers?? my sound, network and display worked straight away!

is it because i got teh drivers installed in a different hdd on vista? i still have vista installed on a diff hdd and dual booting atm

nope,

you can use any drivers on windows 7, even if they are for win xp or vista.. on the system im running i got mostly vista drivers, how ever the printer im using doesnt have vista driver so i installed xp one and everythign works

you dont need to bother with drivers is because 7 has got a huge database off them already installed

[Agent]

nope,

you can use any drivers on windows 7, even if they are for win xp or vista.. on the system im running i got mostly vista drivers, how ever the printer im using doesnt have vista driver so i installed xp one and everythign works

This isn't correct. Windows 7 in all most all cases work with Vista drivers, but XP is very unlikely.
I just tried to force install XP drivers for a few pieces of hardware under Windows 7 and it wasn't having it, so you certainly can't use "any drivers" under Windows 7.

As for your printer - Either you can still use older drivers for printers on W7, the drivers are mislabelled, or it's actually using an inbuilt one despite what you've asked it.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/why_x...love_windows_7

One of the biggest complaints that XP users had with Windows Vista was its hardware incompatibilities. Older printers, scanners, network cards, and other peripherals simply didn't work with Vista. Here's the bad news: They won't work in Windows 7, either, because Windows 7 uses the same driver model as Windows Vista. So XP users will be out of luck.

you dont need to bother with drivers is because 7 has got a huge database off them already installed

Again, this is not the case. Windows 7 like all other previous Windows OS will include drivers that are usually 'OS startup' ones. For example, you're missing most of the stuff out of the nVidia driver suite if you just use the default Windows 7 driver. Update your drivers to the latest one like you would on any other Windows OS, do not stick with the default shipping ones if there is ones available from the manufacturer.

[NightOwl]

Windows 7 RC 64-bit: Anything that calls for, or requires a 32-bit Windows Explorer process to function is currently screwed as this has somehow got broken between the beta and RC versions - the Explorer window spawns but soon dies.

I'm having to use XP Mode for my (32-bit) email/news client, Turnpike - it works but it's a clumsy workaround.

[Georgy291]

my mum got a lexmark x2400 w7 didnt find any drivers off the OS and on the update, so.. i stuck the disk in, the disk has got no vista support at all just the xp drivers/ soft so i used that

[T D]

BioShock doesn't. Apparently some people have got it working but it runs worse than in XP and Vista.. both visually and performance wise. And they couldn't get DX10 working in BioShock.

[Paul Adams]

BioShock doesn't. Apparently some people have got it working but it runs worse than in XP and Vista.. both visually and performance wise. And they couldn't get DX10 working in BioShock.

BioShock working great here on Win7 x64 with DirectX 10 on an nVidia GTX285 with the latest beta drivers from June 3rd.

[Grymdawg]

Daemon tools doesnt work.
I have a few problems with ventrilo and also teamspeak, dont know why.

Also the G15 plug ins, some of them dont work at all

[Georgy291]

Daemon tools doesnt work

it works with me, try going on their website and downloading the latest version...im running 64bit 7 and it still works

[j.o.s.h.1408]

im going to have to go back to vista or xp. my internet doesnt work anymore

it use to work fine but all of a suddent it will say there is no internet connection available on my bebox router. i am with BeThere broadband and on my win xp laptop i am able to connect to the internet fine but not on my win 7 machine

only thing i can try is to manually force and install the drivers for my mobo but the thing is, the auto run feature of the drivers cd doesn't work on win 7

[Grymdawg]

Mine must of been an older version. i will try that out, cheers

[T D]

BioShock working great here on Win7 x64 with DirectX 10 on an nVidia GTX285 with the latest beta drivers from June 3rd.

Well that was a fairly quick fix.. only about 2 months ago I couldn't get Bioshock to work and everyone was complaining about it on every forum they could get their hands on. I thought I'd at least have to wait til RTM, guess not

[kalniel]

Well that was a fairly quick fix.. only about 2 months ago I couldn't get Bioshock to work and everyone was complaining about it on every forum they could get their hands on. I thought I'd at least have to wait til RTM, guess not

Bioshock has always worked on win7 for me.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

kal, did you have to manually install your drivers for your mobo? i diddnt have to do it BUT since this morning i cannot access the internet on win 7 anymore

[kalniel]

kal, did you have to manually install your drivers for your mobo? i diddnt have to do it BUT since this morning i cannot access the internet on win 7 anymore

Nope. Somethings aren't working like cool n quiet, and I think that's because it's a weird motherboard, however the computer worked straight away and it installed the right drivers for just about everything automatically. I think I had some minor problem with the PCI-wireless card, but either it sorted itself out or I put in the driver CD that came with the card and it worked fine (suspect the latter, though the driver CD only had 2000/xp drivers on it but that was enough to ID the card and windows 7 then found the correct drivers).

Specifically on your internet problems, what does the windows 7 diagnostic tell you?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

not sure but on the network icon on the bottom right hand corner it just says no internet connection found i can access the bebox router fine though.

how do i go about doing a diagnostic on win 7? i tried doing a repair on the LAN connection and said it cant find a problem.