Win 7(what doesnt work on it?)

[j.o.s.h.1408]

As the title suggests, what games and apps currently dont work with win 7? i might try it later on tonight but afraid it maybe incompatible with certain apps and games.

A mate of mine has already said how his music making apps dont work with win 7.

[scaryjim]

The Witcher, and anything using the same DRM software (can't remember the name of it off-hand, but could look it up later, or someone will probably just jump in after me and mention it )

p.s. Don't forget that Windows 7 does have an XP mode which basically runs a virtualised Windows XP environment - this should allow any older apps that work under Windows XP to run under Windows 7. I'm sure if you google it there's guides on how to do this

OK, done a bit more research - this apparently won't be available until release, will only be available to Business / Ultimate license-holders, and you'll have to download it, it won't be an in-the-box feature. On the other hand, it does sound damn fantastic

[menthel]

C64 games on tape. Not compatable at all. I can't fit them in the DVD drive.

[Paul Adams]

p.s. Don't forget that Windows 7 does have an XP mode which basically runs a virtualised Windows XP environment - this should allow any older apps that work under Windows XP to run under Windows 7. I'm sure if you google it there's guides on how to do this

OK, done a bit more research - this apparently won't be available until release, will only be available to Business / Ultimate license-holders, and you'll have to download it, it won't be an in-the-box feature. On the other hand, it does sound damn fantastic

I wouldn't get your hopes up with respect to "legacy gaming" - XP Mode is intended for legacy apps, not graphics-intensive games (which is why it's aimed at businesses).

Windows Virtual PC is more akin to Microsoft Virtual Server than Microsoft Virtual PC, in its ability to use (in fact require) hardware assisted acceleration - but more like Hyper-V in that the virtual machine is actually viewed through a custom Remote Desktop Cient connection.
(If you get to play with Virtual Windows XP, open a command prompt and enter the command "set" - you will see an environment variable named CLIENTNAME which tells you it's not a console connection.)

[TAKTAK]

I haven't come across anything that won't run in Win7...

Some things need a bit of persuasion, but most things have been fine, SCUMMvm works, so i'm a happy bunny

[Grey M@a]

I haven't come across anything that won't run in Win7...

Some things need a bit of persuasion, but most things have been fine, SCUMMvm works, so i'm a happy bunny

Only reason I am not running Windows 7 at present is the sheer lack of drivers for the shuttle innards for Windows 7. The vista drivers work to an extent but not fully Shuttle as always are slow to market with the drivers I need. The rest I can grab from the manufacturers websites. The netbook however is on Windows 7 and the only thing it did have a little moan at was when I was installing a few of the Introversion games.

[MadduckUK]

drift city

[unreal]

A mate of mine has already said how his music making apps dont work with win 7.

Yeah Pro Tools doesn't work.

But the worst problem is that M-Audio don't support Windows 7 yet, so my external audio controller was messing up the whole system as it would create BSOD's, lock up USB ports, etc.

That's about it though, everything else seemed to work!

[Jasp]

Totally sad but my cousin plays it, FlyFF, seems to be a issue with gameguard and the way it hooks onto the system files, apparently gameguard released a update but it has not been incorperated into the game yet.

[MadduckUK]

Totally sad but my cousin plays it, FlyFF, seems to be a issue with gameguard and the way it hooks onto the system files, apparently gameguard released a update but it has not been incorperated into the game yet.

i played it years ago, heard it was a "netbookable" game recently so tried to put it on there for messing about on, no go at the moment

[Georgy291]

audiosurf plays for about 30 sec then game freezes for me and restarts my comp

[j.o.s.h.1408]

does photoshop CS3,daemon tools and xfire work ok?

gunna give this OS a go now and if worse comes out of it will just reinstall vista

[Georgy291]

latest version off daemon tools was specificaly developed for win 7 so yeah that works

[j.o.s.h.1408]

And win 7 auto updates itself with the latest and greatest releases/patches?

[radhakr]

When I used the beta a few months back I saw a noticable differance in the performance of Ventrilo on 7 compared to XP. On 7 it tended to lag out a lot and be very sluggish (although it was still useable)... not sure if this was hardware or software related though, and it may not be of relevance to you. I expect if it was software related it would be fixed once 7 is released anyway.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

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