Win7 64bit, worth it?

[onfuzed]

Win 95 rules why change!!!!!!!

[rambo]

Win 95 rules why change!!!!!!!

hahahahahaha stil using q95.bat?

[lohphat]

I'm trying to talk myself into a $1,500 gaming computer with Win7 64 bit. So far I've been unsuccessful. My Windows partition is a 32bit Vista install on a crappy laptop.

[MH]

Why change from Win95? OK, I'll bite.

Get yourself an i7 with 8 gb of RAM. Try to run Win95 on it. That's why change.

[KillPixel]

Quake 4 works fine on win7 x64.

The only games I haven't been able to run on a 64 bit os are Riven and Putt-putt goes to the moon. For those things just use VMWare.

Even System Shock 2 runs on win7 x64.

I used to be VERY anti Windows 7, then I started using it. I like it.

Though I do miss my Nlited-to-death XP :[

EDIT: lol @ anti-virus software... I thought my grandma was the last person on the planet that used that stuff...

[lohphat]

To be fair, Riven is famously difficult to run on anything post Windows 98.

[KillPixel]

To be fair, Riven is famously difficult to run on anything post Windows 98.

Actually, not anymore. After a lot of digging on google I've found a method to install riven on any 32 bit os and be able to play without quicktime or disc swapping. It's just a few quicktime files you drop into the directory, some files you pull from the discs and a small edit to the riven.ini and BAM, works like a charm.

[talisa]

same here, ive never ever had problems with any programs, and quake4 installed fine from the original disc.

and performance on win7 64bit is lot better then previous windows versions

and yes, indeed, agree with lerster. if people have problems like that it has to do with their set-up of their hardware, not with the O/S.

ive never had a single problem with win7, every program works fine, and for real old games like win95 games or such, compatibility mode from win7 works wonders.
unlike the compatibility mode in win xp which 9 out of 10 times didnt help at all it, compatibilty mode in win7 works wonders for old games.

32bit programs work perfectly fine under win7 64bit, and indeed like MH said, 64bit is the future. more an more programs get 64bit versions whcih are capable of more complicated things and which are 4times as fast.

perfect example: winrar.
try unpacking something with 32bit winrar, or try unpacking the same file with 64bit winrar. with 64bit winrar packing and unpacking go more then 2 times as fast


in short: 64bit windows is definitely more then worth it. if you stay on 32bit windows you'll be having to upgrade to 64bit anyway some time cuz more and more programs get made in 64bit instead of 32bit. and the huge increase in performance is also very much worth it.

to what foq said:
anyone who gets less performance out of 64bit windows compared to 32bit windows should check their hardware setup

[omicron]

Quake 4 works fine on win7 x64.

The only games I haven't been able to run on a 64 bit os are Riven and Putt-putt goes to the moon. For those things just use VMWare.

Even System Shock 2 runs on win7 x64.

I used to be VERY anti Windows 7, then I started using it. I like it.

Though I do miss my Nlited-to-death XP :[

EDIT: lol @ anti-virus software... I thought my grandma was the last person on the planet that used that stuff...

Virus injection. You can get hit through java script, flash, PDFs, whatever. You're probably already infected if you don't use an AV.

[KillPixel]

Virus injection. You can get hit through java script, flash, PDFs, whatever. You're probably already infected if you don't use an AV.

It's pretty easy to tell if you're infected or not. Just to test my senses I ran malwarebytes and nod32, both negative results. Of course, I could have a zero-day virus, but that's unlikely.

Spending most of my life on the internet and being a script kiddie when I was, well, a kiddie, I have a pretty good idea of how, why and where you get viruses.

It's also my theory that just like using IE and Outlook make you not only vulnerable, but a target, using an AV like AVG, Norton, McAfee etc. makes you a target.

I've fixed hundreds (at least it feels like it) of computers, and all the ones that had AVs installed had been completed overrun by viruses. I don't run AV software and every time I had a virus I knew I was installing it and then could easily track it down and remove it from the registry and memory.

Of course, it all depends on the user. But I'm telling you, an AV is unnecessary for most computer literate people.

[MH]

So that aside, the whole "Quake 4 doesn't run on 64-bit Windows 7" thing was rubbish, then.

[foq]

to what foq said:
anyone who gets less performance out of 64bit windows compared to 32bit windows should check their hardware setup

Did you think I was serious?

[bluntz]

Viri scans are so 90's
Got RewT ?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

haha. being on the www is enough reason to justify some form of protection.I mean,if your going to play the field you might as well come prepared. unexpected fdisk's and reloads of operating systems aren't my idea of fun.

I used to swear by AVG,until some malware or virus owned it, and in the search for something better / able to clean my infections, Avast was found.

the end

[powerzord]

Ur gaming pc should not be used for browsing the net