PC Games Hardware compared the Windows 7 RC with Vista and XP. They ran benchmarks in Fallout 3, Race Driver Grid, Far Cry 2, Paint.Net, 7-Zip and Cinebench. According to them Windows 7 is faster than Vista.
Windows 7 official support ended recently and inXile Entertainment are now pushing Bard's Tale IV players to install Windows 10 apparently. Considering it was originally playable in Windows 7, players are not liking the minimum system requirements change.
Building on the success of porting WoW's DX12 version to Windows 7, Microsoft has published help for other DX12 devs, which includes a runtime that supports all the features of Windows 10 October Update... including DirectX Raytracing.
That's right, DirectX 12 has come to Windows 7
Seems strange to port it to Windows 7 at the same time they started to notify customers it has reached its end of life lol
Woah, that's great actually! I can finally throw my Win 10 in the trash and go back to an OS that doesn't f*** up my games performance at each update.
I didnt know that was the boot time.
I may facking hope its faster then Vista, thats the point right???
Still a proud XP owner.
I think pretty much anyone who participated in the beta could tell you Window 7 currently falls somewhere between XP and Vista in the majority of benchmarks.
With a 'little' refinement Windows 7 is shaping up to be the OS Vista first promised to be, yet failed to deliver.
Interesting, I may actually purchase Windows 7, I only hope however they don't release 27 (exaggeration) different versions of the same OS, release a single 32bit and 64bit version of the OS.
i am installing win 7 RC1 right now, install was fast even on an old machine.