Comments on: Windows 7 – Better for Gamers?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:06:31 +0000

Well i just got the retail windows 7 now and im going to start the installer here in a sec, i hope my gaming takes a nice leap too! [Im using the intel 950 GMA]

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:39:09 +0000

Ive recently installed windows 7 on my laptop that i use for gaming i noticed a massive jump in my fps so much that i could up my graphics settings on most games i now run borderlands bf2 bf2142 and WoW all on high-ultra

By: Tracy Sells

Tracy Sells — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:36:34 +0000

I have been using Win 7 since RC1 was released. It has been very stable. Games do seem smoother from Vista to Win7. I am running a quad core with a 9800GTX so the games were decent anyways. I would say there was an average of 5-10 FPS jump in TeamFortress 2 with settings all the way up at 1680×1050. The biggest change though was switching between full screen game mode and the desktop. It was a much smoother switch and when switching back to a game in progress the transition time was less than half.

By: Gibson

Gibson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:29:02 +0000

I have seen a General Performance increase with my games, i however don’t believe myself that the windows effects the FPS of my games, this generally has to do with the GPU FOR ME, but i did notice that 10-15 increase in “some” games when i booted up windows 7, though i can’t rly tell the difference as vista and 7 our generally the same in terms of Gaming performance on Aero etc..i most certainly seen better multi-core performance for games in windows 7 then vista.

By: Marc Erickson

Marc Erickson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:28:14 +0000

Chris – I think you need a better home office. Here’s one: http://www.biscade.com/office/

:-)

By: savedR

savedR — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:37:11 +0000

See, I play a lot of free MMOs, and therein lay my only real problem with W7. They are almost all Korean, and they all use anti-cheat programs, and a bunch of those didn’t work on 7, meaning I couldn’t play my favorite games. I’m sure that’ll be over soon though, now that it’s released to retail. I can definitely say it seemed to do things MORE INTELLIGENTLY than Vista; there were a million little tweaks in the operating system that just made a whole lot of sense.

I wouldn’t go out and buy it, but if I bought a pc with it installed, I wouldn’t revert like I did with Vista.

By: FrenchGuy

FrenchGuy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:51:00 +0000

I wonder what game it is because in general XP still offer more FPS than others. I had more FPS with GTA 4 on W7 but that was very exceptional.

As for the last question – I would prefer losing Windows. Then I can use Ubuntu to surf online.

By: Aditya Banerjee

Aditya Banerjee — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:03:59 +0000

I haven’t used Windows 7 personally yet, but from the review on Anandtech, Win 7 performs pretty similarly to Vista on the gaming front – http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3666