Windows 7 and Vista Drivers
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Preface: I will do my best to avoid the lavish praise of Windows 7 and stick to my opinions about running Vista drivers throughout this post. If I diverge, please verbally abuse me.
I recently built a new box with some mildly impressive specs. It can handle just about anything I throw at it, even surpassing crysis required specs. I decided a while back that I was going to dual boot with Linux and Windows because I wanted to be able to game with my snazzy new rig. I went with Linux Mint and have been really pleased. (Again, no OS reviewing, possibly later). I also went with Windows 7 RC and have been equally pleased (minus a few odd crashes when starting up games).
The main worry I had when choosing Windows 7 was that there are clearly no drivers for it yet. And having purchased an awesome video card, this was a genuine concern that I wouldn’t be able to use it to it’s full potential. Worry not. I can run Call of Duty: World at War on full blast (even hosting a co-op campaign) with absolutely no problem. I have yet to try something that will actually tax the video card (like the above mentioned crysis, which I may still do), but for the time being, I am supremely happy with the driver support.
And of course the Nvidia card I have has awesome Linux support too.
Preface: I will do my best to avoid the lavish praise of Windows 7 and stick to my opinions about running Vista drivers throughout this post. If I diverge, please verbally abuse me.
I recently built a new box with some mildly impressive specs. It can handle just about anything I throw at it, even surpassing crysis required specs. I decided a while back that I was going to dual boot with Linux and Windows because I wanted to be able to game with my snazzy new rig. I went with Linux Mint and have been really pleased. (Again, no OS reviewing, possibly later). I also went with Windows 7 RC and have been equally pleased (minus a few odd crashes when starting up games).
The main worry I had when choosing Windows 7 was that there are clearly no drivers for it yet. And having purchased an awesome video card, this was a genuine concern that I wouldn’t be able to use it to it’s full potential. Worry not. I can run Call of Duty: World at War on full blast (even hosting a co-op campaign) with absolutely no problem. I have yet to try something that will actually tax the video card (like the above mentioned crysis, which I may still do), but for the time being, I am supremely happy with the driver support.
And of course the Nvidia card I have has awesome Linux support too.