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Offline Kuroshima

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #20 on: November 16, 2009, 04:50:19 PM »
Was vista really that bad?
Most of the criticism was from word of mouth...ran fine on my machines

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #21 on: November 16, 2009, 05:05:50 PM »
Was vista really that bad?
Most of the criticism was from word of mouth...ran fine on my machines
It took 8 hours to install SP1 on my machine. =/ Vista was a true memory hog in the beginning...

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #22 on: November 16, 2009, 05:13:00 PM »
If you just want to watch anime, then you don't need to upgrade from XP.

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #23 on: November 16, 2009, 06:48:23 PM »
-_-
didn't take me that long....that's all I can say...
I only had 4gB q6600 and x64.
Less than 2 hours for sure (2 hours is over estimating by a lot)

tbh I jumped on vista upgrade even though people were telling me it was a bad os... Despite that... Once I started using the os, it wasn't bad at all.

Btw, for those who think dx10 is pointless... You need bigger screens or something... There's so much improvement over dx9.

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #24 on: November 16, 2009, 07:08:34 PM »
I havent had any problems w codecs on win7. . .cccp works fine!


I just upgraded to win7 a couple of weeks back and I must say I like it a lot, totally wtfpwnz vista and . . .its better then xp. . .
this comparison is obviously not including macOSX

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #25 on: November 16, 2009, 07:27:17 PM »
I'd like to know what these games/programs are that are out there that don't run on Win7 without the XP emulator.  ???

I don't have anything specific, I've just been noticing a lot in the past few months that whenever I'm browsing a game/program's forums looking for some random tidbit of information, I tended to see a lot of stickies in regards to win7 specific issues. From the sound of this thread it's sounding like most of those are probably just user error issues.

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #26 on: November 16, 2009, 07:29:04 PM »
I shall refrain from making this a os war.
I think dx 11 will be available for vista as well. I'm just saying that I never had a problem with vista never had a problem with xp (just realized vista wasn't a part of this topic in the first place lol)

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #27 on: November 16, 2009, 07:41:25 PM »
No Worries I never used Vista in the first place, just heard a lot of bad things and XP was serving me well so never bothered attempting Vista.

XP still serves me well, but I've been wanting to see these directx 10 graphics and get my PC to register more than 3GB of ram, so I'm just hopping over Vista for the latest version.. Probably won't upgrade beyond 7 for many more years.

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #28 on: November 16, 2009, 09:45:31 PM »
7 will have dx11 :)
vista will too :)
IMO 7 is a more well rounded vista...

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2009, 10:09:57 PM »
Am not really liking 7 atmo, wish i kept Vista ;|

It's most probably because am not used to it yet, and i cba to play around with it atmo

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2009, 11:40:47 PM »
The main issue I'm looking at is RAM. Home Premium limits to 16GB.

Between my SLIed Video cards, and 4x 2GB Ram chips (I got them VERY cheap) I'm already more than 2/3 of the way to that limit. Yes it's useless on my XP, I know, Like I said VERY cheap.
I really don't understand having more than 1 gig on a workstation (although I suppose 2 is allowable if you run vms or do a lot of say, video editing).  I wouldn't use more than 16 gigs even in a highish-end server.

I suppose the fact that I'm operating very comfortably on a 20-gig hdd says something about my views on 16 gigs of ram, though.
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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #31 on: November 17, 2009, 01:42:47 AM »
Its probably 16gigs on your RAM sounds sexy.
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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #32 on: November 17, 2009, 01:52:36 AM »
14gigs of idle RAM sure sounds sexy... might as well buy a supercomputing cluster, which would likely have as much RAM as you have storage space (if not more).

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #33 on: November 17, 2009, 04:03:31 AM »
There is one concern for watching anime on Win7 with MPC, you may have an issue with subtitles not showing up at first. I believe you have to add a filter for DirectVobSub (under external filters in options). I can't remember the details and i can't seem to find the old thread that talked about this issue. It's not that big of a deal though, and i fixed it in 5 seconds.
The new CCCP, 09-09-09, fixes that problem.

I did a full clean install of CCCP (and i had already had 09-09-09 before on Vista) but it still woulden't show subs until i added the filter. /shrug

And as far as Vista was concerned i thought it was fine too but after the first few months i started getting chipset driver corruption errors and i couldn't run anything that was too graphic intensive. Consider that my laptop runs a GeForce 9600M GT with a C2D T9400 @2.53 GHz and i was having problems running 720p videos and games running at 5-15 frames; i was pretty annoyed.
After i upgraded to Vista SP2 It fixed my chipset driver issues but i was getting random spikes in my CPU at odd and completely random times, where it would stick at 50% or even 100% utilization and stay that way until i restarted a couple of times. Much of the "Vista is evil" i admit is negative hype centered around the huge missing driver fiasco at release along with the OS being a memory hog in general (RAM and HDD) but some of the criticism was well warranted with random shit like that that's happened to a few people.

Sorry. I don't want to make this thread about Vista, just had to put that out there.

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #34 on: November 17, 2009, 05:33:36 AM »
The main issue I'm looking at is RAM. Home Premium limits to 16GB.

Between my SLIed Video cards, and 4x 2GB Ram chips (I got them VERY cheap) I'm already more than 2/3 of the way to that limit. Yes it's useless on my XP, I know, Like I said VERY cheap.
I really don't understand having more than 1 gig on a workstation (although I suppose 2 is allowable if you run vms or do a lot of say, video editing).  I wouldn't use more than 16 gigs even in a highish-end server.

I suppose the fact that I'm operating very comfortably on a 20-gig hdd says something about my views on 16 gigs of ram, though.
I used to think that too until the upgraded my work PC from 1GB to 2GB. Even with XP it made a very noticeable difference. For gaming, 4GB is definitely as low as I would go. Bumping up from two to four made a HUGE difference for me.
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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #35 on: November 17, 2009, 05:36:47 AM »
Actually, the language thing is sort of fun. I think it's worth it if it's only 20 bucks. Best Buy Charges more than that for the difference.
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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #36 on: November 17, 2009, 05:53:42 AM »
Am not really liking 7 atmo, wish i kept Vista ;|

It's most probably because am not used to it yet, and i cba to play around with it atmo

i love how when you shake the window all others minimize
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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #37 on: November 17, 2009, 05:59:14 AM »
The main issue I'm looking at is RAM. Home Premium limits to 16GB.

Between my SLIed Video cards, and 4x 2GB Ram chips (I got them VERY cheap) I'm already more than 2/3 of the way to that limit. Yes it's useless on my XP, I know, Like I said VERY cheap.
I really don't understand having more than 1 gig on a workstation (although I suppose 2 is allowable if you run vms or do a lot of say, video editing).  I wouldn't use more than 16 gigs even in a highish-end server.

1 Gig is nothing. I have had my IDE (Dr. Scheme if anyone cares) use more than that (it had a tiny memory leak and was editing several large files of code with contextual highlighting turned all the way up). Windows 7 uses a good 700 Megs if I recall correctly (I have not had it running without an anti-virus, mTorrent, Trillian, WinAmp, Last.fm, several large PDFs, and Firefox with dozens of tabs open in several months so I forget).

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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #38 on: November 17, 2009, 06:13:27 AM »
It takes a little used to to get used to the "superbar". But once you get used to it, it's sorta cooler than the older Vista task bar.
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Re: Windows 7 / XP * Anime = X
« Reply #39 on: November 17, 2009, 06:41:17 AM »
It's annoying for folders, since they automatically group up together whether there's two folders and nothing else open or a thousand. Outside that I like it. Pinning to the bar is like a start menu merged with an OSX style dock.