Drive the game to play the game to assess Windows7 compatibility

Windows 7 coming soon means Microsoft's default Windows Vista failure, but users never consider the success and failure of which generation of operating systems, because our users will only choose the best products.

Windows 7 Beta trial version

As far as the media, users and many of our editors use the Windows 7 Beta trial version, Windows 7 is a real The perfect operating system, it is not only more beautiful than the Windows Vista interface, it is more user-friendly, and the most important thing is that Windows 7 runs much faster than Windows Vista, and the hardware resource usage is much smaller.

Windows 7 starts with a magical mystery

Of course, the advantages of Windows 7 are far more than that. It also contains a lot of secrets that require more users. I continue to dig, and today I will stand on the player's point of view, to explore the use of Windows 7, a powerful operating system that has not yet been released.

Today our test will be divided into the following sections to understand the game usage of Windows 7.

● Graphics card driver compatibility comparison

● Graphics card difference between 3D running performance between Windows 7 and Vista

● DirectX 9 game compatibility comparison

● DirectX 10 game compatibility comparison

● PhysX pure physical effects game compatibility comparison

● Windows 7 support for the game

Windows 7 as the latest generation of Microsoft The operating system, after the installation is completed, takes up less than 10 GB of the C drive system space, which is nearly half that of Windows Vista. However, Windows 7 has not been reduced in user-friendliness due to slimming space. After the user installs Windows 7, the hardware on the PC has been automatically configured with the required drivers. How can users not install any complicated products without special requirements? Drivers, start the Windows 7 journey directly.

After the Windows 7 system is installed, it is no longer necessary to install the driver for the beginners.

Of course, as a game user, we hope to maximize the performance of all hardware. Even if updating the graphics card driver is a common thing to do, but Windows 7 has not yet been released, chip vendors will naturally not launch drivers for Windows 7, can you install Windows Vista drivers under Windows 7? For this we have made the following attempts.

18.22 driver installed under Windows Vista system

18.22 driver installed under Windows 7 system

We use in test NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 graphics card, although the driver automatically installed through Windows 7 can also run normally, but the performance is reduced by 20%, so we used NVIDIA's latest driver version of the 181.22 version of For Vista, I did not expect a very smooth installation, after this We tried several similar drivers and achieved the same effect. This shows that Windows 7 and Windows Vista kernel have many similarities.

After successfully installing the graphics card driver, we started testing the 3D performance.

● Test System Hardware Environment

In order to reflect the maximum performance of each graphics card, we chose a powerful test platform for this test. The hardware platform used for graphics performance testing consists of a CORE 2 QUAD Q9650 CPU, a P45 motherboard, and 1GB*2 dual-channel DDR2-1066 memory. Details and software environment settings are shown in the following table:

System Hardware Environment CPU Intel Core 2 QUAD Q9650 (Quad Core /333MHz*9 /12MB Shared L2 Cache) Memory Module OCZDDR21066 1GB*2 Motherboard ASUS P45 Display card GeForce GTX280

(G200-300/1024MB /core: 602MHz /Shader: 1296MHz /memory: 2214MHz) Hard disk Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA (320GB /7200RPM /16M cache /30GB NTFS system partition) power supply Great Wall 650W display Samsung T260 (26 inch LCD /1920 * 1200 resolution)

● Test system software environment

Operating system and driver operating system Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1

(Chinese version /version number 6001)

Microsoft Windows 7 Beta trial version

(English version /version number 7000) motherboard chipset driver IntelP45 for Vista

(WHQL /version number 9.0.0.1008) Graphics driver NVIDIA Forceware for Vista

(WHQL /version number 181.22) Desktop environment 1920*1200_32bit 60Hz synthesis test software and game 3D synthesis test Software 3Dmark06 (Futuremark /version 1.10)

3Dmark Vantage