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[Zai]

Once you've used Win7 for a while, especially the taskbar, using XP actually causes physical pain.  Plus manufacturers are going to start dropping support for it soon......

I highly doubt they'll be doing that anytime soon. Too many people hate Vista for them to consider dropping XP. I dunno about the new version of Windows though.

[Zironic]

I just think Microsoft needs to really choose a path - either give us a semi-user-friendly and rigid structured machine or choose for a pleasure machine, don't do both. It's an ugly half child.

[userpay]

Support for xp has pretty much already been dropped for the most part I've knowticed (I'm on xp now), if microsoft manages to pull off windows 7 that'll likely kill xp.

[Zironic]

But not on the game development and other fronts.

[Slackratchet]

No, the game industry itself is doing a wonderful job of killing off the PC Gaming world already.

[Creamcorn]

Completly foreign to the idea of OS, (mines XP, it runs fiine as far as I can tell) but does anyone know what Toady_One runs his computers on?

[Zironic]

MS DOS.

Cause he's pro.

[Qwernt]

After getting my graphics drivers updated, all is working well now.  don't have apples to apples hardware running different versions of windows so I won't be able to see if Windows 7 is worse or better (new hardware is about the only time I like to change windows versions).

As for xp, I think it may have a longer life, thanks to virtualization - lots of talk about that being the nifty compatibility story.

[Sir Finkus]

Completly foreign to the idea of OS, (mines XP, it runs fiine as far as I can tell) but does anyone know what Toady_One runs his computers on?

Nothing any of us have used.  Ever wonder what the month end project is?

[Zironic]

I always thought Toady was trying to communicate with God to share ideas...

Truthfully, If microsoft can make Windows 7, a non-intensive overall update to XP, it would be really useful.

[Bricks]

I think DF is developed using punchcards.

[jaked122]

Windows 7 isn't slow, if you're playing on a newer system, it can take advantage of newer hardware better than XP could.

[kein]

Same unplayable frame rates on Windows 7 for me as well. Amazingly Windows 7 itself runs fantastic on my laptop compared to XP. I've been playing a 3x3 area on an Aspire One for quite a bit with 60+ FPS on XP. I just installed Windows 7 = 0 FPS even at title screen with partial print enabled rendering it completely unplayable. It looks like I'll be re-installing XP just for DF, I'd run Ubuntu but I keep a copy of DF on a USB drive to play it on a Windows work computer. Though I suppose I could just copy the saves from the windows to Linux version, right?

[Janus]

I've now played through a couple of seasons of a middle-aged fortress in DF 40d11 using Windows 7 RC. Works great for me, and with a high framerate.

[Journier]

I've now played through a couple of seasons of a middle-aged fortress in DF 40d11 using Windows 7 RC. Works great for me, and with a high framerate.

I also have windows 7 system, and have no issues with dwarf fort, i bet its something hardware related for you guys, windows 7 doesn't have very mature drivers for the video cards yet, so id look into that.

once again, windows 7 is great runs dwarf fort perfectly.