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[Narmy]

The problem with Windows 7 and DF is the Microsoft GFX drivers.. DF uses OpenGL, and Microsoft develop DirectX so naturally support for OpenGL with their drivers are hideous.

Use the drivers from your hardware manufacturers.

That goes without saying.... why would somebody use a Microsoft driver for an ATI or Nvidia graphics card?

Anyways, I have had the RC of Win7 64-bit for months and DF ran like a dream. Just this week I formatted my computer and installed the official Win7 64-bit Home Premium but have not tried DF on it yet.

[Nadaka]

I've been using win7 now for a little under a week and DF works just fine.

[Whitney]

Just needed to update my Video Driver. I'm not very tech-savvy, so I'll describe the process for those who need it.

-Go to your Control Panel
-Click "System and Security"
-Click "Device Manager", it should be next to "System"
-Look at "Display adapters". Click the arrow (or plus) to view the contents.
-Right click the only file in there, hit "Update Driver Software"

Woosh!

[LeoLeonardoIII]

I'll wait as long as possible to change-grade. Basically once I find software that I really want that won't work on XP I'll change to Win7. I'm glad I skipped Vista entirely. I still haven't seen benchmarking graphs that show just how much more efficient the OS is compared to XP - and that is the complete and exclusive extent of my desire to upgrade from XP. If it's not a whole lot more efficient, what are they really offering us?

[Narmy]

Just needed to update my Video Driver. I'm not very tech-savvy, so I'll describe the process for those who need it.

-Go to your Control Panel
-Click "System and Security"
-Click "Device Manager", it should be next to "System"
-Look at "Display adapters". Click the arrow (or plus) to view the contents.
-Right click the only file in there, hit "Update Driver Software"

Woosh!

Not a great idea to do it like that. Better to go to the site of your graphics card manufacturer and download the latest driver from there.

For ATI Radeon cards: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

For Nvidia GeForce cards: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

[Thief^]

At least for nvidia, the ones Windows Update has are very up-to-date these days.

[Halconnen]

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?

Late response on my side, but I myself have a theory that he develops and runs the game on DwarfOS, a custom operating system that runs on a combination of a quern and a screw pump. More recently, after Scamps got big enough, he switched the quern for a millstone powered by a scamps-powered oversized hamster-wheel, explaining both the increased speed he's been working at lately, and why Scamps intruding on him subsequently puts a sudden stop to development for the duration of his visit.