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Subject: Anyone have Windows 7 yet?


drifterlee ( ) posted Thu, 22 October 2009 at 9:25 PM · edited Tue, 26 November 2024 at 9:59 AM

I'm thinking about upgrading and I wonder if anyone else has yet and how Poser runs on it?


JenX ( ) posted Thu, 22 October 2009 at 9:59 PM

 Everything works just fine on Windows 7 :)  I've been running the Release Candidate Windows 7 since before Poser 8 came out ;)

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replicand ( ) posted Thu, 22 October 2009 at 10:17 PM

 Also running the Release Candidate, skipped Vista completely. In terms of efficiency, may be as awesome as Windows 2000 once was (the best Windows ever in my opinion). But been happily doing the Mac thing for a while. Seriously considering to use it in a dual boot environment.


RFreise ( ) posted Thu, 22 October 2009 at 11:59 PM

Just installed and have to say it was the easiest windows upgrade I ever did and everything is running fine


mouser ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 12:07 AM

I was considering it when I saw the Family Pack priced at 150$, converted thats about 162$ Australian Dollars.
Seemed a good price but Microshaft arent selling the Family pack here in Oz and all prices here have no relevence to the exchange rate, ie rippoff.


DCArt ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 12:46 AM

Quote - Just installed and have to say it was the easiest windows upgrade I ever did and everything is running fine

Agreed!!

Only thing I ran up against that was weird was having to type the dashes in on the serial numbers, even though it said they automatically filled them in. I kept getting an "invalid serial number" message until I entered the dashes manually. On TWO computers, with two separate serial numbers, so it wasn't just a fluke.

Weird, huh?



Lucifer_The_Dark ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 3:06 AM

I was using the Beta up till a couple of weeks ago & plan to upgrade when some spare cash comes my way, I used Vista for a while as well & would say the difference between them is like WinME & XP in performance.

Windows 7 64Bit
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CauriBlackthorne ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 1:08 PM · edited Fri, 23 October 2009 at 1:09 PM

Windows 7 rocks, I´m running the RC 64 bit,and yesterday my preordered copy arrived. I was one of the lucky people to grab it for about 55 Euros. It fastens up a lot of things and gave my old computer new life. Had no software problems so far.



drifterlee ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 2:19 PM

Did you have to do a fresh install??


Khai-J-Bach ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 2:22 PM

from XP you will have to fresh install, there's no Upgrade route. 

tho a fresh install is the better idea anyway.

Personally I'm setting our machines to dual boot XP / Win7 64, and then transfering the files over to Win7 once I've reinstalled my programs. I'll then retain XP as a backup OS.



LostinSpaceman ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 7:38 PM

My pre-ordered Win 7 Pro got shipped out at 6:15am this morning. I expect I'll see it next week some time.


Kenmac ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 9:30 PM

I've also been beta testing the various beta and RC versions on my Eee PC netbook since January and it runs great. I'm still using Vista on this desktop computer but that'll change as of tomorrow as I received the Windows 7 Professional DVD, that I pre-ordered back in August, today.


Giolon ( ) posted Fri, 23 October 2009 at 9:38 PM

I spent all evening installing it and all my programs last night.  Running 64-bit Pro here, coming off of over two years on Vista (32-bit for a year and 64-bit for a year and a half).  Runs like a charm.  Did a clean install.  Poser (6, 7, Pro) and Vue (7) both run great!  So does WoW. he he :)

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LostinSpaceman ( ) posted Sat, 24 October 2009 at 4:01 AM

Not sure I want to do a clean install and have to hunt for drivers myself. Besides this is going to probably be a one shot upgrade deal since I don't have original Vista disks with this PC and no way to get Vista back once I move forward unless I rush out and buy a new hard drive to Ghost my original onto. (It's a thought.)


Lucifer_The_Dark ( ) posted Sat, 24 October 2009 at 8:08 AM

When I did a clean install of Win7 I only had to find a single driver myself for my soundcard which is getting a bit long in the tooth, everything else just worked straight away with no problems.

Windows 7 64Bit
Poser Pro 2010 SR1


JenX ( ) posted Sat, 24 October 2009 at 9:39 AM

Attached Link: http://www.burgerkingjapan.co.jp/news/win7.php

I found this funny...BK in Japan is advertising a Windows 7 Whopper :lol: 

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MikeJ ( ) posted Sat, 24 October 2009 at 9:41 AM · edited Sat, 24 October 2009 at 9:41 AM

Quote - When I did a clean install of Win7 I only had to find a single driver myself for my soundcard which is getting a bit long in the tooth, everything else just worked straight away with no problems.

Yeah, well beware of that. The MS drivers are just generic crap for the most part. For example, it may say that it loaded your Nvidia/ATI graphics driver and even list the correct model number, but it's little more than a replacement for the old standard, generic VGA driver and most definitely won't be current.
Motherboard drivers, audio and video drivers, and everything else should be installed from the manufacturer, where available.



LostinSpaceman ( ) posted Sat, 24 October 2009 at 1:24 PM

Attached Link: http://www.winsupersite.com/win7/clean_install_upgrade_media.asp

Well as much as I prefer doing clean installs for the most part, I really don't feel like spending two whole days reinstalling everything I have on my current setup. I'll go for the upgrade option til it proves to be fatal, then I'll worry about a clean install.


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