Windows 7 - What's your experience index?

[KELL5]

Just noticed the windows experience index limit has been increased from 5.9 to 7.9

I score 5.3 (due to scabby hdd I used for test install)

7.4 for cpu though which is nice.

anyone else?

[SIOUX]

I i could find a Chipset INF driver that works, i would be happy to try

[rickvtv6]

sorry to hijack this for a minute, but this is the only thread i could find regarding windows 7

i am using win7 beta 7000 ultimate x32, all my drivers seem to work though my hdd transfer rate has dropped (sits around 100mbps transferring drive to drive)

i think it is a major improvement from a xp/vista user and especially considering its still beta is rather impressive.

but the few problems i am having is the all too common xf-i drivers, there are none to support win7, it will not work in compatibility mode nor run as admin, i enabled the onboard sound on the 790i ultra and i was horrified at the quality, also i only had the two front channels instead of 5.1, i have tried fiddling with audio settings in control panel but no luck with 5.1?

and with the gaming side of it, has anyone using the o/s experienced problems with the installs of certain games?

if anyone has figured any of this out or can point me in the right direction that would be great!

hope yall enjoyed new years!

regards,
Rick.

[clokker]

Win 7 beta x64, build 7000...


The only score that surprised me was the disk performance...it's running on a RAID0 array, but I figure they've made room for the superior access times of SSD's in the new scheme.

@Souix: What chipset do you have?

@rickvtv6: Drivers for my X-Fi Extreme music work fine in "Vista compatibility mode" but I only have headphones, so I can't verify surround sound performance.

[Papu]

Win 7 beta x64, build 7000...


The only score that surprised me was the disk performance...it's running on a RAID0 array, but I figure they've made room for the superior access times of SSD's in the new scheme.

@Souix: What chipset do you have?

@rickvtv6: Drivers for my X-Fi Extreme music work fine in "Vista compatibility mode" but I only have headphones, so I can't verify surround sound performance.

New Samsung Spinpoint 1tb

SS in win 7 isnt great , i can't get allot of options on the creative console so its worse than in vista.

[Garrett]

sorry to hijack this for a minute, but this is the only thread i could find regarding windows 7

i am using win7 beta 7000 ultimate x32, all my drivers seem to work though my hdd transfer rate has dropped (sits around 100mbps transferring drive to drive)

i think it is a major improvement from a xp/vista user and especially considering its still beta is rather impressive.

but the few problems i am having is the all too common xf-i drivers, there are none to support win7, it will not work in compatibility mode nor run as admin, i enabled the onboard sound on the 790i ultra and i was horrified at the quality, also i only had the two front channels instead of 5.1, i have tried fiddling with audio settings in control panel but no luck with 5.1?

and with the gaming side of it, has anyone using the o/s experienced problems with the installs of certain games?

if anyone has figured any of this out or can point me in the right direction that would be great!

hope yall enjoyed new years!

regards,
Rick.

I have the X-Fi Gamer edition and the driver gave me trouble as well.
I downloaded the X-Fi Gamer edition Vista 64bit version from creative.com

When the download was finished I right-clicked the .exe and put compatibility mode to Vista and it installed flawlessly
The sound is perfect too, if you still have any trouble PM me, and then I can probably help you, hope this already helps

[Ubermann]

I i could find a Chipset INF driver that works, i would be happy to try

Dont know what chipset you have.
You can force intel inf to install with the parameters -overall -overide on setup.exe
Other chipset .exe you can try running in vista mode to make installer running.

For HD performance there are some settings in device manager and choose your HD and enable the write caching(?) that is disabled by default.

From what i heard this is the fastest OS for benching and i can belive that.

[safan80]

I have the X-Fi Gamer edition and the driver gave me trouble as well.
I downloaded the X-Fi Gamer edition Vista 64bit version from creative.com

When the download was finished I right-clicked the .exe and put compatibility mode to Vista and it installed flawlessly
The sound is perfect too, if you still have any trouble PM me, and then I can probably help you, hope this already helps

I'm using these drivers Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Driver 2.18.0008 and only 2 channels work in my W7 setup.

Dont know what chipset you have.
You can force intel inf to install with the parameters -overall -overide on setup.exe
Other chipset .exe you can try running in vista mode to make installer running.

For HD performance there are some settings in device manager and choose your HD and enable the write caching(?) that is disabled by default.

From what i heard this is the fastest OS for benching and i can belive that.

I used the intel 9.1.0.1012 drivers and I ran the install and it worked without needing compat mode.


here's my score... the hd bench is a joke... I have my windows 7 install on the first parition of my 2TB array...

[rickvtv6]

if i use compatibility mode on ANYTHING i get a stupid error 0x0000005 in a dialog box, if i try i manually in device manager, update driver, it finds the driver, starts installing it, then says the driver missing?

ok i figured it out, in the driver u d/l from crapative, i went into driver/sbxf/setup.exe it seemed to manually force the install and win7 showed the unsigned driver, clicked yes install and bam. i will try i out when i get back from work crossing fingers i will at least have 2.1 as i like my doof doof.

has anyone got 5.1 to work yet?

also where do u ppl finl ultimate x64 v7000 i could only find x32?

oh and my index rating is 7.3 - 5.5 - 6.5 - 5.9 - 3.0??? my hdd is 3.0? wtf! lol damn these benches

i just cant get over how fast it boots, no more waiting to load crap, its awesome.

[Kensek]

[Ubermann]

I used the intel 9.1.0.1012 drivers and I ran the install and it worked without needing compat mode.

..

Yes it runs but it does not install anything, and it does not need comp mode.
Try the parameters and you will see it install alot of things, not just a sec with nothing and its done.

[safan80]

Yes it runs but it does not install anything, and it does not need comp mode.
Try the parameters and you will see it install alot of things, not just a sec with nothing and its done.

I got the drivers installed but I can't get 5.1 or 7.1 to work when I actually play music... it seems I'm not the only one
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.ph...c=692688&st=45

[Ubermann]

Is there nothing to set in the "sound" in control panel ?
You can choose DTS etc and what channels to use there and lots of other things..

[Ubermann]

I got the drivers installed but I can't get 5.1 or 7.1 to work when I actually play music... it seems I'm not the only one
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.ph...c=692688&st=45

I was talking about the intel inf installer..

[safan80]

I was talking about the intel inf installer..

I had no problem installing the intell chipset drivers.

[rickvtv6]

i wanna see someone with a ssd setup bench this mother! cant even imagine how fast the os would run on ssd setup, all i need is a winning lotto ticket! lmao

[rickvtv6]

well i finally got 5.1 working, i set up the xf-i drivers and then done the settings in the volume panel to what i want it then rebooted, went into sound settings control panel, highlight the sound blaster output then select configure at the bottom, from there you can set up 5.1 bla bla bla. it works cos i got my doof doof 15" working again

will they have dream scheme in win 7? i wish it would play personalized videos of your choice that would be potential.

good to see they extended the file types for movies in media player, still wont play .vob files tho

[KELL5]

will they have dream scheme in win 7? i wish it would play personalized videos of your choice that would be potential.

if you use windows movie maker to encode clips (or full movies) to 1080 HD then you can use them as dreamscenes. Right click them once encoded and the option to set as desktop background will be there.

[rickvtv6]

if you use windows movie maker to encode clips (or full movies) to 1080 HD then you can use them as dreamscenes. Right click them once encoded and the option to set as desktop background will be there.

are you serial? thats for win 7? i guess they thought that was the easy way?

[shawn1998]

If you got the Intel inf to install, can you check your device manager and see if you have a yellow ! next to System Interrupt Controller? I did. I ran Windows 7 X64 for 1 day and got rid of it as I couldn't play even 1 minute of Call of Duty WAW, as it would lock my entire system up.

[rickvtv6]

If you got the Intel inf to install, can you check your device manager and see if you have a yellow ! next to System Interrupt Controller? I did. I ran Windows 7 X64 for 1 day and got rid of it as I couldn't play even 1 minute of Call of Duty WAW, as it would lock my entire system up.

i never bothered installing any drivers apart from the xf-i driver (eventually got it to work) everything was already done once i installed all updates and rebooted. mind you im not happy with my hdd transfer dropping, when i installed my chipset driver in vista i deselected a setting in system properties and it boosted my transfer rate, now i cant do that with win7.

as for your gaming issues
thats weird win7 should be "optimized" for the i7 chips like vista was for the quads, did you do the updates once you installed windows?
it should have installed some pre-release 17x.xx drivers for your gtx like it did for my 98gx2's,
or maybe try disabling your xf-i or better yet remove it and use onboard to see if that corrects the gaming issues?

it is still beta so i wouldnt expect too much with gaming but im hoping it will work as thats my main use apart from movies and music.

i haven't tried gaming on it yet as im rebuilding a work comp but hopefully try it tonight with crysis and bioshock.
mind you it doesnt help when you go over your bandwidth and your d/l is 7kbps trying to update xp.

[HuffPCair]

mines crappy because of the hard drive i put it on all my good hard drives have something on it and i dont want to go buy one just for this so it is way down cause of that but all my other stuff is in the six area

[yaddam205]

I am curious to see what setup would get a perfect 7.9 across the board.

[rickvtv6]

I am curious to see what setup would get a perfect 7.9 across the board.

i think a descent ssd setup or RAM drive, 4870x2/gtx295 sli or the upcoming gtx350 Nvidia GeForce GTX 350 (Q4 2008) GT300-GPU 55nm PCI-E2.0 2GB GDDR5 512-bit
http://austin.net.au/ProductList/Pro...G/Default.aspx , 6gb 1800mhz ddr3 o.ced, i7 965 o.ced with a good mobo Asus Rampage II Extreme

if that dont break it then what will?

oh btw did you have to do much to get your q9550 to 4ghz? i can only seem to get around 3.8 without lockups

[inCore]

It would be nice if you guys without your specs in your signatures would list your components so that we others could compare results.