Hardware and Redemption

[DarkLobo]

Has anybody tried Redemption on Win7? how does it performs?

[Javokis]

Just fine. Didn't I tell you I was using Windows 7?

[DarkLobo]

Oh yes, but you never mentioned Redemption on Vista.. anyway thats awsome, cant wait for Win7 hehe.

[DarkLobo]

where can i get that beta of Win7? hehe... i got a nice Key to activate it hehe.

[Javokis]

You're too late, slow poke. They don't give out the beta anymore. I thought that I was clear that I've been on Vista for the past 2 years.

The biggest concern you'll have to worry about is being able to install the game. I already have a pre-install on my external drive so I never have to pull out my install discs anymore.

[Signothorn]

Yeah, if you're going 64 bit, be sure to copy your directory to external storage, the installer won't work on a 64 bit o/s. Once you launch the game, the game will make the necessary registry entries.

[DarkLobo]

Yeah i read somewhere about Mordred saying that just copying the whole Installation into a CD, dont remember where... it happends that i discover this back in 2004, just before the release of Bloodlines... i had 2 partitions of a 60Gb HDD and somehow had 2 installations on each, when i wipe the the first partition redemption on the second partition was working fine... no registry! go figure hehe.

Dosent matters, i am really planning on moving to a 64Bit Version of Vista or Win7, im tired of having 4GB of ram and only be able to use lame 2.7gb for all the damn hardware i got, i want to go up to 8Gb AT least for thr moment on this new Pc, but i still dont know who will using 64bit will affect most games that i play, hopefully it wont be too much of a mess.

[DarkLobo]

For all of you that has a AMD CPU and a ATi GPU there is a software called "AMD Fusion for Gaming", what it does is to shutdown all the crap of windows unused applications and services not used for games, i was able to use Left4Dead on max resolutions on 1024x768 on arround 25 frames with my turd HD3300 onboard, where if not using this application the game would run at 7 FPS on same settings and lagged really bad... so its quite a handy tool for games, but has some kind of issues when enabling HDD turbo performance option, but if you left that untouched it will work nice:

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_fusion.aspx?p=1

 

[DarkLobo]

Ok i got my version of Win7... im about to instal itl on my Server, if all goes well i will move to win7 on this PC too.

[DarkLobo]

All seems good, i was able to activate my Win7... and i was also able to Install Redemption with no issues, the autorun startes immediatly... odd, i thought i would not be able to install redemption old fashioned way.

[Signothorn]

Weird and unexplainable.

[DarkLobo]

Hmm i am really moving to Win7, it is a really fast 64 bit OS, havent encountered a single issue with x86 applications.

[DarkLobo]

I really liked Win7x64, i was able to install XPx32 as Virtual Machine from VMWare, forget about that crappy XP mode for 7... VMWare has support for DX9.0c and pixel shader 3.

I also was able to install Win7x64 under XPx32 as virtual machine and so far works perfect... its so cool hehehe.

[DarkLobo]

This is ODD or.. maybe Win7 is in fact better in performance than XP, i am getting 330 FPS Max  on Redemption on my server with win7x64, 4GB Ram... same GPU 8800GT, while in XPx32 i get arround 80 FPS max same hardware... ODD! 


While in my new AMD pc Win7x64 with 2gb of Ram and same GPU 8800GT i get up to 540 fps max and 300 FPS Stable!

In the same AMD pc Win7x64 2gb ram with the onboard HD3200 i get a max of 210.

I still have to confirm other games... so Far Win7x64 beats the crap out of XPx32 in Redemption, AMAZING!

[Javokis]

Vista was an early prototype, hence why it failed. Win7 is a fully polished OS that revolutionizes how next generation hardware is utilized. Win7 is probably the best OS made in history thus far. DX11 is a true marvel to behold. Hats off to MS for kicking everyone's ass over this one. I truly intent on buying it once the beta expires. I got awhile to financially restore myself before then.