Railworks & Windows 7

[darren10000]

Good Evening

Having just bought a copy of Windows 7 (Falling for all the talk that it's better, quicker, stabler etc than previous versions of Windows ), I am dreading the farce that I went through a couple of years ago when upgrading from XP and all the problems with getting stuff to run ok. It was always the Games/Apps I like or use the most that didn't work or screwed around........Is RW ok with Windows 7 or can I expect a late night sorting it all out

TIA

Darren
73E

[overmarze]

Rw works find on w7

[clivejames1st]

Hi.

I received my copy of Windows 7 yesterday.
I decided to run it as dual boot with XP.
I originally had Railworks running with XP but i uninstalled it all and reinstalled it on the Windows 7 drive. so it now runs with 7.
Everything installed just fine and everything seems to be working ok.
My Windows is 32-bit and i installed Windows 7 as a 64-bit and have noticed an increase in FPS and improved, crisper graphics.
I am hoping the annoying Proc Error i had with XP has now ceased using Windows 7.

Regards

Clive

[1975Supra]

I've been running RW and Win7 since the tech previews (I'm an MSDN subscriber). Up until my laptops untimely death (now fixed after threatening HP with legal action) RW and Win7 ran like the best of bed buddies. For those on Vista upgrade to 7 and get :

Higher FPS
Crisper graphics
Less stutter
Better Multitasking

Win 7 is everything Vista should have been and more.

Dave

[Acorncomputer]

My new notebook has XP and Windows 7 dual booted.

RailWorks is fine in both operating systems although I have not pushed 7 too much at the moment.

[SuperTux]

RW worked well for me with Win 7 Release Candidate. Should be fine with Win 7 full release, although its going to take me awhile to get that fully updated and ready to go after copying settings etc across from my Linux shared hard drive.

Matt

[Neptune50006]

I'm expecting a copy of Win 7 pro soon, post allowing. It's the upgrade from XP/Vista version. Should I uninstall RW before before the upgrade and then reinstall it afterwards, or will it be OK left alone?

A full back up will be made in any case.

[SuperTux]

I'm of the opinion that any substantial upgrade should involve backing up data and installing fresh. You'll have to do this with any XP machine anyway according to Microsoft .

Matt

[clivejames1st]

I'm expecting a copy of Win 7 pro soon, post allowing. It's the upgrade from XP/Vista version. Should I uninstall RW before before the upgrade and then reinstall it afterwards, or will it be OK left alone?

A full back up will be made in any case.

Hi.

Not having done an upgrade i cannot really advise the best way to install it.
However, if it was me i would uninstall RW, along with everything else, to give the update the best chance of updating correctly.
When you know Windows 7 is functioning correctly then reinstall RW.
I do not think backing up RW under, say, xp and then reinstalling into Windows 7 would work if that is what you have planned.
Others on the site might have better advice.

Regards

Clive

[jamesh]

I'm of the opinion that any substantial upgrade should involve backing up data and installing fresh. You'll have to do this with any XP machine anyway according to Microsoft .

Matt

I agree, the best way to get the best performance and eliminate conflicts is to back up you needed files and do a fresh install. This gets rid of a lot of the redundant windows and 3rd party files so you will see better performance.

James.

[TractorBasher]

I've upgraded from Vista to 7 Home Premium. I wasn't expecting to see a huge increase in frame rate, but was hoping there might be some improvement. As it is, the performance hasn't improved at all and I remain envious of these people who have such high rates.

[djt01]

As I’ve said in the past those who claim they are seeing a major increase in performance in going from Vista to Windows 7 most likely were previously running on a botched Vista install to begin with.

On fresh installs of Vista SP2/64-bit and RTM Windows 7 64-bit I haven’t seen any major performance increase, as a matter of fact a lot of hardware sites have shown in some tests that Vista/SP2 performs slightly better.

I’m certainly not saying that Windows 7 isn’t worth upgrading to (I just switched three machines to Windows 7 Ultimate from Vista), but at this point is not major jump from Vista, how could it be when underneath Windows 7’s hood is Vista?

http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3666

[g0fthick]

If it runs on Vista, it should theoretically run on 7.

It's all the same framework underneath the hood, so compatibility should be close to perfect between platforms (of course the switch from 32-64bit systems can complicate this a little).

[djt01]

(of course the switch from 32-64bit systems can complicate this a little).

With my gaming setups I made the switch to 64 bit Vista and XP three years ago never had any complications.

[haddock1000]

I'm expecting a copy of Win 7 pro soon, post allowing. It's the upgrade from XP/Vista version. Should I uninstall RW before before the upgrade and then reinstall it afterwards, or will it be OK left alone?

A full back up will be made in any case.

once you have win7 up, all you need to do is install the steam client, and log in with your username and password, and on the games page, you will see RailWorks.

thanks,

chaddockdk