Jamie McDonald

Heya, Just curious to if any Maxers out there have been dabbling with the newly 'leaked' windows 7 beta. I have installed the Max 5.0.5 trial onto my laptop running the beta and currently have come accross no issues. I have however noticed a huge performance increase. Obviously not a bad thing.

I assume cycling will offically support Windows 7 once it is in RC state and retail release. Wondered if any of the team have poked around with the new OS much. The small interface improvments have made small but dramtic productivity differences in a good way, or so i have found myself. I have also not come accross any compatibility issues with any software or hardware drivers as of yet (touch wood). I am installing it onto my games rig tomorrow to see if the performance issues are universal or just on my lappers, and also to see if DX11 can out perform 10.1. Hopefully it will gaim some extra frames here or there.

Not strictly a Max releated topic, i was just excited to see max running in full glory under a first release beta of a new OS with no issues as even though i loved (and still love) vista in all its glory it did have a rocky birth.

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Glad to hear Windows 7 looks good so far. We have not yet tried it here.

Can you elaborate in what way(s) performance has improved for you in Windows 7?

Glad to hear Windows 7 looks good so far.  We have not yet tried it here. 

Can you elaborate in what way(s) performance has improved for you in Windows 7? 

I guess Windows 7's increasing performance is predictable. I read that Windows 7 is Vista without a lot of things that are unnecessary. I'm not sure about the source, tho.

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