Second Life on Windows 7?

If anybody is planning on running SL on Windows 7, then don't...lol. Of all the games I have (which run sooo much smoother), SL is the only one that absolutely refuses to run at all. It will tell you that you have out of date hardware/drivers.

Just thought i'd post this just warn anybody thats thinking of switching to Windows 7 soon. I'm sure LL will have a W7 install sometime, but as for now, they don't..lol.

Cheers

They have not even released the official BETA of Win7 yet. Not even supposed to be using it yet. lol Pirate Bay user?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/02/windows_7_beta_bittorrent/

Yeah, what Lyla said. I don't know how you got ahold of W7, but as it's not even in beta testing yet, it doesn't matter if it can run SL or not. At least give them time to bring it out to beta where you can legally be running it.

In short, your post doesn't matter, as it's actually an operating system which does not exist when you come down to practical terms. Stop using it and stick with something legal, you'll find the experience a whole lot better.

That and it is just not good form to be going around the official SL forums with your username and IP logged saying you are using pirated software.

Reminds me of the story recently of the bank robber that used his pay stub with his name and address on it as the note to rob the bank then left it at the bank for the police to find him with..

I have it for testing purposes..its my line of work. I'm doing a presentation of windows 7 on monday, even. Anyway, just putting out the SL W7 info.

I doubt that even Linden Lab has copies of Windows 7 to test SL against yet. So effectively you're trying to run a viewer that's coded for Windows Vista at best, on a much newer OS that has yet to be released even into beta phase. I'm not surprised it runs like sh*te.

Didn't they distribute Windows 7 pre-beta disks at Microsoft PDC, back in October? Granted, the glossy new, ever-so-clever superbar was nerfed, but the hack to bring it to life was on the web within a week of the conference.

From what I've heard, Win 7 seems to be "Vista done right." Not to minimize that; I gather it not only fixes but also more uniformly applies stuff built for Vista but never fully integrated, and that Vista's bloatware effect is dramatically reduced as a result.

I wonder if any of the active SLDev folks have taken a shot at getting it to work. (Didn't notice anything on the mailing list, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there, and certainly doesn't preclude somebody having it working already.)

Actually I have windows 7, and run it with SL with no problems at all.
it is openly available to technet subscribers (same release as was given out at PDC).

If it really was your "line of work", I doubt you would be critiquing it in a manner where SL, and most other programs have not even had the opportunity to code for said OS.

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-11225 appears to suggest that you can install the current Vista x64 8.12 drivers through windows and not through the CCC installer and get it to work.

Yeah saw that... I also liked the story last year about the guy stealing cctv cameras... nice close up pictures of his face of every one he stole!

Giving trust the benefit of doubt and assuming that the copy is legal:
When you have pre-beta software there may be parts missing that SL requires. Perhaps it should (if you have a legal copy) be reported to SL and to MS. But I would not be concerned until the full beta comes out. Of course, then there will be chanels to report such problems.
Mary

I thought September 19th was the International Talk Like A Pirate day.

It's my opinion you make a fine imitation of a pirate.

I wouldn't try running SL on Windows 7 until after the 2nd service pack comes out.

Linden Lab didn't have a supported SL client for Vista until about a year AFTER it was officially launched and I don't mean beta versions but full retail off the shelf versions. I would not expect a LL supported Win7 SL client available until 6 months after it is publicly released (full version, not beta). Should be less work being it is pretty much the same OS.

Encouraging to hear games are running smoother. As has been pointed out though, however you got a copy.. it is just for the purpose you describe. Testing and then reporting issues. I hope you reported this to MS.



Thanks for the warning. I installed Vista as a beta test (signed up on MS) and discovered SL would not work then either. By the next to last version before final RC it did though. How far along are they now? What version is your test?

I'm testing the 7000 build. Its actually quite good. I've had no issues with networking, nor drivers. The performance is great, and it actually boots faster than XP Pro (SP3). It comes with IE8 beta which i'm not having to many issues with. Skype's extention to IE is incompatible, and every so often I get some pops in my audio, but thats before I found the drivers to fix it. I have a Radion X1300 which I was given the drivers to run W7 with. Everything i've tested so far though have been pretty solid. Some features on W7 wont be added till the final release, but whats in the beta has been pretty handy.

and yes, IT is my line of work, and i have to test everything before my clients make switches if they are interested in doing so. You have to develope a team and spend a great deal of time to implement such a switch-over. Its the weekend and I thought I'd play a lil SL. Had no intention of testing it...was just a coincidence that I found the an issue with it. One poster said his SL client runs fine on W7, so maybe its me having the issue.

Thanks all

Thanks for the run down on the future OS.

*scurries off to pirate bay to "beta" test.*


KIDDING!!

Way to make yourself look like a theif and a lazy idiot at the same time. W7's not even close to being out yet, talking early in-house development builds still. Linux is free all around, plenty of places you can readily get it online, and well supported.

The SMS abbreviations betray potential AOL-user status. Seriously, you have a full keyboard in front of you, make an effort to convince us you have a high school level education or better when it takes no additional effort for someone with basic motor skills to do so.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-28pdcday2pr.mspx


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/03/windows_7_beta_jan_2009/

Quite close to a beta release to the public. Though there are some alpha testing it now. So, yeah.. he could quite easily have a legal tester being in the IT field.

Even with that being the case, I doubt this even applies to the original poster. Even Microsofties know how to use a keyboard and understand that closed-source pre-release versions are moving targets, and ones not directly visible to the shooter at that.

High school dropouts, AOLers and other lower forms of network life that likely wouldn't have a job if Oregon and New Jersey didn't have Minimum Service gasoline stations as the norm tend to punctuate email and chat on a full keyboard with SMS abbreviations. I could be wrong, but the original post seemed to demonstrate less-than-room-temperature IQ.

Windows 7 isn't sufficiently different from Vista that Second Life wont run on it, you're 100% correct. Windows 7 users may encounter initial problems driver-wise, but once that has been overcome it would run clean as a whistle.

Technet subscribers get microsoft's version of 'first look'. It's called Alpha Testing.

Something about the OP's post strongly suggests to me that they're not exactly of the right industry or income bracket to afford a technet subscription. Though I have to question the intelligence of anybody who has W7 at this point on the grounds that even if they are a technet subscriber, they got suckered into paying money to work for Microsoft.

Probably a Pirate Bay user using a defunct Alpha Test from a technet user, which explains why it wouldnt work because it's a non-updated version of the alpha. I was just clearing the matter up so people using windows 7 aren't immediately blasted as Pirate Bay users.