Just installed 7 now experiencing numerous problems

Whoa wall of text... and no capitalisation to signify where one sentence ends and another begins... right, time to try to read this...

Ok... straight away I see one problem. The Windows 7 RC is designed to be installed on a clean hard drive, not as an upgrade, this will cause problems.

Most of your issues could probably be explained by that, but it's late and I'm getting tired, too many words in a small area makes things hard to read when you don't want to put too much effort into it.

Anyway, try installing 7 on a clean hard drive (or, alternatively, make a partition on your current drive and install it to that, provided you've got enough space... wouldn't recommend this if you've got 2 hard drives) and check if you still have issues, if not, then we've solved it!

I have installed Vista 64 on my 2 X 640gb WD blacks in Raid 0, I have three partitions on them, each at 300gb. I Installed Vista 64 on one 300gb space, clean install, and Windows 7 RC 64 bit on another 300gb partition.

For some reason when I play DOW II in Windows 7 RC 64 bit, the screen jumps around in the menu section, kinda jumps, flashs, I don't know. When start the game it does not do this however. In Vista it doesn't do this at all. Everything is up to date as far as I know, Patches, steam, drivers. Not sure what is causing this, Cryis, Shadow run, and other games do not have this problem, just DOW II.

I love Windows 7 BTW and to the OP I would do a clean install, not a upgrade.

It's strange hearing about issues people are having with the RC, when I've not had any... and I'm running the actual RC (build 7100), not the later leaked builds... haven't seen issues with DoW II either.

Also, marcellis22 - some people want to try out the new OS to decide if they want to buy it or not, can't really fault them for that. I'm personally loving 7, have a pre-order in on it.

I am running build 7100 RC that I got from Microsofts site. I am not sure why it is bouncing the screen in the game start screen. It plays fine when in the game, It is the only game that does this for some reason. I don't think I will be installing a clean install to fix the problem. Everything else is all good with Windows 7 64bit. I wish I would of pre-ordered it, but I didn't get a chance to.

I like DOW II I am having a hard time playin multi online, I seam to get pawned alot, however I am getting better with the Tech marine. Alot of people don't like it because they made it more like a RPG then what the first series was like. There are alot of things that can, if you do not adjust, and counter others armies, and type of upgrades they have done, make you have a very bad game. I have found a few friends on there and when we get online, we seam to really steam roll alot of players and win.

When you play teams you have to work together, and take and defend the VPoints. I just really am starting to love playing Dow II, I can't wait till they come out with another pack for it.

I was lucky to have a spare hard drive around to test windows 7 out. I myself haven't seen any problems with it on my computer. Its just like an updated version of vista that will get better in time.

I've been running W7 RC 7100 for about 6 weeks now on a Dell XPS lappy - did a clean install on a new HD since the old one was infested with trojans & virii, thanks to my daughter . Anyway it has been running fine, except that about every 3rd or 4th boot or restart it'll lose the MS bluetooth notebook 5000 mouse connection. According to the bluetooth devices in W7, everything is fine and diagnostics turn up zip, but I have to use the Synaptics touchpad to move the cursor.

Spent a couple hours this AM browsing the MS user forums for W7 hardware, and turned up nothing useful. I'm guessing it's the driver for the Dell bluetooth radio as the mouse worked fine in XP...

Anyway no updated HID or bluetooth drivers for W7 are available, so I'm guessing I'll have the same problem with the released version when it comes out in a couple months. Hopefully there'll be some updated drivers on the website and the install will fetch them as necessary.

IMO more likely because it's the 7100 RC build.

I ran Vista 64 on my old Q6700 rig, dual-boot with XP, and found it was fine if you throw enough resources at it. With multitasking it ran smoother than the same apps on XP (multiple instances of DVDShrink or Nero, for instance). IMO, not a bad OS although it had a lot of bloat compared to XP.

Yep, I didn't notice that great an improvement, using an old 4 gig flash drive. The more noticeable improvement in Vista was the thread handling/scheduling. F'rinstance, Task Manager in XP would usually show the first core at 70-80% load, the other 3 around 20%, running 2 instances of DVDShrink on 2 DVD drives. In Vista, it was more like 25% across all 4. I think XP was pretty much glued to Core 0, unless you set the affinity.

IIRC W7 is supposed to take that thread scheduling to a new level, esp. for screen handling. I've only used it on a dual-core notebook to date, however, although I did download the 64-bit version for the quad-core system. I'll probably be doing a i920 build next month, and will use the W7 RC install there since I plan to get 6 gigs, maybe 12 .

At least with W7, the default install avoids the annoying UAC popups ...

SuperFetch on Vista made a massive improvement when left to cache for a while. I haven't tried Win 7 without SuperFetch yet but I don't even give it time to cache before starting up Firefox and it's nearly 2 orders of magnitude faster than Vista with prefetching enabled or disabled if starting the program quickly.

Hmm, that's impressive. The thing I noted about Vista was that it took a *long* time to establish an Internet connection upon bootup, at least until SP1 came out. With W7 it's much, much faster. But then W7 boots a lot faster than Vista anyway.

Hmm, on my rig I used a couple of striped raptors for my XP boot drive, and a couple of striped Seagates as my Vista boot drive. Neither one is a slouch when it comes to pumping out data .

Plan to use an SSD on the i920 build, budget permitting..