win 7 x64 is rock solid for me. on my system (dell xps 720, 8800gtx sli) the nvidia drivers work flawlessly. only sometimes SLI turns itself off, but I had the same issue on XP. Same story on my thinkpad - rock solid win 7 x32 home premium. Only on my netbook win 7 crashes if you use HP drive guard and daemon tools…
ive been using 7 since the beta, i love it. Best OS by far, everything runs great for me in 64 bit, i have not had a single problem. I love the instant driver support and the overall structure
I've been on WIndows 7 x64 since the beta was available ... it is a pretty amazing OS. I gave it a whirl to upgrade from a 32 bit system as well. It runs PS, Maya and other essentials flawlessly. The auto-driver features are truly amazing. They also focused on making networking and CD authoring easier (oh thank god). One…
windows 7 64 bit runs like a workhorse on my laptop with Max, photoshop, Unreal, Adobe Bridge, firefox, etc all running at the same time. Gets a thumbs up from me! compared to XP I think it runs a little faster.
Ah yeah when I exceed anything like 120k polys in Max it more or less gives up. I can't say how much more noticeable this is in Windows 7 but it's certainly an issue. I end up having to decimate the hell out of any characters I've sculpted in ZBrush before I can even consider bringing them into Max.
Upgrading to 7 64bit, it really is a good thing. The ONLY issue I've had thus far is Windows Explorer crashes on occasion. It fixes itself right away and starts back up. Not really a problem, but can get annoying at times for simple operations like copying files or renaming them. Well that and the tablet issue, which can…