mirh wrote:Even because since the dawn of times, men started to create fixes for broken things 😎
Well of course - it's always the quest for a bigger stick. 🤣
HighTreason wrote:At the end of the day, my problems with Win 7 stem from the fact that as far as I am concerned, the OS is supposed to be flexible and work for me, not the other way around; I should not have to go out of my way to work around the OS when it's an apparent upgrade.
Okay, I'll buy that. But will you also recognize that all things have some sort of learning curve associated with them? I mean, when you were born could you walk? talk? drive a car? cook food? do calculus? All without being taught or instructed? Everything has some sort of learning curve. Some things are easier than others. I'm not really disagreeing with you - I also get frustrated when something is made complicated because whatever tool I have has some quirk. Sometimes it's a matter of getting a different tool, but sometimes it's a matter of being smarter than the stuff you're working with. Windows Vista/7 certainly are not 1:1 clones of 2000/XP, and in many cases do require some time put in to figure out how to do the same kinds of tasks due to those changes. I don't view that as a cardinal sin on their part, it's just a difference.
That and every time I install it I end up with corrupted hard drives.
This is not a global Windows 7 issue. That doesn't mean you aren't experiencing a problem, but Windows 7 out of the box does not just "corrupt hard drives" in all situations. Without knowing anything about your configuration, usage, etc it's absolutely impossible to say anything more about it though.
The main reason they crippled the audio? Probably DRM. It was probably done to make it difficult for people to make analog holes.
They did not "cripple" the audio. They re-wrote the audio stack with Vista to improve stability and quality. And for the most part it is an improvement. It broke a lot of really old or really hacked together applications, but this was not deliberate, and many applications (probably the majority) do work correctly. Of course you never hear about things that work as they should ("if you do something right, people aren't really sure you've done anything at all"), just the things that don't work. 😊
It had next to nothing to do with DRM though. The primary objective was standardization and support. You can read more about UAA and WASAPI on Wikipedia, and probably other places:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Audio_Architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_featu … ows_Vista#Audio
mirh wrote:And GOD. What kind of conspiracy is this?
I even said that thanks to new UAA they could also include an universal loopback devi […]
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And GOD. What kind of conspiracy is this?
I even said that thanks to new UAA they could also include an universal loopback device, which works with everything (but HDCP audio perhaps, but that's another story). How the hell could this be related to DRMs?
It was all about performance. And indeed try to compare latencies between XP and vista..
The only thing missing is hardware "rendering" path for directsound
HDCP only applies to protected content (Blu-ray and HD-DVD) though. So for videogames it's irrelevant. 😀
HighTreason wrote:People sure get a stick up their ass when you point out a problem with Windows 7 and without fail, they cannot provide a solution.
With no information about what's actually going on, beyond you getting upset/frustrated, it's impossible to even attempt to provide a solution.
Run Windows XP for years, no problems with drives, upgrade to Win 7 and get "Failed to write MFT" - replace drives, XP runs fine. Upgrade to Win 7... Repeat. I can only conclude it hates RAID0, thought it was a bug in the ICH9 but it happens with the an AMD chipset too.
I currently run Windows 7x64 on RAID0 with no problems. I've also run it with no problems on ICH9 for years. Does that invalidate your experience? No. But it does mean that your experience isn't representative of all Windows 7. Like I said earlier, it's likely corollary, not causal.
All about performance? I'll add you to the list of class clowns because an OS that takes at least three times longer to do anything and adds noticeable latency to I/O is certainly about performance. Jokes.
"Three times longer to do anything" - based on what? What measurements? What tasks? On what hardware? Under what conditions? etc
I've had no performance issues with WinVista or Win7 on any of the machines I've upgraded (but I've not tried either on machines that barely meet the requirements; the slowest machine I have running Vista is a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition). Nor do they "feel" noticeably slower or laggier than running XP. Start-up time for Vista off-handedly appears a bit slower than Windows 7, and perhaps XP, but I've never understood the obsession with start-up times personally, so it isn't anything I've ever really bothered with. 😊