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Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 170

Like the name states, I'm beta testing Windows 7 and able to use cMUD on it perfectly.

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:50 pm

Great, thanks very much for letting me know. I don't plan to get any Windows 7 systems anytime soon (unless Microsoft makes it a free upgrade from Vista to apologize for the Vista mess...yeah, wishful thinking).

I'd also be interested in knowing how zMUD works or not on Windows 7 if you are willing to test that too. My guess is that it will have the same problems as on Vista, but you never know if they improved compatibility or not.

Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 170

Tested speed-wise and CTRL-Q is bringing up times between 3.5 and 5.1 for the most part on cMUD 3.03. Not entirely sure how fast my laptop was getting with Vista but I believe slower than that.

Laptop Specs:

Intel Core 2 Dup T7200
2 GB RAM @ 667 mhz
7200 RPM HD

As for zMUD yes it indeed seems to be like Vista, it runs but only when I tell it to run as an administrator.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Already mentioned this sort of in another topic. :)

There really shouldn't be much difference between the two, as Windows 7 is essentially Vista 2.0. The one thing I noticed so far, and I haven't done any thorough testing, is that CMUD takes slightly longer to load up for me than it did in Vista. This could very well be because I'm testing the 64-bit version, or because of something with Windows 7 being in beta.

As for Windows 7 itself, I think the main thing a lot of people will get from it is that their programs that ran in XP and not Vista should be able to run in Windows 7. Installed a program that wouldn't run at all in Vista and it works fine. I read that compatibility was something they really worked on for this.