Done for Now, Save for Driver Issues
My rushed computer upgrade was essentially done on Tuesday, but I only closed the case this evening, deciding that I’ll wipe the old IDE HDD on dad’s computer, when I’ll install it there. A potential issue was my TV tuner, which doesn’t exactly have Windows 7 drivers, but I was able to use the Vista ones at first, so it’ll be detected, and then Windows Update found what it said was an upgraded driver for it. The image is poor, looking as if it’s captured at half the resolution and then resized, so the level of detail suffers a lot, but for now I guess I’ll keep it like this and look into getting another at a later point, perhaps even next year, as part of the major upgrade which was originally planned for this year.
Otherwise, there do seem to be a few other driver issues as well, since middle clicking on a tab always closes two of them and therefore needs to be avoided, there seems to be a significant performance loss when the video card is required to work for multiple processes at once, rebooting or shutting down seems to take longer than it should and something which I believe shouldn’t happen is happening during those final few seconds, and the system seems to need to “settle” after installing programs, becoming unbearably slow for a while when that happens. But I’ll see how the situation will continue develop, as well as how I’ll manage to get used to Windows 7 overall now, and then decide whether it’s manageable or I need to try something else.
The next order of business should be to see how the games are working, and so far I installed Morrowind and Divinity II: Developer’s Cut. I think I’ll be trying to play something, not just install all and see if they work, but if anything will fail at some point, I can use XP Mode or, if somehow even that causes issues, I can install Vista on the second HDD, with all the old drivers, which I kept.
