What works and doesn't work with Windows 7?

[valnar]

Most of my concerns lie with this forum and the AVSForum. Multimedia and encoding applications have kept me on Windows XP for years.

Has anyone gathered a list yet of what popular applications talked about on Doom9 work with Windows 7 "out of the box"? What ones need tweaking? And which ones just don't work at all?

If not, maybe this thread can be for that... I'd like to know what I'm getting myself into if I purchase Windows 7. I've already been reading a bit about the issues with codecs. I like my ffdshow, MPC Home Cinema, and MKV support. What seamlessness do I give up in Win7?

[RunningSkittle]

The list of "what doesnt work" would be very small. The only thing that needs a tweak is if you want to use ffdshow for DirectShowSource(). Otherwise everything else works "out of the box"

[stax76]

There is some discussion here about a tool to tweak DirectShow to prevent it to prefer Microsoft codecs if I understood correctly. I'm using Win 7 since about two month and did not need this tool so far.

There is some pixelation issue with renderers, EVR is the only one working, happens only with certain drivers and cards. VLC is also effected but they announced a fix, no problem with custom presenters.

[valnar]

So things like DVD Rebuilder, HDConvertX, AnyDVD, AVISynth, Haali Media splitter, PowerDVD and the like work without issues? I seem to recall a few threads about problems getting things to work with Win7.

[stax76]

I only know threads related AviSynth, 32bit version works fine on Win 7 32bit as well as 64bit for the vast majority of users, there are a couple of users having problems but the same can be said for any Windows version.

[Blue_MiSfit]

I've yet to come across anything that doesn't work on Windows 7 x64!

~MiSfit

[Shinigami-Sama]

Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit

I've yet to come across anything that doesn't work on Windows 7 x64!

~MiSfit

same
only thing was UAC prevented dragging and dropping into applications...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Originally Posted by Shinigami-Sama

UAC prevented dragging and dropping into applications...

That is for "elevated" processes only. And it makes sense that you can drop data from arbitrary processdx into an "elevated" one

What I find kind of annoying is that Win7 claims that the application didn't install properly with almost any installer you run. The message always appears shortly after the installer completed. Of course the application did install properly. So you need to discard the warning every time. Not a real problem, but it may confuse/scare inexperienced users more than it helps. Win7 even claimed the Delphi 7.0 Professional has known compatibility problems. I ignored the warning, installed it anyway and it runs perfectly fine for me ^^

[Shinigami-Sama]

Originally Posted by LoRd_MuldeR

That is for "elevated" processes only. And it makes sense that you can drop data from arbitrary processdx into an "elevated" one

it did it to my FTP client regardless of if I elevated it or not
UAC is garbage anyways

[stax76]

I've enabled UAC and don't think it's too much of a pain. Bad designed applications in regard of UAC and also design guidelines is a bigger problem but those applications usually suck anyway in many other areas. Vista is now some years old and applications that didn't get it until now might never get it right.

[valnar]

Originally Posted by stax76

I've enabled UAC and don't think it's too much of a pain. Bad designed applications in regard of UAC and also design guidelines is a bigger problem but those applications usually suck anyway in many other areas. Vista is now some years old and applications that didn't get it until now might never get it right.

That's the issue. Many of the programs we all love and use now from Doom9 were designed with Win2K/XP in mind.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Originally Posted by valnar

That's the issue. Many of the programs we all love and use now from Doom9 were designed with Win2K/XP in mind.

I'm yet to encounter a program that doesn't run on Windows 7 or that can't be convinced to work with UAC

Remember: If you really need to, you can run any application with "elevated" rights, even if the application doesn't explicitly request it.

But usually that's not needed. Applications that try to write to directories where they have no rights (e.g. "C:\Program Files") will simply be redirected to the "virtual store" by Windows 7.

Last but not least there is compatibility mode. So there are more than enough workarounds to get "legacy" applications running

[RickB]

I installed the 64bit Windows 7 pro yesterday and have reinstalled all my programes. They all work even the old ones such as DVD dycrypter and my Adobe photoshop elements 4

[Ajax_Undone]

The installer issue has something to do with the destruct code that is run under NSIS and some early INNO. Not had any other issues with installing stuff.
Even then its just a question asking IF it installed correctly...

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Originally Posted by Ajax_Undone

The installer issue has something to do with the destruct code that is run under NSIS and some early INNO. Not had any other issues with installing stuff.
Even then its just a question asking IF it installed correctly...

Yes. But with blazing amount of NSIS-based installers for Windows software, they really should have noticed that the warning dialog appears far to often with no valid reason

[Ajax_Undone]

True. I admit it does get kind of annoying. I suppose I'll bring it up b4 the first SP. See if we can get it resolved...

~DarC

[bondsam123]

Hey guys,

In my machine real player is work while no one process is running in background, but while i am trying to work multi programming real player doesn't work properly, what to do, Please suggest me.. Thanks n advance..

[Benihana]

AnyDVD 6.6.0.7 : works
BeSweet 1.5.29 : command-line only, needs MSVBVM50.DLL
BeSweet 1.5.29 GUI : GUI does not work well
DGMPGDec 1.5.7 [DGIndex] : works
DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 : WinXP SP3 compatibility mode
ffdshow_rev3119_20091027_clsid : works
GKnot 0.35.0 : WinXP SP3 compatibility mode
ImgBurn 2.5.0.0 : works
MPC-HC 1.3.1249.0 : works
VirtualDub 1.8.8 : works
Xvid 1.2.2-07062009 : works

Hello. I'd like to say that with my Win7 32bit, I've found that the green entries all work without any extra configurating. The orange entries need compatibility mode or other work before they'll operate. Red entries don't seem to work well at all, and you're probably better off using some other method.

BeSweet 1.5.29 works fine if you use command line. It also needs MSVBVM50.DLL to be present in it's folder, I needed to download that DLL. If you use the GUI like I used to, then it does not seem to work no matter what I do. It doesn't take long to learn the command line, so that's how I continue to use it. The GUI works if you only use the first screen. If you click "Lame 1" or the like, then none of the text or buttons will appear.

DVD Decrypter will run fine if I set it to WinXP SP3 compatibility mode. If I don't, then some of the text disappears until you hover the mouse over it.

Since I typically launch DVDDecrypter from GKnot 0.35.0, I have also set GKnot to WinXP SP3 compatibility mode. This way it doesn't bring up the UAC dialog when I launch DVDDecrypter. I think it may work fine without compatibility mode, but I've set it anyways.

In my opinion, it's worth getting Win7. It requires a little work to get old software to work right, but overall it works out just great. Hope this helps!

[zilog jones]

Originally Posted by Benihana

BeSweet 1.5.29 GUI : GUI does not work well

The last time I tried installing this on XP a few years ago it was not cooperating at all - can't remember exactly what happened but I don't think it would encode anything. These days I just use MeGUI for audio encoding and AviSynth for processing (speed changes, etc.).

[AlekseiV]

Originally Posted by Benihana

DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 : WinXP SP3 compatibility mode

DVD Decrypter works fine without compatibility mode in Win7 x64 for me.

When I quit it will spam errors like

Failed to set data for "

but everything else works fine, just quitting I need to press OK a bunch.