I have a couple of issues with Windows 7.
My biggest issue seems to affect Steam games. The only one I have not seen it cause a problem with is Left 4 Dead, although it very well may be an issue with L4D or any other game or large application as well, I have loaded a lot of Steam games since installing Windows 7 a few days ago, so that may be why I have only seen this problem with Steam games.
What happens, is if I open a steam game, it randomly takes forever to load, finally does, plays the intro movie and then hangs a while and loads the game. When the game loads, it works fine until I exit. Now when I exit the game, let's say I do anything with the start menu or desktop, it takes forever. If I right click a desktop icon, and goto properties, I have to wait quite a while for the window to open. I can eventually tell the task manager to open by hitting Ctrl+alt+delete or right clicking the taskbar, the icon immediately appears in the system tray, and after a 5+ minute wait, the task manager opens, and most of the time it's completely frozen no matter how long I wait, forcing me to Ctrl+alt+delete and restart.
In the rare event, I can get to the processes tab on the task manager and end the taskhost.exe process, which is a Microsoft process, so all that tells me is I can rule out drivers.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix out there? Can I disable taskhost.exe? What is taskhost.exe? All I know about it, is from googling it that it used to crash a lot(not freeze) in earlier beta versions...
Another issue I am having....
I run the 32bit OS and 2gb of RAM, which seems to be more than enough in Windows 7 just as it is in XP, which is a very, very good thing!
Call of Duty 5: World At War runs at a great framerate (a solid 91+ most of the time, never dropping below 80) but still manages to run very choppy at times. In Vista, due to memory leaks I would run out of memory (yes even when I ran 8gb and x64) and anything would be unplayable despite the system posting decent framerates. Now, the memory management in Windows 7 is much, much better than it is in Vista and it uses much less and they fixed the memory leaks, but I'm having a similar issue. It seems to last a little while, and go away -- seems like it's paging after the fact. Is there anything I can do to tweak this? All I have found is run HDI memtest to take up all the available RAM causing the OS to free up the 1550mb RAM and then CoD5 will have the 850mb or so it wants free. This seems to work, but is there any way I can tweak this?
Also, if anyone finds a Classic start menu, hook me up. I really do not like the new start menu that Microsoft is trying to forcefeed us - not friendly at all to keyboard users.
My biggest issue seems to affect Steam games. The only one I have not seen it cause a problem with is Left 4 Dead, although it very well may be an issue with L4D or any other game or large application as well, I have loaded a lot of Steam games since installing Windows 7 a few days ago, so that may be why I have only seen this problem with Steam games.
What happens, is if I open a steam game, it randomly takes forever to load, finally does, plays the intro movie and then hangs a while and loads the game. When the game loads, it works fine until I exit. Now when I exit the game, let's say I do anything with the start menu or desktop, it takes forever. If I right click a desktop icon, and goto properties, I have to wait quite a while for the window to open. I can eventually tell the task manager to open by hitting Ctrl+alt+delete or right clicking the taskbar, the icon immediately appears in the system tray, and after a 5+ minute wait, the task manager opens, and most of the time it's completely frozen no matter how long I wait, forcing me to Ctrl+alt+delete and restart.
In the rare event, I can get to the processes tab on the task manager and end the taskhost.exe process, which is a Microsoft process, so all that tells me is I can rule out drivers.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix out there? Can I disable taskhost.exe? What is taskhost.exe? All I know about it, is from googling it that it used to crash a lot(not freeze) in earlier beta versions...
Another issue I am having....
I run the 32bit OS and 2gb of RAM, which seems to be more than enough in Windows 7 just as it is in XP, which is a very, very good thing!
Call of Duty 5: World At War runs at a great framerate (a solid 91+ most of the time, never dropping below 80) but still manages to run very choppy at times. In Vista, due to memory leaks I would run out of memory (yes even when I ran 8gb and x64) and anything would be unplayable despite the system posting decent framerates. Now, the memory management in Windows 7 is much, much better than it is in Vista and it uses much less and they fixed the memory leaks, but I'm having a similar issue. It seems to last a little while, and go away -- seems like it's paging after the fact. Is there anything I can do to tweak this? All I have found is run HDI memtest to take up all the available RAM causing the OS to free up the 1550mb RAM and then CoD5 will have the 850mb or so it wants free. This seems to work, but is there any way I can tweak this?
Also, if anyone finds a Classic start menu, hook me up. I really do not like the new start menu that Microsoft is trying to forcefeed us - not friendly at all to keyboard users.
I play L4D all the time on my machine and it works great now - I did have some issues with it not connecting to servers initially, but that's all fixed now.