So I had a really long sleep in, then a breakfast that lasted most of the morning, watching some SG1 (season 4 somewhere). Really needed this.
As of September last year I do most of my development on an Asus Eee 1005HA. I initially bought it to have a portable laptop (as in actually light enough to be carried around) to use in school for light stuff like writing reports and reading course material, etc. Well it turned out that I could fit my whole development environment on it, which was a lot better than I had hoped for. Suddenly I found myself able to use all my idle time during the day for short bursts of Citizen. Either these machines are ridiculously powerful or my needs aren't that big.
Anyway, up until today I have been using the WinXP install that came with it. Now, since I could get a free Win7Pro license off the MSDNAA deal my university has, I wanted to try to go full circle on the little guy. In all my computer admining life reinstalling an OS have never gone as smooth. Right now most of my necessary apps and tools are in place. Really, my biggest issue would be to get used to the slightly different interface, having been an XP user for eight years or something.
Running Citizen on this setup worked out of the box too, to my delight. It correctly reports the new OS in the log. This, kids, is why you should do you homework, read the docs thoroughly. I noticed some new black flicker at some points when playing. Maybe some driver thing, I'll let it be for now. Also the text rendering is very slow, which is not surprising considering all the new beauty-magic Aero would add to DrawText calls. Won't be a problem since I aim to switch to bitmapped text ingame, and tune down quality on the debug output.
As a final note, one can contemplate how strongly the new Microsoft OS is catching on when Chrome's US spell checker recognizes the above word Win7Pro, but not WinXP. [smile]
