DDO and Windows 7

[BurnerD]

I'm running win7 Pro 64bit on the following machine
Q6600 OC'd to 3.0 Ghz
6GB DDR2 800
GTX 280 Card
Latest Nvidia Drivers

I had one game hang early on, but it may have been related to video card cooling. I added a couple of fans and modified airflow in my case and have not had any further issues.

I'll have to check frame rates whwn I get home....

[Kataya]

Just to update this, I pulled out my previous card I used before getting the Radeon 4870 1 Gig I use now, which is an Nvidia 8800 GTS (original 640MB version), switched out into my rig, and downloaded/installed the newest 195.39 Forceware set from their website and tested with it. Frame rates were slightly higher...50-55 FPS standing still, but still dipping down into the teens to low 20's when moving about and still an overall sluggishness in general. So there appears to be a global driver performance issue with running DDO on Windows 7 64 all around regardless of which video pathway you choose and not isolated only to ATI's drivers.

Yup - I've been suffering from this too and its been driving me mad. I've tried out a number of 19x drivers and the latest Dox optimised. All same issue. I can never forget the silky smooth play I was getting on XP. Nice leafy DX10 shadows ain't much consolation.

[WizarDru]

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and the game runs fine, only problem I had was that the game would crash to the desktop on the first start but worked fine when I started it the second time. Apparently the problem was with AVG Free because I decided to try the new Microsoft Security Essentials (AVG scans were ridiculously slow) and after dumping AVG, the game doesn't crash the first time I start it.

Ah. I've been seeing this same issue. I didn't think to check if AVG might be causing the problem. It's a minor annoyance, but I'd rather it didn't continue. I'll have to check out MSE. Thanks!