Vista to Win7 direct upgrade (no reformatting)

There seems to be an option to upgrade from Vista to Win7 without having to reformat anything. I want to do this on my desktop, for the fact that I have a TON of games installed that I don't want to lose upon reformatting.

Has anyone done this before? Has it affected how any of your games run, and do your save files all work fine afterwards? Thanks.

Just be aware that you can only upgrade from 32 bit to 32 bit, or 64 bit to 64 bit. IMHO if you're running a 32 bit OS the time has come to back up your games and format and install the 64 bit version, but hey that's just my advice.CellAnimation

Yeah I kinda figured as much.... I guess I might try and beat all the sp games that are close to the end, and then reformat as well as upgrade. Will most save files on 32 bit Vista work on 64 bit Win7? It would suck to lose my Morrowind character, and it would also suck porting him to Win7 with all the gameplay mods I have installed.

Thanks man. I ended up just reformatting completely and using 64 bit. Windows 7 works SO MUCH better than Vista, I'm really happy I made the switch.

I did an upgrade on my laptop and it saved all my programs and games.

I did end up reformatting with 7 a few months later, and Windows seems to run a lot better. Some drivers are working now that weren't before.

I always format at least once a year.