7 Drivers are different from Vista's, so are a number of 7 API's and system processes. This is why you can have different behaviors in Vista and 7.
It is all up to you if you wish to change priorities, but I don't recommend you do this for the following reasons:
1. Realtime priority won't boost your game really
2. Software and game developers pre-set the rightt priority for their softwares
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Several hours ago I tried the realtime priority for Call of Duty 4 MW 2 and for Mirror's Edge - it did work fine on my 7, felt the same speed as default priority. But it may not work the same way for all games and hardwares.