windows 7 vs 8.1 for gaming

[Cathal14]

Hi everyone i currently have windows 7 ultimate and was on to microsoft and since i only bought it 2 months ago and they saod they'll give me free upgrade
Firstly which is better for gaming not just new ones like skyrim and all if anyone knows thanks in advance

 

[DarkAnubis]

Hi, I hope to help.
I originally hated 8.1 when I first got it and did the upgrade. Still hate the metro. But before going back to Windows 7 I did a clean install of windows 8.1 (I was going to have to do a clean install of 7 anyways). Now it's a whole lot better and am choosing not to go back to Windows 7. so much faster and snappier especially boot times. so I would recommend windows 8.1 not 8 or 7. and you guys with problems I would recommend a clean install, did a world of difference for me. I now boot strait to the desktop and left click the start button and it feels like Windows 7 but faster. Did I mention that I still hate the metro.

 

[WoodenSaucer]

Hi, I hope to help.
I originally hated 8.1 when I first got it and did the upgrade. Still hate the metro. But before going back to Windows 7 I did a clean install of windows 8.1 (I was going to have to do a clean install of 7 anyways). Now it's a whole lot better and am choosing not to go back to Windows 7. so much faster and snappier especially boot times. so I would recommend windows 8.1 not 8 or 7. and you guys with problems I would recommend a clean install, did a world of difference for me. I now boot strait to the desktop and left click the start button and it feels like Windows 7 but faster. Did I mention that I still hate the metro.

And if you install Classic Shell, it will even give you the old style Start Menu.

 

[woworwow]

Windows 8.1 have support for directX 11.2 but i found some issues running older games

 

[ZLDXm]

Overall I have had good luck with Windows 8.1 However, I think it is worth mentioning I did run into a game incompatibility with F1 2011. It just does not work at all. I certainly do blame the publisher for not releasing a patch for it, but also clearly something changed. It is the only game I have run into a problem with so far. I suggest if you have the choice, just make sure your games work by doing some web searches for your game and Windows 8 problems.

I'm about to build a new rig for Star Citizen and am seriously considering going back to Win7.

 

[WoodenSaucer]

Overall I have had good luck with Windows 8.1 However, I think it is worth mentioning I did run into a game incompatibility with F1 2011. It just does not work at all. I certainly do blame the publisher for not releasing a patch for it, but also clearly something changed. It is the only game I have run into a problem with so far. I suggest if you have the choice, just make sure your games work by doing some web searches for your game and Windows 8 problems.

I'm about to build a new rig for Star Citizen and am seriously considering going back to Win7.

I posted a link earlier in the thread to Microsoft's site where you can do a game search for compatibility. That's a great place to start, and if it happens to to say it's incompatible, you can Google search from there for solutions.

 

[Rupak Datta]

well lots of games are not work at windows 8.1 but truth that windows 8.1 is the best OS ever and windows 8 is suck after i buy windows 8.1 i just has been broke the windows 8 disk that windows 8 is suck microsoft make lots of mistake while creating windows 8 but windows 8.1 is the advanced OS ever iam verry happy with that

 

[Clarabet]

i would personally prefer to wait for windows 10, much better prospect than windows 8.1

 

[iis7cw]

Seriously people...You complain about metro,are you fu**ing retarded??

Yes,they shouldn't have put metro there but it's not like you can't live with it...I've been with windows 8 and win 8.1 for a year now and I got used to metro and it's going to be weird to move back to normal start(but I do prefer the normal one)

And stuff load a little faster in both win 8 and win 8.1
Also those two use less RAM

For all of you that complain that win 8,8.1 are not good,wait for win 10 or stay on win 7,problem solved

 

[gamestoned]

Guys.

My experience - I own an Alienware X51. It came with Win 8 & got a free upgrade to Win 8.1. Ever since I upgraded to Win 8.1 my games BF3, BF4, BFH, NFS, TitanFall all crash from "nvidia display not working error" this is a contant thing. 5 - 10mins of game play in certain GPU hoggy maps at ultra will throw this error. I tried everything from removing drivers & getting the latest to the oldest (347.88).

My only resolution from Al support was to clean up the entire C drive & reinstall the recovery to back to Win 8 which is stable. I won't say 100% stable because here also I get errors but not 5-10mins sometimes 1-2hrs.

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 08/01/2015 05:54:34
System name: HOME-PC

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Operating System: Windows 8 Single Language, 64-bit
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce GTX 660
Driver version: 347.88
Direct3D API version: 11.1
Direct3D feature level: 11_0
CUDA Cores: 1152
Core clock: 823 MHz
Memory data rate: 6650 MHz
Memory interface: 192-bit
Memory bandwidth: 159.60 GB/s
Total available graphics memory: 4096 MB
Dedicated video memory: 1536 MB GDDR5
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 2560 MB
Video BIOS version: 80.04.81.00.14
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3