Windows 7 or 8 for gaming?(Poll)

[Analog]

My vote goes for Windows 8 as sell. In my experience with these operating systems I have fund that Windows 8 is generally snappier in many applications and also gives a few FPS boost in some games compared to Windows 7.

[Peer Review]

Windows 8 also has a WAY lighter footprint. Plus some improvements in super fast boot up times. The file transfer is far better and looks cooler, plus a ton of other things.

As for the original question: For gaming, AA performance is slightly - greatly improved depending on the game, and Multi-monitor support is light years ahead of Windows 7. If you use it to stream anything in h.265 or x264 the performance is slightly better as with several other high compression high quality video formats.

 I found this as well if anyone's intrested

http://www.techspot.com/review/561-windows8-vs-windows7/page2.html

[Ex0Thermic]

for me there is no noticeable difference for gaming between windows 7 and windows 8.
on paper windows 8 is the better choice and should have more future proofing.

only problem i have had with gaming on windows 8 myself is getting Origin to install games. The same games will install every time first time on my windows 7 notebook. but this is more a fault with Origin that windows 8 its self.

[Scionyde]

I occasionally see some threads on Steam forums where people are having difficulty getting older games to run on Windows 8 (games from like 2007-8). Maybe not a hugely prevalent issue, though.

[Godsmack]

Well I have Windows 7 Pro right now, i could get 8 or 8.1 but idk

 

- Im used to 7 and it works for what im doing

- im always down for the new stuff but i heard it was "bad" lol

 

someone said we could all just wait for 9, i think ima do that

[StormEye]

My experience might be different from many but I did not notice any increase in performance when I moved from 7 pro to 8.1 pro.

 

In fact, I actually have had a lot less stable gaming experience (or just PC experience in general) since I have switched to 8.1 pro.

 

At least I can record long~ videos without having them chopped up (Windows 7 limitation on file size), but thats about the only advantage that I can 'feel' when comparing 8 to 7.

[tonychau77]

My experience might be different from many but I did not notice any increase in performance when I moved from 7 pro to 8.1 pro.

In fact, I actually have had a lot less stable gaming experience (or just PC experience in general) since I have switched to 8.1 pro.

At least I can record long~ videos without having them chopped up (Windows 7 limitation on file size), but thats about the only advantage that I can 'feel' when comparing 8 to 7.

I don't think Windows 7 is limiting the file size. It could be a FAT32 formatted partition which will limit the file size to 4GB.

[StormEye]

I don't think Windows 7 is limiting the file size. It could be a FAT32 formatted partition which will limit the file size to 4GB.

Its not all file types but for some video formats it matters, even in ntfs format.

 

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/625508/shadowplay-filesize-limit-on-win7-even-64bit-/

[tonychau77]

Its not all file types but for some video formats it matters, even in ntfs format.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/625508/shadowplay-filesize-limit-on-win7-even-64bit-/

Never heard of that. That will be really annoying for some people.

[StormEye]

Exactly, and as mentioned in my previous post, it was a driving reason for me to switch from 7 to 8.

[LegendKillerRG]

I'm not sure but I believe Windows 8 uses more of your VRAM

[TheFanis]

Why spend money to get win8 if I already have win7? There's no point!