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Hey all.

 

If you've seen the Battlefield 4 System reqs i'm sure your aware that Windows 8 is reccomended.

 

Was just wondering if anyone could guess what kind of performance increase (if any) i would gain from installing W8.

 

I have the disk for it already, so no more costs would be involved, but should i bother?

 

Thanks 

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The difference in gaming performance between Win 7 and 8 has been +/- 3FPS. So solely for gaming there's not much reason to upgrade.

But Win8 is a better OS than Win7 overall, so it's worth to upgrade IMHO.

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Hey all.

 

If you've seen the Battlefield 4 System reqs i'm sure your aware that Windows 8 is reccomended.

 

Was just wondering if anyone could guess what kind of performance increase (if any) i would gain from installing W8.

 

I have the disk for it already, so no more costs would be involved, but should i bother?

 

Thanks 

:)

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It is in my view not really worth it since you will probably only see a minor increase(If that).

Just stick with which one you prefer.

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Hey all.

 

If you've seen the Battlefield 4 System reqs i'm sure your aware that Windows 8 is reccomended.

 

Was just wondering if anyone could guess what kind of performance increase (if any) i would gain from installing W8.

 

I have the disk for it already, so no more costs would be involved, but should i bother?

 

Thanks 

:)

 

The difference in gaming performance between Win 7 and 8 has been +/- 3FPS. So solely for gaming there's not much reason to upgrade.

But Win8 is a better OS than Win7 overall, so it's worth to upgrade IMHO.

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But Win8 is a better OS than Win7 overall, so it's worth to upgrade IMHO.

 

careful now, don't wake up all the sleeping dragons! heheh, toke me a while and some mods, but win8 as been good to me so far. and i did not notice any gaming difference between 7 and 8.

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careful now, don't wake up all the sleeping dragons! heheh, toke me a while and some mods, but win8 as been good to me so far. and i did not notice any gaming difference between 7 and 8.

 

Well, it's faster, lighter and runs very well. Using StartIsBack on my Desktop as my main Start and got all the hotcorners disabled and so on.

Using Metro on my laptop  [startIsBack mainly for Shutdown and so on].

Like them both in their way. And I can have my desktop completely empty. Not even the Bin has to be there O.o:D

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Little to none, it's recommending Windows 8 because it is the only OS that can use DX 11.1 and 11.2. 

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Thanks for the replies. I think ill stick with W7 for the time being then. If Upgrading to 8 isn't much hassle i can always do it one day.

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