Windows 7 vs Windows 8.1 Gaming

InvertedMortal · Mar 9, 2014

I am building a new gaming pc and the last thing I need is to choose a operating system and I have been searching around for which one os better out of windows 7 or windows 8.1, I have asked people and they all say that both of them is better. So my question is which OS is actually better for gaming I don't mind anything else just gaming. please help!

PC Specs:
CPU - 17 4770k
MOBO - ASUS Maximus VI Formula
GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti GHz Edition
Memory - Corsair Vengeance Pro CMY8GX3M2B2133C9R 8GB
HDD - WD Black 2TB
PSU - Corsair 750 80+ Gold

rgd1101 · Mar 9, 2014

Novuake · Mar 9, 2014

There is no reason not to go 8.1.

gamestoned · Jul 31, 2015

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

[Display]
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

Novuake · Aug 7, 2015

Please create your own thread instead of bumping year old threads.

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