Windows 10 doesn't seem to be meant for gaming (for now at-least)

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My system config is :-

Asus Z97 Sabertooth, i7 4790, Asus Strix GTX 980, Corsair Vegeance Pro 16 GB 2400 MhZ
500gb Samsung Evo 850

I recently installed windows 10 on my new SSD.

And tried out call of duty Black Opps 3 on it, after playing for about 20 mins the game started to getting choppy and laggy. I checked the temperatures, the GPU was hitting 80 C !! Where as on windows 7 the cooling fans won't even start spinning at till this point. I was excited to install Win 10 but now I would have to go back to Windows 7 or 8.1.

Has anyone else faced a similar issue?
I tried turning off notifications and upgraded all my drivers(also some more things I found over the net).

I was previously playing on games on Windows 7, Should I go back to win 7 or give windows 8.1 a go.
 
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Do what you think is best but like I said I dont think windows 10 is causing your gpu temps to be high I cant really think of any reason why win 10 would do that, a quick google search didn't turn up anything either. If you want...
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oh yea Directx 12, I had to install DirectX 11 separately since Call of duty doesn't seem support DX 12.

 
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I dont think windows 10 has anything to do with your gpu temps, I have never heard of anybody else with this issue. It could be that you somehow messed up your nvidia drivers. Did you upgrade from a previous install or is this a clean install of win 10?
 
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It was a clean install(on a new SSD) and I downloaded all the drivers after Windows installation, I double checked the versions of GPU and MB drivers. I will give the Bios a clean upgrade maybe before I take the step of switching back to 8.1
 
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Do what you think is best but like I said I dont think windows 10 is causing your gpu temps to be high I cant really think of any reason why win 10 would do that, a quick google search didn't turn up anything either. If you want download gpu-z and post a screenshot of the sensors tab while in game preferably while the lag occurs.
 
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Windows 10 doesn't do anything new that windows 7 can't when it comes to games other than apparently monitor what games your playing. Windows 7 has better legacy support as well.

I've been using windows 10 since the beta and it isn't worth the hassle in general.
 
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Been using windows 10 since release, haven't had any issues like that. Don't think 10 would have anything to do with temps. You might check how your fans are set. Might also consider looking at your drivers. 10 has this habit of forcing updates, even I think driver updates.

It seems like I remember some people having trouble with amd's crimson drivers for the Radeon cards, that some people were having issues with gpus overheating and failing due to something with the driver/software and the fans.

I know you have an nvidia card, but it's worth checking anyway.
 
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I will check the drivers again and install the latest one again, as far as fans go they are controlled by default setting on Asus Tweak II utility.



 
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Hm. You might try temporarily uninstalling the Asus software. Also, if that doesn't help totally unload your drivers. We used to use driver sweeper, seems like there is a newer program now that I can't remember the name of, but basically try to get all traces of the Asus software and the drivers off. You might even go back one generation or so on the drivers to test if nothing else.

Monitor your temps with hwmonitor or a similar utility. I think another good one is called open hwmonitor. See if with a clean install of drivers and no third party software if it plays nice.

If you end up using the Asus software again, you may set a more aggressive fan profile. Also if you can, you may want to add a fan to the side of your case to push fresh air to your 980, or you could set or to exhaust air.
 
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Windows 10 has dx12 support while its useless now it wont be soon. The only type of machine I would feel the need to run win 10 is a gaming pc. And win 7 and 8 were patched recently to have pretty much the same monitoring software as 10.
 
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You say it will be like you're a fortune teller. I bet that if the Majority of users were to stick with Windows 7, Microsoft would either release DX 12 on windows 7 or game devs would wholly ignore it.

"And win 7 and 8 were patched recently to have pretty much the same monitoring software as 10"

I'mg guessing your quoting this

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2981947/microsoft-windows/the-truth-about-windows-7-and-81-spy-patches-kb-3068708-3022345-3075249-and-3080149.html

It's one thing from windows 10, not nearly as much. It's a good thing these features aren't built into windows 7 because it's rather easy to avoid.
 
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