Windows 7 or Windows 10 for Skyrim (DX9)

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Hi helpful people,

I bought some new gear yesterday to upgrade my PC with: I'm moving to a i5-6600 and a GTX 970.

I'm also interested in getting back into modded Skyrim again, but I've read that Nvidia Windows 10 drivers don't allow DX9 to access the full memory of a graphics card.

Given that this PC is going to be used solely for gaming, is there any reason that I shouldn't simply install Windows 7 on the machine so that DX9 can work correctly, or should I upgrade to Windows 10?
 
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I play Skyrim on Windows 10 with 4k/8k texture mods and have no issue at all. I would say go with Windows 10 just to be prepared for the future and to be sure that any current games support your OS.
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Question is, are you planning to upgrade to 10 as soon as you no longer play skyrim. Skyrim itself doesn't use much ram, unless you get into an enb. I've got over 135 mods, ranging from 2k to 8k textures for flora/fauna, city's etc and still don't tax my 970, because I'm not running it on GeForce optimized at 2k, ya just can't read anything, the lettering is game set and tiny, so I'm at pure 1080p. Windows 7.

Dx9 may not use all the vram available, but that card has plenty.
 
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I don't know if I'm planning to upgrade to Windows 10 when I'm done with Skyrim, since that's exactly why I'm asking the question. I just want to know whether there's any benefit, gaming-wise, to running Win10.

How far can I get in the gaming world while still running Windows 7? What era of games require DX12 and won't run on anything less?
 
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I play Skyrim on Windows 10 with 4k/8k texture mods and have no issue at all. I would say go with Windows 10 just to be prepared for the future and to be sure that any current games support your OS.
 
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Just looked up my skyrim on my win7 pro64, its using dx10, not dx9, so honestly shouldn't be an issue. It'll run according to what the gpu uses in the OS platform. Using a gtx970, in win7, it'll run under dx10, using a gtx970 in win10, it'll run under dx10, since it's not coded for dx12.
 
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