Have Win 7 on my desktop and Win 8.1 on my notebook.
And I fecking hate my notebook.
Despite that I did toy with moving my desktop to Win 8.1 thinking it might fix my BF4 problems, but after having read this thread I realised there's no guarantee that Win 8.1 will solve them:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-4/ ... -p/1737283
If you can get used to the Win 8.1 UI then it has some advantages, and I have some friends who really like it. But personally it's one of my favourite rant topics it's that bad IMHO.
Windows 7 vs Windows 8(.1)
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Re: Windows 7 vs Windows 8(.1)
I'm on 8.1 atm and have yet to have any problems with BF4 besides the usual problems it has. I quite like the interface (now I'm used to it) and it feel much quicker than win 7.
Re: Windows 7 vs Windows 8(.1)
I just recently tried 8.1 and was pleasantly surprised. I was having CPU spikes in BF4 with my old Win7 install. After seeing a post from a DICE dev who claimed Win8 handled multi-core CPUs better than 7, I tried 8.1 on a new HDD and the spikes went away completely. I went ahead and purchased a license and installed a fresh copy on my SSD and with the classic shell, I have no more complaints with the OS that I once had. Most of the Metro nonsense can be changed/disabled and once it is, Win8.1 is a solid OS and worth buying if you need a new Windows license.
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Re: Windows 7 vs Windows 8(.1)
Alot of people who had the crashes in Win7 on for example Siege of Shanghai and later installed Win8 got it to be very stable.
For me it just helped to get a new graphics card, GTX570 GTX770.
I played a whole round of Shanghai yesterday without crashing, for the first time ever. I don't know if my old gfx overheated or if it was the memory that ran out, but I never got that "you want to change color scheme" in Win7 with the new gfx either.
For me it just helped to get a new graphics card, GTX570 GTX770.
I played a whole round of Shanghai yesterday without crashing, for the first time ever. I don't know if my old gfx overheated or if it was the memory that ran out, but I never got that "you want to change color scheme" in Win7 with the new gfx either.
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Re: Windows 7 vs Windows 8(.1)
Oh I remember that popup! I think it came everything you started bf3 or somethingknorren wrote:Alot of people who had the crashes in Win7 on for example Siege of Shanghai and later installed Win8 got it to be very stable.
For me it just helped to get a new graphics card, GTX570 GTX770.
I played a whole round of Shanghai yesterday without crashing, for the first time ever. I don't know if my old gfx overheated or if it was the memory that ran out, but I never got that "you want to change color scheme" in Win7 with the new gfx either.
(And ofcourse the option to never remind me again doesnt work)