Gamers: Win 10 vs Win 7

[dat722]

Hey guys I only game on my PC and I have Windows 10 since the first day of release. I have considered going back to Windows 7. The auto update are very annoying. Are there any opinions on this? Performance difference and what not? Thanks

 

[Rifter]

You have no choice really as a gamer but to stick to windows 10 as windows 7 does not have DX 12.

 

[quikah]

I haven't had any issues with auto updates. When an update is ready I will just do Update and Shutdown when I am done for the night.

 

[ithehappy]

Everyone who cares about proper drivers will go bonkers with Win Ten's terrible force download/install/update policy, anyway, I have forgiven Win 10 God knows how many times already, but I would really like to know if there is any advantage of it for games without DX12. The only game I found which made use of DX12 was Tomb Raider Reboot so far and it ran better with DX11 instead of DX12 anyway. For those games which run on DX11, will Win 10 give more frames over Win 7?

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I have Win10 on a separate SSD strictly for a select few titles.
Everything else gets done on Win7.

 

[Dahak]

Personally I have not see any difference between 7 or 10 in gaming. I dont even have any DX12 games to play so..
I just upgraded to 10 for 1) cause it was free at the time 2) i would need to learn 10 for work anyway

 

[Rifter]

Everyone who cares about proper drivers will go bonkers with Win Ten's terrible force download/install/update policy, anyway, I have forgiven Win 10 God knows how many times already, but I would really like to know if there is any advantage of it for games without DX12. The only game I found which made use of DX12 was Tomb Raider Reboot so far and it ran better with DX11 instead of DX12 anyway. For those games which run on DX11, will Win 10 give more frames over Win 7?

You can turn off forced driver updates you know.

 

[MarkizSchnitzel]

It's so strange to see bigtime google bashing for not providing android updates for longer, and IN PC world, still so many that still preffer to use a 10yo OS.

Not judging or anything, I am a slave to habits myself often, but just curious.

 

[Spjut]

The Battlefield games run better on Win8 and later due to supporting DX11.1 whereas Win7 is DX11.0

 

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[Mem]

Something that the Windows 10 proponents never bother to mention is that DX8 games do not run properly on Windows 10. They're forced to run in full-screen windowed mode instead of true fullscreen mode. That's something to keep in mind if you play a lot of older games.



In my experience, new versions of Android tend to represent a net benefit. For me, Windows 10's regressions more than cancel out it's improvements over 7.

That said, there's a difference between providing ongoing security updates and full OS upgrades, and most of the Android related complaints I hear are concerning the former. When it comes to major OS upgrades, the Android community is much like the Windows community in that there are always people who prefer to stay on older versions, or end up rolling back after an upgrade.

Finally, having a solid OS on my PC is far more important to me than having a solid OS on my phone, because I don't do any serious productivity or gaming on the latter.

I use Android(5.1 and 6), Linux distros and virtually every Windows OS since the dinosaur age, Win10 has it faults (you can say that about any OS) but I never had any issues with games or stability, in fact very solid OS for me on both my gaming PC and laptop, Win7 is on its way out and sooner or latter it will no longer be supported, throw in DX12 for present and the future plus better security ,far longer OS support on 10 and it's really no brainer but to go with 10 over 7.

Side Note: I still run my very old games ie one example is XCOM Apocalypse(which is pre Win98 let alone XP) on Win10 x64 via Dosbox.

I say that has an ex-Win7 user myself and to be honest there is a lot of FUD about 10, but that is always the case with any newer Windows OS, sooner or latter you have to move forward.
Rock solid stability on 10 in fact good as it gets for Windows IMHO(to be honest not hard to get solid stability on Windows in general, in fact never really had any issues with Windows unless you count WinXP pre SP1 and Via 4 in 1 drivers, those were the days 🙂 .

Last point you can never get 100% compatibility and that goes for any OS you care to name.

 

[PontiacGTX]

if you have an AMD GCN based GPU better use Windows 10 it has better performance on DX11

 

[thewhat]

I compared CS:GO on 7, 8.1 and 10. 10 consistently had the lowest frame rate, around 4% less fps than 7 and 8.1 (which were the same). Not much at all, but there you have it.
I don't really play other games so I didn't test them.

 

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[postmortemIA]

I use Windows 7 for what you now can call "legacy" games, everything made for DX9- DX10, even some DX11 titles. There's no way than Win 10 does these older games better than Win 7 ( the OS they were made for)
So answer is - both.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

It's so strange to see bigtime google bashing for not providing android updates for longer, and IN PC world, still so many that still preffer to use a 10yo OS.

Not judging or anything, I am a slave to habits myself often, but just curious.

I thought Win7 was 7 years old.