BF4 CPU-Test: Windows 8.1 up to 50% faster compared to Windows 7

billysielu said:
Defo not true in Win 7
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Suarez7 said:
Is that on Win8 because on Win7 I've always used High performance yet my cores were still parked when I checked them for optimizing Planetside 2.
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Both Win7 and Win8 I have never once Regedit my cores and my CPU never once parked..

They is a CPU state setting in the Power options if its 100% min / 100% max the cores will not enter sleep.
 
Spils said:
A sorry I forgot you cant say anything in jest on here without some jumped up nerd taking everything you say and throwing some stupid hypothetical assumptions back in your face. Of course no one would expect them to do that? Are you for real? I was just thinking out loud how times have changed. Anyway I expect half of this is pure marketing. I also wouldn't take anything Dice and EA say as Jospel there a bunch of liars. You guys really do seem to have short term memory's.
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If you get wound up this easily, I heartily recommend playing online multiplayer FPS games. Preferrably with a webcam streaming your own reactions.

Liking the "jumped up nerd" jab by the way. Really hit home. Ouch.
 
shankly1985 said:
Both Win7 and Win8 I have never once Regedit my cores and my CPU never once parked..

They is a CPU state setting in the Power options if its 100% min / 100% max the cores will not enter sleep.
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Something up there then because many Win7 users who were already running high performance still had to unpark their cores for Planetside 2.
 
My CPU dont park

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That's kinda the info I was after to justify unparking. If MS decided not to park based on performance settings, it implies unparking improves performance - which matches some, but not all, of the benchmarks to try and measure it. Would help if a few more people could confirm, not convinced by just 1 result.
 
FrenchTart said:
I would expect Win8 to offer some performance advantages over Win7, yeah - just not the kind of numbers that someone looking at the graph in the OP might assume (or the figures being bandied about here).

Unless someone has tons of spare time I wouldn't recommend they go through the hassle of an OS install in the hope of achieving a massive improvement in BF4. Sure, they may get a benefit during the beta and it's not a terrible thing to refresh your OS but you're not going to be missing out massively by sticking with Win7 - aside from perhaps during the BF4 beta.



Agreed. Personally I don't get it but to be honest it might have been different if I was 10 years younger. I certainly had a lot more free time and a lot more patience for things like this at least.
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takes 30m-1 hr to upgrade from win7 to 8 hardly taxing. you can go eat dinner drink tea come back done. you don't need to do anything.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
single card configuration benchmark shown .sli is pointless ;) and not related.

as always single card there is no difference between i5 or i7.

2 cards or more yes there is a difference. no one argues that :p


ive seen three benchmarks now in two at the same rez the i5s actually were a little faster in single card configs in bf4. in the other the fps was so close between the i5/i7 that well call it a draw ( i7 was about 1and half fps quicker)

ive done extensive runs doing min max avg in domination 32 man , 64 man conquest and my fps is about 2 fps under the benched ones already done.

so i see them as very accurate. not only this my mates who i play with and one who has just had a i7 4770k haswell bundle @ 4.6 nets about the same fps as noted in the benchmarks aswell.

http://www.hardwarepal.com/battlefield-4-cpu-gpu-benchmarks/
http://pclab.pl/art55028-3.html
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Your not listening to what I or others are saying (and I forgot when I posted earlier that I'd run with HT off and the turbo boosting to a higher level than with HT on which was making up some of the performance difference).

Even when getting the same fps numbers between running my CPU as if it was an i5 and running it as its native i7 theres a night and day difference in smoothness for me in the BF4 beta.

Running it like an i5 4 cores are running at ~97% average CPU use and theres quite a lot of stutter moving about and when stuff gets busy, etc.

Running it normally 8 cores are showing ~60% average use and its far smoother when moving and stuff gets busy, etc.


I'm pretty sure theres a bug with the beta atleast maybe even the full game though where the thread(s) used for loading data in and out as your moving around, etc. are statically allocated and sometimes you get other busy threads automatically allocated to the same core which saturates the core resulting in poor performance which happens much more often when you have 4 cores instead of 8 to spread stuff over.
 
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Guys another question regarding W8, as i said in an earlier post i have to the upgrade W8 an its an exe not iso.

I want to do a clean install with out putting W7 on first, my problem is how do i change it from exe to iso so i can burn it to CD/DVD.

So i can just use that instead of going through W7 first :(

Sorry if its a dumb question but W8 upgrade is the first digital release ive bought every other Os has been on Disc.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
takes 30m-1 hr to upgrade from win7 to 8 hardly taxing. you can go eat dinner drink tea come back done. you don't need to do anything.
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Sure, if you're the kind of person that uses non-fresh installs. Enjoy trouble shooting stuff further down the line and likely reduced OS responsiveness.
 
CyberCrow said:
Guys another question regarding W8, as i said in an earlier post i have to the upgrade W8 an its an exe not iso.

I want to do a clean install with out putting W7 on first, my problem is how do i change it from exe to iso so i can burn it to CD/DVD.

So i can just use that instead of going through W7 first :(

Sorry if its a dumb question but W8 upgrade is the first digital release ive bought every other Os has been on Disc.
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You can't covert an .exe to an .iso.....if the exe is the upgrade download you get when you buy an upgrade version then I think when you run that it gives you the option to download iso or do clean install....I think...
 
Urg people actually do the OS upgrades?! Always fresh install people! It takes that little more extra work but makes it far better in the long run :D
 
Bobmunkhouse said:
You can't covert an .exe to an .iso.....if the exe is the upgrade download you get when you buy an upgrade version then I think when you run that it gives you the option to download iso or do clean install....I think...
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Yeah i know you can't convert an exe to iso lol, but a couple of replys ive had so far state that the UPGRADE DIGITAL can be installed with out an previous Os installed before hand.
 
Rroff said:
Your not listening to what I or others are saying (and I forgot when I posted earlier that I'd run with HT off and the turbo boosting to a higher level than with HT on which was making up some of the performance difference).

Even when getting the same fps numbers between running my CPU as if it was an i5 and running it as its native i7 theres a night and day difference in smoothness for me in the BF4 beta.

Running it like an i5 4 cores are running at ~97% average CPU use and theres quite a lot of stutter moving about and when stuff gets busy, etc.

Running it normally 8 cores are showing ~60% average use and its far smoother when moving and stuff gets busy, etc.


I'm pretty sure theres a bug with the beta atleast maybe even the full game though where the thread(s) used for loading data in and out as your moving around, etc. are statically allocated and sometimes you get other busy threads automatically allocated to the same core which saturates the core resulting in poor performance which happens much more often when you have 4 cores instead of 8 to spread stuff over.
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your forgetting the benchmarks to back it up. or is all of those wrong? i understand what you saying but there isnt much difference in i5 or i7 with a single card.

those that argue against it try to bring sli in or crossfire or ht. ht for 99 percent of games makes no difference as most are console games.

bf4 is actually one of the most cpu catered for and in the benchmarks shown there is no difference. also if it was true the amd 8350 for eg would have scored higher than the i5 and it doesn't in any !

funny thing is people were also using the early beta with people getting odd drops on i5s this has mainly been sorted and the fps is even better now :D without drops. that was game related and not ht related like a lot were getting at.
 
CyberCrow said:
Yeah i know you can't convert an exe to iso lol, but a couple of replys ive had so far state that the UPGRADE DIGITAL can be installed with out an previous Os installed before hand.
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you can install a upgrade version fresh. i have done it a few times with win8. its easy.
 
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