Certainly at kernel level 8.1 was fast and stable - more so than 7 or 10, less said about the UI the better though. Though it lacks support for newer CPU features.
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Certainly at kernel level 8.1 was fast and stable - more so than 7 or 10, less said about the UI the better though. Though it lacks support for newer CPU features.
You could faff around with the look and get it more Windows-like and as you say, the performance and stability was clearly better, especially when the bloatware was stripped out.
8.1 was a solid attempt that should have been built on. But no, we get Windows 10 and 11 germware, that requires people like Intel to write middleware to fudge in something resembling functionality for a dozen games, and for Microsofts operating system and premier gaming platform customers no less. It’s laughable when you think about it.
Not quite sure what the purpose of the video is - but games will often spawn lots of software threads which the OS will spread over as many cores as available as required but rarely do games actually load up more than can be handled by ~12 logical cores, a few games 16, very few which actually leverage CPUs more capable than that.
The OS does that for good reason.
Reducing the number of cores has an impact on inter-frame rendering.