Should gamers upgrade to Windows 8?

It's usually wise to wait a bit to let the bugs get ironed out and driver support to improve. Windows 7 was no different.

Right now I think you'll find windows 7 is a better bet than windows 8 and yes I have used the later ;)
 
honosuseri said:
It's usually wise to wait a bit to let the bugs get ironed out and driver support to improve. Windows 7 was no different.

Right now I think you'll find windows 7 is a better bet than windows 8 and yes I have used the later ;)
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lad at work is going to send me a link later to get windows 8 for £25 (just the iso to downlaod! £50 for disk or £25 for iso and burn myself hmmmmm easy decision)

then going to wait a long while before upgrading , I'll have to deal with compatibility issues at work, can't be bothered to deal with them at home aswell :)
 
At the moment win 7 is great for me and i dont see a reason to switch. Until its fully tested and has a sp1/update im not letting it near my precious steam stuffs lol. I havnt come across a compatibility test with win 8 and steam/win games yet... still looking.
 
dunn2010 said:
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lad at work is going to send me a link later to get windows 8 for £25 (just the iso to downlaod! £50 for disk or £25 for iso and burn myself hmmmmm easy decision)

then going to wait a long while before upgrading , I'll have to deal with compatibility issues at work, can't be bothered to deal with them at home aswell :)
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"Tool" sig. users only in this thread please ;)

I don't hate windows 8. I'm running it on this laptop I'm using to reply. I get the point, MS is trying to bring the UI together for all it's devices (PC,Xbox,phone/tablet) to help "non geeks" pick it up easier. Takes a little getting used to, it very much feels like windows 7 with the metro UI slapped over the top of it.

I was a little annoyed that my Microsoft VX3000 webcam wasn't compatible with the metro UI in windows 8. I had to install MSN messenger seperately and install the windows 7 webcam driver manually to get the cam working.......was a faff :(
 
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I'd wait at least a year to see if it becomes well established or not (it could end up becoming another Vista)... It seems to be a mixed bag at the moment when it comes to people's opinions/reviews, so i'm sticking with Windows 7 for now ;).
 
How about some real world insight as to how it actually runs with games?

From the few that I tried, FIFA 13 works but leaves all sorts of strange errors in event viewer, so it's not entirely happy. Also stutters and have to alt-tab out of a game, then back in. (Possibly latest nvidia beta drivers to blame though)

Dishonored and Sleeping Dogs seem to work fine, no noticeable difference while playing.

Got about 100 less points in 3D Mark 11.

Overall, it's snappy but feel like it's lacking the polish of Windows 7. Too many strange errors in event viewer, it's not happy with drivers for my cyborg RAT 7 or mech keyboard.
 
Ill wait too , thought ild run that upgrade installer thingi , on the microsoft website , I stopped when it gave me a long list of compatibility issues , and of course no media centre . But what was an eye opener FRAPS amongst others payed updates ? is that how its gona be ?
There was problems iv read on overclocking , a common practice for gaming , So if that still the case , what ever the gains of the OS they will be wiped out and then some by lack of overclocking potential .
Dont know if thats still the case , but I for one am gona hold fire .
 
Arthur Hucksake said:
How about some real world insight as to how it actually runs with games?

From the few that I tried, FIFA 13 works but leaves all sorts of strange errors in event viewer, so it's not entirely happy. Also stutters and have to alt-tab out of a game, then back in. (Possibly latest nvidia beta drivers to blame though)

Dishonored and Sleeping Dogs seem to work fine, no noticeable difference while playing.

Got about 100 less points in 3D Mark 11.

Overall, it's snappy but feel like it's lacking the polish of Windows 7. Too many strange errors in event viewer, it's not happy with drivers for my cyborg RAT 7 or mech keyboard.
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Seeing as you have a dodgy set up, not the best advice ever.

I'm running several games with no issues at all xcom and ksp.
 
I upgraded to Windows 7 in the December after was released, so most of the major bugs had been sorted out. I'm tempted to do the same for Windows 8 for the 'under-the-hood' improvements that it brings.

But I'm reluctant to upgrade until they bring out an alternative to that Metro interface, which I hope will be soon.
 
Glaucus said:
Seeing as you have a dodgy set up, not the best advice ever.

I'm running several games with no issues at all xcom and ksp.
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Dodgy setup?

This was with a clean install.

I just look a little deeper through the cracks unlike most.

Windows 7 has been superbly stable and PERFECT.

I also have a magical empty folder that keeps appearing on my desktop for no reason whatsoever. Would love to know what that's all about.
 
No, you have hardware with is supported, hardware faults or something else dodgy. You seem to think everyone is affected and its win8 fault. You seem to want to hate you have so many posts saying similar things dating back days.
Yet the vast majority it works fine yet somehow you think it's win8 and just complain rather than digging deeper and googling error codes and seeing what the issue is.

Got an overclocked machine, unclock it. Just be use a overclocked or damaged component worked on old OS doesn't mean it'll work on new OS, tolerances get tighter in pretty much every new release and try googling error codes for a start. As seen in all the threads your experience is not common, so is u like to be a win8 issue.

Win8 has been super stable as well.
 
Glaucus said:
No, you have hardware with is supported, hardware faults or something else dodgy. You seem to think everyone is affected and its win8 fault. You seem to want to hate you have so many posts saying similar things dating back days.
Yet the vast majority it works fine yet somehow you think it's win8 and just complain rather than digging deeper and googling error codes and seeing what the issue is.

Got an overclocked machine, unclock it. Just be use a overclocked or damaged component worked on old OS doesn't mean it'll work on new OS, tolerances get tighter in pretty much every new release and try googling error codes for a start. As seen in all the threads your experience is not common, so is u like to be a win8 issue.

Win8 has been super stable as well.
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I choose option B... reinstall Windows 7.

I have been googling the error codes, everyone's solution is to reinstall Windows 7. Getting pretty frustrating to just be told everything is hunky dorey with Windows 8.

If the hardware was to blame then surely it would have showed itself in Windows 7 to some extent.

The more I look, all drivers and software that companies have flagged as compatible simply aren't.

Have a look in your event viewer right now and tell me what your seeing.
 
dunn2010 said:
They believe this new interface is the future, so they defiantly wont change.
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They will if they link it to loss of sales.

But until that happens (if it ever does) I will have to mod it. But regardless i'm still not going to to upgrade until around Christmas time to give some of the bugs a chance to be sorted out.
 
Arthur Hucksake said:
I choose option B... reinstall Windows 7.

I have been googling the error codes, everyone's solution is to reinstall Windows 7. Getting pretty frustrating to just be told everything is hunky dorey with Windows 8.

If the hardware was to blame then surely it would have showed itself in Windows 7 to some extent.

The more I look, all drivers and software that companies have flagged as compatible simply aren't.

Have a look in your event viewer right now and tell me what your seeing.
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I can't some off us aren't at home to check event viewer.

Just be use hardware was fine on old OS, doesn't not mean it will be on new OS. I've had plenty of hardware in the past that has had issues, but only shows up on new OS, due to tighter OS control.
 
Don't the upgrade offer end around January time?

So it's not going to hurt too much to hold off a few weeks to wait from more information about how well games perform to come in.
 
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