Should gamers upgrade to Windows 8?

theheyes said:
So, in fact, you don't listen to anyone. Fair enough. But you can't call me out on my advice in the context of this thread. Generally speaking gamers should hold off for a while, but buy now while it's cheap. The reasoning is sound and is there for all to see.

For what it's worth, I've literally watched XCOM fail to run on a fresh Windows 8 PC and I know somebody who upgraded over the weekend and lost their sound. So it's by no means perfect for everybody.
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I hear what you are saying there is always some gaming issues regardless of OS in question because of different hardware/drivers etc..,normally its resolved with newer drivers etc..

FYI I've just been playing XCOM on my Win8 PC(overclocked MSI 560Ti card with overclocked CPU and using official Nvidia drivers with my Asus Xonar DX soundcard).

I'll say if you are a gamer and want Win8 go for it.
 
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theheyes said:
Gamers should hold off in the short term. Why deal with the early issues when you could just wait a few months.
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The thing is, I doubt all the 'issues' people may or may not be having with games are going to be miraculously fixed in a few months. Every release of Windows is the same, loads of people report issues when it first comes out, half the issues get fixed (note fixed doesn't necessarily mean a Windows update, it could be better drivers from hardware manufacturers, workarounds posted by users etc) and the other half get forgotten about because there isn't a huge swathe of people discussing them, people just move on. Windows 7 has been out for a couple of years, and that still has issues with some older games.

From my perspective, things seem generally OK in Win8 so far, but then I've only tried a handful of games. The main reason I upgraded was because it was cheap, I wanted to get used to the new technology (for non-gaming reasons), and Pro is a bit more future proof than Home Premium (16GB limit - fine for a couple of years until 64bit apps become more commonplace, but wanted to grab Win8Pro while it was cheap).

The key thing I'd say to any gamers is, if there is any older game you are particularly in love with (typically a MMO, or online FPS) then do your research before upgrading, whether that be via Release Preview or just simple research online. Those are the issues that are the real killers; a couple of percent lower frames in some games you aren't in love with or whatever isn't going to be the end of the world.
 
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I guess the sensible answer is not to upgrade as you're likely to get some issues even if only minor ones, and Windows 7 is rather lovely as it is. However personally I couldn't help myself as the temptation to try something new got the better of me. Some may think me a fool but I don't mind. :)

I've had very little time to play with it, but I tried XCOM as that was mentioned a couple of times in this thread and it failed to load. I tried Dishonored and that worked okay, so thats good news as its what I'm currently playing. I'll have to have mess around with it later.
 
Elevon said:
Glad I don't listen to people like you,I'm a gamer and have Win8 Pro on 3 computers with no issues gaming so far,happy I upgraded,all my Steam and Origin games work fine,even XCOM,GW2 and my other titles too,still going through my large gaming list but no issues so far ,Asus Xonar DX is also working great sound wise :).

Right its gaming time off to ME3 MP and GW2 later.
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Those are all new titles though, so anyone would expect those to work.

Try some older or more obscure stuff on Steam and you may encounter more problems with Win8 than you will with Win7.
 
shankly1985 said:
I only played fifa 13 so far and it ran smooth. Did anyone here have issues installing Amd drivers tho? 12.11
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In your event log, do you have several entires listed for FIFA 13?

Like it fails, then loads and gives that weird message.

See, i'm torn on what it actually means. Is the OS recovering extremely quickly from an incompatiable game and then working around it to get it to launch somehow?

With some of the oddities I experience with Win 8, i'm now starting to think the OS is actually doing a good job of running apps which may have simply not worked in older versions under similar circumstances.

Such a marmite OS this one.
 
HangTime said:
The thing is, I doubt all the 'issues' people may or may not be having with games are going to be miraculously fixed in a few months.
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They won't, but a few months with a few tens of millions of users is going to root out any showstoppers if there are any. Of course you'll get diminishing returns over time but waiting could save you some trouble. Of course, if you can't wait, then by all means test it out and do some research.

But to me, somebody willing to go to that effort implies that they are actually interested in running Windows 8 for the sake of running Windows 8. That changes the original question, because we're no longer looking at it from a purely gaming perspective.
 
well i was all fine but cod4 hates windows 8 so if you play this regular beware its a nightmare on it

also i had massive lag pauses in bf3 so back on w7 :p
 
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It's no different on Windows 8. I've got loads of compatability problems running Windows 8. Think I'm going to reinstall W7 tonight.
 
nah this was some freaky pause cant move lag :p not fps lag

bf3 isnt that important to me anyway as i play cod4 90 percent of time and that would not work fullstop due to pb errors
 
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