I noticed there is kind of a void of opinions in that regard. I have seen some stuff that suggest that it may not be better at all. Any insights ? There should be some kind of indication by now if Win 10 is actually gonna make a different in games/gaming. Benchmarks appreciated.
I also had different CPU's for both, Windows had a A10-5800K quad core APU, currently I have an 8320 although I doubt that the IPC between is dramatically different.
I'm a shitty benchmarker what can I say. Didnt know someone would ask...
I was thinking something like reduced cpu overhead and such. I can't really expect it to be much different until DX12 games are made. Mantle based games maybe? I have many questions since it was a marketing point and claim by MS that they are going to support the gamers better. Since they got the streaming from xbox to pc assbackwards , i am not placing much hope in it.
As silly as this sounds, I'm actually probably going to use the backwards game streaming capability of Win10 (when I dual boot it alongside Win7). I'm a PC gamer, but my brother is a console gamer and has an XBone. I really only have 1 exclusive game series I'd like to play on the Bone, which is Halo and I don't want to leave the comfort of my computer to play it...so yea, I'll be part of the problem =P
And ik, latency + fps = probably not a good idea...but who cares, it's for 1 game. I would leave the comfort of my PC to play it if it was splitscreen, but no...they took that feature out
The best solution would be for them to release Halo on Windows, but that's not gonna happen...Xbox needs their killer app series
Albeit this was from three weeks ago. I did some testing.
My Build
Gigabyte 990FX-UD3-AM3+ Motherboard
Corsaire Vengence 16GB CAS Latency 7 RAM
AMD 8120 overclocked to 4.5GHz
R9 290 Tri-X GPU
2TB WD Black edition(don't remember PN)
Samsung Evo 840 SSD 256GB
Tested in 8.1 and Windows 10. 8.1 stable, Windows 10, not so stable as of June 30th. Video stutter error link below.
After testing GTA with both controller (Using Input Mapper) and mouse. I
can now confirm that yes, it is still for whatever reason a Windows 10
problem with those freezes. The "Attempted to write to read only memory
error has gone away too." That may have been a problem with just my 10
install itself rather than running Windows 10. Although, it could be a
mix of hardware and software. IE different instruction sets that the CPU
is not making use of.
GTA does play well now, while installed
on the SSD. Sits at around 40-57 fps on average. Which is much better
than the 30 or less in more crowded areas with events and explosions
going on.
Tested in Arkham Knight as well on the SSD. It is
running, to take a guess, 20% worse with mouse or without controller.
This is without making changes to the .ini file, and keeping the Nvidia
effects off. V-Sync turned on or off does not seem to make much
difference. It appears better to have on, otherwise massive stuttering.
No screen tears though.
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I tested about 6 weeks ago and had stuttering issues with GTA, nothing I did stopped them so I went back to 8.1 and it was fine again.
Looks like ten days of propaganda and no real info.
As of running the RTM Build, It's about the same. there's really no difference. funnily enough, Nvidia were the first to drop a "Windows 10" driver. AMD just released it with the Catalyst 15.7 drivers.
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Interessting topic to follow.
i´m a bit skeptical about it, i personaly dont think that there will be a mind blowing diffrence at all.
Maybe wenn games come out with full DX12 support, then maybe...
I keep waiting for someone to call them out on it. Is there really a reason to hop on the band wagon of win10 if dx12 will not make any difference until there is actually many dx12 games out? Since they are forcing win 10 on home users to update, it is starting to get stinky. I wanna know why? From a gaming perspective, there is no compelling reason to update to win 10 as it stands.
there are a few games that are coming with DX12 soon, Deus Ex being the big one, and there are a few indie titles as well.
in some way i do believe DX12 is going to kick off much faster than DX11 or 10 ever did. despite all the paranoia, non-sense and stuff people feel about Windows, on the gaming sector it's going to be much more exciting than ever.
What for xbox? :( So they can sell that assbackwards streaming method ?
it works. if people want to do it, then let them. i don't see the problem. We have Nvidia game-stream on Shield devices, and Valve In-Home-Streaming that from my experience runs pretty well on Atom based Processors.
Don't get me wrong. I can see a use case or two for it. The industry is dodging around some stuff. Not to derail my own topic. Is win 10 worth updating to for gaming ? Right now the is no indication that is going to make a difference and there should be something. In fact wasn't one of the selling points. I understand it not going to be full fledged until games come out to support it. No proof of Concept or an indication of any positive change.
I don't really see how there would be any performance boost going from W7 to W10 unless it supports DX12. The real goal is to not make it worse for DX11 on W10. There are a lot of people who really don't want to leave W7. If anything is worse at all, then they won't want to move over. So even if they focused on adding features and functions which may impact performance, it had better perform just as well in game or else people won't want to switch.
Going from windows 7 to windows 10 I can't help but feel it runs my fully modded out skyrim smoother. Used to drop frames in intensive areas to 45 fps but since switching I noticed it doesn't go below 50. This is probably due to a fresh install more than anything however.
I was using Win 10 preview up until recently when DWM (desktop window manager) started to enforce triple buffering on CS:GO, which adds way to much input lag for competative play. Other than that and some TF2 problems it was fine. Also ran BF4, theif, dirt 3, skyrim perfect with very little problems.
Well ? Still no proof of any kind that win 10 and dx 12 is worth anything to gamers. Opening day is almost most upon us.
because it's subjective and there aren't any DX12 games out yet.. it's almost exactly when Battlefield 4 came out. people were expecting a MANTLE patch on day one. yeah no.