Windows 8 Gaming

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

Clearly you hate MS dakan45

I get the things you meant.

I HATE, HATE GFWL. I also hate some things MS has done in the past.

But you need to to also see the other side of the coin and admit that Windows is the best OS system out there for GENERAL Use.

Yes, Linux based systems are the best for Web Servers.

Yes, Mac based OS are the best for Audio and Video Editing.

BUT, as for one general OS, that does Office work, Home Use, Gaming, Internet and 30,000 other things, Windows 7 is a darn fine product.

As for Win8, read my prior posts. Each OS from MS comes out for a reason, to tackle the current technology and bring their product up to date.

Windows 8 goes into the Cloud Sync and Touch Market. Do you have to use it? NO NO NO. But MS needs to bring it out to keep up.

^^ Why do they treat us like crap?

GFWL? Yep, that's a reason, but they said they are going to remove it from Win8 cause of the complaints (or integrate it differently).

Saying that, GFWL is FREE on PC rather than the paid version on XBOX.

Where else do they treat us like crap? Cause they want to push their XBOX forward? Well duh. Of course they want their own gaming system to succeed.

Saying that, are you saying WinXP had better support for modern gaming than Windows 7 for example?

Put Windows 8 Preview on a second PC that's non-mission critical. The whole idea of a Preview or beta is to find out what works and what do not.

[QUOTE="wis3boi"]

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"] That's where people get it wrong. MS isn't telling anyone anything. If ur happy with 7 then no one if forcing anyone to upgrade.FelipeInside

And then a few years later support drops off and we're forced to conform to this stupid touchscreen crap. As someone who works in IT, this is'nt quite a good move. Change is good, forced rapid change for dumb reasons is not.

I'm gonna bet though that if an 'old style' GUI isn't offered as an alternative, it will backfire in their faces. Just like Vista fell to the side and Win7 is becomming the norm, the new WinXP. I live by the motto "Every other Windows release is trash." Buy XP, skip Vista, buy 7, skip 8, etc.

Probably MANY years later. Most businesses are still using XP which is what? 15 years old? And why the word "stupid"? Cause u don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't work.

Your average business isn't going to give a rats ass about a touchscreen for their offices, neither will most other places, and as a gamer I don't really care either. MS rolled out a new tablet, it's obvious they want to do what apple is trying and making the desktop into a bigger tablet. I have used touchscreen laptops before and even desktops at my IT department. None of them offered any advantage over the Win7 I use now, and it was more of a pain in the ass/novelty than anything else. Forcing a touchscreen environment and not offering both that and the normal is indeed "stupid." Businesses aren't gonna buy it, gamers won't buy it....who's left...hipsters? They already got a macbook or ipad :P

^^ Why are people saying "Forcing a touchscreen environment and not offering both". The classic desktop is still there, they are STILL offering the normal mode.FelipeInside

only if you go into regedit and do this

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

change value of RPEnabled from "1" to "0"

the problem with that is, you lose access to your sleep/shutdown/reboot buttons unless you ctrl+alt+del

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]^^ Why are people saying "Forcing a touchscreen environment and not offering both". The classic desktop is still there, they are STILL offering the normal mode.wis3boi

only if you go into regedit and do this

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

change value of RPEnabled from "1" to "0"

the problem with that is, you lose access to your sleep/shutdown/reboot buttons unless you ctrl+alt+del

[QUOTE="wis3boi"]

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]^^ Why are people saying "Forcing a touchscreen environment and not offering both". The classic desktop is still there, they are STILL offering the normal mode.FelipeInside

only if you go into regedit and do this

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

change value of RPEnabled from "1" to "0"

the problem with that is, you lose access to your sleep/shutdown/reboot buttons unless you ctrl+alt+del

you dont get the classic Win7/Vista startbutton and features though

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"][QUOTE="wis3boi"]

only if you go into regedit and do this

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

change value of RPEnabled from "1" to "0"

the problem with that is, you lose access to your sleep/shutdown/reboot buttons unless you ctrl+alt+del

wis3boi

you dont get the classic Win7/Vista startbutton and features though

Funny how some people think, sure I see how some wouldn't like the completely new way Windows works, but to say things like "oh yeah, it might be more stable, faster, more secure, use a lot less of your hardware (one would argue that a gaming PC has more than enough power for just that, but simple facts, less RAM usage and HDD = better performance in games and more memory to allocate for said games), but it sucks man, this is no gaming OS, they changed the way it fundamentally functions/organizes your "everything" so it's absolutely terrible for games". Sense, it makes none, just like the little rants here and there about this "preview".DanielDust

yeah because we know every single operative system is an improvement, i mean i don't see why people didn't migratedfrom windows xp to vista!!

the performance in both system is basically the same, the difference is some functions. So keep the nonsense to yourself.

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Funny how some people think, sure I see how some wouldn't like the completely new way Windows works, but to say things like "oh yeah, it might be more stable, faster, more secure, use a lot less of your hardware (one would argue that a gaming PC has more than enough power for just that, but simple facts, less RAM usage and HDD = better performance in games and more memory to allocate for said games), but it sucks man, this is no gaming OS, they changed the way it fundamentally functions/organizes your "everything" so it's absolutely terrible for games". Sense, it makes none, just like the little rants here and there about this "preview".Krelian-co

yeah because we know every single operative system is an improvement, i mean i don't see why people didn't migratedfrom windows xp to vista!!

the performance in both system is basically the same, the difference is some functions. So keep the nonsense to yourself.

reading this thread makes me just want to smash my computerJigglyWiggly_

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Funny how some people think, sure I see how some wouldn't like the completely new way Windows works, but to say things like "oh yeah, it might be more stable, faster, more secure, use a lot less of your hardware (one would argue that a gaming PC has more than enough power for just that, but simple facts, less RAM usage and HDD = better performance in games and more memory to allocate for said games), but it sucks man, this is no gaming OS, they changed the way it fundamentally functions/organizes your "everything" so it's absolutely terrible for games". Sense, it makes none, just like the little rants here and there about this "preview".Krelian-co

yeah because we know every single operative system is an improvement, i mean i don't see why people didn't migratedfrom windows xp to vista!!

the performance in both system is basically the same, the difference is some functions. So keep the nonsense to yourself.

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Funny how some people think, sure I see how some wouldn't like the completely new way Windows works, but to say things like "oh yeah, it might be more stable, faster, more secure, use a lot less of your hardware (one would argue that a gaming PC has more than enough power for just that, but simple facts, less RAM usage and HDD = better performance in games and more memory to allocate for said games), but it sucks man, this is no gaming OS, they changed the way it fundamentally functions/organizes your "everything" so it's absolutely terrible for games". Sense, it makes none, just like the little rants here and there about this "preview".Krelian-co

yeah because we know every single operative system is an improvement, i mean i don't see why people didn't migratedfrom windows xp to vista!!

the performance in both system is basically the same, the difference is some functions. So keep the nonsense to yourself.

Unfourtantely, no. The difference in performance between 7 and Vista is pretty big. Now I assume maybe you were going off gaming, but I am talking about general use. The way Vista continously reads from the HDD and uses up more RAM just for normal work fucntions is really bad. A colleague of mine in the IT Industry had his company test Vista workstations against Win7 workstations (back when 7 first came out). They decided 110% to upgrade to 7 cause of the difference.

Windows 8 will flop like magikarp in battle.

Windows 8 will flop like magikarp in battle.

jakes456

[QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Funny how some people think, sure I see how some wouldn't like the completely new way Windows works, but to say things like "oh yeah, it might be more stable, faster, more secure, use a lot less of your hardware (one would argue that a gaming PC has more than enough power for just that, but simple facts, less RAM usage and HDD = better performance in games and more memory to allocate for said games), but it sucks man, this is no gaming OS, they changed the way it fundamentally functions/organizes your "everything" so it's absolutely terrible for games". Sense, it makes none, just like the little rants here and there about this "preview".FelipeInside

yeah because we know every single operative system is an improvement, i mean i don't see why people didn't migratedfrom windows xp to vista!!

the performance in both system is basically the same, the difference is some functions. So keep the nonsense to yourself.

Unfourtantely, no. The difference in performance between 7 and Vista is pretty big. Now I assume maybe you were going off gaming, but I am talking about general use. The way Vista continously reads from the HDD and uses up more RAM just for normal work fucntions is really bad. A colleague of mine in the IT Industry had his company test Vista workstations against Win7 workstations (back when 7 first came out). They decided 110% to upgrade to 7 cause of the difference.

i meant between 7 and 8.

from vista to 7 was a pretty big step up

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

[QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

yeah because we know every single operative system is an improvement, i mean i don't see why people didn't migratedfrom windows xp to vista!!

the performance in both system is basically the same, the difference is some functions. So keep the nonsense to yourself.

Krelian-co

Unfourtantely, no. The difference in performance between 7 and Vista is pretty big. Now I assume maybe you were going off gaming, but I am talking about general use. The way Vista continously reads from the HDD and uses up more RAM just for normal work fucntions is really bad. A colleague of mine in the IT Industry had his company test Vista workstations against Win7 workstations (back when 7 first came out). They decided 110% to upgrade to 7 cause of the difference.

i meant between 7 and 8.

from vista to 7 was a pretty big step up

Ahh righto. Sorry for the confusion.

Well, we have to wait and see between 7 and 8. I know for a fact 8 Beta already starts up faster than 7. And the instant restore function in 8 is pretty cool (if it works like they say it does).

As for normal everyday performance, have to wait and see.

I'm running windows 8 and gaming and I have no problems at all. It's very fast and no problems running my games. Just make sure to update your video card drivers. Windows 8 is actually really great. Once past the learning curve its so easy to navigate anywhere and can actually be faster than windows 7

[QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Funny how some people think, sure I see how some wouldn't like the completely new way Windows works, but to say things like "oh yeah, it might be more stable, faster, more secure, use a lot less of your hardware (one would argue that a gaming PC has more than enough power for just that, but simple facts, less RAM usage and HDD = better performance in games and more memory to allocate for said games), but it sucks man, this is no gaming OS, they changed the way it fundamentally functions/organizes your "everything" so it's absolutely terrible for games". Sense, it makes none, just like the little rants here and there about this "preview".DanielDust

yeah because we know every single operative system is an improvement, i mean i don't see why people didn't migratedfrom windows xp to vista!!

the performance in both system is basically the same, the difference is some functions. So keep the nonsense to yourself.

yes a scrub like you knows more than most tech people, reviewers and users in general. of course, such ignorance can only come from you. severyone knows vista > xp i wonder why it failed so badly ? xD

8 is not faster than 7, a few ms at best, and maybe the faster start, but is not different in performance or in games, i do agree with felipeinside, it is an operative system to keep up with the latest technologies But is a waste of time arguing with ignorants like you.