Just had my SSD fail and gotta do a fresh install.
Should I go back to Win 7? I'm looking at getting better gaming performance mostly, and obviously 3D performance with SLI is my biggest concern.
I'm pretty sure win 8.1 messed up a bunch of stuff for me. I noticed that after I had upgraded to 8.1 (without my permission) I started getting micro stutters in games that I was getting a constant 60fps. Now I'm thining of maybe going back to Win 7. What do you guys think?
Just had my SSD fail and gotta do a fresh install.
Should I go back to Win 7? I'm looking at getting better gaming performance mostly, and obviously 3D performance with SLI is my biggest concern.
I'm pretty sure win 8.1 messed up a bunch of stuff for me. I noticed that after I had upgraded to 8.1 (without my permission) I started getting micro stutters in games that I was getting a constant 60fps. Now I'm thining of maybe going back to Win 7. What do you guys think?
I would definitely recommend going back to Win7 for 3D gaming.
Given the glacial pace of NVidia driver fixes, it's going to be awhile longer before 8.1 works properly. Maybe never if they just skip it and go direct to Win10.
I know for sure that dxgi changed dramatically in Win8.1, and that caused all sorts of knock-on effects. One of which was lowered support for 3D Vision.
Also, for 3D specifically, I pretty much only test game fixes on Win7. I try to make sure that 3Dmigoto runs on Win8.1 for the people who don't mind jacking around with inscrutable problems, but my primary goal is smooth performance on Win7. My reasoning is simple, I'd rather spend my time fixing bugs in 3Dmigoto, instead of spending my time trying to fix problems introduced by Win8.1. For example, if it's dead on 8.1 I'll fix it. But if it stutters on 8.1, I'm not even going to look at it. Only so much time in a day, and more games is more important to me.
Contrary to what you read on the net, Win8 and 8.1 do not actually perform better for 3D. If they did, I'd probably pay the glitch-cost and run it. Booting faster doesn't count. I can give a damn about booting faster, it's already 20s on Win7. How much faster does it need to be?
Win10 is an unknown at present. No idea how it performs in 3D. I do know that Microsoft is far, far more interested in mobile now than desktop. I predict that Win10 will have a new and interesting set of problems to jack around with in 3D. :->
I would definitely recommend going back to Win7 for 3D gaming.
Given the glacial pace of NVidia driver fixes, it's going to be awhile longer before 8.1 works properly. Maybe never if they just skip it and go direct to Win10.
I know for sure that dxgi changed dramatically in Win8.1, and that caused all sorts of knock-on effects. One of which was lowered support for 3D Vision.
Also, for 3D specifically, I pretty much only test game fixes on Win7. I try to make sure that 3Dmigoto runs on Win8.1 for the people who don't mind jacking around with inscrutable problems, but my primary goal is smooth performance on Win7. My reasoning is simple, I'd rather spend my time fixing bugs in 3Dmigoto, instead of spending my time trying to fix problems introduced by Win8.1. For example, if it's dead on 8.1 I'll fix it. But if it stutters on 8.1, I'm not even going to look at it. Only so much time in a day, and more games is more important to me.
Contrary to what you read on the net, Win8 and 8.1 do not actually perform better for 3D. If they did, I'd probably pay the glitch-cost and run it. Booting faster doesn't count. I can give a damn about booting faster, it's already 20s on Win7. How much faster does it need to be?
Win10 is an unknown at present. No idea how it performs in 3D. I do know that Microsoft is far, far more interested in mobile now than desktop. I predict that Win10 will have a new and interesting set of problems to jack around with in 3D. :->
Acer H5360 (1280x720@120Hz) - ASUS VG248QE with GSync mod - 3D Vision 1&2 - Driver 372.54
GTX 970 - i5-4670K@4.2GHz - 12GB RAM - Win7x64+evilKB2670838 - 4 Disk X25 RAID
SAGER NP9870-S - GTX 980 - i7-6700K - Win10 Pro 1607 Latest 3Dmigoto Release Bo3b's School for ShaderHackers
Over 8.1? Yes. 8 seems to work just as well though. Or pretty close to it, at least.
As for Windows 10, it seemed to run okay in 3d when I gave it a (fairly brief) test, but we'll have to see how it looks after release.
Should I go back to Win 7? I'm looking at getting better gaming performance mostly, and obviously 3D performance with SLI is my biggest concern.
I'm pretty sure win 8.1 messed up a bunch of stuff for me. I noticed that after I had upgraded to 8.1 (without my permission) I started getting micro stutters in games that I was getting a constant 60fps. Now I'm thining of maybe going back to Win 7. What do you guys think?
http://photos.3dvisionlive.com/chtiblue/album/530b52d4cb85770d6e000049/3Dvision with 49" Philips 49PUS7100 interlieved 3D (3840x2160) overide mode, GTX 1080 GFA2 EXOC, core i5 @4.3GHz, 16Gb@2130, windows 7&10 64bit, Dolby Atmos 5.1.4 Marantz 6010 AVR
Given the glacial pace of NVidia driver fixes, it's going to be awhile longer before 8.1 works properly. Maybe never if they just skip it and go direct to Win10.
I know for sure that dxgi changed dramatically in Win8.1, and that caused all sorts of knock-on effects. One of which was lowered support for 3D Vision.
Also, for 3D specifically, I pretty much only test game fixes on Win7. I try to make sure that 3Dmigoto runs on Win8.1 for the people who don't mind jacking around with inscrutable problems, but my primary goal is smooth performance on Win7. My reasoning is simple, I'd rather spend my time fixing bugs in 3Dmigoto, instead of spending my time trying to fix problems introduced by Win8.1. For example, if it's dead on 8.1 I'll fix it. But if it stutters on 8.1, I'm not even going to look at it. Only so much time in a day, and more games is more important to me.
Contrary to what you read on the net, Win8 and 8.1 do not actually perform better for 3D. If they did, I'd probably pay the glitch-cost and run it. Booting faster doesn't count. I can give a damn about booting faster, it's already 20s on Win7. How much faster does it need to be?
Win10 is an unknown at present. No idea how it performs in 3D. I do know that Microsoft is far, far more interested in mobile now than desktop. I predict that Win10 will have a new and interesting set of problems to jack around with in 3D. :->
Acer H5360 (1280x720@120Hz) - ASUS VG248QE with GSync mod - 3D Vision 1&2 - Driver 372.54
GTX 970 - i5-4670K@4.2GHz - 12GB RAM - Win7x64+evilKB2670838 - 4 Disk X25 RAID
SAGER NP9870-S - GTX 980 - i7-6700K - Win10 Pro 1607
Latest 3Dmigoto Release
Bo3b's School for ShaderHackers
As for Windows 10, it seemed to run okay in 3d when I gave it a (fairly brief) test, but we'll have to see how it looks after release.