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Originally Posted by Ksireaper View Post

This is exactly what i have experienced with switching over to windows 8 on my gaming rig. Frame rates are about the same but the game play has been much smoother. As a gamer that alone warranted the upgrade.
I'm using 8 now, but I honestly haven't noticed any difference in any games I play.
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I'm using 8 now, but I honestly haven't noticed any difference in any games I play.

Because there are many factors to consider i.e. your eyes, etc.
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If what people are saying about minimum frameratess is true, then TPU and / or another site needs to do a review to find that out.
 
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More often than not Windows 7 still isn't significantly faster than significantly older versions of Windows that predate WDDM entirely.

On a dual-core, with 3GiB or less memory, using DX9, Windows 2000 probably isn't noticeably different from Windows 8 as far as game performance goes.

No one should expect current games, using current APIs, to benefit significantly from WDDM 1.2. New software or more complex usage scenarios than most encounter when gaming will likely be needed for any differences to really become evident.
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Framerates may stay the same, but it stutters less, has less framedrops...

I haven't noticed any difference in smoothness.
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Because there are many factors to consider i.e. your eyes, etc.

Bigger factor is probably that there isn't any difference, in most cases.
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Ive noticed better performance with the HD 6990. So far, im happy with windows 8 rtm :)

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If what people are saying about minimum frameratess is true, then TPU and / or another site needs to do a review to find that out.

All depends on the game/program.

Technically you are right, the minimum frame rates SHOULD be higher for Windows 8 (depending on the card), but as other tests has shown, this isn't always the case, and in fact, the opposite is true.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/windows-8-consumer-preview-vs-windows-7-benchmarked_p2/19927


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The interesting thing here are the minimum frames per second (FPS) scores. This test suggests that the minimum FPS score for Windows 8 Consumer Preview is lower than for Windows 7, showing that in-game FPS drops on the new operating system are greater than they are on Windows 7. This is significant because the lower minimum FPS drops, the worse the in-game experience becomes.

Basically, what just about every test I've seen (and from my personal experience with using both Windows 7 and Windows 8), the differences in frame rates, both minimum and maximum, is pretty much insignificantly different ... a couple FPS gain here, a couple FPS loss there.
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About graphics, Windows 8 should be better, because of this:

[MSDN Blog] Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics
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All of nope. Sorry, I've confirmed it myself. Windows 8 has true performance gains over Windows 7. ESPECIALLY noticeable when I am recording in BF3.
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I'm going to do some searching now for some info, but does anyone know/remember what the increase in gaming performance was, if any, from Windows 7's service pack (or any other OS's for that matter)? Just wondering what type of improvement we can realistically hope to see from the service packs for W8.
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I had heard something about win8 going back to hardware acceleration with sound, can anyone that's tried it confirm that (x-fi user maybe)?
 
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