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[theyarecomingforyou]

watchthisspace, on 22 April 2012 - 02:12, said:

I know a friend who did an upgrade install from 7 to the Customer Preview, he's a gamer and has no problems except for nVidia drivers.

I've had no issues with nVidia drivers, even using unofficial drivers (those designed for Win7).

I've gone back to Win7 now and will probably stick with it until the Release Preview is available, as I had compatibility issues with a few games (Crysis 2 and LA Noire). Still, I very much liked Win8 and will definitely be upgrading to it on release.

[TheElite]

Been using it for a few weeks but it is definitely slower than Win7, especially in Win Explorer.

[PGHammer]

theyarecomingforyou, on 22 April 2012 - 14:00, said:

I've had no issues with nVidia drivers, even using unofficial drivers (those designed for Win7).

I've gone back to Win7 now and will probably stick with it until the Release Preview is available, as I had compatibility issues with a few games (Crysis 2 and LA Noire). Still, I very much liked Win8 and will definitely be upgrading to it on release.

I did NOT have a compatibility issue with Crysis 2 (or any other game I had installed in Windows 7) - in fact, I haven't had a compatibility issue with ANY game I've installed in the Consumer Preview. (None - and that includes the Diablo III beta, Blacklight: Retribution, and several other betas - both closed and open.) What was the problem with Crysis 2? (If related to PunkBuster - which Crysis 2 requires - then download the latest update for PunkBuster, or - if you also have Blacklight: Retribution installed - which also requires Punkbuster - update to the latest client for the game.)

[migo]

Been using it on my Netbook without a hitch now. No crashes. Haven't touched my MacBook at all since then (it crashed on Windows 8, I didn't want to go back to Windows 7 and OSX just... meh.)

[bjoswald]

Not me. Windows 7 suits me perfectly and I see no reason to upgrade at this time.

[JOHW]

Been using it since release day as a main on my tablet laptop but I don't really use the touch features at all these days. Just using it as if it were the same as Windows 7.

[aiir]

I do,

I used Windows 8 for 3 weeks but then downgraded back to Windows 7.
Why?:
-> Mainly because Windows 8 is in beta and windows 7 is the ,etc ,etc (stupid reason but yeh...)
-> Small bugs, but not really a big problem.

Then after downgrading to Windows 7 I was like what the hell?, this sucks... Right away it looked outdated and the start was even harder to use (usally you know with 7 you would just search files,apps,etc but like wtf only in a small space with windows 8 you get the whole screen.

Now back to windows 8 again and very good.

Altough I don't use the metro UI at all... very stupid for desktop users imo, but its nice to lauch apps and search files


Great thing in 8
Start key-> Search = full screen
with 7 it was only in a corner, I know you could then click view all ,etc but windows 8 is nice...

[mrmomoman]

Been using it on my Dell M6500 Laptop and it is great. The Win8 drivers works very well when it wants to work. It likes to shut off my screen and not wake it back up from time to time. But otherwise its been a great experience. I run it as the main OS even though its really a Tri-Boot machine. I have 3 drives. Much faster and responsive with CS 5.5. I can't wait to see an ARM Windows 8 tablet or the HP Slate 8 that is in the news. Good things to come.

[theyarecomingforyou]

PGHammer, on 22 April 2012 - 14:22, said:

I did NOT have a compatibility issue with Crysis 2 (or any other game I had installed in Windows 7) - in fact, I haven't had a compatibility issue with ANY game I've installed in the Consumer Preview. (None - and that includes the Diablo III beta, Blacklight: Retribution, and several other betas - both closed and open.) What was the problem with Crysis 2? (If related to PunkBuster - which Crysis 2 requires - then download the latest update for PunkBuster, or - if you also have Blacklight: Retribution installed - which also requires Punkbuster - update to the latest client for the game.)

It relates to DX11 mode - the game starts in a window with a stupidly small resolution (not even 640x480) and you can't change it or go fullscreen; it runs fine if I play it in DX9 mode but that's not acceptable to me. I also had an issue activating the game because EA decided I had used up all my activations by trying a different operating system, though I managed to get that resolved after chatting to an Indian guy who barely understood English. As for LA Noire, from what I've read online it seems to be an issue with Steam that causes it to crash to desktop on launch - the standard launch commands people recommended didn't help.

My gaming experience with Windows 8 was in general extremely positive. Unfortunately it wasn't quite good enough, which is to be expected at this stage in development.

[Jorkand]

I have been using W8CP as the primary os since it came out. In that time I used it on a cross fire 6950 setup, replaced it with a gtx 680, changed all my HDDs to Storage Spaces. In all the only major problem was an issue with storahci causing the reset port error, resolved it by changing all my drives to IDE.

I had W7 on for about a month or so but eventually I just realized that I couldn't stand it. In terms of games I played a ton of SC2, skyrim, f1 2011 and nowadays I am playing tera (well not until tomorrow but for the beta). In general skyrim and sc2 run a lot better on W2, f1 2011 is a little iffy and I think w7 was a bit faster. Tera I never played on W7 but during the OBT I had no issues at all with performance while other people with very similar machines on W7 were having trouble. Somewhat subjective and I am using the W7 drivers on W8 for the 680.

[+Ely]

This has to be the most entertaining topic I have ever read on Neowin, I have gone through all of the 44 pages today, just to read Andrea's posts lol

[Anthonyd]

Ely, on 27 April 2012 - 22:42, said:

This has to be the most entertaining topic I have ever read on Neowin, I have gone through all of the 44 pages today, just to read Andrea's posts lol

How did you survived?

[+Ely]

Anthonyd, on 27 April 2012 - 22:58, said:

How did you survived?

LOL I have to admit it got a little boring at the end, had to go quickly through the pages hehe.

[Dot Matrix]

Alright, now how many of you running the beta, are going to continue using Windows 8 after the RC is released?

Any holdouts that skipped the beta going to download the RC and use it?

How many are going to go back to windows 7 after the RC is out?

[+Ely]

I'm always on the cutting edge, it would be against my religion not to upgrade to Windows 8 upon its release