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Windows 10 for gaming: What's your experience?

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RanTH

I'm playing on an mid-range tier laptop (Intel Core i5 UV, 8 GB of RAM, Nvidia GT635M). L.A. Noire was struggling really badly in this specs, because the game is CPU bound and my underclocked CPU couldn't help it. The framerate in average was 6-27 FPS and it slowdowns like hell I couldn't even tell when my character is running or not. So I turned down the game.

I installed Win 10 just yesterday and testing the game again out of curiosity, to my surprise now it runs at fully playable FPS with 15-30 in average. I noticed a few frameskips where the point the game could lag, maybe it's the new optimization in DirectX API? Either way it helps a lot to make the game more playable.

For anyone else who tried Windows 10 for gaming, how's the experience so far? Does it get more better or worse? I'm gonna test for more games, but some of my friends reportedly been noticing significant performance boost in games.

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thebiggboss180

not yet

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Geheimen

The only problem I had was with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, it crashes frequently. Other than that, everything works fine and justi like it did with windows 8.1. I haven't noticed any performance improvements.

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R9X

I have a i5 3330 / 8GB / HD 6850.

Assassin's Creed Unity on Win 8.1 was unplayable (10 - 15 FPS)

after upgrading to Windows 10, I can play this game. Runs 25-35 FPS.

Yes, It is still bad, but I can play until I change my graphics card.

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Other games increase performance, GTA V and Witcher 3 runs good.

Sorry for my bad english

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StrikeRaid

I'm having no problems at all. Upgraded from Win7 Ultimate to Win10 Pro.
I noticed a little FPS boost in GTA V. :D
Haven't tried every game I got yet, tho...

My rig is:
Core i7 4970K @ 4Ghz
16Gb RAM HyperX Black
3Gb XFX Radeon R9 280X

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RAIN7

Exactly the same, some games have fps boost. That's about it.

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XYUSoma

What about older games? I am pretty satisfied with my Windows 7, but I heard Windows 8 is bad when it comes to play games that came out in the XP or Vista era. What about Windows 10?

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Exanimem

Works just fine. Can't say about performance boost since when I downloaded 8.1 I upgraded to 10 immediately (Built my computer on the 29th).

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KazeZlat

Gained some FPS since first preview build.

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Najian

You can use Snap Assist and open 4 screens on one monitor now.

~~ ~~~~wheee!!!!

Opens Eve Online
goes mine veldspar on 4 accounts

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RanTH

No, if you choose not to clean reinstall that is.

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DreamerDream

If you are upgrading win 8.1 to 10 you need to do some special "thing" like reinstalling all drivers? I'm too lazy to play with it. I have win 8.1 and on hard drive I've got one free partition (it's nothing there). I presume it is impossible to install there win 10 and have two system legally?

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RanTH

The only thing I need to reinstall is my GPU drivers and everything else is all good.

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viaI

My dad informed me that windows and driver updates cannot be stopped, which can cause problems if there's bugs. I will definitely wait awhile before i Install it.

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RanTH

Legit concern, however there's a way to disable it. It's just far deep in the settings.

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ruiv

It works very good.

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Vhan

so... for now win10 > win7 in gaming performance?.
or is bc everyone just have a clean OS that makes them believe that is running faster.

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RanTH

I chose upgrade path so my OS is not entirely clean, I believe the performance come from under-the-hood stuff.

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Argeus

My steam client gets laggy. It's a chore to open chat and try to talk to someone or browse steam store/community. Using beta.

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