What's Win7 64bit like for a modern PC?

[Gurd99]

Is it too old an OS & with trouble getting drivers working for most modern hardware? Can you play most high end games with high end gpu's no problems? Or do you need specific windows 8 only stuff?

[Detmek]

Windows 7 SP1 x64 is fully supported on the latest hardware. The only thing you may miss in Windows 7 (and Windows 8) is DirectX 12 which is exclusive feature on Windows 10. But at the time of writing there are no games with DX12 support.

[redwudz]

I run W7 64 and W7 32 bit on 9 computers here and I vastly prefer it to W8, 8.1, and 10 for my uses.

[pepegot1]

I will stay with Windows 7 for now. Too much of my software will not run on it. Not looking forward to a big redo on three networked computers

[porchmonkey]

I use it professionally and love it, does everything I need it to. New unopened copies of windows 8 upgrades are patiently sitting on the shelf, waiting their turn, and they may sit there forever for all I care.

I have win 8 on a new laptop, and have found no advantage.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Win10 is just a dumbed down win7 with gazilions of snifers and keyloggers preinstalled.

https://forum.videohelp.com/images/imgfiles/iHge6RJ.jpg

Do not worry about lack of DX12 in older oses. Vulkan API will solve this issue in next year.

[Cauptain]

For 2016 games + console connections go to Win 10.

For others go to Win 7.




Claudio

[Gurd99]

I have lost faith in modern PC gaming, Id prefer to go console nowadays. It's all watered down multiplat redos on PC.

I will stay with the older OS as long as I can unless games start looking like that jungle tech demo gdc 2010 & have the gameplay & story of games from the late 90's early 2000's

[sum_guy]

I'm sticking with my Commodore 64 and CRT monitor, these modern computers offer no advantage, I use DOS 6.2 on my main computer because I don't think Windows 3 is ever going to catch on.

[bendixG15]

I'm sticking with my Commodore 64 and CRT monitor, these modern computers offer no advantage, I use DOS 6.2 on my main computer because I don't think Windows 3 is ever going to catch on.

Wait for Windows 3.1, It's due to come out soon.

[sum_guy]

I've got my eye on Windows 3.1, I'm still not convinced the GUI will ever take off.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-Windows-3-1-Sealed-Unopened-Box-VERY-RARE-3-5-disks-...item3aaee84c43