CrayonMuncher
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Using win 8 enterprise eval copy atm, used the win 8 beta breifly (breifly as I had an issue with the nvidia driver, my display and win 8 which i couldnt be bothered to resolve as I wasnt to keed on it) But I read this the other day and thought Ill give it another go:
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...y-desktop-users-should-upgrade-from-windows-7
So far i still prefer win 7 but am starting to like it, but I do miss the aero interface, I read that it was taken off to increase performance as speed and 's fluidity are essential as its so mobile orientated, but it has never slowed my system down, should be and option to turn it on and have it off as default.
Edit: Just found what may turn into a major problem.
I have an issue which others have regarding green dots/ artifacts on the screen which is from the low idle clocks (power saving) on amd cards, this is not a big thing as it can be fixed relatively easyliy but this issue also causes games to crash as the display driver crashes and then recovers, as i say it is an easy fix as you just make a profile and edit it to force different idle clocks, this fixes dots and no games crash now this works in win 7 and win 8 but the difference is that if you forget to enable the profile it will say it has crashed and then recovered but you just enable the profile and all is good in win 8 when it crashes, you cannot enable the profile and the gpu clocks are stuck in their powersaving states, this could also be problem if the display driver stopped for any other reason as it would be stuck on the low clocks (in my case 250mhz on core and 150 on gddr5) stressing the gpu/changing profiles makes no difference and you have to restart to sort it, and in my case cancel your warz download.
Edit: Warz has resumed the download where it left off
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...y-desktop-users-should-upgrade-from-windows-7
So far i still prefer win 7 but am starting to like it, but I do miss the aero interface, I read that it was taken off to increase performance as speed and 's fluidity are essential as its so mobile orientated, but it has never slowed my system down, should be and option to turn it on and have it off as default.
Edit: Just found what may turn into a major problem.
I have an issue which others have regarding green dots/ artifacts on the screen which is from the low idle clocks (power saving) on amd cards, this is not a big thing as it can be fixed relatively easyliy but this issue also causes games to crash as the display driver crashes and then recovers, as i say it is an easy fix as you just make a profile and edit it to force different idle clocks, this fixes dots and no games crash now this works in win 7 and win 8 but the difference is that if you forget to enable the profile it will say it has crashed and then recovered but you just enable the profile and all is good in win 8 when it crashes, you cannot enable the profile and the gpu clocks are stuck in their powersaving states, this could also be problem if the display driver stopped for any other reason as it would be stuck on the low clocks (in my case 250mhz on core and 150 on gddr5) stressing the gpu/changing profiles makes no difference and you have to restart to sort it, and in my case cancel your warz download.
Edit: Warz has resumed the download where it left off
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