Windows 10: Windows 10 64-Bit Becomes the World’s Number 1 PC OS for Gaming

I think it's really simple
Gamers tend to buy the latest hardware
The latest hardware comes with windows 10 !

 

Most hardcore gamers build their own systems so they have a choice to install 7 or 10 *Wink

 

I bet a lot of them build their own systems. Some just have to have the latest DirectX, so that means, upgrading to the latest OS from Microsoft.

 

well people need to take count those Upgrade nagging all the time on win7/8//8.1
and no where to disable it without modifiying/hiding/patching windowsupdate

even i build my own system, and install win7, it wont stop ms nagging me to update to win10
and sneakily download win10 upgrade

personally i still prefer playing game on win7 it much less issue than in win10
some games need windows7 compability to even play the game

directx12 is basically the hype (newer = better), that most people eat without ever learn to read more info about it
like there isnt current GPU that fully support dx12 feature... all gpu now basically partial support
then for full dx12 games... it gonna still need times either

 

Well now that does sound impressive, except if you take the other Windows versions 32bit/64bit they still make up 55% of the total for Steam. However let us take a look at the real picture

this article gives us a better picture of the actual telling of the gaming market
http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-the...ch-86-billion/


PC Gaming has been on a decline (less than 6%), and MMOs garner a great share of that which usually doesn't fall under the Steam mantle. Steam is really only a fraction of the total PC portion.

Softpedia authors in my opinion try to over state the importance of their articles. I consider their headline very misleading, if not an outright lie.

 

Some argue on the XP Forums (Eatup was one of them who used to be here as well) that any kernel based on Windows NT 6x was inferior for gaming, because of slower frame rate issues (I suppose it was because of Aero and Window Compositioning). Thus the claim that Vista, 7, 8x and 10 were inferior for gaming. Is there any truth to that?

*Smile
He wrote this to me on the XP Forums:
Dude, you obviously aren't a gamer. Why do we want to give up 50%+ increase in frame-rate by running 7/8.1 just to see the same visuals outputted to the screen?

He does mention it again here
Why do you still use XP? - Page 2

 

So true *Cool

 

I don't believe what he says. Windows 10 is so much better than XP will ever be. I even thought Windows Vista was faster than XP, sorry off-topic there *Wink But anyway back to my point, no, I don't believe that, I think anything past XP will give 50% INCREASE, but I could be wrong. Thanks for posting that! *Smile

 

Yeah because even with my older HP system (basically P4-stlye Netburst based Xeons) I find that even Windows 8 (while it's only slightly less-compatible with XP-era applications) it seems to use more of what the system is capable of.

I'm not a gamer (except for old DOS era games once in a blue moon), but as for applications it seems there has been a world of improvements in recent Windows builds.

 

Windows 10x64 is the best there is for gaming...I collect games (old and new) as a hobby and between GOG & Steam & EA I have somewhere around ~250 games--and at least a dozen or more of that number are DOS games 20-30 years old--if not older. Windows 10x64 runs every one of them perfectly. SecureROM and Safedisk turned out to be vectors commonly used for viruses and malware--it was good of Microsoft to kill them off. (Many steam games have no DRM attached today; and all GOG games are blessedly free of it!)

Here's how I rate the past four Microsoft OSes on backwards compatibility for running older Windows games:

least compatible: Windows Vista (There was nothing really "wrong" with Vista, but Microsoft changed the driver model from the ground up, and some GPU IHVs were very slow to field solid drivers, not to mention the fact that Vista required about one gigabyte more system ram on average than any Windows version before it, IIRC.)
Less compatible than I would have believed at the time: Windows 7x64 (Many games I had at the time--and I don't mean just 16-bit games because those all run fine under Dosbox in Windows--simply would not run at all on Windows 7. However, most of those games ran fine under Win8/8.1x64; and all of them run under Windows 10x64!)
Very compatible: Windows 8/.1 (Runs everything almost but not quite as well as they run under Win10x64. Had to use DEP exceptions for many games in 8.1--some just wouldn't run at all. Windows 8/.1 was severely hampered at the outset by a horrid GUI that to this day I can't stand and never use with Win10...)
Total Compatiblity: Windows 10x64. (As I said, I have no game that won't run under Win10x64 atm. It is rare that I have found making a DEP exception to be necessary to get a game to run. Win10 is pretty much what Win8 should have been originally, etc. )

If we say that Vista was "Vista 1.x" then Windows 7 was "Vista 2.5" and Windows 8/.1 was "Vista 3.x" and Windows 10 is actually "Vista 5.x".... (According to my own personal, convoluted scale, of course.)

My two cents on the subject...

 

So true

 

I like that way that you put it! Nice! *Smile My question - Do you think Vista was good system? I thought it the best when I got my first system, which was in 2012 (I was 12 almost 13 at the time *Wink). It was a HP Pavilion dv6700 laptop that overheated and lost its life. I have read that those had an overheating problem, and that I just thought it wasn't worth it to keep living.

I think when I was 14, I really got into them and knew a lot about them. Now, I know a lot more than I did before. *Smile