Guild Wars 2

Hi all. I am due for a reformat on my system and the last time i installed windows was by nicking my brothers disk. i have no OS at hand as yet so i will have to buy 1 my self. is there any difference’s between windows 7 and 8?

Minimal difference as far as gaming goes. Go with win7 if you hate that aberrant “metro” BS.

Windows 8(.1) has on-paper better performance than 7, but the actual difference can be less-visible depending on what all you do. I heard a lot of cases where BF4 for instance has significantly better performance on 8 than 7.

But in any case, you shouldn’t have a negative experience on 8 performance-wise. (as long as you have proper drivers and firmware). So basically, you shouldn’t lose anything going to 8, and may even gain performance.

Aidan Savage.2078:

Minimal difference as far as gaming goes. Go with win7 if you hate that aberrant “metro” BS.

Metro is fine (honestly, I find it better then the start menu), and if you really can’t deal with it you can always make it go away. There’s really no reason not to get Win8 instead of Win7 at this point in time.

Fermi.2409:

Aidan Savage.2078:

Minimal difference as far as gaming goes. Go with win7 if you hate that aberrant “metro” BS.

Metro is fine (honestly, I find it better then the start menu), and if you really can’t deal with it you can always make it go away. There’s really no reason not to get Win8 instead of Win7 at this point in time.

Most computers ship win8 now anyways. I rarely upgrade OS until the the second service pack, or “next gen” OS, arrives. By that point, all the crap is worked out and using the OS is actually enjoyable. I just hope the next OS MS puts out isnt Vista v2.