Although my subjective gaming experiences have been positive, I wanted hard data. So I took a moderately high-end and home-made gaming PC, played some games, and ran a bunch of performance tests to determine the differences in gaming performance between Windows 7 and Windows 8. I ran a first pass of benchmarks using Windows 7 Service Pack 1 installed , along with the latest Windows 7 drivers.
After that, I installed the Windows 8 RTM plus all updates and drivers, and then reran all the tests. Before diving into the performance results, though, I should talk about some issues I encountered while installing and running the games and benchmarks. Users who transitioned from Windows Vista to Windows 7 saw some performance gains in games, but those gains were fairly minimal. Although the initial shipments of Windows Vista had some serious bugs and other problems that adversely affected game performance, updates to Vista over time fixed most of them.
The underlying rendering technology in Windows 7 differed in only minor ways. Windows 8, due to its complete restructuring of the underlying desktop rendering system, is quite different.
The Windows 8 kernel has changed as well. The net result is that anything requiring driver-level access needs to be rewritten. In the past, some digital rights management schemes might have used drivers, but this practice is less common today.
Even so, I ran into some problems worth mentioning. Way to go, Microsoft! That just illustrates what an orphan the entire Games for Windows Live initiative has become. I recommend downloading and installing the new client before you try to install any Games for Windows Live games.
Note that Bioshock 2 and Dirt 3, two titles in our benchmarking and subjective-testing suite, are both Games for Windows Live titles. A visit to the SecureROM support site linked in the error message was no help. What finally worked was rebooting the system—then the Arkham City activation process could complete as needed.
I understand that after upgrading to Windows 8. Please answer these questions to get more clarity on this issue. Are you playing the online games or are the games installed on the computer? System slowdown can be one of the most frustrating experiences for people working with computers. The most troubling aspect of system slowdown is that it accumulates gradually over time, which means it usually goes unnoticed for quite a while until the problem becomes apparent enough to merit observation.
System slowdown is the result of 3 separate events working in aggregate to bring even today's most modern PCs to an eventually crawl. These events are accumulation of superfluous data, gradual corruption of the operating system files and advancing technological standards. Unplug all external devices and restart the computer to check if this helps. Once the troubleshooter is run, restart the computer and check the status. Boot the computer in a clean boot state and check if this helps to improve the gaming experience.
Follow the steps here to troubleshoot the issue. There could be a program that takes time to load and this slows down the system. Note: Once troubleshooting is done please follow "How to reset the computer to start as usual after clean boot troubleshooting" from the article to boot the computer in normal mode.
Important : While performing check disk on the hard drive, if any bad sectors are found, then check disk will try to repair that sector. Any data available on that sector might be lost. Reply with the status of the issue and we will be glad to offer our assistance. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. FIFA 14 game uses a lot of resources on the computer. You may go to the game setting and keep all the settings low and check if this helps to improve the lag situation.
I can't help but notice you competently missed the part where he said his games were running smoothly on windows 8 but now after upgraded to 8. Sorry I am just frustrated after trying a game today for the first time after upgrading and now I cannot play them Never happened before. It is the upgrade to windows 8. How do we fix it? Apart from downgrading to windows 8 which I would love to do at this point but not sure i can? It is necessary to install all pending Windows Updates and update all device drivers after upgrading to Windows 8.
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