Malafaia.8903 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 That's my potato: Processor AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 RAM 4.0 GB Operating System Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional Edition (build 9600), 64-bit And the question is the title... I'll format my PC soon and would like to know what SO will handle GW2 better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunjiKugashira.9754 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 I don't think the OS will have much of an impact on your GW2 performance. The difference between Windows 8 and 10 is also really small (mostly UI stuff). Things that have a big impact on GW2 performance: - Harddrive (SSD has significantly shorter loading times) - 32-bit vs 64-bit OS (32-bit GW2 client used to run out of memory and crash) - CPU (GW2 needs high single-core performance and doesn't really benefit from more than 4 cores) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Healix.5819 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 The difference should be almost nothing, but Windows 10 has been shown to have marginally better performance in games and Microsoft has been pushing for better gaming optimizations with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 I think something that you would benefit from is adding more RAM. GW2, especially everything from HoT forward, needs more RAM. Especially using the 64-bit client. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashantara.8731 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Windows Vista was the beta for Windows 7. Windows 8 was the beta version of Windows 10. It's never recommendable to run a beta OS. ;) I would go with Win7, especially with a low-end PC. In general, I recommend you adjust your GW2 graphics settings. There are a few useful videos on YT that could be of assistance. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuickFox.3826 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 It won't make a difference. The only difference that you can make is with hardware. Some modern hardware like M.2 NVME tends to be optimized for Windows 10 and in these cases Windows 10 can have an advantage. Personally I greatly prefer the GUI of Windows 7 so I'll stick with this for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithranArkanere.8957 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 The Windows Pattern theory postulates that every other windows major milestone in the home versions of windows tends to be horrible: * 2: Gasp * 3.1. That's the stuff. * 95: Meh * 98: Decent * ME: MEEEH. * XP: Passable * Vista: Boo. * 7: Nice * 8: Blegh. * 10 for some reason wasn't named 9, but it's the next one on the pattern. If one trusts the pattern, then 7 and 10 would be preferable over 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godofcows.2451 Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 although i would personally vote 10, i would recommend going around google on how to turn off the game bar and lower down the bandwidth reserve for windows updates. these two can be a make or break for anybody using the os any system. voting on 10 is just my personal opinion since it's new and currently has good support with companies. (considering the hardware you mentioned, make sure your devices have windows 10 drivers. some might not and you might have trouble if you jump the gun). I saw that you have a 440 gt. I used to own a gt 630 just earlier this year. And i'm sure we're at the same boat here, or at least I was. gt 440 should have reached the end of support. Nvidia doesn't develop drivers for it anymore. The last i believe was sometime around...april? Take this into consideration before you change os. If you go with the older driver or change the card is up to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malafaia.8903 Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 Wow, thanks for lots of contribution, guys! I just wanted to make sure i could run it on 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crepuscular.9047 Posted September 19, 2018 Share Posted September 19, 2018 Windows 7 all the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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