HI FH players
I have a AMD radeon HD 6600 in my dualboot gaming pc, my third gaming desktop since FH2 came out . tried win 8.1 two months ago and went back to old setup dualboot with windows 7 and windows xp (just for playing directx 9.c games better)
As im a little into tweeking / optimizing pc for gaming etc. I found out that running directx 9.c games in windows xp is better than win 7 / 8
GPU on GFX card and CPU has a higher utilization & gets hotter in win 7/8 than win xp
win 7
gpu clock 800MHz, mem 1000MHz (basic settings)
Gfx card gets hot after a while and gpu reaches 100% and almost 95-100 degrees
if I tweak basic settings gpu 900MHz, mem 1150MHZ gfx goes to hot 105degress and black screen + shutdown
In windows xp I can tweak gfx gpu 900MHz, mem 1150MHZ and gfx card gets max 95 degrees and cpu utilization is also lower :-)
To monitor temps and utilization I have used the software
http://www.argusmonitor.com/en/Windows xp has less Handles, Threads, Processes than the newer microsoft OS and runs better
-> less overall system lag possiblity -> minimal better net-latency & higher FPS in game
I will still be playing in windows xp after april when windows xp sequirity updates stop
I know most people dont care about gaming performance, but anyway :-)
Please share your thoughts