nice. thx

 
Thanks for doing that testing.              

Call Of Pripyat BM for its multi layered DX11 elements.  All Advance settings turned off.  Standard settings are Ultra 2560X1600 with SLI enabled.  This BM has a tendency to drop the full screen to the task bar which it did in one time in both W7 & W8.1. I believe this made the min BM go to zero thus it is not showing up.  This also made the average score debunked. This is where you see the two middle BM's not have a min BM.  Just look at the max BM's in the middle.  The top and bottom BM's are fine for comparison. 
 
W7



 
W8.1

Excellent work Maverick1776
 

Gameing benchmarks  real gameplay is better then  somthing like ungine benchmarks  but you also need to rember  how your experiance will be on 8.1 vs  windows 7 in a whole  what i reocmmend  you do OP is to run the benchmarks and  or gaming while doing some other heavy task and do a Multi-tasking  ALT tab scenario and such and i know 8.1 will just run smoother at heavy workloads   doing = those things then windows 7  
 
Also drivers in windows 8.1 while still new  only add  some new optimization only windows 8.1 offers  under the hood windows 7 dont use  but drivers are  much the same but agian try the  multi-tasking scenarios  see how it  works out 
 
i can tell you this  even on windows 8 when it came  out in the Preview builds  i was able to do 2x the workload  with using less resources then the same stuff on windows 7 at the time  so i know windows 8.1 is  vastly improved on this  .  even tho if  gameing benchmarks  are the same  and tie to windows 7 guess what  in just that part  in itself that is a good thing not a bad thing  
 
 
Here is a list of just a few minor but in some way big things in windows  8.1 i like  this is from another users  but  i agree with the user on these features  some arerelated to Metro but still good
 
 
It Takes Up Less Space

Improved Search
Better Multi-Tasking
Improved Multi-Monitor Support
Boot to Desktop 
50/50 split screen apps

Automatic App Updates
50/50 split screen apps
 
Some other thing which may be of interest.
 
All Live Tiles, Great and Small
Start Screen Can Share Desktop Background
Dynamic Lock Screen
Deeper SkyDrive Integration
The Only Way to Get the Facebook App
Boot to Desktop 

That was some great work and a well deserved BR.

+1

Actually, with the risk of siding with notuptome2004 as I don't like W8.1 GUI without classic shell and don't like native W8.1 apps at all.
 
W8.1 is flat out superior in graphic detail.
W8.1 is flat out superior with graphic sync issues, thus no noticeable dropped frames like W7 has in the same BM's
Point to W8.1 in being superior for gaming aficionados looking for the best graphic details manifested in your games.
It may be time for some to figure out how to dual boot.
 

Thanks for this info. Were you ever able to get BF3 and FC3 comparisons? Preferably at high resolutions? Any major driver/punk buster/steam/origin/uplay issues in W8.1?

Could you do a test between Battlefield 3 and 4, please?

Don't bother benching BF3 

I get terrible performance in Win 8.1 with Valley vs Win 7. I own 2 780 TI's, and when I compare single 780 Ti benches vs others, I'm about 5 fps slower with my OC'd single Ti bench.

The reason I tried W8 was because I heard some games had a few more FPS.  But what I found was that some older games like Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood have know compatibility issues with windows 8.  If you can't get the game started than the FPS is a moot point.  With this game the opening game sequences are upside down, letterbox format, and video options stuck on lowest resolution.

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The reason I tried W8 was because I heard some games had a few more FPS.  But what I found was that some older games like Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood have know compatibility issues with windows 8.  If you can't get the game started than the FPS is a moot point.  With this game the opening game sequences are upside down, letterbox format, and video options stuck on lowest resolution.

 
 
i didnt have that issue with COJ  when i played it  back when windows 8 first released  so i am not sure what could be going on with your system but makes sure your  graphics driver is updated and  you have the latest  Directx attributable and  latest  Vc files from Microsoft    but as i siad the game ran fine for me   cause at the time i had the  hankeriung  to play it 

can you run Valve VST lol