14 page BF4 benchmark Windows 7 vs Windows 8.1

[Caveman]

Read this:

http://www.hardwarepal.com/battlefield-4-benchmark-mp-cpu-gpu-w7-vs-w8-1/

Also you should unpark parked cores.

http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-cD5pECe4&feature=youtu.be

[zladuric]

But where is a TL;DR of that article? 14 pages is a bit scary :)

[MinimalMayhem]

My TL;DR version is this, I'm sure there are things I've missed:
BF4 is quite demanding
i7 CPUs don't outperform i5 or i3 by as much as you'd expect (and in some cases perform worse)
[from memory, I can't face all 14 pages again] BF4 on ultra uses just over 2GB video ram on ultra at 1080p, better with 3GB video RAM

[Arkaine]

I did unpark cores for Guild Wars 2 and it really helps. :)