Anyone using/ testing Windows 8 x64 ???

[NEOAethyr]

Lol, I could say the same...
WTF are you using 64bit ver of windows?
You like running everything under emulation?
Blah blah blah...

I don't really care either way, I just wanted to talk about win8, I don't care if it's 64/32bit there's no major diff.
I just wanna know what you guys think about the 30-40% slowdown going from win7 to win8, and you can't tell me it's because it's new software, bleh bleh.., it's not, it was done on purpose.
But is it debugging stuff that is the cause, or something else?

Note this.
Winxp, then to win7 or vista which doubles the latency at a min.
Then from win7 to win8, again it doubles (actually it is 4x higher...).
I don't expect it to be this slow when goes gold. ^^

I mean, what it looks like is that they are forcing us to by new hardware by adding 100us delays to each new major rev of windows.
I hope I'm wrong, because if i'm not, win8 is gonna suck.

The only reason I'm not using it right now, is because it's so darned slow.
Seriously, try to game with it, can you even get your darned game started???, I couldn't even get street fighter x tekken to load the char select screen because it was so freeking slow.
Try watching video's in it, it takes forever to switch tracks sometimes.

[TV Addict#2]

I just installed the rc preview copy of x64 from ms download page on a 3.2G intel penryn with 8G ram and a wd 640G partitioned to 60G for c
it feels fast to me already with just the NVidia 9800gtx drivers and xfi drivers and directx updated and 30 min. operation time
the email addresses required for install are a bogus need though

[Mats]

the email addresses required for install are a bogus need though

It's not a requirement.