Question / Help Windows 7 vs 10 for OBS

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Kamil Lipski

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hi guys,
i'm currently building new obs streaming pc with 2x avermedia live gamer hd lite, one LGP Lite and one black magic decklink mini recorder.
I think 16 gb ram and i7-6700k will be enough, but I'm struggling with os, what do you think, Windows 7 or 10 will be better and more reliable?
 
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No doubt Windows 10. This is the only OS that gets current updates and current driver support. All older OS only get legacy support, which means assorted security updates, if ever.
Also, with Windows 10, if you need to use monitor capture for something, it has way more performance than with Windows 7.
 
If the capture cards have drivers for Linux i would use that, if not windows 7. Windows 10 is just meh, it does stop working pretty much with every update for a few weeks.
 
I believe Windows 10. I have tested highly loaded encoding on both Windows 8.1 vs. Windows 10.

Windows 8.1 had 2,3-2,7ms rendering times whereas Windows 10 had 1,2-1,7ms rendering times for 1080p-60FPS in average.
 
The problem with Windows 10 is that it breaks every time Microsoft does an update. I don't have time for that. I still run Windows 7 and plan to stay that way until the very end of support, if not beyond. The only way I'll upgrade before that is if there's a zero-day that can't be mitigated that Microsoft refuses to patch, or if a game I must have supports DirectX 12 only.

With Star Citizen pledging support for Vulkan instead of DX12, I'm probably good until the mid 2020s, haha.
 
I'd go with Windows 10 if you're willing to perform a clean install after formatting the installation drive/partition and take some time reading about and configuring the atrocious default settings.

Thus far, none of my systems have been broken by any of the updates, The upgrade function is broken though. Do NOT upgrade from other windows versions.
 
koala said:
No doubt Windows 10. This is the only OS that gets current updates and current driver support. All older OS only get legacy support, which means assorted security updates, if ever.
Also, with Windows 10, if you need to use monitor capture for something, it has way more performance than with Windows 7.
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You are right ,Windows 10 takes precedence over Windows 7 in many ways, It's clear that Windows 10 is more comprehensive than Windows 7 when it comes to cracking Windows passwords.
 
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