Differnces Between Windows 7 and Windows 8

[F-Lambda]

When emulating The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in Windows 7, it runs really slow, usually between 50 to 70% speed, and sometimes even slower, even with frame-skipping enabled. However, when running it in Windows 8 (same computer, dual-boot) it runs at the full speed without any turning down of graphics. Would this be the OS handling it better, or would it just be fewer background apps cluttering up memory?

[Squall Leonhart]

i don't want to live on this planet, anymore.

[linkinworm]

OS has nothing to do with it at all (apart from linux OSX because they dont use D3D) your windows 7 install simply had something wrong with it like outdated drivers or 3d software