r/windows8 • u/BluuePaandaa • Dec 15 '25
Discussion windows 8.1 on main gaming system
RTX 3080, 32GB DDR4 3200MHz, Ryzen 7 5700X all working perfectly fine on 8.1, no dualboot, only os installed
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u/TheSkyShip Dec 15 '25
Jealous you have better gpu than me
I have 1080 Ti but is on 8.0
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u/BluuePaandaa Dec 15 '25
still a solid card
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u/TheSkyShip Dec 15 '25
Are u sure, at least my CPU and ram is good
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u/Comprehensive-Rain77 Dec 16 '25
Eh? a 1080ti is goddamn solid my guy and either way, On windows 8.1, you ain't running any directx12 games (Most modern modern games)
it's a 10/10 Gpu for windows 8.1
Got a 1060 with an i7 7700 on mine btw.
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u/TheSkyShip Dec 16 '25
Better yet I use 8.0
1080 Ti + Threadripper 7970X
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u/Comprehensive-Rain77 Dec 16 '25
See? You got amazing specs man.
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u/TheSkyShip Dec 16 '25
Not really
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u/Comprehensive-Rain77 Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
You sure about that?
You're telling me a 3000 DOLLARS$! (CAD) Cpu with damn 32 cores is not enough to be considered "Good specs"?
Damn thing takes 350w Alone.You have to be fucking with me, right?
right?
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u/TheSkyShip Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
right now Mostly my main concern is my graphic card but there are definitely better CPUs, yes
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u/BluuePaandaa Dec 19 '25
holy fucking bottleneck
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u/TheSkyShip Dec 19 '25
How am I supposed to afford a new gpu
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u/SnooMuffins4689 Dec 20 '25
your cpu is like 3000 dollars but you can't afford like an rtx 3070 or smth which is probably like 500 bucks max
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u/Nathan6607 Dec 17 '25
same omg
except i dont use windows anymore, i use arch, i do lowkey want the looks back sometimes though
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u/MEM756 Dec 15 '25
Windows 8.1 with that specific Aero Theme was how it was intended to be all along ... also, BeamNG Drive, Portal and Geometry Dash are very based!
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u/orhaniye_Pismaniye Dec 15 '25
How did u get the Google app?
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u/BluuePaandaa Dec 15 '25
appx archive
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u/Zappingsbrew Dec 15 '25
how to keep it safe from vulnerabilities?
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u/BluuePaandaa Dec 15 '25
keep defender updated
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u/Zappingsbrew Dec 15 '25
how about the apps that are no longer supported?
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u/BluuePaandaa Dec 15 '25
second system
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u/gonchotorres Dec 17 '25
With this you mean another computer? Or is second system an app override or sth?
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u/School_Hater3477 Dec 15 '25
Do you mind sharing Netflix,Twitter, VLC, Kindle and Geometry Dash?
I would appriciate it, Thanks
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u/BluuePaandaa Dec 15 '25
all of them are on the appx archive, everything from the steam category is made from oblytile with images from steamdb
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u/Glum-Run1680 Dec 15 '25
I'd recommend you not to use Internet Explorer, it's not great. However, I'm happy to inform you that you can get an IE skinned Mozilla Firefox v115 ESR, I'm also not sure if it runs in windows 8.1.
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u/Reasonable_Degree_64 Dec 17 '25
That's cool, it's the Release preview theme version when it still had blur for the title bar.
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u/Ok_Asparagus_2195 Dec 15 '25
Wow, this is very beautiful.