From the PC Master Race: How has your windows 10 experience been?

[gorfias]

I haven't tried much of the store apps yet, but my steam is messing up something spectacular.

If you have Windows 10, how have your pc gaming experiences been?

Aliens vs. Preditors just crashed. Not the first game to crash on me with this new OS. I am pissed.

 

[Fallow]

Terrible, frustrating, exasperating, irritating, vexing, insufferable, outrageous, complicated, painful, dispiriting, gloomy, aggravating, destructive, antipathic, tortuous, putrescent, retarding, conniving, and unpleasant.

Win 10 has managed to remove all the practical parts of win 7, add in all the unwanted feces from win 8, all the unwanted excrement from the NSA, with the stability of win95, the customizability of MacOS, the ease of use from now-defunct Solaris, all with the friendliness of an LSD tripping killer whale.

And don't get me started on the KOJFPIOJ?=()%UJ#=(JFUH"?R?LF*WEF***"#!2)%?# unstoppable process that is memory compression and management when you're trying to play a game.

All in all, Win 10 is below average.

 

[gorfias]

all with the friendliness of an LSD tripping killer whale.

I was afraid of that. I thought it might be just me. Now what the heck do I do?

I have an HD 7970. It is not happy.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I mean I'm a PC newbie, but... absolutely no complaints running it on my rig. It's actually insanely fast and I quite like the UI... Cortana is a bit of a novelty though, I wish it was always listening. It's a bit redundant to use it when I have to click the button.

 

[gorfias]

I mean I'm a PC newbie, but... absolutely no complaints running it on my rig. It's actually insanely fast and I quite like the UI... Cortana is a bit of a novelty though, I wish it was always listening. It's a bit redundant to use it when I have to click the button.

Do you know what you have for graphics? Intel HD or a discrete card? Are games running OK? Mine keep crashing.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I mean I'm a PC newbie, but... absolutely no complaints running it on my rig. It's actually insanely fast and I quite like the UI... Cortana is a bit of a novelty though, I wish it was always listening. It's a bit redundant to use it when I have to click the button.

Do you know what you have for graphics? Intel HD or a discrete card? Are games running OK? Mine keep crashing.

From the Amazon Description:
6th Generation Intel Core i7-6700K Processor 4GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 4.2GHz
Windows 10 Home
16GB DDR4 Dual-Channel 2133MHz Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX970 Graphics with 4GB of GDDR5 Video Memory
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi MB5 with EAX 5.0
128GB SSD & 1TB 7200RPM SATA III Hard Drive
16X DVD?R/RW SuperMulti Drive
Digital Media Card Reader -Secure Digital (SD) Card
802.11ac WiFi
Bluetooth 4.0 LE
10/100/1000 (Gigabit) LAN (RJ-45 Port)
6 - USB 3.0 Ports (2 Front, 4 Rear)
2 - USB 2.0 Ports (Rear)
2 - Mini Display Ports
1 - HDMI Port
1 - DVI Port
730W Power Supply
SteelSeries APEX (RAW) Gaming Keyboard
SteelSeries SENSEI (RAW) Gaming Mouse
2 Year Parts and Labor Limited Warranty with Toll-Free Tech Support

 

[Dizchu]

Windows 10 has a very pretty interface but in terms of driver support and stability it's a mess. I've had to wipe my hard drive TWICE, resetting to Windows 7 both times. The first time I thought it was unrelated to Windows 10 but the second time it happened I decided not to install Windows 10 again and oh wow, I haven't had to wipe my hard drive again since.

Also Windows 10's Blue Screen of Death is extremely patronising which isn't great when it keeps crashing repeatedly.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I haven't had problems of the sort listed on here, for me personally it's the incessent need to force windows 8 type bullshit into the OS, and on top of that the update window is ANNOYING AS FUCKING FUCK. It seems to *always* pop up when I'm playing a game, and it forces itself to the front, usually either causing my game to lag like crazy or causing my multiplayer match to completely be fucked by its notification. Hands down one of the most frustrating things to lose a match because of, and then when it schedules itself to install updates "oh 3 a.m. looks good? well fuck you, restarting several times and waking me up from this blinding screen of light and noises is also annoying as fuck".

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Not a problem for me since I got it. My wife has gotten some weird problems though, the most infuriating being when Win10 decided her laptops screen wasn't the main monitor, which we had to resolve by hooking the laptop up to the TV so that we could even begin to see the setting needed to reset the settings that Win10 changed on a whim.

 

[gorfias]

It's been great overall for me so far. One scare when it looked like it was reinstalling from scratch a couple months back but it was just a big update.

Games run faster but I can't get STALKER SoC to boot after changing any in game settings. I have to delete the user.ltx every time and reapply my settings. Never did that with Win 7 and no one seems to have a more lasting solution.

Other than that all my games run as good or better, and programs are generally a bit quicker.

I turned off a lot of the extra tracking crap that's on by default, which might help. Also did a clean install from a USB after the initial upgrade.

 

[Mcgeezaks]

No complaints from me, it's my favorite OS.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I was in the middle of playing Skyrim a few weeks ago, only for my laptop go update to 10 without my goddamn permission.

So far, it's been "tolerable". On one hand, it's not any worse than 8.1. On the other hand, sometimes when I un-hibernate, the wifi if all screwed up and I have to do a hard reboot to fix it.

I'm also pretty sure that it's fucked up my resolution a bit, but that's just my speculation. My games generally run the same as they did on 8.1, most newer stuff runs fine, my old Unreal tournament games are still kinda broken, and that's basically it.

Put me down on team "Meh".

 

[DefunctTheory]

Absolutely fantastic experience, really. When first installed, there were some driver issues (Windows insisted on pushing a broken Nvidia driver), but after a fix that only took about 20 minutes, everything's been fine. Steam works fine, games work fine, everything.

I have had one problem, and it's something I can't really blame Win10 for - I can't get Mechwarrior 3 or Mechwarrior 2: Merc to work on it. But getting those to work on Win7 was a Herculean task in itself, so it's a pretty solid case of 'Just Too Damn Old.' At a certain point, easy backwards compatibility is something that's just unreasonable to expect.

 

[KaraFang]

nope, no issues at all and I'm running it on some hardware that doesn't have a windows 10 driver set from the manufacturer as well (due to age)

it all runs nice and fast, no crashes (had one and that was a game I knew used to crash on my prev windows due to a memory leak issue with the game engine.

So, no, all good here... and in the UK I was okay with the security options I decided to switch on and off. Don't do anything naughty on this PC, so meh to what it DOES track (especially considering what Google knows about me thanks to android).

So, yeah, actually quite happy with it.

 

[EvilRoy]

Nothing really bad so far, but I can't play and watch youtube in parallel like I used to. Sound gets choppy.
It also wakes my PC every night. And it feels like an early 90s horror novel about computers.
I have disabled wake up timers, but there are reports of it re-enabling them back on its own.
I also cut the power sometimes to prevent it and it feels like I'm about to be choked by wires in my sleep or something.
And the update nag or forced updates can really come at a wrong time.
Having said all that... It's not good. Not that bad, but not really good.

And I also had this problem when out of the blue it dims the screen and all of the mouse clicks go "ding". And nothing else is happening.

Definitely not good. Tolerable, but not good.

0.0

... Is your computer possessed?

On my end: I've experienced crashes while playing games that I've never had happen before, but at the same time, games are typically running smoother and with less performance jump/drop than before. Ultimately it seems to have just smoothed out the wrinkes - in exchange for a consistent and slightly higher quality performance such that I never experienced with Win7, I get a single major crash now and then that never happened to me in Win7.

It probably is on average the same level of performance, just manifesting in a different wya.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I know it's not going to be free for that much longer but I have absolutely no desire to upgrade. Fuck Microsoft for making DX12 exclusive to Win10.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

It was an absolute mess.

I don't remember having too many issues with gaming (though I don't think I was playing a ton of newer games at the time) but it caused all sorts of problems with my internet browsers. I was getting constant freezes and crashes that I never had before, and I didn't find the interface to be any sort of improvement over Windows 7 (besides being prettier).

I gave up on it after a few weeks and reverted back to Windows 7. I dread the day I'll have to upgrade.

 

[Bravo Company]

I was in the beta slow-ring up until Saturday, I didn't really have any issues with it. I had to disable the "update graphics drivers" checkbox because it kept uninstall my graphics drivers for my gpu. I've only had two gaming related issues with Windows 10. Once, I left microsoft Edge open while I was playing rocket league and it decided to eat 8 GB of ram; however, this was within a week of launch so that could have been patched. Then, recently, the xbox 360 drivers decided to cause me to get 3 FPS while I was using the controller, unplugging the controller would instantly fix my FPS; that seems to have fixed itself though. Some small grievances like the sound manager taking years to open or the notification popups repeatedly opening if you choose to ignore them.

I really liked how easy it was to change the hard drive location for folders, I had Win10 on my SSD and I could easily set Windows to save my documents/downloads/etc to a default folder on my HDD instead of my SSD.

However, my SSD did die Sunday after it being less than a year old, I don't know if Windows is a culprit or I got a bad SSD.

I'm running:

Win 10 64 bit
MSI 290x
I5 4670k
12 GB RAM
MSI mobo that works with the haswell series, I don't remember the model
500 gb HD/2tb hdd/250gb 850 evo SSD (gotta talk to Samsung about a replacement right now though)

 

[KaraFang]

For those having issues, did you do a clean install or an "upgrade?"

Because the upgrade ones always seem to have issues, running all the way back to Win 95 upgrade option...

I'd do a clean install and see how that goes.