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

[gorfias]

6th Generation Intel Core i7-6700K Processor 4GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 4.2GHz
16GB DDR4 Dual-Channel 2133MHz Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX970 Graphics with 4GB of GDDR5 Video Memory

That's some serious power for a nube! Faster and more powerful than my rig.

Scary, I think I just figured out what my problem might be: I'm running a lot of games on an external 4TB USB 3.0 drive. I wonder if the game cares? I tried playing the 3rd oldest Tomb Raider game out there and it gave me an exception error. A W10 problem, or a 4TB unrecognizable to older games problem? Reviewing.

 

[Yan007]

6th Generation Intel Core i7-6700K Processor 4GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 4.2GHz
16GB DDR4 Dual-Channel 2133MHz Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX970 Graphics with 4GB of GDDR5 Video Memory

That's some serious power for a nube! Faster and more powerful than my rig.

Scary, I think I just figured out what my problem might be: I'm running a lot of games on an external 4TB USB 3.0 drive. I wonder if the game cares? I tried playing the 3rd oldest Tomb Raider game out there and it gave me an exception error. A W10 problem, or a 4TB unrecognizable to older games problem? Reviewing.

Running your games on an external HD is usually a bad idea. I highly recommend you run your games on a secondary drive, especially an SSD. The difference will surprise you. What happens in your case is your drive probably stops spinning after a while and needs to be restarted, causing errors.

 

[kasperbbs]

I had it since the beginning and so far theres nothing to complain about. I used to get some odd error message from one of the drivers when i booted up since i didn't do a clean install, but that went away and now the only thing thats even rmeotely bugging me is that Witcher 3 starts minimized for some reason, but that might be because of my out of date mods.

 

[Yan007]

Never had any issue whatsoever with Win10. As far as I'm concerned, it's the best, most stable, best looking OS Microsoft put out. I think the main issues most people here have with the OS are caused by user mistakes and old/damaged hardware that should have been replaced a while ago.

I think it may be time to consider that there might also be a weird overlap of people who don't like Win10 and always find "awful" faults with the latest Marvel movies. I mean some people will complain because they just don't want to enjoy something. Failing that, Win10 not working well on your computer should be considered a litmus test of your computer.

 

[Yan007]

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".

I don't understand why some people have this problem, I've been using W10 since launch and the only time it restarts my PC to update is when I leave my PC on over the night. So it only restarts my PC when I'm not using it.

Well, for me, I'm never not using my PC. If its on overnight, its because I'm using it. If I'm not, I've passed out at the PC, and don't want it to close all my documents without saving. Auto-update is just shit. Its annoying, and I always disable it. Someone please tell me that is still possible for Windows 10, though I've heard it isn't -.-

This is what it says:


''We'll restart your device automatically when you're not using it.''

I've never had my PC just restart itself to update while I'm using it. And yes, there's a defer upgrades option which will prevent your PC from downloading any windows updates.

How does it determine that you're not using it?
Does it check for there to be no processes other than Windows running [Acceptable, but it'll never happen]?
Does it check for no input from the user for half an hour? [So if I go to get dinner, it'll restart itself while I'm gone. No thanks].
Does it send a popup message asking if you want to update, that automatically says yes after 30 seconds but that you're able to postpone for a maximum of 4 hours? [Fucking worst of everything. Can't indefinitely postpone, it pops up and interrupts whatever you're doing, and if you've gone for a piss you miss it and it restarts, losing everything you were working on].

How does it define "Not in use", because that's a very important question. What it sees as not being used, I may very well see as using it. Judging by some people in this thread saying it'll wake itself up from hibernation to do this... I don't really have my hopes high, since I hibernate because I AM still using programs, but don't want to waste the power whilst I'm busy with other things.

Otherwise, its good to hear that you don't have to auto-update, like you apparently had to early on, though 'defer' still sounds somewhat fishy. I don't want to defer it, I just don't want to do it. But, if its functionally the same, that's what matters.

Look, I want to start by apologizing because I know what I'm going to say will make me sound like a dick, but that's not really how I want to come accross and I'm not aiming you specifically. Rather, I'm aiming everyone who have issues with auto-updates.

As far as I know, every single version of windows has had the option to not update at all somewhere in the user settings. Also, I clearly remember from win7 and up (maybe even prior versions) that the option to auto install, download but ask, and no download and also ask are clearly available options when installing or updating to these versions of windows DURING THE INSTALLATION/UPGRADE PROCESS.

It's not like it's some secret user setting, especially considering you had to manually set the option for your computer to hibernate.

The sad truth is the vast majority of computer users know almost nothing about computers and forcing updates on them is the best way to make sure the OS remains stable and bug free for the majority of the userbase.

If you can't turn off auto-updates yourself, can you imagine the average joe having to manually install updates? Which option sounds best?

 

[Charli]

Adding clunk to Windows 7 where clunk didn't need to exist basically. I get they're trying to cram integration into every orphice of their monster, but can I not just have an OS free from it on my GAMING RIG THAT DOES EVERYTHING I NEED FROM A TABLET/XBOX/PHONE AND MORE!?

Like please Microsoft. Windows 10 NoBullshit Edition please. Just have it be windows 7 with a coat of paint, and we'll sit happy.


Also that thing where it systematically broke a ton of Asus Motherboards. My father was an inferno of fury that day, he was victim.

 

[gorfias]

Running your games on an external HD is usually a bad idea. I highly recommend you run your games on a secondary drive, especially an SSD. The difference will surprise you. What happens in your case is your drive probably stops spinning after a while and needs to be restarted, causing errors.

I do when I can (run on internal). Small SSD is just for booting and major apps. I might put a 2 TB on as Drive D but the MOB is old enough not to recognize 4 TB (or maybe the 128 cache it uses?) Couldn't see my drive and I've run out of room on my 1 TB. I have started saving my pennies for a new rig. When I can afford 32 Gig RAM, newer I7 and a GTX 1080 I'll pull the trigger.

 

[Thatguyky]

I've only had one issue since it released, and that one issue was an easy fix and occurred during the first weak it was released. For whatever reason my start bar just decided to vanish/not work. After trying one fix I found on a forum, problem was solved!

When it comes to games I haven't had any issues running anything. From Fallout to League to Battlefield and pretty much everything in between! I think I like it more than seven, but only by a smidgen. It's light years ahead of eight, but nowhere near the god XP was.

 

[Yan007]

I know it sucks running old hardware. I used to have no money when I was in my late teens/early twenties too.

Still, I guess you would have to agree the issues you described in your post are not caused by windows, but by old inappropriate hardware.

Also, I'm sure you'll love your 1080. I'm getting one when it's out.

 

[MythicMatt]

Windows 10 - A step sideways for me.

On a laptop I started maining since it being smol and lightweight, I had Win8-1. I got used to the task manager [Yes, it's always open, so I can snap-diagnose where my CPU/RAM/Disk is being used] on that, and accidentally causing damage to some internal part to be later diagnosed, I went back to a Win7 thing. Task manager no longer felt like it was as good as it was in Win8, due to lacking the same UI.

So now, with updates hard disabled by running an unsigned theme [with the amazing side effect of causing the blinding whiteness of default to become dark grey. Yeah~], every time my computer goes off, I need to re-point it to the drivers for the Intel graphics [future rebuild probably won't have that needing to be done so often].

I'm not convinced that the system process needs to devour most of my RAM randomly [I think it's random, hard to tell], so I found a solution to that.

As far as the Windows Store goes, I'm not using it. Unless I can use what paltry funds I've got in my Steam wallet, I don't see that changing [because I'm not someone who enjoys having to buy gift cards full of money to spend in one store that doesn't have much stuff I want].

Sometimes, Firefox will just decide to actually have an epileptic seizure for no reason [or because it's over-cache by 512mb? IDK]. I'm hoping that my rebuild will partially fix that, even if it's likelier that Firefox will continue having seizures at much reduced intervals.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I don't like the unnecessary apps that come with it (Xbox live since I don't own a Xbox) so I had to removed it from the startup. Also I still have no real solution to the occuring problem that the bandwidth usage doesn't reset everytime I turn my pc on/off (I have to manually do this). Annoying annoyince is that doesn't delete the temp files properly and it sometime doesn't show the old way of deleting it when I type %temp% and 10 no longer shows the graph of the defraged files.

While I did had two or three seriously crashes but in saying so I had a few with 7 in the past.

The plus is that the harddrive has more spaces now due to it removing the 7 related datas but still. Oh and there was that news with Asus motherboard being block by the 7 update mention weeks ago so I glad I did get 10 before that update came.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

6th Generation Intel Core i7-6700K Processor 4GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 4.2GHz
16GB DDR4 Dual-Channel 2133MHz Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX970 Graphics with 4GB of GDDR5 Video Memory

That's some serious power for a nube! Faster and more powerful than my rig.

Yeah, I probably went way more than what I needed for my creative projects. but I wanted a beastly machine that would carry me awhile.

 

[Cowabungaa]

In short?

Not bad, not especially good either. Other than the sleeker interface I haven't felt any noticeable difference with Windows 7. Which is all I really wanted; a stable OS for my entertainment center and paper-writing-machine.

 

[Fallow]

I've started eyeing SteamOS as a direct result of Win10.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I don't know what you folks are doing with your machines, but mine is smooth as silk. I'm running Windows 10 (upgrade from 8.1), i7 4770k, 16gb DDR3, evga GTX780 and ASRock motherboard. My machine doesn't crash and I have few issues with games, and I would blame the games for them.

DS3 had a few CTDs, and other issues which I'm sure are related to the Steam Controller (the controller wouldn't respond, the game would CTD and Steam client would exit)..
I've played Skyrim, Morrowind, Deus Ex:HR, L4D2, Payday 2, Borderlands 2, GTAO, D:OS, BG:EE, SWTOR, and many more, all fine. It's a great OS.

 

[popa_qwerty]

I can't get Fallout 3 to work even after fiddling with settings for a couple hours. So far, that's my only complaint.

If you have Fallout NV you could try Tale of Two Wastelands at https://taleoftwowastelands.com/ it allows you to play Fallout 3 inside of the NV engine. That's the only way I could get it to work.

OT I've been using it since Day 1 the only problems I had was no start menu on first boot-up but a restart fixed that and a memory leak from a windows 7 driver.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

I think we should discuss or mention if people here Bought a device with Win 10 already installed, or did you upgrade from a previous version of windows.

Am I the only one noticing the trend that most people who say it's a horrible experience said they recently installed Win 10?

 

[minkus_draconus]

I think we should discuss or mention if people here Bought a device with Win 10 already installed, or did you upgrade from a previous version of windows.

Am I the only one noticing the trend that most people who say it's a horrible experience said they recently installed Win 10?

My wife and I had PCs with the "upgrade to 10" icon (almost all the hardware in them was from 2008, core 2 quad cpus and the like).

We bought a laptop with Win10 pre-installed for my wife to have a portable machine (and see if we wanted to move everything to Win10) in January and it was a UI and customer experience nightmare. The amount of time and effort you have to put in to find basic configuration options you want and to turn off the "Here, let me do that for you you ignorant slut!" features that permeate the entire Windows 10 "experience " caused her to return the laptop in 2 weeks time and purchase the following (x2 for each of us to have new machines).

One other thing that prompted this purchase was news that the latest Intel chips would not be getting Windows 7 support.

Obsidian 550D case
Windows 7 64-bit
Core I7-4790K
Asrock z97 Extreme6
32GB RAM
HX750I PSU
GTX 980 TI FTW (acs 2.0 rocks)
Samsung 500GB M2 SSD

We are quite happy with the new machines and have had no issues with Win7 (clean installs but copied over the program data folder so all our app settings would come over).

TLDR: Win10 experience on a fresh install laptop designed for it blew chunks and was a portal to madness and old ones.

EDIT forgot the details on the vid card.

 

[kurupt87]

Absolutely fine. Not a single problem.

Though, I wasn't an idiot and did a fresh install rather than an upgrade.

 

[gorfias]

My own experience with Win10 has been absolutely flawless! But I realise that it's not the case for most people!