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

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I upgraded to Win10 earlier this week and so far everything has been fine, apart from having had to reinstall the wireless network drivers.

As far as games performance goes, it seems about the same to slightly improved in some cases.

 

[Fallow]

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Unrelated but the 550D case is goddamn awesome, best purchase I've ever made. Looks great, quiet, and the overall quality is amazing.

 

[KaraFang]

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?

Bought mine on USB stick (really clever idea from MS, installed really fast.)
Formatted my new drive I'd popped into my old system.
Installed.
Added drivers I could find, allowed MS to install drivers for old tech i have that is not supported.

Runs faster than my old PC, not a single crash due to MS - had a crash due to a game with a known memory leak, Windows can't fix that, but it DID go back to win 10 without a single hiccup and was stable.

My stuff. (it's old)like 6/7 years for the CPU and Mboard (I had this before I married my wife!!):

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Model: EX58-UD4P
Intel Quad core I7 920 at 2.8Ghz
6 gig DDR3 Gskill RAM.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Primary VRAM: 2047 MB
Audio device: Speakers (Creative SB Audigy 2

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

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 New Vegas, get the Tale of Two Wastelands mod. It incorporates Fallout 3 in to New Vegas.

OT; I have had no problems with it, but I have avoided the Windows App store like the plague. Why use Games For Windows Live 2.0, when Steam and Origin (it's gotten better) are perfectly serviceable? I have had issues getting some older games to work on Win 10, but that's because the OS prevents the older DRMs from being installed. There are workarounds for almost every game, they take a little effort, but they are worth it.

 

[Dalisclock]

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.

I was actually wondering a while back when the "Free" period would expire so I wouldn't have to worry about Win 10 downloading and installing itself. Then I realized that there was a program I could use to remove any traces of it and block it from downloading in the first place.

I was originally holding off because It's a MS OS and those have a tendency to be buggy upon release. Then I was annoyed because of how pushy it was being about "Hey! UPGRADE! NOW!" all the time. Then the stories about it downloading and installing itself started.

So yeah, I'm holding off on WIN 10 until I have no other choice.

 

[minkus_draconus]

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Unrelated but the 550D case is goddamn awesome, best purchase I've ever made. Looks great, quiet, and the overall quality is amazing.

Only thing I hate are the plastic clips that hold on the front plate. 2 out of 4 on each of the cases were damaged out of the box (you open the front and it falls off). They give you four replacement clips (2 of each orientation) but getting others is a nightmare. Thinking I might hit up a friend who has a 3d printer to see if we can make compatible replacements.

 

[minkus_draconus]

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.

I was actually wondering a while back when the "Free" period would expire so I wouldn't have to worry about Win 10 downloading and installing itself. Then I realized that there was a program I could use to remove any traces of it and block it from downloading in the first place.

I was originally holding off because It's a MS OS and those have a tendency to be buggy upon release. Then I was annoyed because of how pushy it was being about "Hey! UPGRADE! NOW!" all the time. Then the stories about it downloading and installing itself started.

So yeah, I'm holding off on WIN 10 until I have no other choice.

If you get the two MS update numbers and tell update to never show you those it will never try to install them and push the update.

 

[Weaver]

Works fine for me - I'd look at programs that remove all the spying shit they put into it though.

 

[Citizentropy]

I got he notification yesterday it was time to update, so I guess this is what my evening will look like. I just hope older games in my Steam library will still run fine.

 

[renegade7]

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.

Just awful. I hate Windows 10 with a burning passion.

Windows 10 is one step above blatantly being malware. I didn't want it. I mostly use Debian for games and general computer use and I had a Windows 7 dual boot for cases where games or software wouldn't work on Debian. I did everything I could to prevent Windows 10 from worming its way onto my computer in one of those damn "automatic updates". But one day I turn on my computer and to my surprise, it boots straight into Windows 10. Without even prompting me, Windows 7 upgraded itself to Windows 10, overwrote the boot sector, and overwrote the partition table of the drive that Debian was on. I lost my Linux install and if I hadn't been careful and had everything on Dropbox I would also have lost all of my schoolwork, including my MSci thesis.

But all of my game saves? Gone. All of the work I had done to carefully configure and fix up Debian to run perfectly for my purposes? Gone. MATLAB scripts that I need for school and research that collectively represented weeks worth of work to put together? Almost all gone. And I didn't even want Windows 10. It's ridiculous bullshit and I'm tempted to try to take Microsoft to court over this.

 

[Michel Henzel]

I switched back to Win7 fairly quickly and don't plan on going back unless I'm forced to. First time Win10 annoyed me was when it decided, in the middle of a game of World of Tanks, to go ahead and restart due to an update. No warnings no nothing. Ok fine, I'll make it so it asked me first, surely that will do it. Yeah that was a big nope. Sure it did ask, but I did not see the message as I was playing a game, and apparently it decides to restart anyway due to me not responding to the notification. Me not responding does not mean I'm not busy doing shit windows. Then an update came that pretty much stopped me keyboard from working, and nothing I did got the damn thing to work again. It's a bloody Microsoft keyboard even.

That was the last straw, back to Win7 then were I know shit works.

I also dislike it cause they are more and more becoming like Apple with Win10, as it is more and more becoming a closed system

 

[kris40k]

Upgraded from Win 8.1 to 10, install went fine.

I ran into an issue where I had to roll-back 1-2 weeks ago because the OS would not finish booting up, but I can't be certain that was the fault of the OS, as I had installed a couple pieces of software between the last reboot and then.

Overall, I like how it handles, however the search function has a bit of lag. For instance, I'm used to typing Win Button -> calc -> Enter to launch the calculator. There is a bit of a lag now in the search function so instead of launching the calc, it thinks I want to search the Internet for "calc". If I pause, as in Win Button -> calc -> pause 3-5 secs -> Enter, it works and launches the calc program.

 

[Saulkar]

I have not and will not use it. After windows 7 support dries up I will move to Redhat. Some friends of mine had windows 10 fuckup their licenses for autodesk and adobe products as well as one could not even license Zbrush and FumeFX to begin with. The spying is harder to deactivate than windows 7, and I have it already setup the way I want it. I would gain nothing by installing Windows 10 so that is that.

 

[Laughing Man]

Well my experience to date has been rather bad every couple of days or so or whenever I leave my computer to do nothing for a few minutes I keep getting a pop up telling me my upgrade to Win 10 is waiting. I keep telling it to fuck off but it just keeps ignoring me. If the actual OS is anything as annoying as the advert for it I am glad I haven't upgraded.

 

[gorfias]

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.

I keep experimenting some. Some games work, even on my USB 3.0 exterior drive, others? Not so much.

 

[Stewie Plisken]

My gaming experience had actually been pretty good. I hadn't noticed any major differences between Win7 & Win10 as far as gaming goes, what worked before worked afterwards and even some games that didn't use to work started working when I installed Win10 (namely, Bloodrayne). No curious crashes, no stutters, no performance drops of any kind. I was very satisfied with the system, as far as gaming was concerned.

Now, as far as everything else was concerned, I got rid of Microsoft's glorified spyware and rolled back to 7 recently. But gaming was not the reason for it.

 

[gorfias]

My gaming experience had actually been pretty good. I hadn't noticed any major differences between Win7 & Win10 as far as gaming goes, what worked before worked afterwards and even some games that didn't use to work started working when I installed Win10 (namely, Bloodrayne). No curious crashes, no stutters, no performance drops of any kind. I was very satisfied with the system, as far as gaming was concerned.

Now, as far as everything else was concerned, I got rid of Microsoft's glorified spyware and rolled back to 7 recently. But gaming was not the reason for it.

Yeah, I have to log in with my outlook credential. I pretty much figure my privacy is blown.

Just played some Mass Effect 3 on Origin on Win 10. I just got me a Promethean partner. Ran fine.

 

[flying_whimsy]

I did use the preview build on a second hard drive on my gaming rig, but I wasn't exactly thrilled with it. I really liked how well it could handle multiple monitors, but everything else seemed like a step backwards from windows 7. 7 was very pretty, but 10 is obviously coming more from the 8 design aesthetic where everything is primary colors and super simple for looks. I've made a point of going through and blocking the update to win 10 on every computer my family has, but I'm terrified microsoft will make it mandatory while I'm not looking. (I really wish they'd given out the free upgrade for vista, as I still have an extra key for that and would have loved to dual-boot the full version so it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass when they forcibly killed 7.)

I recently bought a new laptop (2-in-1 convertible with a tablet mode), and I do really like 10 on that. However, I have multiple computer certifications and what I've found is that the ui is basically inefficient and unwieldy: it takes more clicks to do anything and trying to get the raw data from the os is like pulling teeth. The new graphics styling makes everything crisp and vibrant but simultaneously unreadable. I haven't run into much in the way of compatibility issues yet, but I don't intend to do much gaming on it: I wanted something fast and powerful that I could use for troubleshooting and office work on the go. I did just put an intel ssd into it, so with the fast boot option and the 'lighter weight' os, it does move pretty quick. They got rid of the windows experience index, though: I can't figure out if that's good or bad.

On the whole, it's not as bad as 8, but a successor to 7 it is not.

 

[Stewie Plisken]

Yeah, I have to log in with my outlook credential. I pretty much figure my privacy is blown.

It is, but you don't have to log in with a hotmail/outlook account in Windows 10. I think it was a bit of a requirement in 8, but you can create a local user account in 10.

 

[CeeBod]

Same for me as others in the thread - my experience has been mixed at best. When it works, it boots up lightning fast, the interface is clean and simple, and it doesn't try to be a smartphone with all of the "touchscreen interface even on a desktop machine" nonsense like Win 8 did. So that's all good.

Unfortunately it also has the stability of a balloon in a hurricane. Around 1 boot up in 4, every single piece of software I try to use will crash on first launch (although bizarrely most of them work fine if I persist and just re-launch them), the sound and network drivers will randomly fail, it loses internet connectivity for no reason, and about a bazillion other unrelated malfunctions come and go whenever it feels like it. If I restart at that stage, it then loses Cortana (no big loss for me, but unfortunately it treats this as important and won't let me just boot without a function I have never ever used!) or it temporarily loses my entire profile and gives me a completely blank desktop, or I get one of about a hundred different catastrophic BSODs, and I need to completely power off and power back on before everything works again. The other 3 times out of 4 by the way, everything works completely fine and stable, so that 1 time in 4 when everything's failing it just feels like the OS is fucking with me!

Related but different, MS Office 2016 is the most unstable, buggy POS I have ever seen, and I now dread receiving a document by email, because each time I have have to watch MS Word fuck up endlessly trying to open the file and then crashing. Even more frustrating of course is when it manages to actually open, but then crashes during a save file operation and thus loses any and all amendments I'd just made to the document. I would actually be more productive if instead of MS Office I'd installed World of Warcraft and attempted to outsource all my document changes from the General Chat channel!