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Post by willyr1100 on Jun 2, 2015 17:43:20 GMT
i saw i had a update notice on my win 7 last nite for win 10, has anybody done the free upgrade yet ? if so how is it working with all your games (especially FC4), thks
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Post by jimbo63 on Jun 2, 2015 20:18:20 GMT
Hi Willy I have Windows 10 technical preview installed as a virtual machine on my Windows 7 OS - so I will give it a try. Unfortunately it will all have to be downloaded onto this virtual machine so it may take me a while to get back to you.
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Post by bontainer on Jun 2, 2015 20:57:23 GMT
Well, how is the old saying - never touch a running system. Since Win10 seems to be free for all 7 and 8 users, I am going to wait until I KNOW that all my games are going to work with it.
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Post by jimbo63 on Jun 2, 2015 21:48:36 GMT
Well, how is the old saying - never touch a running system. Since Win10 seems to be free for all 7 and 8 users, I am going to wait until I KNOW that all my games are going to work with it. Willy I agree with bontainer about this. I just spent an hour downloading it and cannot get it to start via uplay on my Windows 10 preview. I have previously tested Steam on Windows 10 preview and it worked fine, but did not specifically test FarCry 4 playability. It is probably due to uplay not bothering to make it workable until Windows 10 is released
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Post by willyr1100 on Jun 2, 2015 21:54:34 GMT
thks for trying it jimbo, agreed will wait,thks again
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Post by pj on Jun 5, 2015 14:22:02 GMT
A short story in support of Bontainer's post above: (as there's not much happening here at the moment!) I well remember a Novell Netware OS upgrade that went south in the middle of the operation at about 3:00 am one Saturday night/Sunday morning, some seventeen years ago. I can still see my (pretty-experienced) co-worker on a stool in front of the master directory services server with his head in his hands almost in tears when the CD developed a read error in the middle of the install. "What the heck...?" "#%*@.. No! NO! NOOoooo!!.." There was no turning back - she was down and dead in the water... you can't "just restart the server" and begin the install again... Silence.... Dread... "Oh Jesus..." followed by "Better call the CIO..." That network operating system upgrade prevented all ~2000 staff and ~65,000 students of our College logging in to the system for almost two weeks, and took almost two months before it settled down. It also took two senior members of an external Netware consulting company many days and nights to get the system back up, with an engineer on-site daily for the next two years, monitoring and optimizing, so that it would never happen again. Total cost overall - around half a million bucks. It also in part, resulted in a wholesale move away from Novell Netware to the Microsoft NT4 Networking system - an enormous undertaking. This same scenario in miniature can happen to your home PC in exactly the same way. Never, ever start a major OS upgrade without a good backout plan. Your email; your passwords; your receipts; your music; your games; your hard drive even - all may well be non-existent after just one innocent little key-stroke. Don't be afraid of doing it - just do your homework - write it all down, how it's going to happen step by step, make all of the backups, the rescue CD/DVD's, the USB resue key, check the Microsoft site(s), the "PC Expert" sites, and so on.... Just as with the Boy Scouts - if you are prepared, there will be no surprises. Aren't computers fun! pj
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Post by jimbo63 on Jun 5, 2015 16:03:23 GMT
Microsoft are now saying that Windows 10 will be the last new OS that they release - they will just keep updating Windows 10. It was not that long ago that I was very happy using Windows XP.
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Post by willyr1100 on Jun 5, 2015 16:31:36 GMT
it looks like once it is released, we have up to 1 yr to download for free, so that will give time to see how it shakes out. be intersting to see what efect DX12 and the video cards that support it have on FC4 if any
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Post by pj on Jun 5, 2015 21:25:59 GMT
I often thought that too, Jimbo - and many others held that opinion as well. XP was the first really good OS from Microsoft: robust, reliable - and would mostly always fix itself if one had the occasional problem.
DX12: The game itself has to contain graphics coding which supports the DirectX v12 environment, Willy - so that would be up to Ubi to write or re-write the needed code: The operating system code is automatically added as part of their regular Windows Update system, and the GPU may or may not contain the necessary physical architecture needed to support the (new) drivers which will run on that architecture.
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Post by willyr1100 on Jun 5, 2015 22:27:31 GMT
gents, thks for the info.
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Post by bontainer on Oct 9, 2015 11:29:37 GMT
At last, I did the switch to Win10 (from 7), and everything works as it should. I even had all my icons on the desktop as before.
No hassle with drivers, Win10 does it all on its own.
I haven`t found software that does not work, yet.
In any case, make a backup before installing,you never know.
Good thing is, you have a 30 day option to revert to your former OS, so if it doesn`t work out...
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Post by willyr1100 on Oct 12, 2015 22:45:27 GMT
bontainer how long did u have to wait from reserving your copy till the actual download, i still waiting about 2 week now, thks
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Post by bontainer on Oct 13, 2015 7:45:31 GMT
At once. There should not be any waiting time. Win10 downloaded as a normal patch (2.886 MB) in the update manager and had to be started as a patch. Then it took about one hour until it was finished. The only problem I had was with my Samsung SSD. There was not enough space in the partition (350 MB needed, I had only 100) so I had to repartition my SSD. www.pagestart.com/win7win10tpdb10121403.htmlThis link does not show exactly what I want (the page I used was in german) but it is NOT about creating a WIN10 partition on your HD BUT resizing the system reserved space from 100 to 350 MB, else you will get an error message www.tenforums.com/installation-setup/6586-windows-10-will-not-upgrade-partition-issue.html
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Post by willyr1100 on Oct 13, 2015 16:30:15 GMT
thks
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