Is it time to upgrade to Windows 10?

[TheConsiderateIlliterate]

I know there will be benefits with Dx12, even for existing games in Dx11. I'm on Windows 7 and a few months ago I had Windows 10 and had a few hiccups.. but overall it wasn't bad. I ended up rolling back to 7 until things got more stable. Have there been any recent build updates that have smoothed things over? I'm only doing it in hopes to see some benefit in FPS. I play BF4 quite a bit and I've heard people say they get 20+ more FPS on Windows 10 in BF4 while other only see 2-3. I've seen YouTube videos supporting both claims. I can't figure out the discrepancy...

System
i5-4670k @ 4.3
EVGA GTX 760 +60/+250
8Gb RAM
Windows 7

Thanks!

 

[basroil]

Only you can decide, but for the most part Windows 10 issues have been sorted out for newer equipment. Haswell compatible devices should be fine. You won't see 20+ fps gains though, that's more of AMD on slow CPU thing due to WDDM2.0 compatible drivers.

 

[guanyu210379]

If you are ready to share all your data, etc. with Microsoft that it is the time to migrate to Win10.
Microsoft, "All your base are belong to us!"

 

[johnbl]

If you have a current bios version and relatively new hardware Windows 10 runs very well. Just be sure to install the Windows 10 specific driver updates for your motherboard. Mainly the motherboard audio driver needs to be updated.

If you have a old system people will tell you to wait 6 months, it is a pretty funny recommendation. You will still have the same problems when you install 6 months from now. (Just based on the nature of the root causes of the problems, you will still be required to work around various hardware problems.)

In general if you have a bios version dated after April 2013 you have a very high success rate with no problems with the install.

 

[TheConsiderateIlliterate]

Thank you for your detailed response. I still prefer the UI of Windows 7 but I'm more concerned about performance gains. From what I can tell Windows 10 is better than 8 (which is better than 7) in most cases. I'm assuming future improvements will only help.

 

[johnbl]

one big difference between windows 7 and and windows 8 and above is that windows 7 expects you to do low level disk management. Windows 8.x and above will do data integrity passes on your hard drives, it will read each sector of the drive looking for read errors. If it finds a read error, it will re read the sector over and over in an attempt to recover the data, if successful it will move the data to a new block and mark the old sector as bad. Windows 7 would expect you to do a full format of the drive. People often don't know the difference between a full format and a quick format and would quick format drives thinking it would help. Windows 8 and 10 will scan all of your drives looking for problems before the data becomes lost as it becomes unreadable because of changes in sector alignment of a spinning HDD.
Also, these dives are so big not that people should not be expected to fix them by doing a full format that could take 8 hours. Now, windows will scan the drives as a background idle process. Some used this process as evidence that microsoft trying to catch them with stolen games, videos or pirate versions of software. It is not, the OS is doing maintenance on your drive, it gets noticed because the people that collect videos have very large drives so the system process ends up spending a lot of time scanning for bad sectors on the drives. People are paranoid.

Thank you for your detailed response. I still prefer the UI of Windows 7 but I'm more concerned about performance gains. From what I can tell Windows 10 is better than 8 (which is better than 7) in most cases. I'm assuming future improvements will only help.