Upgrading to windows 10

[vestedchicken65]

I was just wondering if i should upgrade to windows 10 from 8.1 and is it any better or worse for gaming?

 

[Tradesman1]

I would/will but I think Prime time is still a month or two away

 

[neon neophyte]

it's kind of whatever but directx12 will only be on windows 10.

 

[Tradesman1]

Once they get a few more of the problems ironed out. I started working with the Win 10 original beta a couple months before the public beta release, and problems we identified back then still haven't been rectified. 10 was rushed to market same as they did with Vista and Win 8

 

[SBMfromLA]

Ten reasons to upgrade to windows 10

10 Reasons NOT to upgrade to Windows 10
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2972298/microsoft-windows/10-reasons-you-shouldnt-upgrade-to-windows-10.html#slide1

 

[Tradesman1]

Hmmm a +10 and a -10, I'll stick with I'm waiting for a month or two till I tell clients to jump on it

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

Just don't upgrade to Windows 10... It's full of bugs, really. It completely broke my other PC.

First it gave me blue screens then it fried the motherboard... literaly. All of this happened after I upgraded from Win7 to Win10, I think I'm going to stay with Windows 7 up to July or whenever the free Windows 10 ends otherwise I'm keeping Windows 7, no reason to upgrade. DirectX 12, boowhoo. I don't really think it's big enough for upgrading to a half broken OS.

 

[CountMike]

Really ??? An OS burned your MB ????
I have been running W10 since very beginning and even in beta stage it was better and faster than W7 !!!!

 

[neon neophyte]

yeah, ive been using it since beta without a problem as well. fixed a memory leak i had in 8.

 

[CountMike]

Most problems arise when update from highly modified and/or poorly maintained W7. Clean install fixes that.

 

[SBMfromLA]

Most problems arise when update from highly modified and/or poorly maintained W7. Clean install fixes that.

I think it's maybe or maybe not. I remembered when test drove the Preview version... My motherboard CD would NOT even run.. kept getting an O/S not supported error or something. Basically, some people will have problems... some won't.

 

[CountMike]

It's just as important to know OS as good as HW, both are equally important.

 

[neon neophyte]

it's not at all surprising that a motherboard dvd would not be supported, since the dvd came out before windows 10 did. who uses a dvd to update their system anyway. all it is full of is old drivers.

 

[CountMike]

It's only that DVD video play is not natively supported by Media player, machines themselves are. Any third party player like VLC (which was always much better than WMP) does play DVD movies. CD is supported by WMP and other MM Apps.
I have CD/DVD/BD player and writer in my system and all works just fine.

 

[SBMfromLA]

it's not at all surprising that a motherboard dvd would not be supported, since the dvd came out before windows 10 did. who uses a dvd to update their system anyway. all it is full of is old drivers.

Perhaps the people who want to install a few utilities that are only available on the CD that came with the component and NOT available on the manufacturer's website. Duh!!!

 

[CountMike]

And what the heck is "motherboard dvd" I wasn't aware that any MBs ever came with one of those.

 

[NerdyComputerGuy]

im lost

 

[Tradesman1]

im lost

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[CountMike]

im lost

In space ???