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Good morning everyone!
So today is the big day for a lot of people that were just waiting for the release of Windows 10, and I thought it would be nice to have a thread with people posting their results after upgrading, more specifically regarding MMOs and games too in general...
Please tell us if you see any distinct advantage/disadvantage after upgrading, if you ran into problems, etc.
Didn't upgrade here yet but will report back as soon as I can with my findings: currently playing WoW and Wildstar, Fallout 3 and Talos Principle.
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Just a heads up, you still need a LEGIT licence/cdkey of Windows 7 or 8/8.1 in order to get the upgrade.
Microsoft clarified this and said that even though everyone gets the upgrade offer, the windows licence will not change from pirated to legit.
It means even if you upgrade using their offer, if you do not have a proper windows cd key registered on your microsoft account, you will be able to upgrade to windows 10 but you will get those annoying messages saying your product is not activated.
This happened to me and when I contacted the customer support, they basically told me I either buy a windows 7, 8 or windows 10 licence and register it on my microsoft account, or I GTFO. lol
So yeah, all those people with pirated windows, dont think you gonna get a free windows 10 because you wont.
Unless of course you pirate windows 10 too.. but meh, that sucks.
If you want to download the official Windows 10 ISO for an upgrade OR a fresh install, here is the page:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
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As it should be. But i was on another tech site and this guy was going on and on about this. He thought he should get a copy even though he never paid for a Windows OS in his life, And he was really pissed that his 32 bit home version could not be upgraded to a 64 bit pro version on 10. What an idiot prick.
Ha! You are listing things that would greatly impact me. Thanks for the info. I'll be waiting a bit to start testing.
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What gave you the idea that a for profit company would be cool with you stealing software from them?
MS announced that even pirated copies of Windows can upgrade to Windows 10, they seem to have left out it would not be for free =-)
Microsoft has changed their must update policy a little.
How to temporarily prevent a Windows or driver update from reinstalling in Windows 10
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930
Exactly, they changed their words and backtracked what they said a few months ago...
It is all sorted now, just had to hear this song and follow my heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLMJpHihykI
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Sounds like a clever way to identify piracy. Odds are you aren't changing your hardware when you move back to a previous pirated version of Windows. If that version ever talks to Microsoft, it will be easy for them to flag it again. That said, I don't feel bad for people that steal and get caught. You are not the victim in this...
So basically forced auto-update on graphic drivers and other important stuff like that? Sounds like this could potentially turn into big problems and one hell of an hassle to deal with...
Not quite sure I want to upgrade anymore...
That's karma! ;-)
Since I made my post MS has confirmed they see the problem with this and has made a work around. My guess this will be addressed in full soon with some patch letting you disable updates for all or select drivers.
If you're on 7 don't bother trying to upgrade with Windows Updates. Just skip straight to the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool.
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The Elder Scrolls Online 100% ok
Skyforge - had to disable Crossfire
Corsair H2100 7.1 wireless headset - very unreliable/inconsistent with connectivity. Had to reboot PC a lot. And if you like having game sound out of one output device and voice comes out of headset, lot's of switching windows default playback device required. These regularly occurring annoyances have sent me back to 7 until fixed.
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I assembled my new win 8.1 rig two weeks before 10 went live. I downloaded the 8.1 and the 10 drivers. I didn't have time to try any games under 8.1, except for Minecraft.
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As if it could exist, without being payed for.
F2P means you get what you paid for. Pay nothing, get nothing.
Even telemarketers wouldn't think that.
It costs money to play. Therefore P2W.
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My computer work perfect.. no problem at all, best windows installation experience ever to be honest.
No crash yet, no games trouble, everything is just perfect.
Me, I never update a working driver, I had LOT of bad experience with new drivers, "Ex: ~30 fps lost with my GTX560 TI in Diablo 3, Or Sound over HDMI problems with my A6-3500 GPU drivers, and more..."
So, when it's working, upgrading a driver is not always the best to do.
Be aware though: Windows driver installation for the Nvidia WHQL driver prevented me from accessing the Nvidia Control panel - solved by downloading re-installing the same driver from the Nvidia site.
Only complaint so far: I want to like Microsoft Edge but it still has some growing up to do. I get weird typing display dleays at this site with it... sometimes you try to close the browser the normal way by clicking the red X in upper right hand corner and it does nothing - it eventually will work if you wait a bit and try again... it typically loads pages very fast but when it doesn't, it prevents you from scrolling down the page until it's done... so I've gone back to Chrome for now.
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Reinstall logitech software - once you reinstall it and update it to latest, it actually runs better than it did on 8.1 in 8.1 my logitech software would always crash.. in 10 never crashes.