JoeyJungle
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Does it format your disk or anything? Or is it a pretty painless process?
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Windows 10 RTM is out - DX12 games to follow?
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Does it format your disk or anything? Or is it a pretty painless process?
Patrick S.
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No, totally painless. Takes 10 minutes. And everything was still working for me afterwards.
JoeyJungle
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Great, thanks!
Patrick S.
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I play old games all the time, and so far the only problem I've had running Windows 10 was with a NEW game; Raceroom Experience, which doesn't allow me to run at 1080p because of some bug. But with older games, I've not run into any problems yet.
What was your upgrade path and how did you create a clean install, did you use the RTM ISO?
Patrick S.
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I have
a) installed Windows 10 preview over a not activated Windows 8.1 install using the "upgrade" option on the Microsoft site and then just kept updating builds with Windows Update.
b) downloaded the preview ISO from the link I posted above and put it on a USB drive with Rufus and did a fresh install on another machine.
I kept updating builds and am now on the RTM build which is activated. As I said, Windows 8.1 was not activated, or in other words Microsoft gave me a free copy of Windows 10 Pro, yay
The Lamonster
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Would upgrading from 7 to 10 retain all of my desktop icons/wallpaper, quicklaunch start menu settings etc? And file structure?
Yes, however you can't change any wallpaper etc unless you can activate. Something I am unable to do currently...
The Lamonster
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Activate? I have my upgrade reserved, does that count?
Patrick S.
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The latest update through the Insider program was the RTM version. No more watermarks, etc.
So long as you wait until Windows 10 is actually out, sure.
Ditto on page not found. Will this work as a conversion? Am I risking not making a proper conversion for when it actually releases?
No idea what I did wrong then, I downloaded the ISO mounted it - let it download updates then it took me to a windows key screen where it asked for a key.
I have a genuine installed Windows 8.1 - tried that key which failed.... I then thought I was supposed to use the provided key on the web page - which I did..
Thanks, I'll try it out tomorrow and report.
Patrick S.
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killer rin
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Its pretty painless, not at all like Windows 7 era upgrades. Takes ~10 Minutes to upgrade, longer if you have a ton of programs/apps/files which it will need to migrate. It'll keep all your files, apps, programs, settings, user accounts.
Once you upgrade, if you find it running a little slow, or you want to do a clean install for reasons, you can then go into the settings and tell it to "Refresh your PC" a'la Windows 8 where it will reinstall Windows 10 and if you chose, migrate your files/settings/apps over.
The link is right on the front page of that domain man, put in some effort >
I mean I'll try the W10 upgrade tomorrow, lol. ISO is already downloaded
There are two "tiers" of DX12 support. There's a "DX11-on-12" API that allows most DX11 code to run without major changes and allows devs to get some performance boost for little effort. Games using this path are likely to show up earlier, as well as some evergreen PC games getting patched to support it.
The 2nd tier involves re-writing the game's renderer to take full advantage of the performance features. I don't think we'll see much of those before DX12 support shows up on UE4 and Unity.
The 2nd tier involves re-writing the game's renderer to take full advantage of the performance features. I don't think we'll see much of those before DX12 support shows up on UE4 and Unity.
Mad Season
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Upgraded from 8.1 and its activated. Painless
TheVampire
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Oh thats cool so you dont need to format?
Iced_Eagle
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That's one option.
However, if you download the ISO and run it yourself, it's just an option in setup called "Keep Nothing".
No.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Yep!
King of Wushu was ported from DX11 to DX12 in 6 weeks. Good article right here: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/05/01/directx-12-cryengine/
soulassssns
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Is there a download link for the non pro version of Windows 10? Since you can only officially upgrade to the home version from the standard version of 8.1
Same ISO. It detects whether you have Home or Pro on Windows 7 or 8 and that's what you'll have after the upgrade.
soulassssns
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I tried installing it and it asked for a product key. Didnt MS say the previous preview keys no longer work?
Laptop? I wasn't able to make it work on my laptop, it kept asking for a key. But, I was able to install and activate Win 10 Pro 64-bit on my gaming rig. In fact, it never asked for a key. I'm thinking the "custom Lenovo version" of Win 8.1 64-bit on my laptop isn't eligible for the upgrade at this time.
soulassssns
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Yes, a Lenovo Y510p actually.
I'm running 10240 on my desktop as well and its pretty damn good of an OS so far.
soulassssns
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I don't think that's a problem as you don't have to have an ms account for Windows 10.
Yeah, that pretty much confirms it. Gotta wait until after the 29th to upgrade the Lenovos.
I haven't spent much time with Win 10 yet, but it seems solid except for the fact my Cortana is completely silent.
Bruno
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Upgraded 2 PC's. My main gaming rig had 8.1 Pro with my MS account and updated perfectly with no problems. Second PC was running 7 Home Edition and kept asking for a key even though my primary rig didn't need one. I followed some steps on reddit and managed to get it freshly formatted and activated using some random key they posted on there - really hope this doesn't screw me over in the future. As of right now both PC's are activated and working perfectly.
Btw - actually noticed an FPS improvement while playing ARK.
Btw - actually noticed an FPS improvement while playing ARK.
Super Rookie
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Upgraded, worked perfectly.....
Until I enabled SLI then PC freezes for a second everytime I open Edge, Start Menu, Settings, etc.
Also Second monitor starts flickering when I move a window in it with SLI.
Seems like Nvidia drivers are the issue so meanwhile will have to disable SLI until new drivers are released.
Until I enabled SLI then PC freezes for a second everytime I open Edge, Start Menu, Settings, etc.
Also Second monitor starts flickering when I move a window in it with SLI.
Seems like Nvidia drivers are the issue so meanwhile will have to disable SLI until new drivers are released.
bltn
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Thanks for sharing this. I'll wait!
Two questions about this windows 10 update:
1) Is it possible to update to a dutch windows 10? The link provided in this thread seems to be for English versions only.
2) How does windows 10 deal with laptops that have two graphics cards, one for performance and one for energy saving. In windows 7 I had a manual option to switch between them, but after updating to windows 8.1 I now need to attach the power cord in order to switch it to the performance card.
1) Is it possible to update to a dutch windows 10? The link provided in this thread seems to be for English versions only.
2) How does windows 10 deal with laptops that have two graphics cards, one for performance and one for energy saving. In windows 7 I had a manual option to switch between them, but after updating to windows 8.1 I now need to attach the power cord in order to switch it to the performance card.
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