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[Flapdrol]

Realtemp works.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Flapdrol, on 08 October 2014 - 09:27 AM, said:

Realtemp works.

Haven't used it for years; will try it out when I get home

[Kain Demos]

Idalgos, on 06 October 2014 - 04:09 AM, said:

Well, for strange reasons where will be no Windows 9, they jumped straight to 10. http://betanews.com/...0-presentation.

Because 8 was such a horrible flop and damaged the brand so badly they want to distance themselves from it.

[Catamount]

DV McKenna, on 08 October 2014 - 09:17 AM, said:

There are sill problems some programs will flat out refuse to install like CPU Z or Hw monitor.

I had to download the windows 8 versions from 3rd party sites and even then they don't function correctly.

Cpuz errors on load and doesn't display all the information it should.

HW only displays my HDD temps not the cpu etc
Like above I couldn't get Bitdefender to install either so using AVG.

So when I do my little science project at the weekend I'm going to have to downgrade to 8 to run the benchmarks and monitors

You can't use OCCT? It'll stress test and log temps in one program. It even gives fancy graphs

[Catamount]

Kain Thul, on 08 October 2014 - 09:30 AM, said:

Because 8 was such a horrible flop and damaged the brand so badly they want to distance themselves from it.

You know, we should start taking bets on how many times this myth can be dispelled and still be repeated. Microsoft was avoiding a coding problem, not trying to sell impressions. If their goal had been the latter, there were a hundred better names that had been rumored that they could have gone with instead.

[ninjitsu]

I like Windows 8 It's great on a phone too!

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Catamount, on 08 October 2014 - 11:10 AM, said:

You can't use OCCT? It'll stress test and log temps in one program. It even gives fancy graphs

Haven't had time to try that one yet had to leave for work.

[Darth Futuza]

Koniving, on 06 October 2014 - 04:07 AM, said:

There's a Windows 10? We just got Windows 8 and might be looking at a 9...
The most current version of Windows according to google is 8.1.

http://en.wikipedia....indows_versions
Huh, apparently they are skipping 9.
"Windows 10 TBA 2015 NT 6.4 TBA"

No one would know yet.

They are skipping 9 due to some compatibility issues (98/95 messed it up), kind of like the Y2K scare did, so to avoid problems they are just skipping to 10.

[cSand]

ninjitsu, on 08 October 2014 - 11:42 AM, said:

I like Windows 8 It's great on a phone too!

Windows Phone 8, I have it for my work phone, it is by far the best phone OS I have ever used. My only beef (and the reason I won't take it for my personal phone) is that there just aren't many useful\good apps for it.

[ninjitsu]

cSand, on 08 October 2014 - 12:06 PM, said:

Windows Phone 8, I have it for my work phone, it is by far the best phone OS I have ever used. My only beef (and the reason I won't take it for my personal phone) is that there just aren't many useful\good apps for it.

I've got a Windows phone and I'm very happy with it. I do agree that the app market is limited but I don't have any use for them anyways.

[Oderint dum Metuant]

ninjitsu, on 08 October 2014 - 11:42 AM, said:

I like Windows 8 It's great on a phone too!

All the fuss about 8 was people that didn't like change; the actual OS itself was good.

Alot of people subscribe to the new Apple method when it comes to technology less innovation and change; just continue to polish the **** and cram it into a different case.

[cSand]

I will say that compared to 8.1, 8 feels "clunky"

[ninjitsu]

8.1 is still Windows 8.

[xhrit]

Kjudoon, on 06 October 2014 - 05:15 AM, said:

They're skipping 9 to prevent the sensation that this is just 8 with some fixes and a little bit more jazzed up front end to turn your computer into an iPhone.

Actually they are skipping windows 9 because of a large number of 3rd party applications will be broken due to lazy programming.

Basically the problem is that a common way to check OS version was to look for literal string "windows 9" when checking for windows 95/98, as opposed to windows XP.

Quote

if (os.startsWith("Windows 9") || os.equals("Windows Me")) {
throw new RuntimeException( "This version of Windows is not supported");
}

Edited by xhrit, 08 October 2014 - 03:27 PM.

[Darth Futuza]

xhrit, on 08 October 2014 - 03:25 PM, said:

Actually they are skipping windows 9 because of a large number of 3rd party applications will be broken due to lazy programming.

Basically the problem is that a common way to check OS version was to look for literal string "windows 9" when checking for windows 95/98, as opposed to windows XP.

This is correct.

Also on the subject of Windows 8 it is evil unless I get to put classic shell on it.

[Peter2k]

works fine for me

seems to have fixed particles problem for me, or did PGI fix that without saying something (or me missing)?

though performance seems to be the same all together

running i5@4Ghz
GTX 780
16GB ram

windows 10 on Samsung 840

EVGA precision tool works, raidcall, Nvidia's Shadowplay too

no probs here, yet I guess


Edit:
I also love how this thread was about if Windows 10 actually runs and plays MWO nice and got completely derailed into discussing the name only

also I used the Nvidia drivers for Windows 8.1 64bit
Worked fine
Photoshop too

On a side note:
I completly skipped windows 8/8.1
The changes in 10 compared to 7 are fine additions
I feel right at home out of the box

Edited by Peter2k, 10 October 2014 - 02:46 AM.

[Catamount]

So I've been using Windows 10 for several days now. I did have one hiccup when the computer was locking up on startup once it hit the desktop (unknown cause, no BSOD), but once I restored back to the point I created before all my manual driver installs and threw everything back on, it has since worked great.

I'm still doubtful that I trust this enough to do serious work on it, maybe I'll feel differently if I make it a month or so without an issue, but so far it's been great. The UI improvements are welcome, some games do indeed run better (I'm not getting any particle slowdowns anymore either!), though sadly MWO in DX11 is still a flop as DX9 still works better, and so far while a few pieces of software don't work including my Xonar control panel, at least W8.1 drivers seem to install and behave themselves. So far no games have caused trouble.

It really is just modernized Windows 7, but that's all I really wanted.

Edited by Catamount, 10 October 2014 - 05:38 AM.

[DvST8]

Windows 10 (64) with a Geforce 970,  Intel i7 3770k @ 4.5 Ghz and 16 GB of ram all on a SSD.

MWO runs fine at 1080p with vsync on it's usually pinned at 60 fps everything on very high, DX11, MSAA on at 8 samples.

Note MWO menus, Text, Etc. don't scale if you try to use Nvidia DSR so its really tiny and unusable.

Edited by DvST8, 10 October 2014 - 03:05 PM.

[Tobbbe]

Hey guys! I also have changed my OS to Win 10 64bit.

First impression is that the game runs smoother with Win 10 than with 8.1.

I have a beast rig with SLI 780 Ti's, a 6 core 4930K but the game have been restricted by it's bad utilazition of cpu power. CPU clocked at 4.7Ghz

With 8.1 my GPU usage was constaltly changing it's usage load due to the CPU strugguling with MWO.

Now windows 10 Uses DX12.
Somehow DX12 must have some backwards functionality because my gpu usage is now on 99% Sometimes dips to 90 for a sec but then back up to 99%.

This was impossible with 8.1.
I remember comparing my GPU load with buddies with different computer specs. Everyone had the problem where the CPU was bottle-necking the GPU due to bad programming of the engine. Game could work great! IF they hire some of Crytek's engineers. Just look at Crysis 3, same engine runs great!

No more!

I have also played around trying to get SLI working in MWO. It works but not without it's buggs. Flickering textures in mechlab, and other visual faults in game. So i stick with Disabling SLI for now.

Now some of you maybe think, does this guy know what hes talking about?
I can only say that i write guide's in overclocking an such. I have very good knowledge about hardware and computers in general, it's one of my biggest interest.

Last thing!
I tried both 32, and 64 bit client. Both worked fine.
I used the latest driver for 8.1 64bit from Nvidia.
I used the highest set's of graphics mwo allows with 1920x1080p resulution and DX11 in settings.

Regards from Tobias! Sweden

[Corbenik]

Koniving, on 06 October 2014 - 04:07 AM, said:

There's a Windows 10? We just got Windows 8 and might be looking at a 9...
The most current version of Windows according to google is 8.1.

http://en.wikipedia....indows_versions
Huh, apparently they are skipping 9.
"Windows 10 TBA 2015 NT 6.4 TBA"

No one would know yet.

it's gonna be "free" also