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[Ano]

The short version: How's MWO on Windows 10 these days, and are there any major gotchas I need to be aware of if I'm upgrading from Win7-64 home premium?
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For work, music and personal design/dev projects I have a couple of Mac laptops so my desktop PC is at this point basically an oversized games console, which spends most of its time playing MWO (plus a whatever's grabbed my attention on Steam this week).

With that in mind, I've thus far held off on the Win10 update as I don't see it making a huge difference to me, but the nagging is growing more insistent, and I'll have a little time over Christmas to do it.

My PC is getting on a bit (from 2011) but beyond a possible graphics card upgrade at Christmas, I'm not really feeling the urge to do much -- perhaps invest in a closed-loop water cooler for the CPU so I can OC it a bit. Specs:

Intel i7-2600K (stock speed/cooler, currently)
Asus P8Z68-V mobo
8Gb Memory
Radeon 6950 2Gb
Primary SSD + other drives, etc etc.

So: are there any reasons why I *shouldn't* run the update when I have time?

[Wildstreak]

Win 10 I discovered after installing runs your computer hotter.
I have had a few more Server Disconnects, they were Very Rare before, now they happen at the worst time. Once I even came back to Rejoin in a Mech with no HUD.
Some error message happens in Windows when I get these but the one time I tried saving it, I lost it. Can never find these errors again to understand and fix them,
New features can be confusing. New Screenshot method, new image viewer, XBox features including a Video Recorder but some have Audio problems with that. Good luck finding where the screenshots and video are saved, no instructions given.

In some ways, my system is better than yours, worse in others.

If you try it, you have one month after upgrading to go back to the previous Windows (7 or 8) using an easy method, then after a month, you better have a backup saved somewhere.

[Lictor]

I've been rock solid with MWO and windows 10. I can't remember the last time I CTD

[Lunatic_Asylum]

Do not downgrade to 10 if you have 7. While 10 is still a bit better than 8, it is no match for the superior 7 with its performance, aesthetics, and overall user experience.

Edited by Lunatic_Asylum, 07 December 2015 - 10:43 PM.

[Ano]

Sorry -- complete forgot I'd asked this question. Thanks for the replies, folks. I bought a spare SSD so might make a disk image of the existing install on it then do the upgrade. Should be a pretty quick restore if I don't like it.

[Hawk819]

I'm not getting the free-bee offer. My friend, Roger, people are having trouble with it in more than one way. So I'm stay away from it. He didn't say what problems. Just that he said "trouble with it" is enough for me.

[SpeCtaCular]

I was really suspicious upgrading to Win 10 ( from 7 Pro ) but after i did, i couldn't be more satisfied.

Win 7 i had a truck load of problems after one of the newest patches in MWO. I had to struggle to even launch the game, when i did then crashed, froze, mech didnt move. all kinds of problems. I re-installed WIN 7 but still same problems...

So i upgraded to WIn 10 and i haven't probably even once had an crash or anykind of error in MWO. No need to play around with drivers and such either.

Only bug/issue though i found out with WIn 10 and MWO is that if i have my Xbox one controller plugged in one of my usb ports, my mech wont stop turning left... But that's easily fixed by unpluggin the controller since i don't even use it in anything else than for NBA2k16.

Just my thoughts on the WIN 10. I recommend. Don't hate me for recommending it though.

Edited by SpeCtaCular, 09 December 2015 - 06:03 AM.

[H A S T A]

I use Windows 10, it's not bad, but it doesn't worth the change, more chance to have bug and crash than win7 or win8.1

Mwo run fine with win10, it's just not a good OS, no gain there, except if your win7 is not optimized.

Edited by HastaLaVistaMec, 09 December 2015 - 08:31 AM.

[Hawk819]

SpeCtaCular, on 09 December 2015 - 06:02 AM, said:

I was really suspicious upgrading to Win 10 ( from 7 Pro ) but after i did, i couldn't be more satisfied.

Win 7 i had a truck load of problems after one of the newest patches in MWO. I had to struggle to even launch the game, when i did then crashed, froze, mech didnt move. all kinds of problems. I re-installed WIN 7 but still same problems...

So i upgraded to WIn 10 and i haven't probably even once had an crash or anykind of error in MWO. No need to play around with drivers and such either.

Only bug/issue though i found out with WIn 10 and MWO is that if i have my Xbox one controller plugged in one of my usb ports, my mech wont stop turning left... But that's easily fixed by unpluggin the controller since i don't even use it in anything else than for NBA2k16.

Just my thoughts on the WIN 10. I recommend. Don't hate me for recommending it though.

No hate here, mate. You're only informing the masses, and making sure we get a difference of an opinion. Can't always be a negative opinion about a certain product. That's why there has to be a good positive one as well. <o

[Durant Carlyle]

I've found with any OS upgrade that it's simply better not to. Upgrade, I mean.

For Win10, because it was free, I did the upgrade. Got the activation code. Then made a bootable USB installer, blew away the upgrade I just did, and did a clean install.

I recommend clean installs with any change of OS. Sure, it's a pain in the butt with having to reinstall all games and programs, but it eliminates 99.9% of problems with a new OS.

[Elder Thorn]

Durant Carlyle, on 09 December 2015 - 04:32 PM, said:

I've found with any OS upgrade that it's simply better not to. Upgrade, I mean.

For Win10, because it was free, I did the upgrade. Got the activation code. Then made a bootable USB installer, blew away the upgrade I just did, and did a clean install.

I recommend clean installs with any change of OS. Sure, it's a pain in the butt with having to reinstall all games and programs, but it eliminates 99.9% of problems with a new OS.

i just store my games and programs on an extra HDD and copy them back in. Most software is use is ready to go that way.

OT: I didn't run into any issues since i returned to MWO and i am using Win10.

Oh wait, there was one, but i think that might happen in another OS too: I had a joystick plugged in that influenced throttle at the beginning of the game and when opening battle grid or player stats even though it wasn't touched at all. Just unplug the joystick and done