Win 10

so win 10 is coming out next week and its free to upgrade 'the first year' ?
should i upgrade ?
so after the first year i have to pay for it ?
and i have win 8.1 pro would i get then win 10 pro ?
for the alienware drivers does it work on win 10 ?
DX12 also coming out and it will support all gpu that has DX

thanx

 

I tried Windows 10 Preview on two machines twice for a few weeks at a time and I didn't particularly like it. The stock UI is better than Windows 8.X.X stock, but CPU performance still sucked just as bad as Windows 8.X.X, the RTC bug was not fixed, and some of my UI tweaks (AeroGlass in particular) were not ready to work with it yet. Since it is free I would say try it and decide for yourself. Create an image of what you have now so going back is quick and painless if you don't like it. As usual, I think there is way more hype and hoopla behind it than warranted. If you're not chasing benchmark numbers this really boils down to personal preference. Windows 7 is still the performance winner for most things, with none of the inefficient navigation gyrations, hyperactive UAC garbage, file permissions conflicts, or lackluster aesthetic atrocities such as the abuse of light pastel colors, lack of Aero transparency, missing UI customization features and gaudy tile crap.

 

It's very sad that Micro$lop wants win7 to die a quicker death.....that DX12 Excl. to Win10, damn those greedy fellas....
Very good evil strat for catching the whole consumer base by tricking them into the " free upgrade" bs

 

I tried Windows 10 Preview on vmware but its still not the final release so maybe it will be better ?
i think the only thing to do is wait

 

I have a Win 10 images on my systems and it seems to suck all around. I know it's a WIP but the look, feel, and features just aren't enough.

 

Does anyone know if this mean every time we need to reinstall W 10 we'll need to install windows 8 then upgrade after?

 

My guess is yes. Every upgrade I got requires a full version of a previous OS. I see no reason why Win 10 would be different.

 

It was said that Microsoft will try and allow technical preview builds to be upgraded to RTM. How that will work I have no idea. Depending on how they implement it, I may just reinstall windows 7 on my computers and then upgrade, but we'll see.

There's a new build that came out a few days ago and it's supposed to be a big update, i'm using it now. Hopefully the rtm will be much better. Still no transparency though.

 

I tried the last update on my M18x R2, but 85% of my games crashed, so I went back to my Win 8 partition

 

The one that was just released a few days ago? Working fine for me so far. Every now and then I'd have a crash on the older build, but the new one hasn't yet. M18xR2 of course.

 

I'm trying it out now on the 18. One thing that Windows 8/10 get a big boost from 7 is WinRAR performance, which is very sensitive to CPU/Memory clocks and timings. It's about 1000KB/s faster.


http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/9338783

 

Yes that one. I even got some really low benchmark scores. Could you try Watch Dogs, Far Cry 4 or Dragon Age? (Those are crashing before even opening)

 

Very nice :thumbsup: That is the same stock score as my 980Ms lol