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Hello John --

You've been testing win 10 since the beginning, and I am a bit nervous to upgrading due that I have upgrade OS, and had nightmares about programs compatibility, so, sir, what's your thoughts on this!

To clarify further please read this when you have the time:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2953307/microsoft-windows/windows-10-is-for-suckers.html

Thanks in advance!
Ishie
Hi Ish,
I am runnign Windows 10 right now, and that I am going to tell you a few things before you get started with your upgrade before you end up like me having to restore two PC's in one day because it didn't work correctly. Before you put Win10 on it, you need to make sure all drivers for GPU and Audio devices are up-to date and work with Win10. Then you need to install the latest updates for either Win 8.1 or Win7 depending upon the one you're running. I mean you need to install all updates including the optional ones. Once you do this, you need to have Windows run a check to make sure you're PC can run Win10. If it says it is okay, then you're ready to start. DO NOT RUN THE CHECK UNTIL AFTER THINGS ARE UPDATED, IT MAY TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN STILL INSTALL WIN10, BUT IT WILL NOT WORK! (I am victim of that)......
Now on to the other stuff, Trainz 12 and TANE both work with Win10. I can also confirm that steam works with Win10 and many of the games that steam runs will also work on 10. I am not sure what other programs you are using, but some deeper reasearch will tell if you they run with Win 10 or not.
I'm not quite sold the stability of it just quite yet. They're are some areas where I have noticed that there are visible bugs that cause lock-ups and crashes. I'm holding on though, because it is new and the next update coming this month may fix it.
Performance is better. I have noticed a boost of FPS in several of the games I play,even with sliders set to super-high detail. This is something that I did not notice with Win 8.1, making it another reason for me holding on right now.

Hope that gives you some detail!
 
Sounds very familiar: "rushed out the door ... before it's fully baked ... Windows 10 is "hastily assembled".

Windows 10 is the best version yet - once the bugs get fixed


My thoughts as well when I skimmed the article. :hehe: It's predictable though, and similar to not buying a car off the first production run.

I updated tp Win 10 a few days ago after a few aborted attempts with unhelpful errors but finally got there. Haven't tested every program I have but T:ANE works fine despite a few odd things that I have detailed in the TrainzDev forum. My belief is that the new Edge browser is the main culprit so I'm using a mix of Chrome and Edge. Edge is the default browser and I will probably change that soon.

I did get a bit concerned about the amount of stuff that Microsoft wants to collect from you and distribute to their partners. On reflection, that is perhaps part of the "new world" so the best advice is not to have too much personal stuff on your PC, A big part of Win 10 revolves around the use of One Drive and clouds.

Even if you do wait for the bugs to get resolved then I suspect you will have to download the original package plus all the updates. Maybe Microsoft will re-package the installation but I doubt if that is going to happen for a while or at least until the initial upgrades are complete. That may take months given the usage world wide.

I'm surprised John hasn't responded to a thread named in his honor (using American spelling!). He and I have been chatting offline about W10.
 
Hi Ish,
I am runnign Windows 10 right now, and that I am going to tell you a few things before you get started with your upgrade before you end up like me having to restore two PC's in one day because it didn't work correctly. Before you put Win10 on it, you need to make sure all drivers for GPU and Audio devices are up-to date and work with Win10. Then you need to install the latest updates for either Win 8.1 or Win7 depending upon the one you're running. I mean you need to install all updates including the optional ones. Once you do this, you need to have Windows run a check to make sure you're PC can run Win10. If it says it is okay, then you're ready to start. DO NOT RUN THE CHECK UNTIL AFTER THINGS ARE UPDATED, IT MAY TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN STILL INSTALL WIN10, BUT IT WILL NOT WORK! (I am victim of that)......
Now on to the other stuff, Trainz 12 and TANE both work with Win10. I can also confirm that steam works with Win10 and many of the games that steam runs will also work on 10. I am not sure what other programs you are using, but some deeper reasearch will tell if you they run with Win 10 or not.
I'm not quite sold the stability of it just quite yet. They're are some areas where I have noticed that there are visible bugs that cause lock-ups and crashes. I'm holding on though, because it is new and the next update coming this month may fix it.
Performance is better. I have noticed a boost of FPS in several of the games I play,even with sliders set to super-high detail. This is something that I did not notice with Win 8.1, making it another reason for me holding on right now.

Hope that gives you some detail!

Hello Chris --

I'm going to wait a year before upgrading so to make sure all of the patches are there, similar to what's happening with TANE, etc ... I have lot s of graphic programs, and it seem from what I have read most will need update at one time or another, for example Phototshop, etc ... So it's safe to say, better to wait, then to have a program nightmare! I mean, look at TANE ... for all the frustration and outcries from thread after thread, N3V is not moving any faster with their current test patch, so all we can do is take a seat, and wait ... Same thing gonna do with win 10!~

I did tried to installed on an old pc that runs win 7, but it fail due that the pc was efficient enough, so be warned guys about that -- old pc's will might not install win 10!

Kind regards
Ish
 
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