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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by Mithaldu on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:33PM (#13554868)
I'm a gamer and developer in high performance stuff. I've seen a concrete improvement in both average performance and responsiveness in going from win 7 to win 10 on the same machine.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by chadgeidel on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:27PM (#13555457)
I recently installed both Windows 7 (32 bit) and Windows 10 (32 bit) on a 1 GB memory machine.

Memory pressure from 10 was lower than 7.

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:53PM (#13556976)
Most likely from the compressed pages.

I recently bought a 2GB Ideapad to use as a toss around machine. I wish it had come with 32-bit Win10 but MS's stupid rules require 64-bit on any processor capable of using it.

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by DanBC on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:30PM (#13569740)
> I recently bought a 2GB Ideapad to use as a toss around machine. I wish it had come with 32-bit Win10 but MS's stupid rules require 64-bit on any processor capable of using it.

Is this correct? There's a bunch of low end machines that have 64 bit processors but not much ram, and thus were installed with 32 bit Windows 10.

EG: http://imgur.com/a/yukLR

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by fuzzfactor on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:24PM (#13569715)
I don't think you would have any problem re-installing using the 32-bit version yourself.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by chadgeidel on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:07PM (#13562835)
Sure, Microsoft has made a ton of improvements throughout the OS from 7-10, not just UI improvements.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by E6300 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:47PM (#13557508)
That performance improvement happened in 8. 10 didn't bring anything new to the table in terms of optimizations.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by grogenaut on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:27AM (#13557910)
being partially sarcastic: who could stand 8? as much as you hate the features you have to turn off... 8 was much much worse. 8.1 also really bad. 10 is like 7 that works way better. I also really like my work win10 where corp it has stripped all of the garbage for me, except that stupid "welcome" screen, which you used to be able to skip by task managering. Hello! I know windows is ready to go... I know you love your FTUE, did you think about your 92UE? :)
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by E6300 on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:58AM (#13558041)
Eh. 8.1 works fine for me. I get the performance improvements over 7, but I also get to control when to apply updates. The start screen was an eyesore at first, but I actually kind of like it now. The Windows 10 "start menu" is much worse, because it's exactly the same as the start screen but way smaller

I have to use 10 at work because I'm working on a driver that I need Windows 8 or newer to write it and the only HDD with anything like that on it had 10, and I absolutely hate that once in a while I come in to work and the OS will have decided at some point during the night that updating itself was more important than whatever it was I had running.

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by Mithaldu on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:56AM (#13558808)
Frankly, i'm in grogenaut's boat. Windows 8 was a disaster like ME, with some improvements, but those invented half-baked or with too much opinions.

Win 10 is the first time i considered upgrading from Win 7, and it ended up wonderful.

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by princeb on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:24PM (#13557669)
dx12 doesn't work with 8
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by E6300 on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:11AM (#13557838)
The benchmarks I've seen don't really point to DX12 as being an optimization.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by Mithaldu on Friday February 03, 2017 @04:55AM (#13558801)
It's not about optimization, it's about the fact that games will come out that support only that because the game devs don't want to support multiple graphics APIs.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by E6300 on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:31AM (#13559995)
Developers won't do that for a good while if adoption rates continue at their current level.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by Mithaldu on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:12AM (#13566584)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_...

Oh, also, Dx12 does offer performance benefits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_12#DirectX_12

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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by E6300 on Saturday February 04, 2017 @05:09PM (#13569397)
Is that a list of games that only support DX12, or a list of games that support DX12 and possibly some other API as well?
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by dagw on Saturday February 04, 2017 @05:12PM (#13569413)
It's both.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by E6300 on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:03PM (#13569617)
Okay, so how about a list of games that only support DX12, since that's what's being discussed here?
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by dagw on Saturday February 04, 2017 @06:12PM (#13569662)
The link lists both games that only support DX12 and games that support DX12 and something else.
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Re:The woes of Windows 10 by Mithaldu on Monday February 06, 2017 @10:28AM (#13580256)
Did you look at it on a phone and missed the column clearly marking which is which?
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