Re:The woes of Windows 10
by E6300 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:47PM
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That performance improvement happened in 8. 10 didn't bring anything new to the table in terms of optimizations.
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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? :)
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.
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.
dx12 doesn't work with 8
The benchmarks I've seen don't really point to DX12 as being an optimization.
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.
Developers won't do that for a good while if adoption rates continue at their current level.
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
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?
It's both.
Okay, so how about a list of games that only support DX12, since that's what's being discussed here?
The link lists both games that only support DX12 and games that support DX12 and something else.