Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed

Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by theprotocol on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:38AM (#17825584)

• Updates are not served to me at regular, known intervals. Perhaps it's due to a progressive rollout policy of some kind.

• Certain days come up that I, the paying user, do not want to patch on. Microsoft wins this disagreement and I lose. This occurs in a glib fashion with a message like "Hey, just a heads up, we are going to restart your computer" (whether I like it or not). It is my computer, there is no "we!"

It will absolutely close programs with unsaved work if I am not there.

• Maybe I don't want the performance hit on my gaming PC. This is another element of surprise: who knows how bad it'll be? Certainly not the users if Intel and Microsoft have their way.

• Yet another element of surprise: I've had hardware stop working after updates.

I cannot wait until it becomes viable to escape the toxicity of companies such as Intel and Microsoft.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by jstanley on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:27AM (#17826050)

It has actually been perfectly viable to escape Intel and (especially) Microsoft for a very long time. Lots of people on HN have done so.

Buy an AMD machine, install Ubuntu, and you're done.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by moolcool on Thursday August 23, 2018 @09:49AM (#17827198)

>gaming PC

>Ubuntu

Hope he likes Mahjong and Tux Racer

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by btym on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:22PM (#17829504)

WINE + DXVK can pretty much run any modern game (with varying performance).

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by chrisper on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:01AM (#17827282)

Have you not heard of Valve's Proton? It's the next best thing!

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by moolcool on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:36PM (#17829120)

It has potential, but when I want to unwind and fire up a game, the last thing I want to do is deal with the rigmarole of alpha software

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by holtalanm on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:39AM (#17828137)

yeah.... OpenGL is so far from Dx in terms of performance that it is laughable.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by SmellyGeekBoy on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:04AM (#17825703)

> I cannot wait until it becomes viable to escape the toxicity of companies such as Intel and Microsoft.

This has been "viable" for a long time now. Ignore the FUD and just try it for yourself. You might be pleasantly surprised.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by chrisper on Thursday August 23, 2018 @05:15AM (#17825750)

Especially now with Valve's Proton.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by theprotocol on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:25AM (#17826291)

I've been watching this very closely. I think this project will finally tip the scales and make it viable for me (I've had problems with many games when I attempted to switch in the past).

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by LeftTurnSignal on Thursday August 23, 2018 @09:18AM (#17826978)

You probably saw this, but this is a google doc of what games people have tried in proton.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DcZZQ4HL_Ol969UbXJmF...

i'm pumped to try monster hunter. that game was the only reason I was going to use windows, so hope it runs well

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by harry8 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:52AM (#17825650)

You are best placed to make that assessment on your own needs. Know that many of us have done it and it turned out to be easier than we thought it would be. Good luck with the analysis!

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by ReverseCold on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:18AM (#17827435)

Microsoft's stance on the issue:

Win10 is free* (so it does this) - Professionals who need to override these settings should get Win10 Pro.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by 0xffff2 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:28AM (#17828037)

I have Win 10 Pro. AFAIK it handles updates the exact same way. How do I disable automatic reboots on my Win 10 Pro machine?

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by MadWombat on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:33AM (#17828076)

Since when is Win 10 free? The Microsoft store seems to indicate $139.

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