Anybody try out FFXIV on Windows 10

[Ruri]

It's the german word for "no".

So I asked my german wife how many kids she wanted, she said nein!

Ohhh that makes sense

[Alistaire]

Ohhh that makes sense

Yeah companies sometimes do consider things like that, I remember hearing Chevy Nova sold terrible in Spanish speaking places...something about "no va" means "doesn't go".

[Ladon]

It works (the core kernel is still pretty much Win8.1 so 8.1 drivers all work well). It also functions in virtual desktops but doing some heavy processing in the main window might degrade performance of FF14 in a virtual desktop to the point that sound might start skipping. This depends on your systems overall performance of course. But the reason for this is applications in virtual desktops get dropped to a new 'lowest' processor scheduling priority.

[Lemuria]

As long as they get rid of that Fisher-Price menu system. I'm sure it's great on a touch screen tablet, but for those of us who own a desktop it's just a mess to use.
#stickingwith7

[Noshpan]

Post of the year

It's almost as good as the post made by a female Troll Shaman on the WoW forums regarding Arthas' horse, Invincible.

"If he's invincible how come I can still see it?" That is the best post of ALL TIME.

[Ruri]

Yeah companies sometimes do consider things like that, I remember hearing Chevy Nova sold terrible in Spanish speaking places...something about "no va" means "doesn't go".

Yea they actually taught me that in Spanish class years back, I still remember

[Roris]

Just tried it today, works great, much better than 8 even with 8.1. Though it really is just 8.2, that's why everything that works on 7 and 8 works on 10, all the games I've tried so far work fine. Still it's funny how simply removing the Metro start screen by default and adding a proper start menu makes a world of difference, you can still switch between the start menu and start screen if you want too, but why would you. It also feels much snappier, 8 always felt sluggish for some reason even if raw performance wise it was comparable to 7 or even better in some cases, at least in benchmarks. Latest AMD drivers work great on it and installed fine, dunno about Nvidia drivers.

[Riardon]

On my system 8.1 is smoother than 7. It really depends on driver version. Every month I test the new drivers and the last one is the smoothest of all in FFXIV (nvidia GTX760) on Windows 8.1. So it comes down to the drivers mostly.
Windows 10 will be out next year and many features are left out from the tech preview so we are viewing an unfinished beta program yet. The final release will be much better.

[Kio]

Where did 9 go?

MS hasn't officially made comment but credible sources say it's due to old coding that is commonly used by many programs that recognize the OS title of windows 9 as either windows '98 or '95. So they had to skip it for stability reasons.

[Delsus]

I have the preview installed, and I'm just patching FFXIV up now, I'll report what happens, but I won't comment on any loading time differences because my Win10, and FFXIV will be on a HDD rather than my SSD.