Windows 10 [Did you upgrade?]

[justinjarjar]

Well going to answer the did you? No and I probably will not for two reason autoupdates and loss of windows media player (I use it to record shows). Windows 7 until Microsoft gets back to more back to basic OPs like 2000, XP, and 7.

[AsteriaStarfall]

I did a clean install as in no programs, no personal data or anything left behind, wiped the whole partition. I do have bitdefender, but i made sure to disable windows defender, i'll try unninstalling it to see how it goes. Still dont think that would affect the inital boot. No need to defrag after formatting, there's just a bunch of nothing to re-organize

While it wouldn't affect the 1st boot after install, the first boot will be the time Windows is installing and updating drivers from Windows Update. After i installed, i watch as Windows Explorer (For those that don't know explorer.exe is what gives you your desktop interface) kept restarting over and over. Then upon investigation found it was installing video and motherboard drivers. After about 20 minutes it was finished and the subsequent boots went much faster.

And for those complaining about the "auto updates" In the "Search the web and Windows" bar at the bottom type "Windows Update" Choose advanced settings from the search result and disable them there. If you feel that is not enough let me know and i can point you to the registry edit that completely disables all updates and the interface for them.

[Sove92]

Not upgrading for now, I don't agree with their forced update cycle. Let's see after someone makes a hack that disables it, and any other bs that OS may have.

[Hayward]

Hello! I was thinking about upgrading to Windows 10 today instead of waiting to see what SE had to say about it. Which won't be till mid-Aug. So here are a few questions:

1. Did you upgrade after the release of Windows 10? (Jul 29th)

2. Did the game start with zero issues?

3. Running DX11 version of the game just fine?

4. Noticeable changes? (Game wise)

5. Personal experience you would like to share about it? (Windows 10 / FFXIV with W10)

Edit: 6. Did you follow up with a clean install after the upgrade?

Thank you for your time!

1) Yes. Did a manual upgrade after the automatic update failed on me.

2) None

3) DX11 version runs really well.

4) The game runs about as smoothly as I can ask.

5) For Mac/Boot Camp users: Boot Camp 5.1 drivers still work on Windows 10. Just run the setup as an Administrator like Win8.

[Kerii]

The game has ran fine on Windows 10, and has done so for months! The only issue I have is that my gpu temps get hotter than they did on Win 8, but I blame AMD and terrible drivers long, long before I blame windows.

[Limecat]

Nope, early adoption is a fool's game, and automatic driver updates will lead to nothing but suffering. Maybe in a couple years once 3rd parties have had time to root out any potentially unwanted behaviors and fixed things that MS won't.

[Souleater13]

From Windows 7 Ultimate had to use the Windows media tool and only did upgrade to Windows 10. Zero issues with the upgrade or system running in general.

With my R9 380 I still get crashes in DX11 even with latest drivers. DX9 has always worked with no issue.

Before a crash happens the game runs smoothly.

[TitaniaZero]

I upgraded and everything has run great.

Save for the Authentication system which until today wasn't working at all. (At least for me)

[Nadirah]

Well going to answer the did you? No and I probably will not for two reason autoupdates and loss of windows media player (I use it to record shows). Windows 7 until Microsoft gets back to more back to basic OPs like 2000, XP, and 7.

10 is the last OS they're doing. They'll be building off it, like Apple does.

[Nadirah]

@Asteria,

You can delay automatic updates at least with any version*but* home.

There is no turning them off, or manual like before. Not if you want to keep security updates, because they will shut yours off eventually.