Win 10 - First Impressions.

It would be linked to your motherboard yes, your key basically switches from your previous OS to Win 10, and contrary to popular belief you have the duration of the "free" upgrade period which is a year to switch back should you not be 100% satisfied with the change. You have 30 days with the initial upgrade in place to switch back, but after 30 days you'll need a copy of your previous OS and you will need to ring Microsoft to get the key returned to that OS.

Source - MS Help Center.
 
Wraithguard said:
It would be linked to your motherboard yes, your key basically switches from your previous OS to Win 10, and contrary to popular belief you have the duration of the "free" upgrade period which is a year to switch back should you not be 100% satisfied with the change. You have 30 days with the initial upgrade in place to switch back, but after 30 days you'll need a copy of your previous OS and you will need to ring Microsoft to get the key returned to that OS.

Source - MS Help Center.
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Okay, thanks dude ;)
 
The one thing that really disappoints me is the lack of multi monitor background support like there was in Win 8 and 8.1.
 
Just posted another thread on this topic, however I'll add my experiences here too.

I upgraded two of my PC's this afternoon to Windows 10. Process went smoothly and, other than a slightly different look and feel to certain items, I was effectively back on the same PC with my apps, shortcuts, customisation and Games present and correct.

I started playing around, like you do, and found a few things than bugged me...the restrictive "you must update when MS says so" is a pain, as I'm usually on a very restricted connection. I found the reason for this ridiculous restriction is because MS upgraded my PRO version of Windows 8.1 to just the HOME version of Windows 10. I get the PRO version of the OS for a reason, as I did with the Ultimate version of Windows 7 on other PC's, it gives me MUCH more control over certain things I play around with - my PC's are not just for gaming, though they do get used for that.

So, is this normal? People who've gotten used to their PRO versions of Windows - and all the additional features that offers over HOME - are now having the restrictive HOME version installed? I fully expected my Windows 10 upgrade to give me the PRO version, but I guess MS want some money for that.

Not really a big deal to me in the scheme of things, I have both Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise editions available to me, as I'd planned to do a full reinstall on my main gaming PC after adding a new pair of larger capacity and faster SSD's. Just interested to see how many others got caught out...I suspect I missed some small print somewhere lol.

Scoob.
 
Good morning fellow OC3D'ers :D

Decided to get up nice and early and have a blast on Watch_Dogs as I STILL haven't completed it ^_^

A little tricky with a mouse and keyboard but roll on September and I'll get the wireless XB1 controller and dongle :)

I was fairly surprised when I launched it, The last time I properly played it I had a 780 Ti reference which was overclocked to 1200 on the core and 7400 on the memory *Silicon lottery won ^_^*, I tried playing the game in 4K with Temporal SMAA and the "The Worse Mod + MaldoHD" Texture pack which really gives it some nice FX and I barely broke 30FPS.

I tested it fairly shortly a few weeks back when I got the Titan X, Literally 2 minutes at the same settings, Mod etc... as above with the Titan X in Windows 8.1 and it barely broke 40FPS, Bear in mind this was with a brand new install of Windows 8.1 as literally an hour after installing Windows 8.1 and all drivers I tested Watch_Dogs so the OS was extremely clean.

Tried it again a few minutes ago and with the same settings etc... in Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit I was sitting at a nice stable 49FPS, Sure it's only a 9 FPS boost but it's still a boost.

To say I'm impressed with Windows 10 is an understatement, Even DX11 apps seem to have gotten a nice little boost, It's been quite a while since a piece of software has put a smile on my face :)

Over the course of 30 minutes play at 4K max settings with temporal SMAA and the "The Worse Mod + MaldoHD" -

Min: 43 FPS
Max: 58 FPS
Average: 49 FPS
 
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My experience was all good until I got the watermarked "Activate Windows Go to Settings to activate windows"
Everytime I enter my activation code I get the error code:0xc004f050. I have tried re-installing and still get this message.
I don't really want to buy windows 8.1 just to get another activation key which also might not work.
 
Terrifictez85 said:
My experience was all good until I got the watermarked "Activate Windows Go to Settings to activate windows"
Everytime I enter my activation code I get the error code:0xc004f050. I have tried re-installing and still get this message.
I don't really want to buy windows 8.1 just to get another activation key which also might not work.
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Did you not upgrade and went for a clean install straight away?
 
Dark NighT said:
Did you not upgrade and went for a clean install straight away?
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I upgraded then clean installed as recommended, yet still have this issue. I'll persevere with it for now as I have just got my games installed.
As expected Windows were not very helpful and suggested I try a different activation code.........
 
Terrifictez85 said:
I upgraded then clean installed as recommended, yet still have this issue. I'll persevere with it for now as I have just got my games installed.
As expected Windows were not very helpful and suggested I try a different activation code.........
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You shouldnt need a key in that case, windows should see your hardware config and activate on its own, this may take a couple of days, or be instant like i had the second time i reinstalled.
 
I've just installed Windows 10 Enterpries LTSB on my Home PC.

The LTSB build comes without Cortana, Windows Store and all the modern apps.

After a few hours use I am liking this much better than Win 10 Pro.

I have disabled all the telemetry services via GPO and Services as I hate being spied on by Microsoft.

I can choose which updates to install and everything feels much more snappier, almost like going back to XP from Win 7 :).

After activation with KMS, installing Nvidia drivers and Start10 this build is using about 300megs worth of ram less than Win 10 Pro.


Well done Microsoft :) :) :)

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Dark NighT said:
You shouldnt need a key in that case, windows should see your hardware config and activate on its own, this may take a couple of days, or be instant like i had the second time i reinstalled.
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This is true, it took 48hrs for my key to clear and become activated. Patients is all that was needed as frustrating as it was.
 
I upgraded to windows 10 Wednesday morning it went smooth no issue on installing, nvidia drivers and Geforce experience were a little messed up after so reinstalled them cortana wasn't present, however even after installing the speech and language pack it still says not available in this region (I'm in the UK) and I agree with an earlier poster even after turning my mic up it still doesn't register in the green but my mic is fine in ts ventrillo and mumble. only other issue I had was having to verify integrity of files for some games on steam. overall since the issues have been sorted I'm happy with it
 
Anyone know of any good Music Players for W10? Rather use the Music Player on the store but it's rated horribly.. Should I just use foobar2000 still? I just have CDs I rip into FLAC files so anything that supports that is fine by me so long as it's not crap software
 
i have just kept on using windows media player classic...
its my fave media player.
its up to codecs what you can play really, but if you download Klite codec pack that has you pretty much covered and gives you WMPC (although id update wmpc after)
 
NeverBackDown said:
Anyone know of any good Music Players for W10? Rather use the Music Player on the store but it's rated horribly.. Should I just use foobar2000 still? I just have CDs I rip into FLAC files so anything that supports that is fine by me so long as it's not crap software
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Winamp still works fine on it.
 
So, I'm wondering why Windows 10 is downloading an NVIDIA driver update currently....I've been on the latest 353.62 WHQL's for a few days now. No newer drivers showing up on Nvidia's own driver download page...

Hope this doesn't break something.

This is why I HATE not being able to pick and choose my updates. W8.1 would sometimes want to download an older driver than the one I was using. Plus, it doesn't give you the install option choices the proper drivers do. I.e. I disable the Nvidia audio bits and the GeForce Experience thing as they've caused me no end of problems in the past. If this update adds these, then it can fcuk right off.

I worry that this approach will lead to people simply disconnecting / blocking Windows updates leaving them less secure, just to avoid these spurious and incorrect forced updates. Not particularly pleased.

Update: Well done Microsoft, you just broke my desktop - NV control panel no longer works. Got to remove this sh*t.

Update 2: Well I've removed the rubbish that gives me problems. Windows had downloaded the exact driver I already had again (slow connection, bloody frustrating!) then installed all the extra crap without giving me the option. No I do NOT want any of the 3d vision stuff, NO, I do not use NV audio, in fact it buggers up my actual audio just installing it.

I have however found a setting I thought was gone. Under system Properties > Hardware > Device Installation Settings, I can ask Windows to NOT install drivers still. Nice. Option selected. Hopefully no more issues from mucked up forced driver installs!

Scoob.

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shambles1980 said:
i have just kept on using windows media player classic...
its my fave media player.
its up to codecs what you can play really, but if you download Klite codec pack that has you pretty much covered and gives you WMPC (although id update wmpc after)
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I'm the same MPCHC that came with the K-Lite Codec Pack seems to cope well. Not tried WinAmp in W10 yet, then with MPC I don't need to :)

Scoob.
 
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King of Old School said:
I thought you didn't like CCleaner
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The built in cleanup on windows can do that as well but I used CCleaner because I wanted to clean registry entries too.
No, we don't like CCleaner when it's used once a month to "fix" the performance of the PC, I was getting random BSODs so I thought a cleanup wouldn't hurt and it could actually fix some things. So many old win7 dll and registry entries found
 
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