I'm curious as to weather or not it's worth the upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10. I installed Windows 7 on my new system and installed the service packs. But I can't find the product key so I can't activate my windows 7 and get the free upgrade to windows 10.
Is it worth paying the money for an upgrade to windows 10? I use my PC almost exclusively for gaming and am wondering if I will have decreased framerates from staying at Windows 7.
Let me know your thoughts.
Only way you will get DX12 is W10
Yep, that's what I thought. Thanks.
Are you planning on playing DX12 games or allready one such games?
Are you willing to give away your privacy?
Could you use the 120 bucks on something more useful?
If you got three times yes, upgrade.
I like open world games, Witcher 3, Fallout 4, the next Elder Scrolls whenever it FINALLY comes out. But I love RTS too, especially the total war series. I have logged almost 1,500 hours over the months and years on the total war franchise and probably will for years to come. Is DX12 likely to have a noticeable effect on framerate in current and future games?
Current games: NO unless the developers dig back into their code and implement DX12 to its fullest potential.
Future games: Defined maybe. Valve dislikes the walled garden approach of Mircosoft that is Windows10 to an extend where they advice developers to use VulkanAPI instead. I expect the many agile indie developers to jump ship or make a 180° turn because Steam is by far the best way to sell games.
Guess: I expect EA and Ubisoft to stay with Microsoft because they do not want to lose the XBONE as a platform. Completly clueless what Blizzard will do.
However, if you're upgrading purely for gaming reasons.. I'm not sure. Like others have mentioned, that's your only gateway into DX12 - and possible Microsoft exclusives. So, yes seems like the right answer. But DX12 hasn't flooded the market, and might not be as rampant as DX11 is with things like Vulcan around. Vulcan could turn into more hype, and end up not being that successful though so it's a gamble.
(Please note: Take anything I say with a grain of salt. I'm in the minority that prefers Windows 10 over 7, 8, and 8.1. And also am under the assumption that while the privacy thing is shitty - and I don't like it- that it isn't necessarily for evil reasons and I already use so many other online services harvesting way more of my data.)
Gmail and YouTube because they came in one box back when I signed up. For mail that is important, I use www.Unseen.is and www.gmx.de
The rest: No. I just revived a mobile that is older than blutooth to get out of the way of that bluetooth 4.0 "send data without being connected"-nonsense.
If your installing fresh, go W10. You'll have support longer, and you can benefit from DX12 when it becomes the standard. It is guaranteed that eventually the majority of new games will be either DX12 or Vulcan, and the only way to get DX12 is to have Windows 10.
Alright thanks for the info
For fresh installs, windows 10 is probably worth it. but if you're a privacy nut, you will need to do a bit of work to get windows 10 locked down
it is worth noting that all the stuff in win10 that makes people feel uncomfortable with their privacy and the operating system was back-oprted to win7 and win8.1. So yes you should take steps to lock them down, but it being win10 exclusive is somewhat of a moop point imo.
Yeah, especially since they canceled Fable legends, which was going to be a windows 10/xbone exclusive.