Iced_Eagle
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Weird. I've been running the tech preview builds on my SP2 just fine. No driver issues to speak of.
Upgrade to Windows 10?
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Weird. I've been running the tech preview builds on my SP2 just fine. No driver issues to speak of.
ViolentP
Member
Same here. But I usually prefer clean installs with new OS deployments so this wasn't detrimental to me.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Got it working. Leon Belmont, try going to Advanced, click restore defaults, click Apply, then try the test again.
Nothing they can do but get notified and then fix it. Even with a long lead time, it's hard to know how configuration of hardware/software would cause a bug, with one particular hardware revision, running this firmware, and this driver. Boom something breaks.
Apple has it easy.
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Need some Direct X 12 demos, surprised they didn't put something on the store like Apple with metal. Oh well.
Matrix XII
Member
Still haven't got my update go ahead yet.
With some of the issues people are having I guess that may not be such a terrible thing.
With some of the issues people are having I guess that may not be such a terrible thing.
ViolentP
Member
z77 Extreme4.
Though I am using a dedicated sound card so maybe our issues are not exactly the same.
Netherscourge
Banned
I reserved on day 1 during the registration process, but haven't gotten the Download Ready notification yet.
I check every night, but still nothing.
I've heard some good stories and some bad stories, mostly driver-related, so I hope whenever my turn comes up, my drivers are all compatible.
I'm not doing a clean install, just a Win 7 to Win 10 direct upgrade. Hope it goes smoothly.
I check every night, but still nothing.
I've heard some good stories and some bad stories, mostly driver-related, so I hope whenever my turn comes up, my drivers are all compatible.
I'm not doing a clean install, just a Win 7 to Win 10 direct upgrade. Hope it goes smoothly.
Compsiox
Banned
Time to petition. They have demos! Let's get them to release em!
Khrae
Member
Seems like if you have an older Vista or earlier laptop the chances are you won't get drivers for a few things.
I installed 10 on a 5 yr old Vista laptop and the wireless chip doesn't work, had to dig out a USB dongle to get online with it.
Checked Intel driver support, and support stopped at 8, seems 8.1 & 10 are a no go.
I installed 10 on a 5 yr old Vista laptop and the wireless chip doesn't work, had to dig out a USB dongle to get online with it.
Checked Intel driver support, and support stopped at 8, seems 8.1 & 10 are a no go.
ramoisdead
Member
Likewise. I'll most likely do a clean install when upgraded. It would be nice to have the prompt though. I didn't do a clean install yet on my Dell laptop because I don't know what drivers to download for it and I'm too lazy to contact Dell about it.
whiteninja
Member
Ok I got it working. When installing the the driver, check "force install".
On another note, switching tabs in chrome gives me the spinning circle mouse pointer for a few secs. Not really a big deal but it never did this in win 7.
Iced_Eagle
Member
Do you have 3DMark? You can run the API Overhead test at the very least, which does use DX12.
http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmark#api-overhead
Just give the Win8 driver a shot. It will likely continue to work. Every hardware manufacturer in the world who has ever made a driver for Windows doesn't need to update it for every release. There is still a certain level of backwards compatibility in drivers as well.
Yes it's an SSD, and no I've never had any abnormal behavior from it.
I'm gonna try and create a USB one from a different computer. Every time I attempt it on mine, it hangs at 50% for "creating Windows 10 media" then gives me the stupid "something happened" message
Captain Awesome
Neo Member
Check your update history - Mine had Windows 10 fail a bunch of times. I ended up making a USB bootable from the MS website and ran the installer (just upgrade) from that. Worked like a charm.
InternHertz
Member
When I upgraded from 7 to 10, then proceeded to clean reinstall from an iso, I totally forgot to first connect into my microsoft account to bind the license to it and the hardware...
So the activation failed on the reinstall ultimately.
Now I'm doing it right I hope, I'll first setup the MS account on W10, wait a few and then go ahead with a clean install. (Please activate without fuss, W10!)
So the activation failed on the reinstall ultimately.
Now I'm doing it right I hope, I'll first setup the MS account on W10, wait a few and then go ahead with a clean install. (Please activate without fuss, W10!)
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
So I've not got 10 yet but I had an email saying it could be days or even weeks.
If I want to do an install from scratch, what do i do about a product key?
If I want to do an install from scratch, what do i do about a product key?
x24hrs2livex
Banned
I dont think you'll need one. I did the install via USB after getting the same email you did. The instructions said something about a product key but I was never prompted to enter one.
My experience going from 8.1 to Windows 10. When I read it could take 'weeks' until it was my turn I decided there was no way I was going to wait for that and decided to risk using the link posted earlier in this thread.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
That one for reference, downloaded the 64-bit version. I clicked update and told the updater I wanted to keep all my programs, or well apps as they call them now. The installer downloaded Windows 10 after that, restarted to update and I had no problems at all with the installer after that.
Windows 10 does try to be slightly sneaky with asking if I wanted standard settings a few times though and finding what the advanced settings was meant finding the small text to open them that was often hidden in some corner. At any rate installation wise I had zero problems, all my programs also transferred over and works in windows 10.
The one problem I had was when I wanted to update to the latest Nvidia driver I think Geforce Experiance still thought I had Windows 8.1 and downloaded a faulty one that ended up being corrupted. Had to reinstall Geforce Experiance to get it to work again but so far that's the only problems I have.
It also seems to have worked to upgrade it like this since Windows 10 says it has been activated.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
That one for reference, downloaded the 64-bit version. I clicked update and told the updater I wanted to keep all my programs, or well apps as they call them now. The installer downloaded Windows 10 after that, restarted to update and I had no problems at all with the installer after that.
Windows 10 does try to be slightly sneaky with asking if I wanted standard settings a few times though and finding what the advanced settings was meant finding the small text to open them that was often hidden in some corner. At any rate installation wise I had zero problems, all my programs also transferred over and works in windows 10.
The one problem I had was when I wanted to update to the latest Nvidia driver I think Geforce Experiance still thought I had Windows 8.1 and downloaded a faulty one that ended up being corrupted. Had to reinstall Geforce Experiance to get it to work again but so far that's the only problems I have.
It also seems to have worked to upgrade it like this since Windows 10 says it has been activated.
Sword Of Doom
Member
I can see that if you never had 8.1. Seems like they took 8.1 and cut all the fat out of it.
I installed it from scratch using a USB drive but couldn't activate it cause my 8.1 product key wouldn't work. So I installed 8.1 and then upgraded. What I noticed while upgrading is that it asks if you want to keep any of your files. I wonder if it installs from scratch if you chose not to keep any of your personal files and settings
Click the menu button in the upper-left and click "check my PC" and see what compat report it gives you.
I did that and the only program that came up incompatible was Fallout 3: GOTY.
I had a hardy lol @ that. Don't worry WIndows 10, FO3 doesn't want to play with your siblings either.
Kadin
Member
So I just downloaded the Media Creation tool because I'm going to do a full wipe and fresh install. I already have W10 on here which runs fine but it looks like it's downloading everything again. Is this tool not able to create the setup just from my PC or does it have to download everything from scratch again?
We don't really know. I'm assuming based on the data they have, they probably are rolling out the updates based on what info the enrolment gave them. However my neighbours have identical asus laptops, (bought 3 months apart) but one got the upgrade, and the other has not yet. So who knows.
Well, it says everything is in order, so I guess my 'wave' hasn't come yet. Looks like it's forcing time.
Does anyone have the problem of your laptop not properly going into sleepmode when you close the lid? When I open, all I have to do is press the power button and it takes me straight back to where I was rather than taking me back to my account's password screen. My laptop is Dell if that is of any relevance.
'Require password on wake'. It's an advanced setting housed under Power Options, if I'm not mistaken.
DarkGorgon
Member
MacBook Air Mid 2013 here
Bootcamp:
None of my Fn keys work anymore since doing an upgrade from Win 8.1 /:
Is anyone else having this issue? I've tried downloading the latest bootcamp drivers 5.1.5621 but no luck
Any ideas much appreciated
Bootcamp:
None of my Fn keys work anymore since doing an upgrade from Win 8.1 /:
Is anyone else having this issue? I've tried downloading the latest bootcamp drivers 5.1.5621 but no luck
Any ideas much appreciated
Okay for the last time guys
The failure notices do not mean it failed. They mean it looked to see if I should and the answer was no..
No, you can do it perfectly with local accounts just need the PC connected to the net.
What a pain the ass to get the weather app to work with my location. It asked you to type in a location, but any place I tried showed no results so couldn't go further. On my desktop PC, somehow, I just messed around and got it to work. Next, upgraded my tablet and spent hours try to figure out. By random chance, I use Cortana to search for weather, the local weather forcast showed up with option to see in the weather app, click on the link, weather app fully opened, go into settings, and then, I could dot auto select location.
Khrae
Member
I'll see if that works, it's not my laptop, so my tinkering time was limited to installing 10 and discovering what worked and what didn't. Hope it does as it's my parent's laptop, and I have to make the trip every time they can't figure something out.
edit: worst case I can just resinstall 7
What audio driver is currently installed? Microsoft generic driver or manufacturer's driver?
Didn't know about that... Thanks! I'm guessing the upgrade just changed my settings there.
I believe Realtek. I tried uninstalling it and installing the latest version (with Win 10 support), but it keeps uninstalling / rebooting / installing / rebooting / uninstalling / etc. It's stuck in a loop.
I tried letting is reboot after installing and then cancelling the uninstall, but I still have the same problem.
cpp_is_king
Member
So at work I have an HPZ620 workstation with a builtin nVidia Quadro 600, and I'm using a Dell P2714T monitor with touchscreen support. Windows installs a Generic PnP monitor driver and generic video driver. It doesn't seem to detect my aspect ratio correctly so I'm stuck in 1024x768 and it looks like shit stretched out into 16x9. I tried getting a new monitor driver from the manufacturer but Dell claims they don't support Windows 10 with this monitor, and I tried downloading drivers for a Quadro 600 directly from nVidia and the driver fails to install for an unspecified reason.
I think I am going to have to get a new monitor and video card for this to work :-/
I think I am going to have to get a new monitor and video card for this to work :-/
Hi Guys,
Things seem to be working now, I do have one question though
I have a multiple screen set up via HDMI, I like to game on the larger TV whilst browsing on the other. Will W10 make more games compatible to do this? or will have to alt tab out for everythng?
oh and my Witcher 2 gamesave has been erased somehow, I go to continue my game and poof! gone
Any help you can provide would be great,
Thanks again,
Love
B
Things seem to be working now, I do have one question though
I have a multiple screen set up via HDMI, I like to game on the larger TV whilst browsing on the other. Will W10 make more games compatible to do this? or will have to alt tab out for everythng?
oh and my Witcher 2 gamesave has been erased somehow, I go to continue my game and poof! gone
Any help you can provide would be great,
Thanks again,
Love
B
It activated just fine when I upgraded to 10 from 8.
Compsiox
Banned
Alright thank you. Tired of this windows update bullshit.
Seems like there are more troubleshooting issues going on here so I thought I would post my findings here as well.
Is anyone having issues with their monitor not going into sleep mode at the desired time set in power options? I had no problems with this in 8.1 with my monitor going into sleep mode. Doesn't seem to be working for me in Windows 10. I even tried to set a screensaver to start with 1 minute of idle time and it isn't working. This happened on an upgrade install and a fresh install.
Is anyone having issues with their monitor not going into sleep mode at the desired time set in power options? I had no problems with this in 8.1 with my monitor going into sleep mode. Doesn't seem to be working for me in Windows 10. I even tried to set a screensaver to start with 1 minute of idle time and it isn't working. This happened on an upgrade install and a fresh install.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
So, after a few days the only thing that doesn't work is my Dolby Advance whatever.... it says the wrong driver is installed or something, but there's no fix, seemingly, for it. Everything else went smooth though.
CMojicaAce
Member
Dumb question, but do you need the key for your existing OS in order to upgrade to Windows 10?
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