Windows 10 and Video Games

Is it finally time to upgrade to Windows 10?

I'm still holding onto my Win7
Full telemetry and updates disabled

Has it been long enough to make Windows 10 acceptable for gaming?
Have all the telemetry garbage been fully figured out?

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winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/
google.com/search?q=irs targets conservatives
neowin.net/news/microsoft-admits-to-gaming-performance-issues-in-windows-10-creators-update
extremetech.com/computing/248069-unofficial-patch-unblocks-windows-7-8-1-updates-kaby-lake-ryzen
pcworld.com/article/3223909/windows/windows-10-microsoft-promises-to-fix-an-ongoing-game-stuttering-problem.html
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7 works fine, why changing

Fuck no.

Stay on Windows 7.

No, telemetry is the future.
Unfortunately for us, some newer hardware no longer supports Windows 7.
Unless something big happens, we are all going to be cucked eventually if we want to keep gaming on PC.

I do a lot of coding, and windows 10 has native docker support

But I can always buy a separate PC for that stuff if it's still a spyware fest

no. It still phones home like a motherfucker.

>Have all the telemetry garbage been fully figured out?
even if it was, they could update the way things work to break current workarounds
we're fucked

7 is still better. 10 is fine but you have to turn off a load of setting/remove ads. Wait another year and see.

t. average Sup Forums retard who believes running an 8 year old OS that is severely flawed is better than [current windows OS] or better yet install gentoo

Filtered

How much are they paying you?

> its another everyone puts on their tinfoil hats and pretends microsoft or the ebil gubmint cares what you pirate/jerk it to while also complaining that suggestions relevant your interests is somehow advertising on the scale of idiocracy

Sup Forums PLS go

OP here

If the OS is tracking what I do, then I don't want it.
Simple as that.

Don't support authoritarianism

>8 years old
>just because it's older, it's bad
lol, what a retard

I tried GNU/Linux.
Its not worth the time.
>Graphics cards are not easily configurable
>Had to go through a hassle just to get wifi working
>The OS is always a little hacky
>Getting things to work in Wine is hacky as fuck
The average user would rather put up with spying than go through all that.

haha yeah Sup Forumsro if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn't be worried xD

I feel like when Win10 becomes mandatory to play video games I'd rather just use a console.

actually i'm a Sup Forumstard

Would you rather have sex with a 20 year old or a 30 year old?
Faggot

>win7 is 8 years old

Fuck me. I remember holding on to XP until 7 came out.

>Fantasy: They're tracking what we do because they're authoritarian!
>Reality: They're just trying to better target the right ads to you and use other user data to improve windows in general.

Pick one and only one

nigga who cares.

unless you are a literal pedophile or in isis who fucking cares.

just update to windows 10, we already lost all our internet and privacy rights a long time ago. that fight is over.

Late 20's early 30's tbqh senpai. 20yo were always dumb cunts and really shit at sex.

>Graphics cards are not easily configurable
Yeah this sucks
>Had to go through a hassle just to get wifi working
Never had such a problem, what card?
>The OS is always a little hacky
So is NT
>Getting things to work in Wine is hacky as fuck
I agree, wine is fucking awful

Have you looked into GPU passthrough?
Intel even offers a mechanism for sharing the GPU between the host and a guest operating system (called GVT-g)
When proper dmabuf is finished, you'll be able to tell it to output stuff into a window on your desktop (currently you have to use vnc, which makes it unsuitable for games)
If you're not on a laptop you can "easily" pass through your GPU already

The 30 year old since she would have more experience.

>massive tech giants
>not giant political monsters
Have you been hiding under a rock for the last 20 years?

You mean if you're not on the literally insane kill all whitey liberal political spectrum, then you should be worried

Corporations having their own political leanings isn't authoritarian, dipshit.

>at that moment user realized he was getting trolled

Enjoy her used up vag then cuckadoos

lmao most chicks, that are desperate enough to fuck you, are already used up by 20.

>muh spying os
Literally just turn off the telemetry

winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/

>enjoy her used up vag
stop fucking your computer, you pervert

It is when they work hand and hand with government and certain political parties to shut down opposition, target them for political propaganda, and find political enemies for purposes like harassing them with legal complaints or IRS audits

I am still holding on. In fact I am making my next build to be windows 7 compatible so I can just throw my old hard drive in. One might be surprised how far windows 7 is compatible with high end hardware.

>he thinks he can turn off the botnet

how's your lead-lined government takeover bunker construction going? have enough tin-foil beanies to last?

>Them acquiring your personal information and mapping your behavior is totally just economics user, nothing wrong with it :^)
user, really? Keep your shit straight already man.

Just turn the telemetry off and you'll be fine.
I updated to Win10 to play FH3 and I haven't had any problems with win10 at all.

>he thinks botnet is in the w10 os

No, Windows 10 is not acceptable. They pushed the telemetry into Windows 7 now too. Really, your only choice is Linux if you don't want to be datamined by Microsoft.
I've been using Ubuntu Linux exclusively for the past 3 years and it's been pretty great. You lose out on some shitty normie games like Overwatch, but you still get most of the good games like Xcom, TF2, Civ6, Factorio, etc.
Plus, its just a better OS overall. Check Sup Forums for more info and help.

We get it user, you don't want to admit such things because it makes you feel weak. It's like being raped, you know it's bad and you can't do anything about it to stop them hurting you and no one is doing anything to help you.

Quiet kid.

So let me get this straight; you think Microsoft is gathering user data for political purposes, and that they are and will continue to cooperate with various governments and other regimes to silence political opponents that they don't like?

Would you care to provide proof for any of this?

But if you turn off telemetry, achievements don't work

I haven't looked into GPU passthrough much, just heard it can work wonders from a few anons.
Its good to know such a thing is being worked on, though it sounds like it needs more time to mature.

I don't really care about getting achievements so it's fine.

>putting effort into convincing someone unwilling to consider
nah

I don't have a 600GB folder marked "not child porn" or plans to nuke the Pentagon on my hard drive, so I've no issue with Microsoft collecting the occasional data use log. just stop pirating Bethesda games and youll be fine.

the end is near

Back durring the Iraq war my friend in the Army was assigned to a unit that would literally shitpost on arab forums about how kind and great America was.


Not him so i don't think they are silencing political opponents, but the NSA has set up data centers to collect data and they hand out fisa warrents like blank checks. I don't know what they plan on doing with the data. It's not a left vs right thing, it's more like big brother for all the fat cats.

>I can't actually prove any of that so I'll say you're close minded as a get out of jail free the card.

The sole reason I don't believe you is that you haven't proved it. I'm not saying what you're saying CAN'T happen, but if there's no evidence that it has then why should I believe you?

>Woman accuses man of raping
>Do you have any proof?
>Well other men have raped other women...

Man I'm glad I'm not American lmao

google.com/search?q=irs targets conservatives
>trusting big tech
>every

neowin.net/news/microsoft-admits-to-gaming-performance-issues-in-windows-10-creators-update

So far they've allegedly fixed ONE of the several things causing these issues.

Only a total retard or a shill would pretend this hard, especially after Snowden.
Get cancer, corporate tool.

>Hates telemetry
>uses ubuntu
lmao

Again kill your pathetic self tool.

>need an upgrade
>CPUs only runs with Windows 10/11/12/etc. or Linux
>Linux still not making much progress for gaming
>Skylake CPUs, the last architecture to support any OS before W10 is out of stock / no longer in production.
>Really need a modern PC to play vidya

give it a few years. who knows, they might even start to lock GPUs to work under W10 only.

if we're lucky, AMD could be /ourguy/, though i'm not hopeful

That's the IRS, not the NSA. And it was towards conservative think tanks, because of John Koskinen who is a peice of work

>CEO and CFO at Freddie Mac
Really makes you think .

hey dude, that isn't a very nice thing to say. why don't we relax and play some Fallout 4 on the newest Windows 10 update?

Not him but what are you even asking for here? There has been massively publicized evidence dozens of times already and if you so utterly failed to catch on then simply repeating it would have no merit.

You know they're spying on you, you know they pass this information on to others and you know they use this information for dubious ends.

So again, what exactly do you need proven to you that isn't already common knowledge?

>CPUs only runs with Windows 10
Man, this so much bullshit. So what happens if you try to install Windows 7 on it?

just apt purge popularity-contest

I am curious of this as well. I am wanting to upgrade to a new CPU soon but I downright just don't want to upgrade to Win10.

People who say this always make me laugh.

>not liking milfs in their 30s

the operating system throws some errors and disables windows update I think
I'm not sure though

>Implying they're both not the problem

there's some sort of registry patch/edit that allows you to install older OS, but I don't know if there's a windows update that blocks/resets it.

extremetech.com/computing/248069-unofficial-patch-unblocks-windows-7-8-1-updates-kaby-lake-ryzen

>He uses a distro with systemd
Enjoy your botnet

Wait, the only issue is updates?
I never update my OS, so it should be fine right?

You can update Win7, then simply delete certain updates and use the registry to tinker.

You got some options, but I'd create a system image before doing anything.

I've installed Arch and did the install shit, installed i3 gaps and a background vim and other shit. It still looks very plain but functions good enough. Still using w10 because I'm literally doing nothing but gaemu. I want to rice but I'm lazy. Gib rice guide, I'm too lazy to continue waddling through the Arch wiki. More specifically can I play gamu on linux? Also anything important I need to install like shit for my gtx1080?

My experience with Win10:
Nothing ran properly by default and I spent around 6 or 7 hours fixing problems with the base OS (changing broken features, disabling processes that kept locking up hardware, enabling things that damn well should have been default, such as system restore because of the fucking sheer frequency windows 10 breaks, etc). Finally get it working stable. Next windows forced update: something is broken again. For about 20 or 30 updates it was windows overriding my settings and re-enabling things I had disabled because they were affecting system stability. I absolutely dread seeing: "update and shutdown", because even though windows update has finally started respecting user settings, it generally means next time I start windows something else will be broken again, and I have to find what it is and fix it. The only good reason to be on windows 10 is because 8 was your only other option and fuck 8, or vista 2 which is a better name for it, I mean I have my problems with 10, but 8 was a fucking nightmare. Also windows 10 gives you access to microsofts games which is a way better option than buying an xbox one.

OBSESSED

This is why I dread upgrading to Win10. It's just so broken and unpolished in a ton of areas. It clearly needs a lot more work done.

I admit, I am envious of some of the features, but I just cannot justify upgrading.

Go to 8.1, it has enough performance increase, let you kill all the botnet bullshit and you can add a start bar if you think its needed.
Dont install win10 untill its like XP now.

It's shit desu and I am posting from it from work right now and it's running on my home machine.

There's a Sup Forums pasta that sums it up, and it's not just the spying, telemetry and forced updates, the whole thing is a mess ridden with bugs, butt ugly "materialistic simplistic innovative " UI which in reality is placeholder graphics but who gives a shit, and it's just half the OS the other half still uses older assets.

Even after all the fucking with group policy settings, reg editing, and using N LTSB, I still can't fucking disable the full screen "Updates are available for your PC" message that pops up every time you leave your PC unattended.

Windows 7 is the last good iteration after XP, everything after is developed by code monkey bajeets, can't believe Bill Gates is seeing this and is this chill with what those fucking monkeys are doing.

Actual reality : I have absolutely no adds on my PC so tracking my interests for them is a waste of bandwidth and processing power.

Call me when they make adblock illegal and blocking adds a crime.

8.1 strips out a ton of the basic stuff that Win7 had.

>a ton
Like?

Sup Forums is so goddamn dumb, I hope people actually looking for advice on their OS ignores everything said here

-Charms
-Forced apps
-being somewhat forced to set up a microsoft account
-lots of basic things were stripped out including backup and image recovery, games, network mapping, a bunch of classic windows sounds, desktop gadgets, etc.
-4gb patch just to get more features which should've been in the original install in the first fucking place

I only tried it at launch for about two months. I wanted to give it a chance. I really wanted to. I ended up putting a Win7 Recovery Disk and restoring the system image prior to the upgrade.

FUck no.
DOn't do it nigger.
If you really want Win 10 install as dual boot or run it in virtual console.

When you try to install it, the part where you select your installation disc is empty.

Had this happen right before I switched to Linux.

obligatory

Install an Ubuntu derivate like Mint or Xubuntu and leave ricing to virtual machines until you get it right. You can also install the derivate and then slowly change what you want of the operating system.
For Nvidia drivers use "sudo apt install nvidia-current" and then change your default driver from a desktop app called "additional drivers"

No. And I do need to reformat and reinstall windows on this shit, but I'm too lazy to do it. Everything runs on Windows 8.1 and I don't want my drivers to break or whatever.

What will happen once hardware support gets dropped from windows 7?

I'll wait for windows 11 hopefully that wont be as bad

Websites appear to be slowly, very slowly, dropping support for WinXP/Vista. Win7 will be next on the chopping block either due to an outside source bullying them to do so, or simply due to the times themselves. Either way, I'll be surprised if by 2020 Win7 is even remotely supported.

>7 works fine, why changing

Windows 10 has so much better performance in games, idiot.

>pcworld.com/article/3223909/windows/windows-10-microsoft-promises-to-fix-an-ongoing-game-stuttering-problem.html
>"upgrading" to StutterOS
Nope.

They backpoted the telemetry to 7, 8, 8.1.
You only have telemetry 100% disabled with blackbird, AFAIK.
If you have pro/ent you can of course secpol.msc and force telemetry to the minimum setting.
The only way to be free from spyshit and still use 64 bit windows is to a) take massive security risks (xp64, unpatched 7sp2, etc) b) keep your pc offline competely c) run blackbird or some other software that blocks those services/ports/hosts

>Install glasswire
>Monitor what apps make connections
>Block whatever MS is trying to phone home

ggez

>The fact that you have to disable default stuff that comes with the OS to make it usable

Try harder

Three quarters of my old physical copies of PC games do not work on W10, I had to install a second hard-drive with 7 to actually play them.

So Windows 10 is kinda shit.

Yes? Every stock pc you buy will come with some form of preinstalled crapware that you get rid of, this is no different