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Post by ceefer on Oct 21, 2021 18:36:16 GMT
Has anyone installed this yet? Interested to see what you think before I take the plunge.
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Post by gazz on Oct 21, 2021 18:43:24 GMT
Not yet, mate, as my PC is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU which isn't currently supported.
I would wait a little while longer even if you can run it, Ceef, as Windows has always come broken out of the box at the best of times in the past, so it might be wise to let them root out any significant bugs.
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Post by ceefer on Oct 21, 2021 19:34:01 GMT
Think you are right there Gazz. Worried about losing functionality so will wait and see how it pans out. Thanks.
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Post by gazz on Oct 21, 2021 20:53:39 GMT
Think you are right there Gazz. Worried about losing functionality so will wait and see how it pans out. Thanks. No worries, mate.
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Post by hermannsays on Oct 21, 2021 21:30:01 GMT
Yeah, no rush here either. For me, updating is too big a risk as I run my laptop as a DAW (music recording pc) so things need to remain compatible and stable. For example, I know that Motu, who make my audio interface, haven't finished developing the driver for W11.
The PC I built some years back (and is now Mini-Herm's) doesn't meet the spec though as it's 4th gen (i5-4570). It remains good enough for his study/light gaming needs and W10 is supported until 2025... so tough, Mini-Herm!
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Post by gazz on Oct 22, 2021 8:37:21 GMT
Yeah, no rush here either. For me, updating is too big a risk as I run my laptop as a DAW (music recording pc) so things need to remain compatible and stable. For example, I know that Motu, who make my audio interface, haven't finished developing the driver for W11. Compatibility is a massive issue, H which, while I'm not desperate to get 11, still pisses me off when it affects me, especially when my PC cost me £1,400 when I bought it just over three years ago. I can still upgrade, but I can't do an OTA install due to some issues that currently exist with TPM and Secure Boot, so I have to download the ISO file, burn it to a DVD and perform a clean install, which I'm just not prepared to do, as my copy of 10 currently sits on a partition on my drive - so it's a ballache to go back to 10 if anything goes wrong. You've highlighted another issue with PCs regarding your son's limited gaming on his i5 system. The expense never stops. I myself had to upgrade my GPU to an RTX2070 Super about 18 months after purchase, as the Radeon RX580 that came with it didn't run the latest games - that cost me the price of a PS5 on top of the £1,400 already spent on the system, with an additional chunk on top of that for a PSU upgrade, as the one I had didn't have the wattage to push the RTX. I learned a valuable lesson during the past three years, mate - stay away from PC gaming unless you've got a bottomless bank account. PC gaming may be the superior option, but console gaming is much more sustainable. The moral of all this waffle? Microsoft can either make it run on my system, or I won't be bothering with it, as my days of jumping through hoops with IT are well behind me now.
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Post by hermannsays on Oct 22, 2021 12:56:08 GMT
Yeah, no rush here either. For me, updating is too big a risk as I run my laptop as a DAW (music recording pc) so things need to remain compatible and stable. For example, I know that Motu, who make my audio interface, haven't finished developing the driver for W11. Compatibility is a massive issue, H which, while I'm not desperate to get 11, still pisses me off when it affects me, especially when my PC cost me £1,400 when I bought it just over three years ago. I can still upgrade, but I can't do an OTA install due to some issues that currently exist with TPM and Secure Boot, so I have to download the ISO file, burn it to a DVD and perform a clean install, which I'm just not prepared to do, as my copy of 10 currently sits on a partition on my drive - so it's a ballache to go back to 10 if anything goes wrong. You've highlighted another issue with PCs regarding your son's limited gaming on his i5 system. The expense never stops. I myself had to upgrade my GPU to an RTX2070 Super about 18 months after purchase, as the Radeon RX580 that came with it didn't run the latest games - that cost me the price of a PS5 on top of the £1,400 already spent on the system, with an additional chunk on top of that for a PSU upgrade, as the one I had didn't have the wattage to push the RTX. I learned a valuable lesson during the past three years, mate - stay away from PC gaming unless you've got a bottomless bank account. PC gaming may be the superior option, but console gaming is much more sustainable. The moral of all this waffle? Microsoft can either make it run on my system, or I won't be bothering with it, as my days of jumping through hoops with IT are well behind me now. Yup, when Mini-Herm was interested in getting into PC gaming, then, rather than buy a gaming PC, I told him I would pass on my PC to him. It was getting 'old' for my needs (DAW processing power struggling with latest plugins on mixes) but would be fine for him. As I had built it as silent as I could due to recording with it near me, it used a Palit GTX 1050 passive GPU, which would still be ok to play things on decent-enough settings for a casual player. I got a decent keyboard and mouse for gaming for him and that was it. A year-ish on, and ultimately he just prefers Xbox and almost all his friends are on there. So I'm glad we didn't go down the route of buying a super-expensive PC with high-end graphics card, largely to then only be used for schoolwork and the odd game which needs no more than what the old PC provides!
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