Elite Dangerous and Windows 10 Discussion thread.

PCJimmmy

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Windows 10. Does ED think this will be a non event?

Only 2 days until the rollout starts . I see no sign ED devs have prepared for this.

Been running Win 10 with mostly minor issues for all insider builds . I am updated to the very latest from Microsoft win 10.

However.

Nvidia driver update today failed. This just occurred and no attempt to play the game as it is bedtime. Yesterday my Thrustmadter MFD started to not be recognized and beeping every couple of seconds.

It it looks like Microsoft is really not ready. At least today my nvidia card not ready. Looks like ED will not be ready.

make a big thread ready for issues or the win crap will be spread across every sub forum.

PS. In advance I told you so!
 

Ben Hennessy

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We're fully aware that Windows 10 is rolling out in two days. This is indeed an event, and if we had considered otherwise that would have been very silly on our part. :p

We've been testing the compatibility of Elite: Dangerous and Windows 10, and are doing our best to ensure players upgrading Windows will experience minimum interruptions with their game. Now, we can't speak on Microsoft's behalf to say the OS itself will be entirely flawless on release but we certainly hope it will!

If there are any specific issues you come across after upgrading, please do get in touch and we'll address these as quickly as we can.

- CMDR Sticks
 
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jabokai

jabokai
Support-Sticks said:
We're fully aware that Windows 10 is rolling out in two days. This is indeed an event, and if we had considered otherwise that would have been very silly on our part. :p

We've been testing the compatibility of Elite: Dangerous and Windows 10, and and doing out best to ensure players upgrading Windows will experience minimum interruptions with their game. Now, we can't speak on Microsoft's behalf to say the OS itself will be entirely flawless on release but we certainly hope it will!

If there are any specific issues you come across after upgrading, please do get in touch and we'll address these as quickly as we can.

- CMDR Sticks
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Not one to say I told you so but...

jabokai said:
It should really be supported from 29th July IMHO as that it is the day it will be the current version of Windows and not a legacy version. People will be buying machines with this pre-installed. I'm sure FD will do their damnedest to fix any issues - no point delaying the inevitable when you can be ahead of the game.
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:p ;)
 

Bran Tse Mallory

Bran Tse Mallory
Daemonhahn said:
That's a bad idea, 10 is a hell of a lot better than 8 seeing as it's really just 8 fixed.
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If you look under the hood of W10, it is not just a fixed W8. The whole point was to make a Windows that was not bloatwear like Vista, 7 and 8. 10GB HD space and able to run with just 2GB. Faster kernel, faster everything.
 

Jacob Marshall

Jacob Marshall
Bran Tse Mallory said:
If you look under the hood of W10, it is not just a fixed W8. The whole point was to make a Windows that was not bloatwear like Vista, 7 and 8. 10GB HD space and able to run with just 2GB. Faster kernel, faster everything.
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I'll be installing it soon as it ready. Already made my mistake by going W7 to 8.1. W8.1 has been an absolute nightmare for me and I genuinely can't see how W10 could be any worse.
 

shadragon

shadragon
Jacob Marshall said:
I'll be installing it soon as it ready. Already made my mistake by going W7 to 8.1. W8.1 has been an absolute nightmare for me and I genuinely can't see how W10 could be any worse.
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We banned Win8 from our campus computers, it was that bad.

Win10 has free upgrades, but beware. Nothing is "free" from MS and I suspect some sort of annual fee will be levied to users in the future along the lines of Office365. MS, as a corporation, has to make more money this year than the year before or execs lose their jobs. With PC sales tanking, the only option is to increase revenue through a "software as a service" function. MS marketing always promises many things. I say, "Beware, here be dragons."

The only thing I cannot do on my Linux box today is gaming*. As soon as I can figure out how to play E: D on my Kubuntu build (I have not tried WINE yet) I'm off Windows forever. Regardless, Win7 will be my last MS OS. I have the skills to maintain it more or less indefinably.

* - Kubuntu 15.04 with LibreOffice
 

Stigbob

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I'd sooner pour a bucket of warm salt water into my PC than install any version of windows that hasn't been destruct tested for at least six months by fashion victims with no recollection of just how bad every other initial windows version was.

Thank you all for putting your systems at risk by testing unstable new operating systems for me.
 

Jacob Marshall

Jacob Marshall
shadragon said:
We banned Win8 from our campus computers, it was that bad.

Win10 has free upgrades, but beware. Nothing is "free" from MS and I suspect some sort of annual fee will be levied to users in the future along the lines of Office365. MS, as a corporation, has to make more money this year than the year before or execs lose their jobs. With PC sales tanking, the only option is to increase revenue through a "software as a service" function. MS marketing always promises many things. I say, "Beware, here be dragons."

The only thing I cannot do on my Linux box today is gaming*. As soon as I can figure out how to play E: D on my Kubuntu build (I have not tried WINE yet) I'm off Windows forever. Regardless, Win7 will be my last MS OS. I have the skills to maintain it more or less indefinably.

* - Kubuntu 15.04 with LibreOffice
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Wish I'd been on your campus :(

I've got one eye on this fee business; seeing it a lot more in software (Adobe Premier), but the other is on Linux.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
:) well I do have dedicated test machines for 10. It's looking pretty good so far, am looking forward to see how the release date goes.
 

PCJimmmy

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Weeks of good performance with Windows 10. Yesterday Nvidia driver rolled out thru windows update.

Game no longer playable on my 960. All 8 cores on my CPU running at 100% attempting to start the game. My little ship spins like a slow top on the startup screen. Will update if I get it working again. Win 10 update reported that the driver update it was installing failed.

For sure seems to be a Nvidia and Win 10 issue so will hold off on support ticket to ED.

Oops - did update by reply rather than edit. Drop down a few to see how graphics back working.
 
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Magic Man

Magic Man
shadragon said:
We banned Win8 from our campus computers, it was that bad.
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It's not that bad, really...

Win10 has free upgrades, but beware. Nothing is "free" from MS and I suspect some sort of annual fee will be levied to users in the future along the lines of Office365. MS, as a corporation, has to make more money this year than the year before or execs lose their jobs.
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They couldn't do that, legally, without informing users well beforehand of the change. If they are giving free Windows 10 updates then there is no way they could then switch to charging people for it.

They don't really care about the home market, for OS sales at least, that's not where they get the money from. That comes from the corporate sector with business licences etc. which are not free.
 

tsh

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Been using 10 since (as far as I remember) around Christmas. The only issue was comm ports over USB, and some stupid DPI scaling issue with the desktop cursor (4k, 100%) that seemingly isn't new, and can be masked by enabling mouse trails.

Some frustrations with the AMD drivers getting background updates, but generally perfectly functional - My 8.1 install suffered an HDD crash, so 10preview was an easy choice.
 

PCJimmmy

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Back in business:

Driver 353.62 is the trouble maker.

GeForce Experience has update (must be fresh as I was not offered update earlier today) to 2.5.12 This seemed to roll back my driver to 353.30 and fixed some things that did not work earlier today like optimize. GeF did NOT tell me an updated driver available.

Windows 10 update than attempts to roll out the new driver. Still reports update failed. Device Manager shows that restart is needed - after restart driver is 353.62. Apparently the Win update failure near end of the process.

Fire the game back up - first sign of success was it rendering shaders again. Game fired up and all seems well.
 

CMDR Crustatious Cornelius Pig

CMDR Crustatious Cornelius Pig
Magic Man said:
It's not that bad, really...



They couldn't do that, legally, without informing users well beforehand of the change. If they are giving free Windows 10 updates then there is no way they could then switch to charging people for it.

They don't really care about the home market, for OS sales at least, that's not where they get the money from. That comes from the corporate sector with business licences etc. which are not free.
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Windows 7 and 8 consumer upgrades are free to Windows 10. major updates after that will be charged for is my understanding. If you have been part of the windows insider program you will get updates for free as long as you continue to accept and test new builds.

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Stigbob said:
I'd sooner pour a bucket of warm salt water into my PC than install any version of windows that hasn't been destruct tested for at least six months by fashion victims with no recollection of just how bad every other initial windows version was.

Thank you all for putting your systems at risk by testing unstable new operating systems for me.
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I've been on windows 10 for 5 months. I agree past versions have had their issues( wait till version 3 or SP 3 etc...) but 10 has been solid for me.
 
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