Elite Dangerous and Windows 10 Discussion thread.

[jabokai]

From another thread -

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.

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

Emphasis mine. So, basically, if you have an issue you cannot resolve yourself then support will officially look into it.

 

[Kigre]

Windows 10... say hello to NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA, NASA and McDonalds.

As per Google, etc, etc. Only way around it is to go back to a spectrum zx 48k.

BTT, did an upgrade to Win 10 yesterday, no issues at all with Elite worked straight away without reinstalling anything.

Seems a bit hit and miss.

Why do you think its free!? FREE!? NOTHING IS EVER FREE MAN! (yes, im shouting.)
Its because you are paying to get win 10 with your privacy!

 

[Dr Wookie]

Why do you think its free!? FREE!? NOTHING IS EVER FREE MAN! (yes, im shouting.)
Its because you are paying to get win 10 with your privacy!

While the express set up is happy to send MS all kinds of alarming info, custom setup lets you turn off most if not all of it.

 

[jabokai]

Why do you think its free!? FREE!? NOTHING IS EVER FREE MAN! (yes, im shouting.)
Its because you are paying to get win 10 with your privacy!

It's a shame that privacy options are always set to the most permissive settings, but it seems to be standard practice these days. When you install anything, it's worth going through all the settings straight away to turn all this crap off - even seemingly benign apps can have "Reports usage" type settings. I think with W10 once you turn it all off (including Cortana) it's no worse than older versions. You can even set it to use a local account rather than an MS account if you're that bothered.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

It's a shame that privacy options are always set to the most permissive settings, but it seems to be standard practice these days. When you install anything, it's worth going through all the settings straight away to turn all this crap off - even seemingly benign apps can have "Reports usage" type settings. I think with W10 once you turn it all off (including Cortana) it's no worse than older versions. You can even set it to use a local account rather than an MS account if you're that bothered.

I think issue is that it's quite complex to turn it all off. It's a trend from Windows 8 which MS seems want to continue. If people are fine with that, it's all cool. Not that I care as Linux user (and admin who doesn't support Windows in his everyday work anymore).

 

[dannyboy]

As above, just turn all the nosey stuff off, you can do it before even starting Windows 10 for the first time - just click 'Custom settings'.

I do the same whenever I set up any Windows OS that has stuff like targeted advertising and tracking of keyboard usage (which also includes Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8). Yes it's naughty that all this stuff is enabled by default, but it's really not hard to turn it off and, IMO, not worth denying yourself access to an otherwise very decent OS for.

 

[DWorth]

See, this is why you should never upgrade to a new OS on day one of release. (Hugs his copy of Windows 7)

I'll probably upgrade at some point, when there's an actual need for me to do so. Until then: nope.

 

[bootsam]

The amount of personal data we distribute to all and sundry isnt restricted to that via a PC. Its everywhere and theres absolutely nothing anyone can do about it all now. We have all sleep walked into this society for convenience and you cant put Pandora back in her box. Tin foil hats are useless. Do you have a credit card? A bank account? A mortgage? A driving license? A passport? Do you use ATMs? Worrying about a PC getting snooped on by NSA/Mi5 etc is pointless. I'm more concerned about adverts and keylogger crims getting my card and acct details.

 

[Bran Tse Mallory]

Why do you think its free!? FREE!? NOTHING IS EVER FREE MAN! (yes, im shouting.)
Its because you are paying to get win 10 with your privacy!

Well sucks to be them as Google got the world right exclusive rights to my life years ago! On a side note, tin foil has gone up in price due to the rise in people wearing foil hats.

 

[noodle]

well got windows 10 installed. everything is working great sky forge works, star citizen works, witcher works, then i got to elite nope. the launcher crashes as soon as i start it. ive run in compatibilty mode, run as admin, uninstalled, reinstalled nothing. figures of all the games to break it would be this one.

I had the same problem. I was only able to resolve it by copying d3d9.dll into the ..\Frontier\EDLaunch directory.

 

[Soopyyy]

Works fine for me. I had to reinstall the launcher which is no biggy.

Windows 10 is just better than 7/8 all round.

 

[Aerodeon]

I had the same problem. I was only able to resolve it by copying d3d9.dll into the ..\Frontier\EDLaunch directory.

Same solution as Noodle's here for the DirectX 9 DLL. Dangerous runs slightly better on 10 than 8.1 on my rig.

Here's a pretty good article about Windows 10's privacy settings, during setup and where to find them after Windows 10 is installed. They're pretty well hidden.

Gotta say, Windows 10 seems good, although the Start Menu isn't as useful as I'd like. I pin all my useful programs on the left side of the menu. There's a most recently used list there now and if I disable that, I can't use the space for anything else. I can't fathom that at all. I'm doing something wrong.

Edge sucks up 100% CPU on a simple page like Google's start page, so I'm still using IE.

Arkham Knight still blows, but I'm not prepared to blame Windows 10 for that one.

 

[dannyboy]

Windows 10 is just better than 7/8 all round.

Yep. I really can't be bothered to get all stressed about a few privacy settings which can be turned off.

Looking forward to seeing (and trying) the first DirectX 12 titles to be released too.

 

[Berty Dastard]

Did you know you can download a dvd image of Win 10 without waiting to be told its ready for you? If you do there is a choice which includes N versions where you don't install MS media player.

 

[Soopyyy]

People have gotta be deluded if they don't think all of their devices aren't tracking and recording their activity these days. Don't do anything sus and you'll be right. Chances are you'll never be looked at by a Human anyway.

 

[dannyboy]

People have gotta be deluded if they don't think all of their devices aren't tracking and recording their activity these days. Don't do anything sus and you'll be right. Chances are you'll never be looked at by a Human anyway.

Exactly. And if you believe the rumours on teh interwebs, the NSA have had backdoors built into every Intel CPU for years now anyway.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

People have gotta be deluded if they don't think all of their devices aren't tracking and recording their activity these days. Don't do anything sus and you'll be right. Chances are you'll never be looked at by a Human anyway.

Really sloppy way to justify defaults Microsoft has in Windows 10.

 

[Kigre]

Windows 10... say hello to NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA, NASA and McDonalds.

As per Google, etc, etc. Only way around it is to go back to a spectrum zx 48k.

BTT, did an upgrade to Win 10 yesterday, no issues at all with Elite worked straight away without reinstalling anything.

Seems a bit hit and miss.

Well sucks to be them as Google got the world right exclusive rights to my life years ago! On a side note, tin foil has gone up in price due to the rise in people wearing foil hats.

Ok, i was kinda hyperboling on the first comment there. But im probarbly not far off. There are dozens of articles about what to turn off and uninstall directly after installing win 10. Now mostly is, yes advert based and what have you but im sure there things there that are NOT. That you dont want there. And yes, that stuff is probarbly already there, always have been. But surley you dont want MORE intrusive systems on your PC?

Examples if allowed. http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...crosofts-intrusive-terms-of-use-10432300.html

Or maybe everyone writing these articles are wearing tin foil hats? Or maybe we all should?
Duuhm duuhm duuuuuuuhm. (Eerie tones)

 

[Soopyyy]

Really sloppy way to justify defaults Microsoft has in Windows 10.

Probably been in every OS since the internet became a thing...

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Probably been in every OS since the internet became a thing...

No, it's not. Sorry, as I said, it's very sloppy way to justify this. Because even vanilla Android is safer.