Windows 11: how's it going?

Oh Dear - such a short memory. The 2004 (May 2020) Windows 10 update caused no end of compatibility issues on release.

The issues, such as the W10 May update, are usually peripheral based issues (eg USB)...and not Windows/Elite compatibility.
And I for one, can't (won't) play the game if my HOTAS isn't working!
 
Not going to bother with win 11.
Built a new machine Mar 2020. Win 10, Asus Prime Z390-P MB, I7 9700 and an RTX 2700 super, it's not win 11 compatible. No tpm.
What a joke.
 
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For those early adopters of the now live Windows 11, a question:

Is it behaving and is Elite OK under the O/S?
My BIL upgraded to Win 11 yesterday and reports all good with EDO. His rig is X570 motherboard, Ryzen 7 3700X, 32GB Ram, GTX 1660S 6GB. We played together last night in a private group for about 1.5 hours and didn't encounter any issues.
 
My system has an AMD CPU with an nVidea GPU. Is anyone running Win11 with this combo?

I was planning on using my wife and her system (3950X + RTX 3080) as a Windows 11 guinea pig, but this bug making it to the general release of the OS has caused me to postpone that.

Are Intel based systems more adept with Win11?

Well, Windows 11 is currently more adept with Intel based systems as the bug only causes it to behave incorrectly on AMD platforms.
 
I checked an W11 system today.
It kinda looks like a Windows 10 feature update... The reported version is 21H2 :D

Certainly i will skip this W10 feature for now. Maybe i will skip the 22H1 too.
 
I have two NVME disks in my PC, so I installed Win11 and kept Win10 on the side. I must say that I'm pleasantly surprised. Haven't tried ED yet, but Project Cars 2 (in VR) runs just fine. Also, I get the same performance (or slightly better) in Cinebench R23. I also haven't had time to run Time Spy yet. Mixed reality was a mess at launch day, but I got it to work now.

Regarding Win11, it's annoying (as usual) that M$ tries to force your hand with M$ accounts and Edge, but I'm running a local account and Chrome now. It seems that all the quirks are fixable after reading a little on Reddit etc. The new UI is great (with a few hiccups), but there is no reason to switch from Win10 as things are now. I was just curious and I haven't burnt my fingers (yet). In the long run I think I'm gonna like the new UI, but as some have said, it seems that Win11 is half baked. Not EDO raw alpha style. Just not quite finished in the details.

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Actually, this is interesting.

My system has an AMD CPU with an nVidea GPU. Is anyone running Win11 with this combo?

Are Intel based systems more adept with Win11?
I have a Ryzen 3950x and a RTX 3070, and I haven't noticed any performance issues so far.
 
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Not going to bother with win 11.
Built a new machine Mar 2020. Win 10, Asus Prime Z390-P MB, I7 9700 and an RTX 2700 super, it's not win 11 compatible. No tpm.
What a joke.
Your mobo/cpu combo is compatible with W11

You likely need to edit your bios settings. Perhaps flash the mobo
 
Actually I think the feature most people are gonna like about Win11 is that in Explorer they spaced the separate items more, meaning that they are easier to hit with the mouse, these days when we start running 4K monitors. The end result being that what you see takes up more screen estate (back to square one), but in higher resolution (not that I could see pixels in 1440p). Also there are more colors on many icons, making them easier to recognize quickly. That does not include the red X that used to be delete, which is now a B/W garbage bin.

3Dmark doesn't run :unsure: Apart from that I do some pretty heavy calculations, and when I compare those to Win10, they run a few percent faster in Win11. That could be because my Win10 was slightly bloated, even though I try not to bloat it.
 
I have two NVME disks in my PC, so I installed Win11 and kept Win10 on the side. I must say that I'm pleasantly surprised. Haven't tried ED yet, but Project Cars 2 (in VR) runs just fine. Also, I get the same performance (or slightly better) in Cinebench R23. I also haven't had time to run Time Spy yet.

The L3 latency problem is universal, and the lack of CPPC acknowledgement is highly likely to negatively impact lightly threaded performance on many-core Ryzens. You may not notice it if your apps are GPU limited (which will be the case for most games and GPU benchmarks), or relatively insensitive to the performance of the memory subsystem and/or multi-threaded enough to make the lack of CPPC moot, but the issues are there.

Obviously, if you like the OS and the current issues are imperceptible to you, there is no reason for you to not continue enjoying it. I would expect a fix soon...though I am surprised it wasn't addressed prior to launch (as the L3 latency issue was well known among AMD enthusiasts, but put down to preview build teething problems).
 
The L3 latency problem is universal, and the lack of CPPC acknowledgement is highly likely to negatively impact lightly threaded performance on many-core Ryzens. You may not notice it if your apps are GPU limited (which will be the case for most games and GPU benchmarks), or relatively insensitive to the performance of the memory subsystem and/or multi-threaded enough to make the lack of CPPC moot, but the issues are there.

Obviously, if you like the OS and the current issues are imperceptible to you, there is no reason for you to not continue enjoying it. I would expect a fix soon...though I am surprised it wasn't addressed prior to launch (as the L3 latency issue was well known among AMD enthusiasts, but put down to preview build teething problems).
Yeah, surprising the "insider prgoram" folks and devs didn't pick it up before release...
 
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