From the PC Master Race: How has your windows 10 experience been?

[unified disinterest]

If you have brand new hardware then 10 seems like a reasonable choice but for anyone else I'd have to say it's not worth the hassle.
Using a fresh install on a laptop from 2014, my experience with Windows 10 has been a far more painful than I'd like.

Microsoft has released multiple patches over several months that rendered the OS unable to boot, unable to repair and broke system restore at the same time which is a really fun combination.
I had to reinstall windows 10 to get back into the desktop and then it was just a waiting game for the automatic update to snag those patches again and rinse/repeat! I've probably reinstalled more than a dozen times on that laptop.

I'm glad that my main PC runs 7 because I just don't have time for this nonsense.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

It's okay.

It's the only OS that I've ever had bluescreen on me (3 times, and counting) but luckily I've never been doing anything important when those have happened.

Most games run fine, a number, however, are incompatible, and I've yet to find mods to fix this, though I've not been actively searching. (Anyone know of a way to make Crysis run on 10, HMU; or just reply on here)

It's far more user friendly than 8, though, I can effectively navigate it, it will be supported longer than 7- so yeah, all in all it's okay.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

I can't get Fallout 3 to work even after fiddling with settings for a couple hours. So far, that's my only complaint.

I don't know if anyone has told you this already, but I highly recommend TTW for almost this reason alone (taleoftwowastelands.com). You'll be playing the Capital Wasteland in New Vegas's more modern and post-XP aware engine, and once you get to downtown you can take a train back and forth between DC and Vegas whenever you'd like.

With Win10, I couldn't get Fallout 3 to last longer than 10 mins without crashing, no matter what mods/settings I did or didn't use. My TTW save is modded all to hell with an ENB (you get to have Project Nevada, hardcore mode, and other Vegas mods/enhancements apply to the DC side as well as use many Fallout 3 mods for just the DC side) and I've gone 72 hours now with only 3 crashes during really hectic firefights, which makes it no worse than the console versions really.

But yeah, even if you don't like New Vegas and never get on the train to Vegas, I still consider TTW to be essential for playing FO3 on any machine newer than Windows XP.

 

[gsilver]

I had Windows 10 installed for a brief period of time, and experienced various headaches. I finally gave up when it got stuck in a mode where it was in temporary session mode, and threw away any modified files/settings when I shut down the PC.

I could have fixed it, but Windows 7 "just works" so I'm not going to bother with 10.


Maybe, if Windows 10 gets some big exclusives, I'll set up a dual-boot, but Windows 7 will be my primary OS for the foreseeable future.

 

[Aeshi]

So from what I've gathered most of the major/crash-inducing problems associated with Windows 10 are with machines upgraded up to 10 rather than ones that had it from the beginning?

I ask because I was planning on picking up a copy of Windows to use for gaming (and just for gaming, I do everything else on a different OS), but I'm a tad conflicted on whether to get 10 or try and locate a copy of 7 or 8. I wouldn't mind some advice and it seemed better to post this here rather than clog up one of the Advice/Gaming/Tech Forums.

 

[VarietyGamer]

Since upgrading to win 10 I've seen performance improvements, much faster boot times, etc. But there are some stability issues, the intermittent freeze, the inexplicable glitch that causes a program to jank out.

I want win 10, but win 10 with the maturity and stability of win 7 at present. Give it time I guess.