Scali wrote:I have a few PCs with Windows 8.1, where I registered for the free Win10 update, but none of them have downloaded the update yet, apparently, because I haven't seen the notification to install it yet.
As soon as I get the signal, I will upgrade.
Didn't want to wait any longer, so over the weekend I upgraded all three of my Windows 8.1 machines using the tool that Microsoft has available.
The upgrades weren't entirely flawless, I had to reinstall touchpad drivers manually for one of my laptops. It just detected a standard mouse, so gestures didn't work anymore until I reinstalled the drivers.
Another machine didn't have enough diskspace the first time, but apparently the installer did not signal for that, so it just gave me a vague "Something went wrong"-message halfway through the install. The next time I tried, it said it couldn't validate the key... so I had to manually delete all the temporary stuff, make some extra room, and finally I could get it on there.
Then I had to manually reinstall the GeForce 970 drivers, because somehow they were not working correctly after the upgrade. I also had to reinstall some Visual Studio runtimes manually, but after that, things seem to work fine.
My first impression is that it works quite nicely once you straightened out the upgrade. On my laptop it does not boot quite as fast as Windows 8.1, it would seem. However, I usually hibernate, which is just as fast, so it's not a big issue.
On my desktop, the boot time does not seem to have changed much, if at all. Perhaps it will also get better with some use, as modern Windows tend to defragment and optimize the boot order over time.
Anyway, the real reason for upgrading for me is to do DX12 development. I was in the DX12 early access program, and have already done some DX12 coding with earlier versions of Win10 and DX12, but only in a virtual machine, with the software renderer.
I can now do some more serious development, and hopefully upgrade my codebase to DX12 in the coming months.