Windows 11

[Hatredsheart]

good summing up. I expect a lot of people have the same feeling we do. Win 10 ain't broke, why am I upgrading again?

Same here. Wasn't Win10 touted as being the last version of Windows? That didn't last long...

[Achtung Englander]

yep - not upgrading feels like being in a warm bath now.

[2Channelwonder]

I'll watch the video but has anyone been living with Win 11? Whenever I complete this new build I'll have to decide on 10 vs 11 so would be good to have some feedback from people who are sticking with it.

[Alan]

I have it on my laptop and it’s fine. There are annoyances that are probably mostly about just being different to 10. I’m not a big fan of the centered Start menu but mostly everything else is fine. In not had any crashes so far but then it’s my laptop so don’t get the heavy use of a desktop. I’d probably just upgrade my desktop to 11 too if it met the requirements but my cpu is unsupported and I don’t think I have the tpm module.

I don’t think you are missing anything by not upgrading right now unless HDR is important to you. I also don’t really think you’ll have a great deal of bother if you do but I wouldn’t exactly recommend it since it’sa lot of fuss for little too no payoff.

[Animalmother]

Anyone else's PC or laptop trying to trick you into updating to Windows 11?

[Wrathbone]

Yep, seems to be about once a month now.

[Raid]

I've not noticed anything, and I'm running a Microsoft-branded laptop.

[Alan]

Rise from your grave.

This will be a tldr.

So with the boot problem happening more and more on my old 9 year boy I was getting a bit worried it would crap out and leave me with nothing. Not flush enough at the moment to do the new fancy build I had in mind for late in the year so I grabbed a used machine (Win 11, 16gb, 5800x, 1660 super, 1tb nvme, 2tb HDD) for £300 which I’m rather happy with! Gpu out and in with my 3060 (the only thing I could grab during the mining drought).

My old machine was a 4790k 24gb, 3060. Naturally you have to do some before and after benchmarks.

R6 Siege @ 1440p was netting me
148fps (123min 184max)

The new machine (same settings) netted me…
118fps (95/144)!! Showing 4% cpu load 99% gpu. Even frame times went up 3miliseconds!

CPU too fast for the gpu that it’s hindering it?! All drivers were up to date


Anyway my old machines nvme was much better than the one in the new one so I stuck it in with the intention of doing a clean install with the Win 11 key. To my magical surprise it booted me right into windows 10, one button reactivated it and it’s all working just as it was!

I ran the bench again on the new machine running windows 10.
212fps (179/251)!! With 4ms lower frame times with a much more stable rate.
27% cpu 96%gpu usage.

So I ask this. Is windows 11 still just really shit for gaming or do you think there was something else going on? I don’t think the dramless nvme would have had any impact but maybe? :/


Just going to do a gpu upgrade next month and this thing should do me a good few years I reckon .




PS
Bonus room 101
Fucking RGB. I’ve spent longer trying work work out how to disable this dumb shite. EVERYTHING lit up. Memory, cpu fan, gpu, case fans. Instant headache. Never understand why anyone wants lights anywhere but on their monitor.

[Wrathbone]

I’d be surprised if it’s just the OS and not something hardware related. When Win11 first released there were reports of around 10% worse gaming performance but that’s supposed to have been improved now. I upgraded to 11 a few months ago after watching some tests to show that it was as good as or arguably better than 10 now for most new games and I’ve not had any problems.

[Snowy]

My new rig came with Win11 installed as the default OS, so I decided to stick with it. Honestly not seen anything horrendous, it is pretty similar to Win10 for the most part.

Performance-wise I really can't compare it, my new rig is brutally fast but I have no frame of reference for how the same spec might work running Win10.

[Alan]

It’s probably a driver issue but it was just how much of a difference just plugging my old nvme in made that really caught me off guard. I’m too lazy to go trying multiple drivers when 10 works so well as is. Real happy with it now, especially since when I get shot of the extras it’ll have cost me a whopping 150ish!

A wee gpu upgrade and I’ll finally be using my screens full 240hz

[Mantis]

Does anybody know if you get a choice of what drive to install Windows 11 onto if you accept the free upgrade from Windows 10 that keeps prompting you every so often when you log in?

I'll probably do the free update anyway, but ideally I'd like to install the new OS onto a blank M2 drive that I recently installed and not just overwrite the Win 10 installation that I have on an older SSD.

[Drarok]

I don’t know the answer, but assuming it’ll only do an in-place upgrade, you could clone the old drive to the blank one and upgrade that.

[Mantis]

That's my backup plan, though I've heard cloning can be a faff so it hopefully won't come to that.