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DX12 news-Windows 10 upgrade free for owners of Windows 7 and 8.1

i like what they have done with the icons, looks nicer!
still not sure about the alphabet stuff on the start menu
wont work so well in other languages i think

i might try put it on a laptop sometime ><
 
For a free upgrade I would be tempted to move from windows 7, 8 works great on the laptop but for a desktop i'm just not interested in metro. Windows 10 appears to combine the windows 7 environment for power users with the performance improvements from windows 8.
 
if using 8 just install classic shell
works perfect

10 im not sold on the livetiles on the start seems a little unneeded bling when using a mouse but it dont seem too slow or anything

and its starting to look pretty sweet :)
 
My issue with win 10 is the possibility that they will require all software to be purchased from Microsoft in the future. ie "Its a one fit all solution, therefore we need control of the software to make sure it fits".

I would like to know that Steam has a future with Win 10, however I am not confident it will.
 
Strudders said:
My issue with win 10 is the possibility that they will require all software to be purchased from Microsoft in the future. ie "Its a one fit all solution, therefore we need control of the software to make sure it fits".

I would like to know that Steam has a future with Win 10, however I am not confident it will.
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Microsoft will never ever lock down the desktop OS in such a way. It would utterly decapitate their cashcow corporate sales for one.
 
Not sure if it was posted or not, but some nice info - http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/article/460524/DirectX_11_vs_DirectX_12_oversimplified

To to summarize:

DirectX 11: Your CPU communicates to the GPU 1 core to 1 core at a time. It is still a big boost over DirectX 9 where only 1 dedicated thread was allowed to talk to the GPU but it’s still only scratching the surface.

DirectX 12: Every core can talk to the GPU at the same time and, depending on the driver, I could theoretically start taking control and talking to all those cores.

That’s basically the difference. Oversimplified to be sure but it’s why everyone is so excited about this.

The GPU wars will really take off as each vendor will now be able to come up with some amazing tools to offload work onto GPUs.
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Assuming you’re remotely technical, the change from DirectX 11 to DirectX 12/Mantle changes are obvious enough that you should be able to imagine the benefits. If before only 1 core could send jobs to your GPU but now you could have all your cores send jobs at the same time, you can imagine what kinds of things can become possible. Your theoretical improvement in performance is (N-1)X100% where N is how many cores you have. That’s not what you’ll really get. No one writes perfect parallelized code and no GPU is at 0% saturation. But you get the idea.
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the streaming stuff has a interesting twist too
i couldnt watch thru all over it but going by what people have told me :)
you can stream the other way too, from the pc to the console, and im sure tablets too
 
dont like the look of the rejigged start menu/metro in windows 10. to be honest after some use 8.1 was perfect. in windows 10 the left side of the metro/start menu just looks awkward and out of place.
 
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