Windows 11 upgrade - Yay or Nay at the moment?

Kur15 · 1 Dec 2021 at 08:55

How is the HDR support on 11? If its much more usable than 10, i might just upgrade.

Nexus18 · 1 Dec 2021 at 09:20

That depends, do you have a proper/true HDR display? If not, then w11 will be no better.

I never had any problems with w10 hdr on my oled. What w11 does though is that it allows you to use auto hdr setting for games, which don't natively have support for HDR, it's not as good as native support but it still looks better than SDR, it also helps improve/fix games with "fake" hdr such as cyberpunk so that in itself is worth the upgrade.

Kur15 · 1 Dec 2021 at 10:01

Nexus18 said:
That depends, do you have a proper/true HDR display? If not, then w11 will be no better.

I never had any problems with w10 hdr on my oled. What w11 does though is that it allows you to use auto hdr setting for games, which don't natively have support for HDR, it's not as good as native support but it still looks better than SDR, it also helps improve/fix games with "fake" hdr such as cyberpunk so that in itself is worth the upgrade.

Yeah, i use a HDR400 monitor and also have a Samsung TV plugged in, pushing HDR on in the windows settings in w10 always made it go weird. Game-wise it was usually alright with some fiddling around in the ingame settings.

Haggisman · 1 Dec 2021 at 11:59

chrcoluk said:
I still need to compensate for lack of quick launch though, even though quick launch was officially removed back in Windows 7, it has worked since then due to the code been left in the OS, it just needs enabling which I kept doing, but it was part of the IE code, and IE of course is now fully removed from Win 11.

Now the replacement would have been pinned small icons on the start menu, but they also removed that from Win 11 so I have that dilemma. But it is good that workaround you have at least brings back small taskbar icons, sometimes I wonder what these dev's are thinking when they make these kind of changes.

No quicklaunch = no install, it's such a useful feature, I can't understand why they've removed it?!

_Jimlad_ · 1 Dec 2021 at 19:10

Well I went to upgrade but it would appear my 6700k is to old

I need to do a new build next year

Witcher1980 · 2 Dec 2021 at 00:09

Nexus18 said:
That depends, do you have a proper/true HDR display? If not, then w11 will be no better.

I never had any problems with w10 hdr on my oled. What w11 does though is that it allows you to use auto hdr setting for games, which don't natively have support for HDR, it's not as good as native support but it still looks better than SDR, it also helps improve/fix games with "fake" hdr such as cyberpunk so that in itself is worth the upgrade.

I am guessing it is the same as the xbox auto HDR. In most games it works really well, on the xbox at least.

Brutal biff · 6 Dec 2021 at 10:22

Missis put win 11 on her laptop and keeps crashing when playing that jurassic world game

Had to revert it back to win 10 and works fine since

Morve · 6 Dec 2021 at 11:07

I'm holding off for now

Journey · 6 Dec 2021 at 11:09

_Jimlad_ said:
Well I went to upgrade but it would appear my 6700k is to old

I need to do a new build next year

It's not, your just need to use a Microsoft approved registry edit/entry to allow the update.

Link here

OverDrive · 7 Dec 2021 at 11:15

I'm running W11 with no problems at all. You soon get used to the new start menu etc. If you have a Ryzen CPU make sure you're running the latest build and install the latest chipset drivers from the AMD website.

chrcoluk · 8 Dec 2021 at 06:02

A TPU thread on Win11 was recently made, before this thread I thought I was alone in sticking to 10, but it has a high % of people who dont like the 11 UI and are staying on 10.

MatteRB26 · 8 Dec 2021 at 07:00

So far everyone I know who's done it has had so many issues. I'm letting everyone else beta test W11 for a while first!

Malevolence · 8 Dec 2021 at 07:18

MatteRB26 said:
So far everyone I know who's done it has had so many issues. I'm letting everyone else beta test W11 for a while first!

How strange, everyone I know that's upgraded hasn't had a single issue - including me.

rodders · 8 Dec 2021 at 07:27

I've upgraded 3 PCs in our house, zero problems and I love the new look.
Might do the 4th with that bypass above (CPU is too old to pass the checks)

chrcoluk · 8 Dec 2021 at 07:50

rodders said:
I've upgraded 3 PCs in our house, zero problems and I love the new look.
Might do the 4th with that bypass above (CPU is too old to pass the checks)

You like having to click more options to use basic right click menu options then?

MatteRB26 · 8 Dec 2021 at 08:23

Malevolence said:
How strange, everyone I know that's upgraded hasn't had a single issue - including me.

People I know had a lot of trouble with the TPM requirements, USB issues, some networking issues etc.

Although I never saw the awfulness of W10 personally, never had any issues on 10 - until an update broke our Dev machines because they broke local HTTP requests.

bloodiedathame · 8 Dec 2021 at 08:23

I upgraded my laptop to Windows 11... Only problem once encountered do far is that the Dropbox app no longer gives a right click menu for files. Part of my daily workflow is right clicking, copying the share link and sending it on. I'd imagine a reinstall of Dropbox might cute that.

rodders · 8 Dec 2021 at 11:53

chrcoluk said:
You like having to click more options to use basic right click menu options then?

Can't say I've noticed. Must not do much right clicking, don't use it as a work PC.

Witcher1980 · 8 Dec 2021 at 14:59

Yo

chrcoluk said:
You like having to click more options to use basic right click menu options then?

You can put it back to normal with a reg edit.

grumpybeard · 8 Dec 2021 at 19:18

Upgraded to W11 8 weeks ago, running without any issues using it for work (software dev) and gaming, really enjoying the experience, feels super snappy.