Which OS?

[davewhite04]

I'm getting a few crashes in games plus some apps using Windows 10 64bit and I'm in 2 minds whether or not to use Windows 7.

I have a i7 Devils Canyon, 16gb 1600 ram, 1070gtx.

Is there any advantage to having Windows 10? I hate the OS for a start and much prefer 7 but am unsure how compatible and stable 7 is with the latest games and Office 365?

Any help appreciated

 

[davewhite04]

In my experience the struggle is getting it installed. Windows 7 has some odd foibles when it comes to USB3 and NVMe drives which require workarounds and bodges to get it to install.

Once installed though, it's fine and apart from hardware support, a far better OS than Windows 10 (in my opinion).

[Edit] Devil's Canyon is 4000 series right? In which case I think you should be fine with support, as long as you watch for the above.

My Devils canyon is about 3 years old, got it before Windows 10.

I'm going to try Windows 10 as all of my hardware was bought before Windows 10 I think so maybe I won't have many issues.

Thanks

 

[davewhite04]

I've never had a single issue in W10, it's proven to be pretty solid. Sure you don't have hardware or driver issues?

W7 is awesome but it is old now and I think it does give some limitations in some games (dx12??)

I agree, Windows 7 is the last decent Microsoft OS. 8 was awful, and 10 isn't much better, along with the latest Office software which is awful too. I have Office XP Professional which cost me a fortune back in 2001! But it blows Office 365 out of the water(Plus I can deploy Access databases with relative ease) Office XP crashes on Windows 10 which is why I bout 365.

Only Xbox anywhere games require Direct X 12, other games will probably not have Direct X 12 only compatibility until 2020ish. Windows 7 doesn't support Direct X 12. I reckon it'll be fine till Windows 7 is officially unsupported in 2020.

I never had an issue till now, just don't like the OS, I prefer using something smoother and which you have more control 2 button clicks away.

I'm wondering if AVast tuneup(which I didn't start, it did so automatically) has messed things up.

Anyway, I'll update this thread with the conclusion of this dilemma

Thanks

 

[davewhite04]

I've been using Windows 8 / 8.1 since 2013, the longest I've used an OS. It's subjective though in that my vision impairment prefers the full screen metro start menu to the old pull-out sort, and of course you still have the normal desktop with the Windows 7 taskbar-quicklaunch hybrid.

I use Windows 7 at work and not as keen on that. Constant balloon pop-ups by the clock. Yes I can turn it off in regedit but it's a work's PC and thus locked down. Also when typing in the Windows password, it doesn't tell you if caps lock is on. Then a few layout issues that look better to me in 8 over 7. Again visual impairment issues.

I just hated 8, for me it was the start of the downfall in quality and lead to the slightly better but still dodgy 10. Everyone is different, maybe I'm just old fashioned!

Thanks for your input mate, really appreciated

 

[davewhite04]

Windows 10 I'm on edge every time it updates - which without taking drastic measures you've little proper control over and I've had more things broken in a couple of years or so of Windows 10 than almost a 10 years of using Windows 7. I've lost count as well of the number of times after awhile the start menu will stop responding or explorer won't update (display) properly, etc. etc.

One of the many issues I've had. It took about 8 hours to get an alienware laptop to update 10 when I bought it, and had no end of problems after it updated so returned it. My Dell laptop is okay on 10 now, the only problem is it's running 10! I've had all the problems you had and more!

 

[davewhite04]

I didn't like 8 but 8.1 is fine. The only downside for me is that AMD no longer support it but that's not an issue for you with your nvidia card. I'm stuck with drivers last updated in July of last year. Luckily I only play one game (GTA5) and I've not been affected. I expect I'd be stuffed trying any new games.

I've tried 10 loads of times but I can never stick with it. Even when you get used to the forced updates etc, I just don't like where it's going from a usability point of view - especially the removal/obfuscation of classic control panel items with their new settings dialogs. Why is everything so bloody narrow regardless of screen size? It's infuriating.

Wow no updates since last year! You must like GTA 5 a lot!

I'm the same as you, there is only 1 thing I like about 10 and that is you can play xbox games on it, considering I don't own an xbox now but have many xbox digital games it is tempting to install 10. I have tried to install 10 again to give it one last chance, as I want to play Forza Horizon 3 and Gears 4, but it won't install now because a device needs fixed and it has no repair tool to do it. It looks like I'm forced to install 7 now, if that has a problem then maybe I do actually have a hardware problem, which I very much doubt(no problems with any other games, I've tried about 20).

I'll keep this thread updated.

Cheers!

 

[davewhite04]

Amazing... I tried to install Windows 10 again but it just failed to boot 3 out of 4 times so I got fed up and installed 7. I got the same problem(AV Receiver switching off with Metal Gear etc), guess what it was... two speaker cables touching each other was switching the receiver off making it look like a crash! Why just Metal Gear, I have no idea! But what a stupid fool! Anyway, installed Windows 7, spent about 40 minutes setting up drivers and everything is running sweet forgot how good it is! Much smoother and responsive compared to 10, things open instantly, lightening it seems, so pleased I went back to it, unless I get issues as I haven't tested it much. Windows 10 is officially a pile of dogs poo as far as I'm concerned. No idea why I got boot-up problems after I installed it again, Windows 7 just worked.

Thanks for everyone's input, it was all useful