win 8.1 to win 10 or dual boot?

aardvark · 5 Jul 2020 at 12:16

yeah i'm still using win 8.1 (with classic shell of course), but now cyberpunk 2077 is going to be dx12 only i'm going to need to change

I'm happy with 8.1 and i have a lot of apps/games installed and running fine.
So my question is whether i take the risk and upgrade, and hope everything works, or partition and dual boot since i really only want win 10 for the dx 12 support in certain games.

so what do you think?
Is the upgrade worth the risk or dual boot the way to go.

Also, i assume i will have to buy a win 10 key for dual booting (they are cheap so not a problem).

FBi7 · 5 Jul 2020 at 14:38

Personally, I would just go Win 10.

I have no experience of 8, I switched from 7 to 10 and everything I use worked fine.

Re your last point, I believe your existing 8 serial should activate 10.

something daft already!! · 5 Jul 2020 at 14:52

Compared to 10, Windows 8.1 is pretty awful. I hate going back to it when supporting customers. It's better than 8 but so is diabetes. Go for 10.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Jul 2020 at 14:56

fresh install straight to windows 10.

aardvark · 5 Jul 2020 at 18:19

will win 10 tell me if any of my apps wont work before upgrading?

pallys · 10 Jul 2020 at 16:00

Hi how did your upgrade go, I'm thinking of doing the same jump from 8.1, did you reuse your key? Where to get win 10 iso?

aardvark · 10 Jul 2020 at 18:17

pallys said:
Hi how did your upgrade go, I'm thinking of doing the same jump from 8.1, did you reuse your key? Where to get win 10 iso?

not done it yet - there aren't actually any win 10 games i want yet, but horizon zero dawn is one so it will have to be soon.

I'm angling towards just dual booting - looks easy and i really only need win 10 for dx12, there's nothing else it does that i particularly want or need.
I got the iso from the microsoft site so have it on usb now - just not actually used it yet.

Deleted member 77746 · 10 Jul 2020 at 18:21

aardvark said:
will win 10 tell me if any of my apps wont work before upgrading?

What special apps you got? I don't recall it doing this previously.

pallys said:
Hi how did your upgrade go, I'm thinking of doing the same jump from 8.1, did you reuse your key? Where to get win 10 iso?

Direct from Microsoft - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

LoadsaMoney · 10 Jul 2020 at 19:12

aardvark said:
yeah i'm still using win 8.1 (with classic shell of course), but now cyberpunk 2077 is going to be dx12 only i'm going to need to change

What about Win 7

Deleted member 77746 · 10 Jul 2020 at 19:18

LoadsaMoney said:
What about Win 7

aardvark · 10 Jul 2020 at 19:18

LoadsaMoney said:
What about Win 7

lol - pass

LoadsaMoney · 11 Jul 2020 at 15:48

mrbell1984 said:

aardvark said:
lol - pass

andy_mk3 · 11 Jul 2020 at 15:50

Upgrade or clean install. Don't mess with dual boot.

aardvark · 11 Jul 2020 at 22:55

no idea what said:
Upgrade or clean install. Don't mess with dual boot.

why do you say that?

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Jul 2020 at 23:33

Why use 8.1 and 10 on the same system? You not gaining anything at all.

aardvark · 12 Jul 2020 at 00:03

mrbell1984 said:
Why use 8.1 and 10 on the same system? You not gaining anything at all.

well i have everything set up and working on 8 - i'm not convinced win 10 is going to pick up all my applications fine and not have problems

Deleted member 77746 · 12 Jul 2020 at 08:14

aardvark said:
well i have everything set up and working on 8 - i'm not convinced win 10 is going to pick up all my applications fine and not have problems

Then remove that main HDD you got in, stick a new drive in it, stick windows 10 demo on it and install ya apps to try. If something messes up while you trying to duel boot good chance you will loose everything you done. Never mess with a primary OS.

aardvark · 12 Jul 2020 at 12:48

well, ive done it - dual booted - pretty simple.
My win 8 key activated win 10 fine.
Messing around with win 10 a little - irritating that they have moved things around again and had to search to change a few simple settings, but i'm happy.
I won't be using it until there are any win 10 only games i actually want to play.