Windows 10 and gaming..

[spaceelf]

I said we will see a performance imporvement. you might have missed it...

That part you bolded is the part I'm disagreeing with.

[Guest]

Any news about directX 12 support real time boob physics? 

 

Yes, but Ubisoft already said they won't be implementing that DX12 features, as beewbs for them apparently are very difficult to motion-capture.

[dr_crabman]

I said we will see a performance imporvement. you might have missed it...

 

But how can a card then not be able 'to do DX12'? It will need to, to get anything out of 12 and a lowered cpu overhead is one of the major benefits. Also the GTX970 and 980 are already sold as DX12 cards and will probably be 100% compatible.

[chrisj1968]

But how can a card then not be able 'to do DX12'? It will need to, to get anything out of 12 and a lowered cpu overhead is one of the major benefits. Also the GTX970 and 980 are already sold as DX12 cards and will probably be 100% compatible.

 

Cards are designed and MADE to be DX12. While older cards or last generation cards can benefit from the DX12 (software). We now have DX11 cards that run the DX 11 software system and DX 12 will only serve to enhance our cards already albeit they won't be DX12 and write on screen as DX12. I guess what I mean to say is, Cards are built with the directX that they are. no one owns a DX12 card now so to FULLY appreciate DX12, we'd have to upgrade to DX12 cards.

[+Eternal Tempest MVC]

If they want better upper end direct x adoption, they need to add the version to the currently supported OS, or at least down through Windows 7.

 

Other wise yo have some token games that support most current direct x (and older) other's skipping, or going for the most common denominator. 

[Ci7]

Uplay is broken in windows 10 cant play assassin creed fyi

[dragontology]

Skyrim plays fine in 9879, as well as the two previous, but the Nexus Mod Manager is a complete no-go. Compatibility mode, run as admin, classic NMM (XP version), nothing. Steam mods work FWIW.

 

Fallout 3 is a complete no-go. There's apparently a Windows 8 fix that makes it work... but even in Windows 7 it was pretty fragile. Install one mod, it's fine. Install two more, it's fine. Install one more, it's completely broken.

 

Telltale's games work. The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead (both of them), Tales From the Borderlands, and Game of Thrones: Iron From Ice all work as expected.

 

Bought Spelunky real cheap and it worked as expected.

 

Rule of thumb is (or at least seems to be) that if it worked in Windows 8, it should work in Windows 10, since the tech preview is largely Windows 8 code, as I understand it. The tech preview hasn't made significant strides in DirectX or other gaming APIs that should make a game not work that worked in 8, let alone make a game work that didn't in 8.

[survivegamers]

Well this is all promising. I just recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 on my gaming rig and haven't run into any issues so far. But I'm really excited about Windows 10.

[PGHammer]

I can add another game without issues - Titanfall.

Like every other Origin title so far, it runs in 9926 sans issues.  (On the application front, Google Earth Pro also lacks issues.)

Except for the SOE titles, I have exactly zero issues - or even quibbles - about any applications or games I've tested the Technical Preview against.

 

Now if SOE can fix THEIR issues (likely not until it's MUCH closer to release), and Microsoft can fix the StartScreen/mini-Start issues, I can upgrade and not look back - as there is a lot to like about 10 (and for the same reasons I upgraded to 8 and 8.1 - gains in performance with existing software - on existing hardware).  After all, isn't that supposed to be the point behind any OS upgrade?