Windows 10 or 11?

[alexdoerofthings]

For one who struggles with technology, yet loves CRPGs, should I stay on Win 10 or upgrade to 11?

[breadman]

i think it's too early for win11 especially since official support for win10 is until 2025

[alexdoerofthings]

Thank you

[Heu, Iterum Id Feci]

Currently both win10 and win11 are fine. however this will certainly shift more and more towards win11 over time. When win10 supports ends in 2025 you should switch to win11, however, as win10 won't get any security updates anymore.

[Jo]

Switched to 11 as soon as it became available. No issue.

[Cirrus]

Originally posted by alexdoerofthings:

For one who struggles with technology, yet loves CRPGs, should I stay on Win 10 or upgrade to 11?

The one and only thing windows 11 will have advantage on gaming is feature called directstorage and specifically feature called bypassio. This game will not have it.
In short it means that when games start to support directstorage windows 11 with bypassio is faster loading games and stuff.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ifs/bypassio

These two images summarize difference between windows 10 and 11
10: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ifs/images/traditional-io-path.jpg
11: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ifs/images/bypass-io-path.jpg

If you are operating modern computer with NVME SSD etc you will benefit from WIndows 11 in loading times of games. One of the first directstorage game Forspoken was released yesterday.

[Alealexi]

Windows 10. Windows 11 still has some issue going for it.

[hannibal_pjv]

I have had windows 11 for a year now and no problems. But it is still new, so if you have old rig, why not stay on win 10 this year and move to win 11 at 2024. Then win 11 have had couple of big updates behind and things start to get stabilized. But if you have quite modern computer, going to win11 is low risk. Not not necessary... yet.

[raμza84]

I never had problems with w10 and I'm not having problems with w11

[Crimsomrider]

I just recently got onto Windows 11 and I did not expect it, but I actually really like it. Looks sleek, feels smooth and runs better and more stable than Windows 10 for me.

I did a completely clean installation though, not just an upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11. I also did some easy customization of settings to make the layout the same as Windows 10, so I'm quite happy. Looks like Windows 10, but performs better and is more stable. No problems with it at all.

[alexdoerofthings]

Thanks yall!

[Batailleuse]

Originally posted by breadman:

i think it's too early for win11 especially since official support for win10 is until 2025

windows 11 works fine, people are being afraid for no reasons, if anything in several cases it now works better than win10.

it's mostly a win10 with a new skin, all drivers for win10 works for win11.

been playing the first alpha on win10, and every subsequent ones on win11, had no issues whatsoever.

[Zaris]

I would switch to win11 but Microsoft tells me my i7-12700k 16 thread cpu, 32gb ram and RTX4080 wouldn't be enough so not gonna happen. Joke aside: if you can just switch, the last win versions since win7 / win10 were quite good compared to the former trash rotation (Vista, ME) and important: do a clean install like others mentioned, not just an upgrade.

If you have compatibiity problems with some software you can also think about using dual booting (google for tutorials) to install multiple OS on your system (like win7 for non compatible games or Linux for whatever) or VMware if your system is powerfull enough for the virtual system.