Win 10 Gaming?

Windows 7 fag here. With the deadline of the free Win 10 download creeping closer, I'm thing buying a new HDD and finally giving it a shot after avoiding it for so long. There are some things I want to know in regards to gaming-

I play a lot of old-ish PC games, mostly stuff from 6-10 years ago on down. Several of those games are wrapped in GFWL and wanted to know if those or any games of note have any compatibility issues, tolerably moderate or unplayably severe. I also occasionally delve in to world of indie & doujin games and wonder how fuck those games are under Win10?

Also, what are the big time advantages 10 has to offer besides booting slightly faster?

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Even if you're stupid enough to use Windows 10 "upgrading" to it is literally throwing away money.
Why would you let Microsoft erase software you paid for to replace it with "free" crap?

Firstly, if something is free, you're the product.

Second, stay away from Windows 10, it has tons of compatibility issues. For any and all performance needs, Vulkan will serve, as Win10's selling point is DirectX 12 (not being adopted by anybody other than Microsoft Studios & co.) and Win10 exclusives, which can be played with a sandboxed VM. Last, but not least, pirate Windows.

windows 10 fag here
how hard is it to go back to windows 7?

Pirate win 7, install. Pretty easy fag.

Just like Windows 8, there is no reason to upgrade

There is nothing 10 has to offer.

For the love of god do not get windows 10
Even ignoring the tracking bullshit.

THERE IS LEGITIMATELY AN ISSUE WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIRECTINPUT AND XINPUT that can cause accessories to fail draw too much power from the system and cause the computer to shut off.
Worse yet it is incompatible with a lot of midi drivers so if you use a keyboard with your computer, now you don't.
It also baked a bunch shit onto the hard drive I legitimately CANNOT remove.
For the love of god stay on win 7 8.1 xp whatever.
Windows 10 will fuck your computer up if you use anything but stock prebuilts.

WIN10FAM

Seriously?
Never heard this before…

Custom built here, is it really that much of a mess?

Never use Win10. Death to Big Brother.

My ROM collection is more than enough to keep me entertained for the rest of my life.

I ve only had problems running an emulator and that is the only thing that hasn't worked.

Indie and doujin games run normally, i like to play these doujin porn games from japan and i haven't had problems

WIN7FAM
If you want windows 10 for games put it on an external hard drive and play off that.

Do you have any download links for your ROM collection? Mega, etc? Would be useful to have.

Just search torrentz.eu for shit like "SNES ROMs" or "MAME ROMs". When getting MAME shit, make sure your version of MAME is compatible with that ROM collection, preferably bundled with it.

Apparently the only way to play tekken 7 on PC will be win10.
What do?

No.

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Literally none of this is true. I've been using Win10 exclusively to test every claim made about it here. Xbone controller doesn't really work with Win10, but regular 360 does. Otherwise everything but hfapplocale has been compatible with Win10. I personally used the DestroyW10Spying and another 3rd party party program to double up on removing any spyware from Microsoft. After using shark wire and testing various situations of idling I haven't found any traces of out going or incoming packets. I also have no idea where this notion you can only install from the app store originated because it is completely false.

Just use whatever you want dude.

I use Win10, its shit like most windows but i stopped giving a fuck years ago, im too retarded to get into Linux. Performance is ok i guess i don´t find differences with my old pirated Win 7 (but i do miss it a little), PCSX2, Dolphin, Bsnes etc all work fine, i have yet to try old games on DOSBox, i also don´t have problems pirating stuff but im in South America so i don´t think anyone gives a fuck about piracy here
The store is of course shit, the free games (Killer Instinct, Forza) are alright but way jewed up, its also true that it has way too much shit running in the background, i disabled most of it but theres some stuff i can´t disable/uninstall
All in all stay on Windows 7 or something else

wait for someone to crack it and make it possible to play on win7. Its a safe bet that someone will.

But it's not
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Another thread, another time to post my 2 cents…

In all honesty, Windows 10 is great for games- its fast, fluid and works well wit most of my older games, from Battlefield: Vietnam to Battlezone 1998 (pre re-release version on Steam). IN SAYING THAT- Windows 10 is only on my Gaming rig, anything I have that I need to do "real" work on or have personal information on is on a seperate computer running Tails as its OS, So as to keep work and play completely is played from one another.

I know three are plenty of rumours and half-truths told by Microsoft and those against Windows 10, but if you have the resources and money to have 2 completely separate PCs than that is the best option.

I wouldn't advocate for dual-booting Win 10 and Tails for fear that Windows would do something to either Boot Sequence to make them insecure.

So there we are, thats my setup and musings.

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Just use Windows 10 AND BLOCK ALL THE TRACKING IP ADDRESSES DIRECTLY ON YOUR ROUTER ITSELF rather than from inside the OS. Your computer can’t alter your router’s settings, but it CAN just ignore your hosts file.

Fuck’s sake, it’s not that hard.

Cinnamon swirls on every bite, fam. Just kidding, it's their direct ties back to Israel. Same with Starbucks.

Wait until Windows 7 is obsolete and then switch to Linux. Windows is not part of the future.

tl;dr

Windows 10 is trash

Install gentoo

Okay, that I did not know about.

How can MS ship an OS in this condition? This is ignoring tracking bullshit, this seems like an OS that isn't even finished, I don't know how people are expected to pay for it, much less want to use it for free

Don't forget spending $300,000,000 USD on "diversity" including probably several million to their god Sarkeesian.

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there's literally nothing wrong with win 10

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GIVE ME THE BOTNETOLI

I was going to ask: "Can you pirate games on Windows 10?"
But then I remembered where I am & knew I'd only receive a bunch of lies.

There were some things in the licensing of certain apps that spoke of the removal of pirated content, but of course only if you used those apps would it be applicable. Most people on pirated Windows do not use the app store at all.

So to answer my own query I simply searched a torrent site for a win10 exclusive game & of course Quantum Break is able to be pirated. I also see the cheeky devs did the same thing that they did for Alan Wake because there's an "eye patch removal" hack in the torrent search results as well.


I would suggest that you don't get information about Windows 10 from anywhere infested with GNUtards because they will tell you not to use any Windows at all, exaggerate, lie, etc.

That said, it is still best to play it safe. Disable Windows updates, secure system with trustworthy AV/FW, & use Peerblock to block IP ranges from Microsoft & other dubious sources. Better yet, if your router has good firmware you can block IP ranges in the router itself with zero possible workarounds for potential "spyware" to access said IP ranges.

Here's third party software that kills Windows 10 telemetry (spyware): majorgeeks.com/files/details/destroy_windows_10_spying.html

If you kill telemetry, disable updates, block IP ranges, it should be perfectly usable. Fear mongers will say it's never enough & just use GNU+communism, but they are just desperate for market share gains that are absolutely never happening & gaming will continue to reflect that.

Here's my future plan for my setup.

All I need now is a decent USB only KVM switch so that I can use my KB and Mouse on both PCs.

This is mostly due to microsoft modifying the shutdown process.
Normally when you shutdown, say, windows XP or Vista, or 7, the system unloads the operating system and powers off.
In win8.1/10, this changes, instead it will save a hibernation image to load on the next boot, saving a huge amount of time.
My old as fuck netbook designed for winXP boots in around 7 seconds if it loads a hibernation image, and that's with having to load whatever applications I was running pre-hibernate.
win8.1/10 first log out the user, before saving a hibernation image, this ensures there's no user applications that need to load to shave off as much time on the wake-up event as possible
Need validation on this? Well obviously I don't have the source code for the shutdown procedure, but it should be easily deduced first hand.
Remember how using F8 would prevent windows from starting immediately, and allow you to access safe mode? Well you can't do that any more. First you have to access a hidden menu by shift clicking the shutdown icon, and schedule the system to use safe mode on the next system boot. Microsoft's official reason for this, is that "the system boots too fast to recognize the key press", well that seems highly unlikely.

And if the privacy policy for windows 10 isn't enough to deter you, or the fact that you will be grandfathered into any new privacy policy without your consent as has already happened to users switching to w10, or the lack of drivers, or lack of games, or the fact that microsoft has been aggressively pushing w10 so hard that they changed the [X] button's function on the upgrade adware to accept the upgrade to further inflate their market share, then you are clearly hopeless.
Fuck just use ANYTHING but windows 10.

how do you configure a router to block stuff being uploaded from your pc?

Get a router that can have something like DD-WRT installed. Then set rules to prevent known MS ad-bullshit ip ranges from reaching your PC or going out to them.

cheers mate

You can also use something akin to PiHole to block ads and more from outside your PC

Two words: Operating Service

it's designed to only be half complete while the rest of it is in Microsoft's servers oh and Cortana, this way you can't function without the Win 10 always being online and by forcing you to always be online they can do the monitoring bullshit and other Cortana bullshti but the most important aspect is this; monthly service fees or worse since you need their server to function they can charge you whatever they want and that's the plan.

If enough people adopt it anyways.

looks interesting, might hav to see bout getting one