XIV unplayable on Windows 10 Until Mid August?Follow

well lets hope its not a mandatory upgrade then (and lets hope the windows 10 launch isnt as bad as Macs is)

Not unplayable, more like unsupported. Run it at your own risk until they complete their verification. I believe some people have been running this game on the Win10 tech releases.

Meh, Windows 10 free "upgrade" is good for a year, there's no reason to rush into it.

wtf is Windows 10. I'm still using Vista.

Consider upgrading to Windows 7. It was the best OS they've ever made. Vista was like a patchwork quilt under the hood and had a lot of quirks. Windows 7 was more like a seamlessly woven silk blanket.

They had to go and wreck it with Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows had has done so poorly that for marketing reasons, they're skipping 9 and jumping straight to 10 to get as far away from 8.1 as they can.

Following the "tick is bad, tock is good" track record they have, Windows 10 should probably be okay.

I love my Windows 7!

I'll be upgrading to 10 though probably later in August or maybe even September. I'm in no rush, and Windows 7 rocks.

I just upgraded and there's no issues. If you had Windows 7 N, you have to get windows media player again to get the launcher to work, but that's it. My performance has increased in XIV (Crossfire 7950s), and my NPC/Player name glitch with DX11 is just about gone. Some flickering here and there, but significantly better. I've essentially turned it into windows 7 with the customization and also get the insanely fast cold boot with SSD (since I skipped out on windows 8 all together).

The upgrade went surprisingly well too, can do a disk cleanup afterwards if you want to get rid of the old Windows version (or keep it for a month if you wish to revert). Ran some CCleaner to get rid of a jumble of stuff, and almost like a fresh installation. Witcher 3 also ran noticeably better, so overall it's been pretty positive. My only complaint thus far is most options (power wise) are for damn tablets. I can't for the life of me get my monitor to go in standby. It's all things along the lines of, while plugged power screen down at X time. That's great..my computer's always plugged and it thinks it's a tablet.

Well by the time they let me download Windows 10 it could be mid-August. So it really will be unplayable on Windows 10 until then. Just a different spin on the original post.

Edited, Jul 31st 2015 10:15pm by kainsilv

Exactly my feeling, although for me Windows 10 I won't install till at least later next Year. I'm not one of these that #MustUpgradeNow!!.

As for my work, that certainly won't be upgraded till a lot closer to the Windows 7 EOL. It works and no current issues.

i am growing so tired with people trash talking about windows 8.1.. 8 was bad yes, people now think that 8.1 is bad aswell because 8 was bad.. i use 8.1 and everything runs far smoother then it did with windows 7.. now if you say windows 8.1 is bad you're basicly saying Windows 7 is even worse... really try 8.1 out yourself or don't talk crap

My primary objection with Windows 8/8.1, as someone who fixes computers for a living, was Microsoft's decision to make Windows 8 hard to fix. I guess they decided during design that the OS would simply never break, so when it inevitably DOES break, fixing it is a royal pain. Something goes wrong with Windows 7, I can probably fix it. Something goes wrong with Windows 8, it's a coin flip.

From a user perspective, I hate the metro interface. It's another example of Microsoft changing things for the sake of making changes and not because some problem needed to be solved. I don't know of anyone who sat down in front of Windows 7 and said "yeah, having everything in this menu is cool and all, but what I really need is for it all to be smeared across 4 screen-lengths and be harder to use in general... this is just TOO convenient."

My biggest beef with 8/8.1 is that WS_FTP LE 6.0 finally stopped working with it and I had to join the 21st century. FEH.

Okay..... some one has an issue with 8.1

We do not use it here currently at work, I will not push to go to 8.1 from 7 when not long after that we would have to seriously consider 10.

Comparing 7 which is essentially a stable OS, works with pretty much most software including some very outdated packages vs 8.1 which is W8 version 2. The IT community especially in education generally feel 8.1 is not worth going to especially now with the release of 10. The EOL of 7 is till 2020 that gives us 5 years to prepare for 10. Many people like my self went from NT > 2000 > XP > 7. For stability and compatibility. It's also a known thing that business's/educational sectors tend to skip an OS for those two exact reasons. M$ try something new (like they did with 8) it didn't work, here comes version 2 (8.1) but still not quite good enough. Windows 10 by the looks of it returns to a much more 7 with a mix of 8 system, instead of a 8 mixed with a 7 system.

8 was a poor attempt of a Tablet OS by M$, regardless of how people feel it was generally considered to be a failure. Which was why they released 8.1 with the Start menu but it was still 8. Complaining about those who had issues with 8.1 or 8 would be like complaining about those who don't like Vista (for obvious reasons). You may love 8.1 but you can't deny that as an OS it is not considered to be a total success. We have found a few packages of our software (Dept Educational) does not work on 8.1. if you work in IT you would understand, if you work in Education then you would completely understand the situation we are in. I have tried 8.1 my self, but I still can't ignore the fact it's still W8 with a Start menu.

I could go on but your post is worst than the insults I have seen about 8.1

Also just because Windows 7 didn't run smoothly with you, doesn't mean a thing. I found Windows 7 runs smoother than any OS here but if the previous machines running Windows XP had not been rebuilt in any way or had a ton of Startup items - you may find that simply a refresh would run your machine better. We image, something we do to every IT Suite for a refresh. It can turn a 8 Year old PC from taking 12 minutes to turn on and log on, down to 4 minutes and usable by the users.

Edited, Aug 11th 2015 6:08am by Lonix