Windows 10 & Nvidia GPUs: WARNING!!

[trev123]

It is the 29th here, something is downloading from WIndows update. Dosen't say what it is. 88% complete after 50 minutes.

[peterhayes]

Trev123
Nothing in OZ (but you are 2 hours ahead of us) but I have just dl a Win 7 update and on another PC windows 8.1 updates (10).
I thought that the Win 10 upgrade was to be gradually released with those registered initially being the first in the queue, with the plebs to follow?
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[trev123]

After it downloaded there was an update icon by the shutdown button. The only way to install the update was to shutdown your computer. Took about 20 mins to shutdown while it installed it. On reboot I thought it might of booted with Windows 10 but started in Windows 7. Quite a few new files in my Windows folder though.
The big windows update I had today failed. When I click on Windows update history it says Update to Windows 10 Home failed.

[GSkid]

I use the ge force experience to configure all my games, then I uninstall it.

I went back, way back on the nVidia drivers and it stopped the crashing while painting. It also got rid of the flashing/strobing 2D map.

Buzz I am using the one you suggested to me a few weeks ago.

I thought I was the only one with the 2D map strobing and tracers. It would happen randomly so I just thought it was a new random glitch. I don't have the older driver handy at the moment so I'll deal with it in the short term.

Now I await the 10 update.

[trev123]

Lots of people getting a download failure myself included. You are able to download from about 9:00am the 29th in your timezone. Error message below.



Upgrade to Windows 10 Home

Installation date: ‎29/‎07/‎2015 10:40 a.m.

Installation status: Failed

Error details: Code 80240020

Update type: Important

Install the next version of Windows.

More information:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=507415

Help and Support:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=507417

[GSkid]

Well my upgrade to 10 was flawless and painless.

I wasn't paying close attention, but I'd guess it took at least an hour to upgrade. It was version 353.30 of the Geforce driver before the upgrade.... which is the same version even the Win 10 64-bit driver on Nvidia's website was showing as the latest available for download. Windows 10 now has Nvidia control panel reporting me up to version 353.62 and DX12 installed.

Tried both TS2015 and Borderlands 2 for a quick test. Both ran flawless and no flickering in the sim's 2D map as of yet. Knock on wood, but all seems well so far so good!

EDIT: I don't have SLI to test that out but dual-display extended desktop works just fine for me. The new windows control panel is weird. Gotta see how to get the old way I'm used to back.

[JohnTrainHead]

Is there any way to download Windows 10 and then perform a clean install? IMO, installing a new OS without wiping the disk off is just asking for trouble.

[Ericmopar]

Is there any way to download Windows 10 and then perform a clean install? IMO, installing a new OS without wiping the disk off is just asking for trouble.

If you ever want to install any OS, just type the name of the operating system and then ".iso" without quotes into your favorite search engine .

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softwar ... /windows10

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2952649/ ... files.html

[GSkid]

Came across my first major problem. When I try to go into sleep mode (either through the Start menu or pressing the power button), the hard drive light blinks for a second then the screen goes black. BUT... my power light stays on (should be blinking) and pressing it again, the mouse button... nor any key press on the keyboard will wake it up. I had to hard shutdown (holding the power key down for like 5 seconds) for the light go off and had to keep rebooting from scratch.

That's a major pain since waking up out of sleep mode is normally much faster and convenient. To make things worse.... it seems like 10 takes longer to boot up from scratch than 8.1 did. I've yet to see if SHUTDOWN works properly or not. Not a happy camper on the sleep mode issue.

EDIT: Just tried SHUTDOWN. It's a longer hard drive process than sleep, but ends the same... the power light stays on. As before... the laptop screen seems off but I'm not positive it's off. No output through HDMI either, so maybe it really is off.

EDIT#2 Now SLEEP and SHUTDOWN appear to be working properly and Windows 10's boot up times are as fast or faster than 8.1 now. It's like a car and trying to clear out the lines of bad fuel before it runs right. Just some weird hiccups.

[JerryC]

Foxnews is reporting that there is a Windows 10 ISO available for download for those who do not wish to wait for the auto-upgrade. I prefer to keep a copy of the OS so that I can restore or install from a USB key or CD anytime.

I've had the tech preview for a while, and W10 seems kind of "meh" after using W8 (which I have thoroughly enjoyed) for a couple of years. The only tech issue i've had with W10 is that it hosed the mousepad on my laptop. I use a wireless mouse anyway for finer control over Blender and Photoshop, so it's not huge deal.

For the record, although it took 36 hours for the initial install, I loved Windows Vista. Great OS, but it's early slug issues doomed it with entitled i-want-it-perfect-out-of-the-box consumers.

[trev123]

Just switched my computer on for the day 30th and is downloading again, hope it works this time

[GSkid]

Well the sleep and shutdown issue has returned. This time I let the power light remain on instead of holding the power button down to force it off, just to see what would happen. After a couple minutes the light went off all by itself. So this kinda blows. I even had it shutdown to just a glowing light all on it's own once.... cuz I don't recall clicking anything on screen to instigate it.

I use the onscreen keyboard often to type with my mouse when I'm lazy and lounging in a chair or my bed. The onscreen keyboard seems to crash often enough to annoy me and relaunches itself. It very rarely crashed when I used it in 8.

So far I kinda liked 8 using Classic Shell better than 10. It's more like classic vista/7 than this. I guess I'll get used to it... unless they make Classic Shell for 10 too. I kinda hope so.

One thing I don't like and can't figure out is an issue with browsing pictures. I like using the classic "windows photo viewer" over photo gallery or MS's photos app. I set my picture folders to arrange them in order by "date of creation". That way my pictures pop up in the viewer as I advance it in the order I originally saved them to disk. It worked fine in 8, but windows photo viewer picks random pictures under win 10. But if I use MS's photos app, it does advance pictures in the order I have the folder arranged in. Weird.

Just had one of those scam artists from India call in the middle of all this. They claim they are tech support working on behalf of Microsoft. They say my computer is reporting back errors to them. They are here to help me.

I know this classic scam very well.

They ask you to download some free 3rd party remote access software so they can get access to your computer. They then proceed to open windows services and show you ones that say they have stopped (it's perfectly normal for them to be stopped) and try to scare you into thinking a virus in your computer has stopped them. That for $200-$300, they will remotely fix the problem.

Normally I give them access to my old Vista computer that is a bare bones install with no personal files or info on it just for this purpose. I do this so it wastes a bunch of their time and when they try to sell me their services, I tell them no.... I thank them for the heads up and say I'm gonna bring it to my local computer shop to fix. Of course they get super angry at me and I laugh and hang up.

Today I just cut to the chase and told the guy it was a scam. He got angry and yelled at me asking who told me this lie. I then ran down the list of things of what he was gonna tell me, laughed and hung up. Good times!

[trev123]

Let them say there stuff for 5 mins and then say you haven't got a computer. I had one ring up and when I said you will be wanting my CC number next he got quite angry saying how do I know this. I hung up.

[OldProf]

Is there any way to download Windows 10 and then perform a clean install? IMO, installing a new OS without wiping the disk off is just asking for trouble.

If you ever want to install any OS, just type the name of the operating system and then ".iso" without quotes into your favorite search engine .

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softwar ... /windows10

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2952649/ ... files.html

And what about this: "Keep in mind you’ll still need a valid activation key for every PC or VM you install the OS on, however. " (copied from the second link above.)

[Ericmopar]

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