Anyone upgraded to Windows 10?

[pixela]

I am wondering if it worths upgrading (I am on windows 7 and pretty happy with it. My only concern is that if they stop the support on win 7 software)
So need opinions if to upgrade or skip?
Is 3ds Max,major plugins, backburner running smoothly?

[theedge]

Concerning support : according to microsoft website, windows 7 will be supported until january 2020.

[VelvetElvis]

I did the upgrade to 10 at home a few months back and just recently at work so they could get it in before the free upgrade ends on July 29. Works like a charm for me. Once your turn off some small things like Cortana and the animated tiles, it's actually a nice operating system.

The only big annoying item that gets us at our work machines is that you no longer have subfolders in your start menu. Say for example, you'd have your ChaosGroup folder with Vray for Max 2016 and 2017 as separate folders. In Windows 10, it's just Chaos Group with everything under it. So both of your Vray Spawners are right next to each other. Ditto the Autodesk folder, that can be a mess. I'm sure there are ways around this in Windows 10 however.

[Morbid Angel]

If you read around the forum I think some people are having issues, with some autodesk products not entirely supported with windows 10. I don't care about the "free" upgrade, there is no such thing as free, at some point you will have to pay for it, windows 10 being the "last" os update means microsoft somehow has to generate income, so prepare

[glorybound]

I have been on it for a long time. If I had problems I have forgotten about them and they have since been fixed. Having said that, I don't see any benefit in WIN10 over WIN7, unless you have a hybrid device. Some of the social share integrations are nice, but I could live without it.

[pixela]

Thank you guys for your replies.
I still can't decide if to upgrade or not and tomorow is the last day.

[glorybound]

You could always go back

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

the biggest change for me when crossing from win 7 is that win 10 reserves and EATS shitloads of VRAM from your GPU..
the more GPU u have the more it reserves :-/ Hope they will ficx this or at least introduce some tweakable thresholds like the have with virtual memory as this is insane if you imagine you need as much as resource from your card as possible.

then in win7 i sometimes cant save directly to network drive :-/// happens with either Autodesk and Adobe and is very random

and of course the absolutely idiotic placement of 2 control settings each with a different set of tools - that is f***ing unreal

overal i am hoping the summer service pack will fix most of the little bugs

M

btw: i dont mind paying for some updates as long as the systém is stabel and bloody reasonably balanced when accessing resources

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

oh and not to mention the Scroll Wheel being now linked to completely different tasks...so in a dope sheet you can forget about zooming with a Scroll wheel

[mitviz]

i upgraded and now back to windows 7, do not upgrade is my opinion, plus it "sticky" when you select a window to move it sometimes you have to select the window three times before you can drag it and move if for example and yes the vram issue, its a big thing, idk how much it affects vray RT but i think windows 10 needs to sort itself out first before i go back, but for now and the near future windows 7 is it for me, it works, i didnt see any benefits to using windows 10, i am not using a touch screen or anything of that sort, idk what was there that seemed useful to me at all except the button to show all windows at once, but i didn't use it alot, so, try windows 10 but its nothing special in my opinion

[glorybound]

I don't have issues with sticky Windows. It might be a driver thing. Like anything in life, you probably have to jump in, stick it out, and things get better. But, I think you are right, for some there is no good reasons to upgrade. Now, Windows 8 was a nightmare, so maybe I'm just happy that they have come this far.

[Morne]

For me, Windows 8 was a pleasure. I've now upgraded to Windows 10 - will see how it goes over the next few days...

[allemyr]

the biggest change for me when crossing from win 7 is that win 10 reserves and EATS shitloads of VRAM from your GPU..
the more GPU u have the more it reserves :-/ Hope they will ficx this or at least introduce some tweakable thresholds like the have with virtual memory as this is insane if you imagine you need as much as resource from your card as possible.

s

This issue is with Windows 10 reserving around 1/6 of all Vram on all GPU's is really annoying. Hope Microsoft will solve it soon.