My upgrade to Windows 10

[Bikeman]

Hi all

I just wanted to share my experiences with upgrading from Windows 8.1 to 10. In one word: fantastic! The upgrade went without a hitch. After logging on to Windows 10 the Ethernet adadapter did not work at first. The Windows onboard Utility repaired it within a few seconds. Even the problem with the Thrustmaster MFDs that I solved under Windows 8.1 did not reappear. Due to the special way Windows 8.x powers the USB ports the MFDs kept flashing. By Chance I found out that starting the Teamspeak 3 client the problem was solved. And hey: it still works with Windows 10.

Now the really great news: the falcon flies as before and the problem is still between stick and ejection seat MFD Extractor, Teamspeak, TouchControl (which I use to emulate the IPC on my iPad - works great btw!), TrackIR all worked right of the bat without me changing one iota.

So far the upgrade has been a success for me. In the worst case there is always a way to return to the previous Version of Windows within 30 days. I tried that before on a laptop and that too worked as promised.

Regards
Bikeman

[Mower]

Thanx for the report, sir.

I my case as a happy W7user, if it aint broke…

[Dracfalcon]

Thanks for the information…on the bubble.

[hiper42]

Glad it worked out fine for you. My excursion from win 7 to win 8.1 was short and the return journey fast. During the first boot of win 8.1 I had to provide an email address in order to log into windows what utter nonsense…
when I arrived at the win 8.1 desktop it all just felt alien… and that was all it took to make me revert back to win 7…

[neystratiou]

I agree, windows 7 still are great…
Let’s see if we go ahead to 10.
Nikos.

[DocWW]

I tried updating from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I chose to keep all my programs. It completed and worked fine for a few days. I kept running into permission issues. It would not let me access folders in my Users profile (My Documents, My Pictures etc… folders). It claimed I did not have those rights when attempting access those folders from browsers, ms word etc… I tried adding my profile as the owner of those folders. Windows 10 then stopped working. The desktop showed no Icons afterwords and it would freeze up when attempting to access any folders. I attempted to rollback to Win 7 and that did not work either. I ended up reinstalling the system from scratch. Thank goodness I tried this on my laptop and not my desktop PC that has Falcon BMS on it, then I would be really upset. I think it had to do with having more than one Users account on the machine but I am not sure. It wasn’t a good Microsoft experience.

Just sharing my experience. It seems upgrading to Win10 works better if you just start from scratch, at least on my laptop.

DocWW

[Mud]

Yeah DocWW,

There are quite a few reports of the upgrade process causing problems. Hence you’re best off doing a clean install after having upgraded.

Mud

[Capt.Stubing]

I’ll be upgrading to Win 10 after the first 6 months. Let them work out their issues with the early adopters. I understand there are some great game improvements coming out with DX12 but there aren’t any titles at the moment so I’m not in any rush.

[hoover]

Thanks for sharing your experience and I’m happy to hear the upgrade went well for you. I’ll stick with win7 until security support ends unless some major title forces me to upgrade any earlier, but I highly doubt that’s going to be the case (I use win7 as a game launcher mostly for BMS, rFactor2 and the occasional Spelunky session ;))

Cheers, Uwe

[Manos1981]

W10 works great and they are very-very “light”.The only problem i had was with my ATI in my first attempt around 32% of the installation i got a BSOD telling me “Oops something went wrong bla-bla-bla” with an reference to and ATIbla-bla.sys (sorry for the bla-bla thing but i cannot remember exactly what it wrote). I tried about 5 times with the same result, good thing is that my motherboard comes also with an built in HDMI output using the CPU’s 4600 (i think) graphics adapter, so i erased (good thing also that it reverted everytime back to W8.1 installation i had) averything from AMD and ati and used the CPU as primery vga, i uninstalled the R290 and begin again the installation. It went smoothly and here i am in Windows 10 desktop. I reinstalled my ATI downloaded the latest drivers and everything perfect. First experiment ofcourse was to run a TE i have saved in KIMPO with really bad weather and a 4-plane flight for FPS testing,i was amazed to see around 10-15 FPS boost (!!!) in the current TE from the previous Windows install… there’s 2 explenations for that 1. Something was messed up in my windows 8.1 and the upgrade fixed it 2. The new drivers from Ati are rocking! (i would say also that the new installation was fixed the whole thing but it isn’t a clean one). I might go for a clean one later in the future but i dont know cause i have a lot of stuff i got to save first and i don’t know if i really have the space for them, who ever works with Cubase recording,mixing etc knows! My expirience over windows 10? Excellent!!!
PS: Sorry for my grammar, it said many times here and in other forums that my english grammar sucks. I prefer to talk than write

[mwd]

From what a little birdie told me : window 10 is collecting and sending data in the background in other words spying on ya…

so ya no thanks…

[mwd]

sorry i should of expounded on this:The above said input recording methods are a classic keylogger malware features. In absolute terms you are giving permission for Microsoft to screen your files and keep a log of your keyboard and other inputs. Renowned Windows blogger Mary Jo Foley recently said, “I’ve heard Microsoft built a new real-time telemetry system codenamed ‘Asimov’ (yes, another Halo-influenced codename) that lets the OS team see in near real-time what’s happening on users’ machines.

[Sting]

I have gone to win 10 too. But only on my gaming machine. I would not put it on my general laptop until some of the privacy stuff is sorted. I don’t care if the key log me bombing North Korea…

[VDoggFTM]

BMS worked fine on Windows 10 for me, but Windows 10 won’t let you install unsigned drivers which meant I couldn’t use the Saitek programming software to map keys to the stick. Rolled back to win 8.1.

[Snail]

As always: if a commercial program is ‘free’, the user is the product.

[Storm1]

I installed windows 10 on my mac and Falcon BMS runs great. No issues so far.

[SnowSky]

I installed Win10 on my pc.
After the upgrade, I did immediately a Reinstall (my Win7 installation was already 6 yrs old, even if it worked still pretty well because of having only installed a few games and didn’t change much else).

One problem is, installing Utilities for my mainboard in WinX is possible, but you have to do a lot in compatibility mode with Win98 -.-. But thats more because of my old system.

The problem which seems to be much more on MS site is:
I have to disable my Warthog throttle and joystick, otherwhise,
my monitor won’t go into screensaver/turn monitor off.
I have searched the internet, and it is really horrible, many have problems with their mouse or Keyboard.
Imagine that, an IO you really need every time in front of your computer. And it seems this problem exists already for a long time!
I had no problem in Win7 with my warthog and screensaver / Display turn off.

In sleep mode, my computer wakes up every 2 minutes, and then goes back to sleep.
I disabled it - didn’t use it on Win7 either.
So not such a big problem for me.

Regarding privacy, it’s not going to get any better I guess.
And do not think, that there will be such a big difference between WinX and Win7.
If they want to, they could simply put an update on Win7 to do the same spying as on WinX.
You had to accept EULAs also on other updates.

I won’t suggest Win7 users to upgrade (but to Win8 I would^^).
I will keep it because I will have to work with it in the near future, so I need to get experience on it. Otherwise I would reinstall windows 7 now.

(Also I’d like to say: put another hard disk into your PC, install Win7, upgrade to WinX. This way you have the possibility to install winX also after expiration date, without changing your current system)

[drtbkj]

@Mower:

Thanx for the report, sir.

I my case as a happy W7user, if it aint broke…

As they say-+1. To be frank, considering the adventures I’ve had with Tech in BMS, I ain’t changing nuthin’