PC Gamers taking to Windows 10

[tthurman]

On Steam anyway, which i'd say is a pretty good indication.

[Draco1962]

I think that the jump from 8/8.1 to 10 is probably driving those numbers more than from 7 to 10.

Personally, I like 10 quite a bit. Not that 7 was bad by any stretch and 10 has some quirks, but nothing insurmountable.

[tthurman]

Well, after using it for a good bit, I found 8/8.1 far better than 7 (yeah, I'm in the minority here), enough so that I find 7 aggravating now. 10 seems to be getting there, but it still seems a bit rushed to market to me, but it's working well enough for the most part.

[Kustom Kid]

I have Windows 10 on my emulator/gaming pc. It's working pretty well so far, so count me in that 34%. I do get a memory hangup on occasion. I think it's more a bad memory stick than Windows 10 to blame. I do have WMC running on it and that seems to be working decent as well. That being said I still have Windows 7 on my main pc because we use WMC for our DVR. I much prefer native support over a hack to ensure our tv shows get recorded.

[tthurman]

Yep, that's the downside to upgrading my HTPC from 8.1. Why couldn't they just put out an option for 10, even if it's basically the Windows 7 version (like it was for 8). For most things I can get by with third party solutions, but not all.

Funny you mention it, I just had the memory hangup crash this morning.

[Kustom Kid]

Yep, that's the downside to upgrading my HTPC from 8.1. Why couldn't they just put out an option for 10, even if it's basically the Windows 7 version (like it was for 8). For most things I can get by with third party solutions, but not all.

Funny you mention it, I just had the memory hangup crash this morning.

I may have jinxed you with the memory hangup. Sorry. I think they don't want to deal with the guide data for the 428 of us that use WMC. Sad to say but it's a dead product for them. As it stands they transitioned over to Rovi for guide data last June (or July....sometime in the summer) because that is who's providing data for the XBONE. It's not nearly as good as the previous guide data provider.

I'm hopeful for SiliconDust's DVR solution. If that proves to work well I'll put a low powered small PC running Windows 10 in the living room and get rid of the power sucking Xbox 360, complete with broken DVD drive, that we're using for an extender right now.

Windows 10 is leaps and bounds better than 8/8.1 We have 4 computers. Two are running 10, and two are running 7. I hope to have them all on 10 by the end of the year.