Be Excellent To Each Other

And, you know, party on. Dude.

All times are UTC [ DST ]




Reply to topic  [ 1116 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 ... 23  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:19 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
GazChap wrote:
Is this stable enough to upgrade from 8.1 now, then?


We've had it running for a few months now on both a clean build and a Win 7 upgrade, and both have been fine, although Win 10 did break the venerable old version of Photoshop that Mrs H has been using forever, but fortunately we have another install on a Win 7 machine in the house.

I still don't think there's any compelling reason to upgrade to 10 if you've got a PC you're happy with, and are intending to retire it before the OS it's running goes out of support. (So in my PC's case, I'm on Win 7 which is supported until 2020, and there's no way I'll still be using it then, so why the hell I would bother with 10 I have no idea.)

To my mind an upgrade to Win 10 gives you a best possible case scenario of your PC carries on running as well as it does now. (i.e. No change.) Every other result is just shades of things going wrong.

At the end of a day it's an OS, it's just a platform to run other things on.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 10:53 
User avatar
Unpossible!

Joined: 27th Jun, 2008
Posts: 38439
markg wrote:
Yay, all sorted. I just chose "don't have a key" and it activated fine.

I reckon if it's the same hardware, your system has been profiled on a server somewhere. When you reinstall it matches up fine and all is well.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 13:37 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 14130
Location: Shropshire, UK
Well, I'm interested in it because of the supposed benefits to VR (DX12 etc. I guess)

I actually claimed my free upgrade shortly after they were announced, downloaded it etc. and then never got around to installing it. Have deleted the files since, so does that mean that if I don't upgrade by the cut off point I've got to pay?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2016 19:09 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
GazChap wrote:
Well, I'm interested in it because of the supposed benefits to VR (DX12 etc. I guess)

I actually claimed my free upgrade shortly after they were announced, downloaded it etc. and then never got around to installing it. Have deleted the files since, so does that mean that if I don't upgrade by the cut off point I've got to pay?


As best I understand it if you haven't actually upgraded before the cutoff date then you can't do so afterwards, irrespective of whether or not you've already downloaded the files or 'accepted' that you'd like the upgrade, or suchlike.

However, if you upgrade to Windows 10 and then roll back, you can apparently return to Windows 10 at a point of your choosing in the future, including after July 29th.

If you've got a specific reason for wanting Windows 10 (DX12 + VR in your case) then fair enough I suppose, although I'm a mega-keen PC gamer and I'm not sold on DX12 at all, Nvidia cards don't seem to be getting anything out of DX12, although maybe VR is a special case.

Windows 10 has done well but not that well, I can't imagine any hardware/software producer wishing to alienate a massive percentage of their potential customer base with products that run substantially worse on Windows 7/8 and DX11 compared to Windows 10.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 18:56 
User avatar
Ticket to Ride World Champion

Joined: 18th Apr, 2008
Posts: 11843
Upgraded to win10, was surprised to see a load of the same programmes still installed, but seems pretty good so far, except that it has inverted my multitouch scroll function on the mouse pad, haven't looked how to fix that yet, but a bit strange!

_________________
No, it was a giant robot castle!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 19:13 
User avatar
SavyGamer

Joined: 29th Apr, 2008
Posts: 7600
I did the upgrade dance. Went for a fresh install.

Christ there's a load of guff to get rid of from a fresh install isn't there? All the built in apps, integration to a load of services I'm not interested in etc.

Took me about an hour to get set up properly, but I guess it's fine now.

Some irritations:
Opening a photo with the built in photo viewer prompts you to log in to an MS account. I have no idea why this is required to view a photo.
It's fiddled with some keyboard shortcuts. I'm not allowed to use backspace for back in web browsers any more.
The text has a weirdo blury look to it on lots of apps. I found a tool to fix it but I don't know why it was a problem in the first place (something to do with ClearType and DPI settings I gather)
Lots of the UI is pleasant to look at, but there's some real inconsistent UI elements. Feels like there's still stuff in here dating back to the XP era, and even though they had a decent enough design for the new stuff they added, lots hasn't been update properly. The new action centre is nicer than the Win8 charms bar, but it's weird how interacting with it sometimes presents a clean new style menu, and sometimes an old one that looks really out of place.
My twitter client of choice, which stopped getting updates prior to Windows 10 coming out has a little bug where sometimes there's a blank entry in the alt-tab menu for something called "NotificationView", which I guess is handling notifications, but it shouldn't be showing on the alt-tab menu (never did in previous versions).

Positives:
Boot time is way fast now.
Some of the menu transitions and window animations are pretty fancy.
Start menu is pretty good once you get rid of the live tiles and adverts.
The new version of what used to be called aero snap is pretty nice.
It's far from the car crash that 8 was.

Overall I give it a C+.

I reckon if they weren't laser focused on going after the mobile/tablet market, and tying people into their various different services, to the detriment of their desktop OS, it could be loads better, but they've done a far better job of mitigating the lack of focus here than they did with 8.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 22:18 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
'Windows 10, mostly as good as what you already had, for most people, most of the time. You might think some bits of it look slightly nicer.'

It's a stunning sales pitch.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:22 
User avatar
Ticket to Ride World Champion

Joined: 18th Apr, 2008
Posts: 11843
okay, turns out i am not the only one wo have an inverted touchpad, but I can't find a solution. Doesn't seem to offer anything better than Win 7 at the moment.

_________________
No, it was a giant robot castle!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:25 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 16553
What are people expecting it to actually do? Give them blow jobs or something?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:41 
User avatar
Ticket to Ride World Champion

Joined: 18th Apr, 2008
Posts: 11843
Well, what the hell else is Cortana there for?

_________________
No, it was a giant robot castle!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:42 
User avatar

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 16553
*re-enables Cortana*


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2016 9:43 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
Start | Type "Mouse" | Click "Mouse and touchpad settings" | Change "Reverse scrolling direction"?

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:08 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
The Windows 10 free upgrade's clagnutted arsehole has now indeed pulled up its underpants, so you can once again update your Windows 7/8 PC without clicking on every single update's MORE INFORMATION button to see if it's going to do something to try and sneak Windows 10 onto your PC.

Oh no I only have four more years of support on Windows 7, much scary, so sad.

Attachment:
yay10arsebollock.JPG


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 13:08 
User avatar
Ticket to Ride World Champion

Joined: 18th Apr, 2008
Posts: 11843
No, now you have to check if it is going to upgrade but charge you for the privilege.

_________________
No, it was a giant robot castle!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 8:34 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Anniversary update went live yesterday, it's a big one, from starting the download to the PC having finished the updates and approximately three thousand reboots, took the best part of an hour, and this was on nicely specced i5 PCs with plenty of RAM and SSDs.

There are a few new features in there apparently but I didn't notice anything much different afterwards apart from them inexplicably having moved some things around slightly on the start menu for no apparent reason other than to cause minor irritation. Oh yes and there seemed to be advertisements in the tiles as well. Were they there before? Probably, but there seemed to be more though.

Overall I would say Mrs Hearthly and Hearthly Jnr will notice very little difference, which is probably about the nicest thing I can say about it.

Amazing scenes.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:08 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
Hearthly wrote:
Amazing scenes.

Operating system in "does more stuff than show you things" shocker

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:15 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Grim... wrote:
Hearthly wrote:
Amazing scenes.

Operating system in "does more stuff than show you things" shocker


Well yes, I understand that, but was coming at it from the perspective of the 'users', which in this case is my wife and child who just want their PCs to behave in a consistent and predictable manner, and not annoy them.

Then again, even if you look at what's going on behind the scenes in this update, a lot of it will be almost entirely irrelevant for many folks.

http://www.howtogeek.com/248177/whats-n ... ry-update/


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:17 
User avatar
SavyGamer

Joined: 29th Apr, 2008
Posts: 7600
One new feature is that they have broken compatibility with PS4 controllers.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:18 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
My PC had updated myself when I got up, which was somewhat painless.

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:18 
User avatar

Joined: 12th Apr, 2008
Posts: 17757
Location: Oxford
Is the calculator better?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:22 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Kern wrote:
Is the calculator better?


You can can apply an exciting new 'dark theme' to it, which could be handy if you want to do sums whilst plotting Joker-esque machinations, I suppose.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:26 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25550
Hearthly wrote:
The Windows 10 free upgrade's clagnutted arsehole has now indeed pulled up its underpants, so you can once again update your Windows 7/8 PC without clicking on every single update's MORE INFORMATION button to see if it's going to do something to try and sneak Windows 10 onto your PC.

Oh no I only have four more years of support on Windows 7, much scary, so sad.

Attachment:
yay10arsebollock.JPG


Is that the banner you were talking about, Grim...? If it is, that is NOT the same blue.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:32 
SupaMod
User avatar
"Praisebot"

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 17013
Location: Parts unknown
Kern wrote:
Is the calculator better?


Very important.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 10:15 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
LewieP wrote:
One new feature is that they have broken compatibility with PS4 controllers.

And Logitech wheels :'(

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:05 
User avatar

Joined: 31st Mar, 2008
Posts: 1883
Lonewolves wrote:
LewieP wrote:
One new feature is that they have broken compatibility with PS4 controllers.

And Logitech wheels :'(

What the shit?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:09 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
lasermink wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
LewieP wrote:
One new feature is that they have broken compatibility with PS4 controllers.

And Logitech wheels :'(

What the shit?

They sent out a bogus update for Logitech devices which means if I unplug it and plug it back in again it forgets all my settings now. I still haven't found a permanent solution.

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:11 
Awesome
User avatar
Yes

Joined: 6th Apr, 2008
Posts: 12240
Lonewolves wrote:
lasermink wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
LewieP wrote:
One new feature is that they have broken compatibility with PS4 controllers.

And Logitech wheels :'(

What the shit?

They sent out a bogus update for Logitech devices which means if I unplug it and plug it back in again it forgets all my settings now. I still haven't found a permanent solution.

How come you need to keep unplugging it?

_________________
Always proof read carefully in case you any words out


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:22 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
Mr Russell wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
lasermink wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
LewieP wrote:
One new feature is that they have broken compatibility with PS4 controllers.

And Logitech wheels :'(

What the shit?

They sent out a bogus update for Logitech devices which means if I unplug it and plug it back in again it forgets all my settings now. I still haven't found a permanent solution.

How come you need to keep unplugging it?

It causes input issues when using a controller and Steam Link.

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:30 
Awesome
User avatar
Yes

Joined: 6th Apr, 2008
Posts: 12240
Lonewolves wrote:
Mr Russell wrote:
How come you need to keep unplugging it?

It causes input issues when using a controller and Steam Link.


Hopefully Logitech are aware and working on a fix then.

_________________
Always proof read carefully in case you any words out


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:30 
User avatar
Gogmagog

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 48607
Location: Cheshire
Lonewolves wrote:
Mr Russell wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
lasermink wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
LewieP wrote:
One new feature is that they have broken compatibility with PS4 controllers.

And Logitech wheels :'(

What the shit?

They sent out a bogus update for Logitech devices which means if I unplug it and plug it back in again it forgets all my settings now. I still haven't found a permanent solution.

How come you need to keep unplugging it?

It causes input issues when using a controller and Steam Link.


Be honest, you unplug it, sit in your seat, then plug it in as you pretend it is a real racing car.

_________________
Mr Chris wrote:
MaliA isn't just the best thing on the internet - he's the best thing ever.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:36 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
Mr Russell wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Mr Russell wrote:
How come you need to keep unplugging it?

It causes input issues when using a controller and Steam Link.


Hopefully Logitech are aware and working on a fix then.

I very much doubt they give a shit about a seven year old steering wheel, but we live in hope. I think the issue is that Win 10 installs a second set of drivers that conflict with the Logitech Gaming Profile software, but I can't seem to get it working properly without that (admittedly old) piece of software.

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:40 
SupaMod
User avatar
Est. 1978

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 69502
Location: Your Mum
Can you not change the Device Installation Settings (in System Properties) to "No"?

_________________
Grim... wrote:
I wish Craster had left some girls for the rest of us.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:55 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
Grim... wrote:
Can you not change the Device Installation Settings (in System Properties) to "No"?

I'll have a look at that when I get home :)

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 14:21 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
The upgrade made a hostile attempt to install Razer's 'Synapse' software on both PCs because they have a Razer mouse and a Razer keyboard attached to them respectively.

This is in spite me telling the Synapse install to permanently fuck off at the original Windows 10 install time.

Also, it bundled it into the actual upgrade process at one of the many reboots, so to the less wary it would have seemed like a Windows thing rather than a third party piece of software. I told it to fuck off (permanently) once more. Maybe it'll listen this time.

I appreciate Windows probably thought it was being helpful but both devices work perfectly without the Synapse software, which is notoriously buggy, naggy, and generally shit - hence me not wanting it on either PC.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 14:31 
Excellent Member

Joined: 5th Dec, 2010
Posts: 3353
Quote:
Anniversary update went live yesterday, it's a big one, from starting the download to the PC having finished the updates and approximately three thousand reboots, took the best part of an hour, and this was on nicely specced i5 PCs with plenty of RAM and SSDs.


Just finished the install, 40 minutes, It was stuck on 76% for ages but went ok


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 14:35 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Enjoy your slightly different notifications area and improved calendar!

The future is Windows 10.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 14:39 
User avatar
Master of dodgy spelling....

Joined: 25th Sep, 2008
Posts: 22533
Location: shropshire, uk
Hearthly wrote:
The future is Windows 10.


Well yes... It is the latest os

_________________
MetalAngel wrote:
Kovacs: From 'unresponsive' to 'kebab' in 3.5 seconds


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 15:58 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
No, the present is Windows 10. The future is Windows 14 or whichever random number they choose next.

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 16:06 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Lonewolves wrote:
No, the present is Windows 10. The future is Windows 14 or whichever random number they choose next.


They've suggested there won't be another 'numbered' Windows after 10, they're just going to keep iterating 10 as the years roll by. (IIRC they explicitly said there won't be a Windows 11.)


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 16:11 
User avatar
UltraMod

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 55715
Location: California
Hearthly wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
No, the present is Windows 10. The future is Windows 14 or whichever random number they choose next.


They've suggested there won't be another 'numbered' Windows after 10, they're just going to keep iterating 10 as the years roll by. (IIRC they explicitly said there won't be a Windows 11.)

Another idea stolen from Mac OS then

_________________
I am currently under construction.
Thank you for your patience.


Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 16:59 
Excellent Member

Joined: 5th Dec, 2010
Posts: 3353
Hearthly wrote:
Enjoy your slightly different notifications area and improved calendar!

The future is Windows 10.


Skype looks a lot better now (on Windows 10) not sure if that was included in today's update?!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 17:27 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
asfish wrote:
Skype looks a lot better now (on Windows 10) not sure if that was included in today's update?!


Apparently so:

http://www.howtogeek.com/248177/whats-n ... ry-update/

Quote:
Microsoft Has Changed Its Mind About Skype…Again
With Windows 8 and 8.1, Microsoft offered both “Skype for Windows” and “Skype for Windows desktop” applications. The “Modern” Skype for Windows application ran in the full-screen interface and was pretty flaky. Microsoft abruptly discontinued the Modern version of Skype a month before Windows 10 was released, announcing it was refocusing development attention on the desktop version of Skype Windows users actually used.

Windows 10 launched with a Get Skype application that encouraged you to download the desktop application. Windows 10’s first big update, the November update, added a few beta applications–Messaging, Phone, and Video–apps that worked with Skype. These are separate applications for text messages, audio calls, and video calls.

Microsoft has now changed its mind again and will discontinue those three separate Skype applications on the desktop. Instead, Microsoft will create a new universal Windows app version of Skype that will eventually replace the traditional desktop application when it has enough features. The Skype Preview application is now available.

A new feature in the Skype application will enable “messaging everywhere“. Use Skype on an Android phone or Windows Mobile phone and you’ll be able to send and receive SMS messages from your Windows 10 PC. They’ll just be routed through your phone via the Skype application. This feature was supposed to be implemented in the “Messaging” application in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, but Microsoft changed its mind and removed the feature late in the development process so it could be added to Skype.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 13:48 
User avatar
Comfortably Dumb

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 12034
Location: Sunny Stoke
Has anyone tried the Android Cortana integration with Windows 10 yet? In theory it sounds useful to get phone notifications pushed into Windows Action Centre, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Possibly because the app is region-specific at the moment, so has to be installed via an APK in the UK.

_________________
Consolemad | Under Logic
Curse, the day is long
Realise you don't belong


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 14:00 
User avatar
Comfortably Dumb

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 12034
Location: Sunny Stoke
devilman wrote:
Has anyone tried the Android Cortana integration with Windows 10 yet? In theory it sounds useful to get phone notifications pushed into Windows Action Centre, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Possibly because the app is region-specific at the moment, so has to be installed via an APK in the UK.


Sure enough..five minutes after posting that, I find the setting in Windows that I'd missed...

Attachment:
cortana.png


Now I can see if it'll actually be useful or not.


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Consolemad | Under Logic
Curse, the day is long
Realise you don't belong


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:23 
Excellent Member

Joined: 5th Dec, 2010
Posts: 3353
Not sure if this was always in Windows 10 or if it came with an update, but I set up facial recognition at the weekend

Didn't take very long and it works really well

Annoyingly it will only work on devices that have a built in camera, don't know why as USB is initialised during boot up.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:31 
SupaMod
User avatar
"Praisebot"

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 17013
Location: Parts unknown
Don't they need a special kind of camera or am I thinking of something else? In fact, is this known as Windows hello?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 12:44 
Excellent Member

Joined: 5th Dec, 2010
Posts: 3353
Quote:
Don't they need a special kind of camera or am I thinking of something else? In fact, is this known as Windows hello?


Had a quick look on the web and yes you need a "a specialized illuminated infrared camera"

I set this up on a Surface 4.

There are few USB cameras available that will support Windows Hello, a couple from Intel that are part of dev kits, also one coming soon from Creative called the BlasterX Senz3D. That costs £189, does a lot of things aside from just hello but still expensive.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:00 
User avatar
Hello Hello Hello

Joined: 11th May, 2008
Posts: 13381
Quantum Break runs massively better on Nvidia cards under DX11 on the Steam release than DX12 under the Windows Store version. Also doesn't crash and all that shit. Developer has stated there'll be no more patches for the DX12 version.

(AMD cards perform pretty much identically with both APIs.)

Where Nvidia and AMD cards are competing in the same sort of price space, the Nvidia cards do better under DX11 than the AMD cards do under DX12.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... -than-dx12

Hopefully Microsoft will just give up on trying to even get vaguely involved with games. After the GFWL fiasco (which has left some games broken forever, including our Saturday night favourite DiRT2), I'll never trust them with any games related tech ever again.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:05 
User avatar
Unpossible!

Joined: 27th Jun, 2008
Posts: 38439
But... Directx is Microsoft


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Windows 10
PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:21 
User avatar
SavyGamer

Joined: 29th Apr, 2008
Posts: 7600
Hearthly wrote:
Hopefully Microsoft will just give up on trying to even get vaguely involved with games. After the GFWL fiasco (which has left some games broken forever, including our Saturday night favourite DiRT2), I'll never trust them with any games related tech ever again.

Can't see that happening any time soon, but I hope at least that externally developed Microsoft published titles continue to be granted permission to release on Steam at a later date. That was in the contract for nuTomb Raider 2 and Quantum Break, but those would have been based on contracts from before their big half-arsed push into PC gaming. Scalebound is the main one I am wondering about.


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic  [ 1116 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 ... 23  Next

All times are UTC [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Columbo, markg and 0 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search within this thread:
You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
Want to help out with the hosting / advertising costs? That's very nice of you.
Are you on a mobile phone? Try http://beex.co.uk/m/
RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC.

Powered by a very Grim... version of phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.