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Post by LeahxRIx » February 5th, 2016, 12:06 pm

This is why I don't use Google. Hopefully they still can't get their hands on my business.
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Post by Consort » February 5th, 2016, 3:25 pm

I've been through an upgrade to Win10 and back to Win7 this week.

I like Win10, and it seems that most "phone home" features can be switched off or blocked (Spybot Anti Beacon) these days. But the performance was shocking on my machine. Sims3 was unplayable. Whenever the CPU was at or near full load the whole system felt slow and clumsy, the mp3s playing in the background started stuttering, playing youtubes in the background while playing sims was unthinkable. It really felt like one of my 2 cores went missing over night. So, after 5 days of testing I rolled back to Win7.

I kinda like the OS, but absolutely can't recommend it for below-average machines.
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Post by chili46 » February 5th, 2016, 5:07 pm

@Consort1 -- same here. I have a quad core CPU and 16 GBs of RAM. Windoze 10 still had problems and Call of Duty didn't play well at all. It even broke old COD2 and I cannot get it to re-install (compatibility mode or any other mode). So 10 is definitely not ready for prime time. Uninstalled it and I'm back to Win 7 Pro. Still cannot get COD2 to install though. :(
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Post by igazor » February 5th, 2016, 5:10 pm

(waves hi at Consort)
Good heavens, they're coming out of the woodwork for this thread! :D
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Post by Micmac53 » February 5th, 2016, 5:18 pm

I've had Win 10 for about 8 months. I bought my desktop in 2010, but, it was heavy-duty for gaming back then, and still runs like a top now. Sims 3 runs just fine on it. The only problem I've had is with SaveCleaner not working anymore :-(
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Post by Consort » February 5th, 2016, 5:41 pm

@igazor lol it's been a while *waves back!*
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Post by Simmania » February 5th, 2016, 5:42 pm

Windows 10 has been on my system since it was made available and I love it. Sims 3 runs great on it. SaveCleaner also works. I didn't do a clean install on it and everything I had before the update works great. I only updated some of my drivers and so far I have no issues. It is much faster than Windows 8.1.
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Post by brappl » February 5th, 2016, 6:48 pm

*waving at Consort* Nice to see ya :)
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Post by Consort » February 5th, 2016, 10:11 pm

Can't believe people remember me! o/ brappl
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Post by bonniherself » February 6th, 2016, 1:20 am

I've been using Windows 10 for a while now. Other than a few random things that I can't get to work (and I do mean only a few and I definitely mean random), it's been fine. I shut off all the privacy-invading things when I did the install, and then double checked to make sure there was nothing else I wanted to turn off. It's a pretty smooth ride, overall, and I like some of the new features. I don't know if I'd say it's a vast improvement over Windows 7, to be honest, but it's a huge improvement over Windows 8 (which I hated with a holy purple passion).
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