Heya, it's me Cortana!
... Uhm... Where's Imoen?
Would you like to check out my features?
What!?! No! I mean yes! I mean maybe... Look my foster fathers just died in an amb-.
Ask me what the weather will be.
... We are outside... Its Sunny. Are y-
"Sunny" by Bobby Hebb. Would you like me to play it?
... So your a Bard... That explains everyth-
Ask me a Joke.
... A jester. Great.
As a free upgrade, Windows 10 is going to make BG:EE, BG2:EE and IWD:EE unplayable on your chipset.
?!? Now your just being looney... I'm leaving....
*Cortana casts slow*
*Cortana casts slow*
*Cortana casts slow*
N--o--o--o--o-o-o-o-o!
*Anduin runs away at a slower than snail pace*
Would you like to check out my features?
What!?! No! I mean yes! I mean maybe... Look my foster fathers just died in an amb-.
Ask me what the weather will be.
... We are outside... Its Sunny. Are y-
"Sunny" by Bobby Hebb. Would you like me to play it?
... So your a Bard... That explains everyth-
Ask me a Joke.
... A jester. Great.
As a free upgrade, Windows 10 is going to make BG:EE, BG2:EE and IWD:EE unplayable on your chipset.
?!? Now your just being looney... I'm leaving....
*Cortana casts slow*
*Cortana casts slow*
*Cortana casts slow*
N--o--o--o--o-o-o-o-o!
*Anduin runs away at a slower than snail pace*
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This thread is making me glad that I rejected Windows 10 on sight for my Windows 8.1 computer.
"Even my newly purchased WIndows 8.1 computer, after I tried and rejected its included "free upgrade" to Windows 10, after about ten minutes of seeing that it was not compatible with my new computer's graphics card interfacing with my HDTV, is trying to throw Microsoft Network (MSN) in my face, at full screen, with no visible means of closing it. Thank the gods I know how to get it off my screen and out of my face by pressing alt-F4, because it wants to hide *all* of my computer controls and force me to spend time with it trying to get control of my computer back. "
Think about making a villain called Microsoft...
The problem is more to do with the upgrade process than Windows 10 itself, which is just a cross between Windows 7 and iOS.
Oh, wait... ;-)
Wait you weren't being serious were you?
Because if you were being serious, you're being silly Mac is horribly overpriced and extremely weak hardware wise. The OS is ok to work with and even nice for 2 design "if you keep your file sizes small." I had to work on Mac for 3 yrs while studying 3D and the difference between my home PC and the Mac at college was immense. A render that would take 20 min on the Mac, would take 30 sec on my PC and it's not like my PC cost that much more than the mac, it was something like $200 dollars more, I did the price check. Mac is not very customizable, it's overpriced, it uses weak hardware, it's overpriced, it tries to charge you a arm and a leg to upgrade it's weak hardware, it's overpriced and you can't really game on it.
Besides 2D design work and maybe some audio stuff, I don't understand why people use Mac. A PC can do anything a Mac can do and do it better and faster.
People are gonna start going on about viruses, but just get a antivirus program and keep it up to date. Even the free avast will keep you safe for the most part. If you don't specifically tell it to install something dodgy and then ignore it's warnings.
Programs built from the ground up to work on Mac typically run much faster than programs built for Windows and then ported to Mac, because they're designed to take advantage of the hardware Apple has specified. Affinity Photo, for example, runs smooth as silk on a MacBook Air, whereas Adobe's Photoshop frequently brings both my MacBook Air and my desktop PC to a grinding halt.
The Unreal Engine runs a lot better on Windows than on Mac, largely because it was built for Windows first. I imagine that if the same engine were built from the ground up to run on Mac, it would offer the same performance boosts that Affinity Photo does.
That being said, let's not turn this thread into a Mac vs PC argument. There are perfectly valid reasons for preferring either platform, and the "PC Master Race" stance I see elsewhere on the internet frequently borders on antagonism. So just don't.
Of course there are rough edges, mainly in the drivers department. I related a problem I had with the EE games in another thread, although I found a pretty simple solution (Windows was not dealing well with scaling a high DPS display, just had to turn in off in compatibility options).
The current AMD drivers, for instance do not like it when I put my notebook to sleep and will crash a short time after wake up, so I just shut down the computer when I'm not going to use it for a time.
Concerning the Windows x Mac debate, I just like them both. Both have positive and negative sides and you should just use whatever you feel most comfortable with. At home I have Windows machine and my wife has a Mac, no fights whatsoever
I hated windows 8 and am not looking forward to seeing what they did with win 10.
I reinstalled Win 10 as it appears you can force install old drivers. Just need to figure out how to stop Win 10 REINSTALLING the crap one it comes with onto my machine.
As soon as I figure it out, I will make a thread...
I'm still not entirely sure about Windows 10, even with the amount of testing I have done on it. It's jarring going from 7 to 10 and back again. And not in a way where I would think "Wow, Windows 10 made my life so much easier!"
While I would consider Windows 10 less disjointed/schizophrenic than 8—a lot of settings have been consolidated under PC Settings, for example, rather than being split between PC Settings and Control Panel (even though there is still a split for more advanced settings). Other things have been refined as well—I'm still going to keep Windows 7, Vista, and Ubuntu/Mint for my day to day stuff.
Now... oddly, BG:EE is working on my machine using Win 10. I have no explanation apart from perhaps fixing another problem of side by side configuration issues. AFTER LENGTHY AND UNREWARDING READING, I learnt I had to uninstall visual c++ and .NET framework... Yes Win 10 sucks that bad that I am uninstalling programmes that I did not know existed! But I will not give in and I am unbowed! Onward to victory!
Edit: for clarity.