So is Windows 8 worth getting for laptop/desktop?

[chronovore]

thanks andrex my dslr broke my galaxy s2 broke and now i have a shitty windows phone capturing my laptop dying

Well, in fairness, you shouldn't have begun smashing shit up just because Win8 was not behaving.

[mjemirzian]

It is going to be a long time before I upgrade to Win8.

Is anyone experiencing flawless enjoyment of it?

Does reading about how Win 8/RT/Surface is flopping and people raging at botched installs count as enjoyment?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Im doing a fresh install the way Shaka did it, hope it helps. I think I have most of my pics from my trips backed up...

But I did lose most of my music collection for sure. Plus 50gb in vidya and countless saves for games like mass effect...

[Positive Touch]

goddammit, it still wont let me update or download certain apps. i can pick new ones that download with no problem, but but there's six that i just keep getting error messages on. problem is, theyre the BASIC FUCKING APPS THAT COME WITH WIN8. i cant use the music OR video apps because they need to be updated. THANKS GUYS FOR TELLING ME TO DO A CLEAN INSTALL THAT TOTALLY MADE MY COMPUTER BETTER

[recursivelyenumerable]

It is going to be a long time before I upgrade to Win8.

Is anyone experiencing flawless enjoyment of it?

I've been running it as my primary OS on my laptop and tablet since the Release Preview this summer, like it a lot and haven't experienced any significant technical issues. Flawless is a bit much though ...

[MCD]

No issues here. I just need more apps.

[demi]

you need to get laid instead of reading amazon reviews

Was waiting for this one... oh LAGER

[Cerveza mas fina]

  well he was fucking asking for it 

I dont see the joke in his amazon comment its just effin annoying

[Cerveza mas fina]

goddammit, it still wont let me update or download certain apps. i can pick new ones that download with no problem, but but there's six that i just keep getting error messages on. problem is, theyre the BASIC FUCKING APPS THAT COME WITH WIN8. i cant use the music OR video apps because they need to be updated. THANKS GUYS FOR TELLING ME TO DO A CLEAN INSTALL THAT TOTALLY MADE MY COMPUTER BETTER

Did you try thia one by one and in opposite order. Worked for me after 5 reboots.

Fresh install is already at 9% , hopefully ill be able to use my laptop again after 4 days of shit.

[Madrun Badrun]

but beyond the petty opinions of the lowest form of developer -- web designer

I like you

[Tasty]

you need to get laid instead of reading amazon reviews

Damn what a putdown. :'(

[chronovore]

It is going to be a long time before I upgrade to Win8.

Is anyone experiencing flawless enjoyment of it?

Does reading about how Win 8/RT/Surface is flopping and people raging at botched installs count as enjoyment?

[Stoney Mason]

It is going to be a long time before I upgrade to Win8.

Is anyone experiencing flawless enjoyment of it?

I haven't had any significant issues. My mouse driver and punkbuster weren't working properly after the upgrade but uninstalling them and reinstalling them fixed that. But those were really the only issues. Everything seems to work properly for me.

[MrAngryFace]

I havent had any issues- been using on my Surface mainly though

[Tasty]

It is going to be a long time before I upgrade to Win8.

Is anyone experiencing flawless enjoyment of it?

Does reading about how Win 8/RT/Surface is flopping and people raging at botched installs count as enjoyment?

Sure does.

[huckleberry]

the only persistent issue i have is not being able to scroll in certain metro apps.  i am not certain that it is my mouse or the apps themselves.  i wouldnt let it bother me so much except it makes me not want to use the metro interface as much.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I haven't had much of apps just plain not scrolling, but I've seen too much of apps annoyingly requiring extra focus clicks before scrolling.

[Shaka Khan]

I'm not having fun installing Asus drivers. They're buggy and I'm on my second fresh Win re-installation.

[Positive Touch]

same here. been doing that shit all day. FUCK CLEAN INSTALL. FUCK DRINKY.

[MCD]

Thankfully, I only needed AMD catalyst on my master race desktop pc.

What drivers are you guys missing? Usually new versions of Windows come preloaded with every generic driver to date.

[Shaka Khan]

Right now I desperately need ATKPackage which handles my FN key shortcuts. Without it I can control brightness levels (even virtually), keyboard backlight, screen switching, and other functionalities.

Speaker has a crappy quality with the stock audio driver, so I need Realtek drivers. I'm not sure if they *have* to be the ones provided by Asus, though.

I'm running Windows update and installing everything one last time, optional or not, to see if they offer what I'm looking for before I start hunting down alternative solutions.

[MCD]

You don't need Asus outdated Realtek drivers, get it from them directly: http://www.realtek.com.tw/

I'm using MS audio drivers since 7 because there was no difference between it and Realtek.

As for this ATKPackage, you can't find it or what? Compatibility issues?

[Shaka Khan]

Compatibility. Prole is feeding me awesome advice on FB, I'll take it and see how things go.

[MCD]

Alright.

Oldest trick is to hit Properties on ATKPackage  --> Compatibility and run it in 7 or vista mode.

[Van Cruncheon]

man, i have a usb drive for each machine in the house with the baseline driver set for it

fuck i am BALLA on the install front

[MCD]

Same here but I only needed drivers for new Windows 7 machines because the fucking assholes LOVE to use custom ass drivers for no goddamn reason.

And the same thing will happen with Windows 8 after one year.

[Shaka Khan]

Alright.

Oldest trick is to hit Properties on ATKPackage  --> Compatibility and run it in 7 or vista mode.

I did that on one of my attempts, other attempts involved (allegedly) updated Win 8 64bit drivers. Still no luck.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Man, I never have to do any of this. Shit just works for me. I'm magic, I guess.

[Shaka Khan]

It locked up, I restarted, then I got a BSOD seconds after I signed in. This most certainly caused by so something installed through Windows update. Unless I accidentally checked an optional update, it's probably one of the critical ones.

I'm performing one last reinstall (since I don't ave anything to lose right now), installing important Asus drivers from my model's web page, then performing Windows updates.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Yo Shaka I have an Asus too but since the clean install (and the 10 min I used it since) it works fine.

Pictures now show up in the Photos app!

clean install

[archnemesis]

How does upgrade DVDs work these days? Do I need anything else than my Windows 7 serial key? Can I switch to another language using the same key?

[Shaka Khan]

Yeah, most of my problems stemmed from trying to settle for generic drivers or up-to-date drivers straight from manufacturers while snubbing the drivers on my laptop's official resource page. As soon as I installed some of the more important drivers from there (old as they may be) as directed by prole, everything worked out fine.

[Cerveza mas fina]

What kind of problems where you encountering? I know asus is famous for having shit drivers.

Im really hoping this clean install will be good, cause shit looks so sexy when it works, looks wise its the prettiest OS ive ever seen.

[Cerveza mas fina]

How does upgrade DVDs work these days? Do I need anything else than my Windows 7 serial key? Can I switch to another language using the same key?

You get a change language option the first time you install 8 as an upgrade, after that youre set again for ages I think.

[Shaka Khan]

What kind of problems where you encountering? I know asus is famous for having shit drivers.

Im really hoping this clean install will be good, cause shit looks so sexy when it works, looks wise its the prettiest OS ive ever seen.

- I didnt bother to install chipset drivers from Asus' website, thinking generic stock drivers would suffice.
- I was installing a buggy/incompatible driver for controlling my FN key shortcuts. Without it I wasn't able to adjust the brightness through the keyboard or otherwise.
- I was running into driver conflicts as soon as I installed LAN and Bluetooth drivers through Windows' optional updates (even though it correctly identified my devices). The result of those conflicts were cycles of lockups > hard resets > BSOD > Forced recoveries.

Honestly, I ain't even mad. I'm the kind of person who ends up enjoying these fuck-ups and learning from them. It's not everyday that I upgrade to a refreshingly new OS, so it's kinda exciting (the good along with the bad). As long as my important files are backed up, that is.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Im mad cause I was feeling like spending some quality time with my lady but once I started dicking around with the OS I couldnt stop for 3/4 hours.

Im half to blame for this 

[Reb]

How do I exclude folders from my pictures app? Now it shows all album covers I have on my PC.

The same question for video, since it now shows all my porn front and center.

[Himu]

What kind of problems where you encountering? I know asus is famous for having shit drivers.

Im really hoping this clean install will be good, cause shit looks so sexy when it works, looks wise its the prettiest OS ive ever seen.

- I didnt bother to install chipset drivers from Asus' website, thinking stock drivers would suffice.
- I was installing a buggy/incompatible driver for controlling my FN key shortcuts. Without it I wasn't able to adjust the rightness through the keyboard or otherwise.
- I was running into driver conflicts as soon as I installed LAN and Bluetooth drivers through Windows' optional updates (even though it correctly identified my devices). The result of those conflicts were cycles of lockups > hard resets > BSOD > Forced recoveries.

Honestly, I ain't even mad. I'm the kind of person who ends up enjoying these fuck-ups and learning from them. It's not everyday that I upgrade to a refreshingly new OS, so it's kinda exciting (the good along with the bad). As long as my important files are backed up, that is.

I have an Asus ROG. What drivers did you dl?  I must say that my speakers are pathetically low on my laptop. Always have been.

[Cerveza mas fina]

How do I exclude folders from my pictures app? Now it shows all album covers I have on my PC.

The same question for video, since it now shows all my porn front and center.

You can go into the picture/video library (in desktop) and manage it, remove folders shown.

[Shaka Khan]

I have an Asus ROG. What drivers did you dl?  I must say that my speakers are pathetically low on my laptop. Always have been.

From the G73 page on Asus website, I downloaded:
- Most recent Chipset driver available.
- Most recent ATKPackage
- Most recent LAN and wireless drivers.

Even though all of those date back to 2010, I found out they're perfectly compatible, more so than the most recent official drivers found elsewhere.

Drivers I downloaded directly from third parties:
- Most recent AMD drivers.
- Most recent Realtek HD drivers (with generic stock drivers, the volume was even more pathetically lo).

After that I ran Windows updates and updated everything; critical, recommended and optional. It most notably decided to update the following:
- A 50mb AMD driver update (even after manually updating to ver. 12.10)
- Qualcomm Atheros LAN drivers update to the one I manually installed from Asus.
- Boardcom BT drivers

These are the only drivers in installed thus far, afaik. Only after doing it in this order did I stop having the issues I was running into yesterday.

[MCD]

Why download all that outdated shit when Windows stock drivers do the job fine? I get the audio and unrecognized drivers like that ATKPackage but the rest? Windows 8 stock drivers are more than enough.

tl;dr you are doing this wrong.

[Shaka Khan]

Aside from my motherboard drivers, the one I had to install was AMD drivers (duh). Other than that I allowed windows to handle the rest.

The only reason I opted to install the Asus LAN and Wireless drivers was because my laptop was freezing up almost instantly when I installed the ones offered by Windows. Those and the chipset drivers are mainly cautionary steps. I haven't installed any of the other 15+ junk drivers that came with my ROG.

[MCD]

That's why you don't upgrade!

Fresh shit.

[Shaka Khan]

Read the edit.

I didn't run into *any* problems after I upgraded. Only when I performed a fresh install and started dealing with drivers did I run into the problems.

I will say that getting rid of all the bloat that bogged my system down was worth the trouble.

[Positive Touch]

so i had steam on a separate partition, untouched by my fresh install - OR SO I THOUGHT. it runs fine, but most of my games cant find their save files, tell my they're not installed, or give me some other kind of stupid problem.

this is not a good day for touch

[Shaka Khan]

I had Steam and my games all on a separate drive as well, but figured a wiped C & registry would still affect it. So I backed up any save that's not in the Cloud and deleted all my games + Steam.

I'm actually installing Steam right now!

[Positive Touch]

the problem with deleting my games is that theyre all pirated so redownloading them = like 1TB of shit thru bittorrent, plus all the searching for isos

[Positive Touch]

and as for you, drinky:



FUCK YOUR SUGGESTIONS

[MrAngryFace]

and as for you, drinky:

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FUCK YOUR SUGGESTIONS

aaaaaaand this is why I dont provide free tech support

[Positive Touch]

YOU WANT SOME TOO MAF

ILL TAKE A FUCKIN BEATDOWN ROADTRIP

[MrAngryFace]

[Positive Touch]

FINE ILL CHANGE IT TO A HUGS ROADTRIP

BUT JUST THIS ONCE

[MrAngryFace]

[Van Cruncheon]

ARRRR! TIS HIGH SEAS JUSTICE

[Mupepe]

My Windows 8 install has been buttery smooth and I performed just an upgrade.  No issues here

[Joe Molotov]

I'm not having fun installing Asus drivers. They're buggy and I'm on my second fresh Win re-installation.

I initially read this as "Anus drivers" and this post was a lot better as a result.

[Tasty]

and as for you, drinky:

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FUCK YOUR SUGGESTIONS

This sounds somewhat sexual. Tell us how you really feel.

[Positive Touch]

it was an offer for a free night of fisting, but when i realized that was too much for drinky i toned it down to some intimate hugging

[chronovore]

FINE ILL CHANGE IT TO A HUGS ROADTRIP

BUT JUST THIS ONCE

Oooh, me too!

[Positive Touch]

only if you pack me in your suitcase