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Gamers Should Be Worried About Windows 10 Automatic Updates
forbes ^ | Erik Kain

Posted on 07/26/2015 12:10:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin

As Forbes contributor Gordon Kelly reports, the problem revolves around a conflict between automatic updates and Nvidia graphics card updates using Nvidia’s ‘Nvidia GeForce Experience’—a handy tool for all Nvidia GPU owners. Basically Microsoft has taken control away from users, and made all updates mandatory—including driver updates. This is a decision meant to increase security and stability across the PC user base, but it comes at a cost.

Users are reporting problems with multi-monitor setups, dual-card configurations (SLI) and PCs not booting properly, setting off Windows 10 emergency recovery mode. More issues are likely to arise.

In other words, for a lot of PC users—and for Nvidia-GPU toting gamers in particular—Windows 10 could be problematic, especially at launch. Gamers are especially at risk given the much higher likelihood of that demographic running Nvidia graphics cards, as well as dual-GPU and dual-monitor setups.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: nvidia; windows; windows10; windowspinglist
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To: rarestia
I examined my original post, and can see where I confused you.

kiryandil wrote: It appears as though they download the new OS patches to your box, and then the system will start "acting up" [if you don't have "update automatically". I desire the actual update process to be under my control, so I'm one of these users.].

In my response to your post, I clarified my actual updates setting (I was posting from memory in my post #3, because it's such a pain to navigate a "normal settings" Win 8.1 installation like mine. I didn't bother to go into the control panel to look, because I didn't want to waste 5 minutes doing it. I guess I had to, anyway, in the event. LOL!)

I thought that I had the system set for "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them", but I actually have it set for "Install updates automatically (recommended)". I remembered that I had it set this way for two reasons - one, to suffer with my users, and two, because I didn't want to bother trying to sift through the updates MS thinks I need.

I will typically blow off the system warning for a day or two when it starts agitating to complete its auto update. HOWEVER - I've noticed the behavior I described even without the system agitating for "action".

21 posted on 07/26/2015 1:54:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: rarestia

MS forced the Win 8.1 update on users. Opting out required manual modification of the registry to turn off the update notice. Many users had problems after being forced to accept the update to 8.1. This is all documented at MS community forums and elsewhere.


22 posted on 07/26/2015 2:00:12 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: JoeProBono
Yeah, all those as well as this guy----and all those great DOS games and flight sims. Aces Over Europe got me into computers after I saw a CNET TV show on flightsims in 1995. Gotta have it, but shoulda waited 6 months for the prices to drop. Sigh...
23 posted on 07/26/2015 2:14:10 PM PDT by W. (I've said there's no original thought left in Hollywood for A. Long. Time.)
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To: BenLurkin

I feel the need for PING!


24 posted on 07/26/2015 2:42:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Kirkwood

It’s also documented that there was a serious flaw in the 8.0 kernel that forced everyone to update to 8.1. If you didn’t upgrade to 8.1, literally every security and kernel-level update would not work. Microsoft did a good thing with 8.1, because there were security vulnerabilities that would’ve been catastrophic to them had they not.


25 posted on 07/26/2015 4:37:11 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia
Microsoft did a good thing with 8.1, because there were security vulnerabilities that would’ve been catastrophic to them had they not.

True, but Win 8.1 is still "not Scottish". :)

26 posted on 07/26/2015 6:48:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: rarestia; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; Alas Babylon!; amigatec; ...
Problems with Nvidia and Windows forced automatic updates? ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to rarestia for the ping!!

27 posted on 07/26/2015 8:21:10 PM PDT by dayglored (Meditate for twenty minutes every day, unless you are too busy, in which case meditate for an hour.)
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To: dayglored

I feel the need for PING!

i had your name on this before, but it disappeared. . . strange.


28 posted on 07/26/2015 10:39:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: BenLurkin

Hopefully, my R9 280 won’t be affected since it isn’t Nvidia. Battlefield 4 requires some horsepower.


29 posted on 07/27/2015 5:30:11 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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