I Am So Upset With Windows 10 Right Now!

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Gforced

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So Windows 10 is supposed to be the best version for gaming, or at least that's what people say.

Playing CSGO for a few months now and my ping averages ~70ms-80ms. Not bad certainly playable.
I was in the middle of a Competitive game last night and my ping shoots through the roof it bouncing from 900ms to 1400ms.

I check with wife, she's not on Netfilx or Youtube in fact she's asleep, TV's off, her computers off. My phone is not downloading updates or anything. Restart the router, problems still there. So It can only be my PC.

I check task manager and there it is some Window process is happily gobbling 2mbs of my bandwidth.
Bloody windows updates. Kill the process and happy days I am back to normal and can continue my game, a few matches later my game starts lagging. Oh hello its me windows I am just going to restart downloading my downloads!!!

After my game, I am like everything must die!!!! So I google tweaking Windows 10 for gaming and find a decent article with what I want to know and go to town on my pc. Do you know Skype is part of Microsoft messenger and just runs in the background? Not anymore!

Disabled a few processes and services, tweaked some settings, half an hour later I am in CSGO and my ping is now sitting around a sweet ~40ms.


TLDR; Windows 10 Update is poorly optimised, it does not allow you to set when and how to download updates. It is also a greedy bloated resource eating monster. Tweaking Windows is defiantly a must for better gameplay.


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Gforced said:
So Windows 10 is supposed to be the best version for gaming, or at least that's what people say.

Playing CSGO for a few months now and my ping averages ~70ms-80ms. Not bad certainly playable.
I was in the middle of a Competitive game last night and my ping shoots through the roof it bouncing from 900ms to 1400ms.

I check with wife, she's not on Netfilx or Youtube in fact she's asleep, TV's off, her computers off. My phone is not downloading updates or anything. Restart the router, problems still there. So It can only be my PC.

I check task manager and there it is some Window process is happily gobbling 2mbs of my bandwidth.
Bloody windows updates. Kill the process and happy days I am back to normal and can continue my game, a few matches later my game starts lagging. Oh hello its me windows I am just going to restart downloading my downloads!!!

After my game, I am like everything must die!!!! So I google tweaking Windows 10 for gaming and find a decent article with what I want to know and go to town on my pc. Do you know Skype is part of Microsoft messenger and just runs in the background? Not anymore!

Disabled a few processes and services, tweaked some settings, half an hour later I am in CSGO and my ping is now sitting around a sweet ~40ms.


TLDR; Windows 10 Update is poorly optimised, it does not allow you to set when and how to download updates. It is also a greedy bloated resource eating monster. Tweaking Windows is defiantly a must for better gameplay.


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Link to the article you found? I am happy with Win10 so far, but yeah the updates are sometimes poorly timed. Luckily with netmeter I can easily spot bandwidth usage.
 
Blazzok said:
Link to the article you found? I am happy with Win10 so far, but yeah the updates are sometimes poorly timed. Luckily with netmeter I can easily spot bandwidth usage.
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Yup I was happy with Windows 10 too.

Killing services that you don't need!

I haven't done this yet but it you really want to push your games FPS then try this HardCore Mode


This one is pretty good too. bear in mind you don't have to do everything on the list just know your pc and what you do on it and what you need it to do.

http://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-make-windows-10-faster/

In fact try this one First!
http://windows.wonderhowto.com/how-to/everything-you-need-disable-windows-10-0163552/http://windows.wonderhowto.com/how-to/everything-you-need-disable-windows-10-0163552/
 
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Ah you see, that was your mistake, not Win 10's :p

the first thing you do (with any windows installation) is tell it to not download update whenever it feels like it
 
Yeah but I tried to get technical and wanted to try out windows 10 download updates from other pcs on the network. Sort of a mini Update server, but Windows 7 used to at least notify you its downloading and give you the option to download later.
Windows 10 doesn't even tell you its doing it.
 
MalicE said:
the first thing you do (with any windows installation) is tell it to not download update whenever it feels like it
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You can't with Win10. They specifically designed it that way because they want people to always be up to date. It's bloody annoying. I've often had my gaming tank and then notice Windows is updating. Or I leave a download overnight and come back to a computer sitting at the welcome screen because it restarted for updates.

Windows is no longer aimed at the gamer. It's now aimed at the casual home user and the office worker. They don't care that their features are pissing off experienced users because we're a drop in the bucket.
 
Graal said:
You can't with Win10. They specifically designed it that way because they want people to always be up to date. It's bloody annoying. I've often had my gaming tank and then notice Windows is updating. Or I leave a download overnight and come back to a computer sitting at the welcome screen because it restarted for updates.

Windows is no longer aimed at the gamer. It's now aimed at the casual home user and the office worker. They don't care that their features are pissing off experienced users because we're a drop in the bucket.
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Exactly this. Though it's a great platform I get the feeling they make the rights decisions coming from Windows 8 or 8.1 then they take another step back by changing something else. Can never really win with MS.
 
Graal said:
You can't with Win10. They specifically designed it that way because they want people to always be up to date. It's bloody annoying. I've often had my gaming tank and then notice Windows is updating. Or I leave a download overnight and come back to a computer sitting at the welcome screen because it restarted for updates.

Windows is no longer aimed at the gamer. It's now aimed at the casual home user and the office worker. They don't care that their features are pissing off experienced users because we're a drop in the bucket.
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set your network to a "Metered Connection"

If you are on Wifi, there's a convenient button for this in the settings.

If you are on ethernet run THIS regkey
 
Set the connection as a metered connection. Windows 10 doesn't download updates over a metered connection.

Edit : What Malice said.
 
Graal said:
You can't with Win10. They specifically designed it that way because they want people to always be up to date. It's bloody annoying. I've often had my gaming tank and then notice Windows is updating. Or I leave a download overnight and come back to a computer sitting at the welcome screen because it restarted for updates.

Windows is no longer aimed at the gamer. It's now aimed at the casual home user and the office worker. They don't care that their features are pissing off experienced users because we're a drop in the bucket.
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I used to have this problem. But recently MS started asking when I want the update to install so I no longer have unwanted restarts overnight.
 
Windows 10 was averaging around 1gb a day on my lte connection. Had to disable so many things just to allow it on the network I ended up reverting back to Windows 7.

Served by a Droid
 
AstroTurf said:
Windows 10 was averaging around 1gb a day on my lte connection. Had to disable so many things just to allow it on the network I ended up reverting back to Windows 7.

Served by a Droid
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Windows 7, I hate windows not myself.

I am lying Windows 7 was solid, but there's no going back.
 
Gforced said:
Windows 7, I hate windows not myself.

I am lying Windows & was solid.
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Yea it sucks but Microsoft, like the rest is moving everything to the cloud and when you live on a plot with your only (viable) Internet connection being vodacom it makes the operating system no longer viable.

Actually think I should move the pc in question back to Ubuntu, only use it for media anyway.

Served by a Droid
 
I'm on 3G/LTE at the moment so I've disabled the updates in the Services section. I've also set all my apps, AV, nvidia, etc, not to auto update. Have had no major problems, I watch the data like a hawk...
 
Graal said:
Or I leave a download overnight and come back to a computer sitting at the welcome screen because it restarted for updates.
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Start -> Settings -> Update and Security -> Windows Update -> Advanced Options -> Choose how updates are installed, set this to "Notify to schedule restart"

Boom, your PC will now ask you when it's convenient for you to restart.
 
And I'll sommer copy and paste directly from the help file on a Windows 10 system

Specifies whether this computer will receive security updates and other important downloads through the Windows automatic updating service.

Note: This policy does not apply to Windows RT.

This setting lets you specify whether automatic updates are enabled on this computer. If the service is enabled, you must select one of the four options in the Group Policy Setting:

2 = Notify before downloading and installing any updates.

When Windows finds updates that apply to this computer, users will be notified that updates are ready to be downloaded. After going to Windows Update, users can download and install any available updates.

3 = (Default setting) Download the updates automatically and notify when they are ready to be installed

Windows finds updates that apply to the computer and downloads them in the background (the user is not notified or interrupted during this process). When the downloads are complete, users will be notified that they are ready to install. After going to Windows Update, users can install them.

4 = Automatically download updates and install them on the schedule specified below.

If no schedule is specified, the default schedule for all installations will be every day at 3:00 AM. If any updates require a restart to complete the installation, Windows will restart the computer automatically. (If a user is signed in to the computer when Windows is ready to restart, the user will be notified and given the option to delay the restart.)
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Gforced said:
So Windows 10 is supposed to be the best version for gaming, or at least that's what people say.

Playing CSGO for a few months now and my ping averages ~70ms-80ms. Not bad certainly playable.
I was in the middle of a Competitive game last night and my ping shoots through the roof it bouncing from 900ms to 1400ms.

I check with wife, she's not on Netfilx or Youtube in fact she's asleep, TV's off, her computers off. My phone is not downloading updates or anything. Restart the router, problems still there. So It can only be my PC.

I check task manager and there it is some Window process is happily gobbling 2mbs of my bandwidth.
Bloody windows updates. Kill the process and happy days I am back to normal and can continue my game, a few matches later my game starts lagging. Oh hello its me windows I am just going to restart downloading my downloads!!!

After my game, I am like everything must die!!!! So I google tweaking Windows 10 for gaming and find a decent article with what I want to know and go to town on my pc. Do you know Skype is part of Microsoft messenger and just runs in the background? Not anymore!

Disabled a few processes and services, tweaked some settings, half an hour later I am in CSGO and my ping is now sitting around a sweet ~40ms.


TLDR; Windows 10 Update is poorly optimised, it does not allow you to set when and how to download updates. It is also a greedy bloated resource eating monster. Tweaking Windows is defiantly a must for better gameplay.


:mad:
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Happened to me whilst in DOTA2...
And my update kept restarting and failing, no pause button, no cancel button.

Found a workaround now luckily. Set connection to metered, and then manually download and install the updates.
 
Turned it off in January and have done half a season of online racing and this has never occurred once. I only do manual updates.

What happened to you is known as a PEBKAC error.
 
Graal said:
You can't with Win10. They specifically designed it that way because they want people to always be up to date. It's bloody annoying. I've often had my gaming tank and then notice Windows is updating. Or I leave a download overnight and come back to a computer sitting at the welcome screen because it restarted for updates.

Windows is no longer aimed at the gamer. It's now aimed at the casual home user and the office worker. They don't care that their features are pissing off experienced users because we're a drop in the bucket.
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You can. I can't remember the exact setting name, but will check after work. It gives me a notification center message every time updates are available, and then if I click on it, it opens the update page. Then there is a Download button - nothing starts downloading before you click this button.
 
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