Windows 11 and WoW

Because it’s what they want to use. Giving them the information about the possibility of when it’ll lose support is good.

Getting snippy about it for no reason is not good.

It may not make sense to us, but no need for the hostility.

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Some people don’t, or can’t, upgrade their hardware. Take W11 for instance – if your hardware doesn’t support TPM 2.0 you can’t use it. Yes, TPM 2.0 capable hardware has been around for a few years so to you it might like not a big deal, but people with older systems are in a different situation.

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They already have though

Recommending a GTX 1080 or a RX Vega is already good enough

Modern gaming engines are GPU-based. Wow’s still isn’t.
Don’t play dumb.

And that’s why Microsoft gave windows 10 5 years left of support

You’re bound to buy another computer in that timeframe even if you’re buying a Walmart black Friday special PC

That’s fine cause windows 10 will still be around for WoW

Ray tracing sir

Seriously? WoW’s ray tracing is a joke. It’s like shadows only or something stupid. I’d feel bad if I had an RTX.

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Ray tracing is a gimmick anyway.

DLSS is where it’s at.

I’ve turned on RT on games that support full ray tracing, even with a 3070ti it’s just too much of a hit to performance for an okish improvement. If you love looking at fire and reflections it’s great though.

On windows 11, I’ve just been too lazy to go into bios and enable TPM 2.0

Nah, I enabled it and made sure it was 2.0 :confused:

Imagine not having an education or enterprise copy of W10

ray tracing isnt as good as it will be but it is most certainly not a gimmick lol

It’s going to take a LOT of work to get it anywhere near functional.

It’s a gimmick for now, it’s useless unless you value how something looks over performance. And honestly, unless it can nearly equal non-RT at some point, most people probably still won’t use it.

The PC Health Check app is most likely more correct; however, I expect that you have downloaded the app to verify and it would have identified the area in which your system is remiss. If TPM is available; but not enabled, this is an easy fix. Google the steps to enable TPM. If it’s not available and you truly want Windows 11, a system upgrade may be appropriate. I hope this information helps.

I’m personally holding off due to some known regressions involving NVidia GPUs and AMD CPUs. Of which… I have both.

EDIT: A patch has been released please see the AMD KB:

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-400

These are all fixable, but that will take time.

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Go Linux? There are two easy to install distros for it. Mint and Ubuntu, and they are free too! I made the switch a month ago. If you wanna play wow, install Lutris and you are golden. They are a bit more secure than windows and you don’t need TPM 2.0 either. And older hardware will run quite well on it.

Upgrade on your own timetable, don’t let some corporation tell you to do it. The whole TPM system is a marketing gimmick to force people to buy new hardware.

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But windows 11 needs an m2 to work, right? or an ssd for windows and an m2 for games…or did I get it wrong?

Please stop saying this, even Linus admits this isn’t the case because of the unix permissions system is completely FUBAR. It’s one of his greatest regrets with Linux and something very hard to change and fix. The only “secure” version of Linux is SELinux… which is also a royal pain in the butt to use.

No, just an SSD for the boot drive. SATA or M2 is fine.

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I wouldn’t recommend being an early adopter if you don’t have to.

There were some concerns over perf on Ryzen. Then just other random issues that could prop up, drivers, os optimizations, etc.

I’m not suggesting you hang on to Windows 7/10 forever, but maybe consider it something you do over the holidays or early next year, when the dust has settled a little.

If they pull a Win10 it was only free at first and eventually you had to pay.

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but wouldn’t there be a quick return scheme? ? I don’t understand if it’s just for games or for windows too.

Not even that. I have a cheap desktop besides my main. And that has a pure HDD in it. Clear to go to W11 from health check app and again clear as stated by W10 update menu.