I’m not upgrading to 11.
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openshell fixes the start menu and taskbar, you can customize it however.
i go for clover for tabbed file explorer too.
still weird windows stuff like having 3 separate control panel / settings apps but meh
Figured I’d post this update for anybody on AMD:
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Yeah it works fine. No issues. As always, update drivers after upgrading windows. Enjoy!
Edit: I’m an Intel/Nvidia guy. So I didn’t experience the amd issues with performance. However windows update should download and apply the amd fix, if you’re on a team red system.
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Heck some hardware gets slowed way the hello down by W11. I don’t think forcing all the AMD users to upgrade NOW would do Blizzard any favors when the game runs like crap since the issue is mostly single core programs…like WoW.
I’m personally giving it a few more months. NVidia also has a few things to work out (alleged 20% hit to available power targets). But again, all of this is fixable. Moreover they are motivated to fix it.
You should have allegedly seen the 20% power target issue on the GPU. I don’t know if NVidia fixed that with the latest drivers but they didn’t say they did based on what I’ve seen, or if they did… they weren’t as up front about it. WoW isn’t the most GPU intensive so you probably wouldn’t have noticed there, but other games would have seen a 5-15% loss of FPS.
I’m gonna be honest, I can’t even confirm if I have upgraded to Windows 11 yet. I haven’t noticed a difference in gameplay after upgrading since… ever.
I did not. I’ve not not noticed any difference in performance or my targeted power cap. I run an evga rtx 3080.
Edit; Nvidia pushed a driver update yesterday or this week. Adds dlss to tomb raider etc, so the most recent driver may fix the power issues some users are having.
For once I got lucky and either didn’t have the issue, or didn’t notice (I like to think I’d notice).
And by default wow may not be gpu ontwbsive, however I play at 4k with rtx on high. My gpu fans like to scream from time to time lol
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There are known performance issues with Win11 and AMD processors due to Win11 being tweaked for Intel but otherwise you will find that Win11 is just Win10 with “pretty fonts and icons”. Don’t let the fact that the menu pops up in the middle throw you (you can set it back to the left), there are few actual improvements between Win10 and Win11. It’s just a facelift as far as the end user is concerned. You are unlikely to see any improvements in games beyond the placebo effect.
The primary purpose of Win11 is to force you to get a Microsoft cloud account, sell you software subscriptions, and gather and resell your activity data. When an upgrade or service is “Free” it’s because YOU are the product.
See my link a few posts above, MS and AMD posted their patches within the past 24hrs.
If you have AMD cpu better not. There is a bug in the L3 cache that causes your system to run 10-18% slower, even more so for games.
They literally just released patches for this, I linked it above:
The current patch still leaves AMD at a net 10% loss of performance compared to Win10. Just making people aware of the pitfalls of leaping onto a new OS at launch especially when there are few compelling reasons to do so other than “But it’s new!”. Win11 is Microsoft’s push away from you owning your own computer - it’s theirs now, as is the record of all you do on it. Win10 was pretty bad at this, Win11 is much much worse.
And for everything you give up, what do you get in return? Pretty icons that you won’t even see while playing games. This is a really bad time to be shifting to Win11.
Yea on the insider channel it’s not live nor has it fixed the problems. I am an insider I know.
I’m waiting for the new benchmarks post the new patches. My guess is it will end up being closer to 5-10% overall for both AMD and Intel. But we’ll see.
If you see the article it’s not insider channel, it’s released.
It didn’t fix the problem. AMD is even saying don’t upgrade to win11 and why it is not being offered to people with certain amd cpu’s
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Did you also install the AMD patch? You need to upgrade both. Not just W11. Without the AMD chipset driver patch you’ll see no improvement.
Did you even read my post? I am in the insider program I have been following this for last 7 months. I have Ryzen 5 3600X
I did, I understand your experience. Please see the AMD Knowledge base post in the post directly above yours. The Chipset driver patch was just released. Being in the insider track will not resolve the issues that require the new chipset driver patch to solve. 
I just saw it, came out yesterday, I am sorry I was wrong not seeing new patch was out, I am checking it out now. Thanks!
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