Did any one face problems in Windows 11 with games or apps ?

Hi

I want to upgrade to Windows 11 but I am afraid. I have very good AMD PC but sometimes I read there is problems like with nvme speed. Also will the games installed work as it is ? What is your suggestions upgrade or stay on 10 ?

Thanks

William346 said:

Hi

I want to upgrade to Windows 11 but I am afraid. I have very good AMD PC but sometimes I read there is problems like with nvme speed. Also will the games installed work as it is ? What is your suggestions upgrade or stay on 10 ?

Thanks

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I have some very old games/programs installed, and they work fine on Win 11.

I have two 2.5" SSDs. I cloned my Windows 10 install to the 2nd SSD.
Then I did an In-Place Upgrade on the 2nd SSD from Win 10 to Win 11.
All my programs made the transition...






Also, I believe, that most of the NVMe issues on Windows 11 were solved, with various methods.


The way to try Windows 11 safely... is to make a full OS image backup of Windows 10.
Then you can upgrade or clean install Windows 11 and try it out.
Or you can do like I did. I just switch back and forth between my Win 10 SSD and my Win 11 SSD.

Use Macrium Reflect or similar app to create a system image before anything else (preferably store the image on an external disk), also create a boot USB/ DVD and test it works.
You could try Win11 and if you don't like it or find too many incompatibilities with your apps/ games you will have a default 10 days to return to Win 10, after this you would need to clean install Win 10 if you want to go back (there is a method to extend the 10 day period if you look it up).
Should the Win 11 upgrade go awry or the roll back feature fail you could use Macrium to restore your system to before you upgraded to Win 11.
I have been running Win11 since October 5th and have found zero issues so far, I haven't encountered any apps or drivers that won't install or run.
This machine is on 24/7, I run various digital art (2d, 3D, animation) apps, video editors, office style suites and games ( examples, Minecraft - Control - ESO online).
I have an old laser printer that works fine, several external HDDs (self contained and using a dock) that all work fine, a handful of internal 2.5 "SSDs and an NVME that all work fine. The AMD issues have been sorted out, the disk speed issue only affected the system drive and not all systems were affected (I never actually experienced it) and as far as I am aware it has already been fixed.
There is probably nothing Win11 offers you over Win10 at this point in time if you are running anything other than the latest hardware (12th gen Intel with Big little cores have better scheduling support for example), unless you just want to experience it or you know it has a feature you can't get with Win10 but need now, then I see no point in upgrading until at least full general release or until Win10 support ends.
On a personal note I like Win11's style changes, the GUI usability changes don't really bother me. However, all this is just my personal experience and opinion on my system (which is not state of the art by any means). Your mileage may vary.

Make an image and go for it... When I upgraded via Windows Update everything went well and everything that worked in 10 worked in 11. there is an option to roll back for 10 days if you don't like it as well. This can be increased with a DISM command

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Quickie guide to Macrium Reflect...

1- Many thanks to all I will ugrade soon.
2- I used Aomei backupper but will also use Macrium
3- I read before somewhere if there are two bootable nvme in same PC , windows wont start

Which is better Reflect 8 Free Commercial or Reflect 8 Free ?

William346 said:

Which is better Reflect 8 Free Commercial or Reflect 8 Free ?

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The plain one... Reflect 8 Free

User guide...

William346 said:

1- Many thanks to all I will ugrade soon.
2- I used Aomei backupper but will also use Macrium
3- I read before somewhere if there are two bootable nvme in same PC , windows wont start

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Myself, I use Macrium Reflect for an Image and Aomei for backing up. I just back up important files and folders. and create an image before I make any changes.
With regard to your other post, the free version is fine

What I noticed is that when out of memory, the Windows 8.1 would just terminate the memory-consuming app (game or browser) while under Windows 11 the video driver crashes, the session exits to the logon screen and after re-logon the video driver is disabled and needs manual enabling.

Anixx said:

What I noticed is that when out of memory, the Windows 8.1 would just terminate the memory-consuming app (game or browser) while under Windows 11 the video driver crashes, the session exits to the logon screen and after re-logon the video driver is disabled and needs manual enabling.

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Never a problem here

Well it was win 8.1 :) from 10 to 11 as I said everything was the same app and program wise, everything worked the same. All I would suggest is update the old OS, delete old files and do a general clean up, set it up exactly as you want it and make and image and off you go

William346 said:

3- I read before somewhere if there are two bootable nvme in same PC , windows wont start

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I dual booted Windows 10 & 11 while I was checking out Win 11 on the insider program. Each build was on its own NVMe drive, never had a problem.