When I installed Windows 10, I disabled a bunch of things in privacy settings. Inspired by this thread, I went to check on my privacy settings. Most of them had been re-enabled.
Admittedly, I don't have a perfect memory of exactly what I disabled months ago. But a whole bunch of things were enabled that there's no way I would have left enabled before.
The number of things that you need to disable is a bit daunting, and updates, which you have no control over, often re-enable things you've disabled. There is a program that will check for you, obviously not from Microsoft, that can 'immunise' your system. Its called Spybot Search and Destroy anti beacon, just make sure you get the one from their website and not an imitation, used it on the wifes laptop, and it keeps it 'beacon free', or at least reduces it signficantly. Tbh, when you read through the list of 'features' that are in Win10, it sort of reads like a scary story you frighten the kids with, and makes you wonder if connecting your PC to the internet is all that good of an idea. In some ways it reminds me a lot of Xbox's Kinnect, which Microsoft later dropped from the Xbox package as it was detrimental to Xbox sales, whether all this 'data gathering' in Win 10 will go the same way, we can only hope. O.o
There are a lot of things that software does that sounds scary if put in the wrong context, but are actually innocuous. For example, MMORPGs will generally track your mouse and keyboard actions and send them (or data closely derived from them) to the game server while you're playing the game. They have to do this or else you'd have no way to interact with the game.
That said, if there's no plausible benefit to me to sending data to Microsoft, then I'll disable it. Even if it's probably innocuous so there's little upside to disabling it, there's no downside at all. I do take a fairly narrow view of "no plausible benefit", however, as I regard helping Microsoft debug stuff I use as a benefit to me.
If VR is so popular that it must be forcibly injected into every single conversation, then why don't you petition the mods for a VR-specific forum so you can go post there to your hearts content, be on topic, and stop littering the other forums with your nonsense. And I promise to stay out of said forum entirely.
Each and every month, Steam conducts a survey to collect data about what kinds of computer hardware and software its customers are using. And according to the March survey, the most popular OS is Microsoft’s Windows 10 64bit. In addition, NVIDIA and Intel are still dominant as most PC gamers are still using Intel’s CPUs and NVIDIA’s GPUs.
Yeah surprised by that here. For instance to play the Witcher III with decent settings you gonna need at least 2gb. Same for GTA.
I managed to run both @1920x1080 on my back up pc featuring a hefty o/c'ed Asus GTX 460 768MB and a fast SSD.
GTA run quite smoothly with most settings on medium. In TW3 i had to put almost everything to low in order to maintain ~30fps but still the game looked good.
Yeah, you ran them on medium or low. I was meaning, to run them so that they look good, with all the bells and whistles turned on. Aka "decent settings". In Witcher III, I get 60+ fps on max settings. You get ~30 fps on low. That's the point
Yupp, thats why i got Witcher 3 on PS4 and run it at a steady 30 (kinda sucks but at least its steady)... My PC wont even run it at 30 on max settings so i wont bother with it. When i decide to buy the R9 390 some time this year after the new stuff comes out and this card drops in price it wont run at 60 on max either so im personally not losing anything, but thats just me.
Each and every month, Steam conducts a survey to collect data about what kinds of computer hardware and software its customers are using. And according to the March survey, the most popular OS is Microsoft’s Windows 10 64bit. In addition, NVIDIA and Intel are still dominant as most PC gamers are still using Intel’s CPUs and NVIDIA’s GPUs.
WOW! thats a lot of people who want to play Forza...?
sorry I am missing why anyone would be surprised by this data fact or even care.
largest OS distributor in the world is giving away a free OS and reminds you about it on your PC every day...hmmmmm shocker?
Don't forget, Microsoft also recently changed the way Win10 adoption happens, by making it a recommended update for people using Win7 and Win8, chances are a lot of the current Win10 users didn't even choose to get Win10, but got it because automatic updates installed it for them. Yes, have to agree though, is there really that many people interested in Forza?
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That said, if there's no plausible benefit to me to sending data to Microsoft, then I'll disable it. Even if it's probably innocuous so there's little upside to disabling it, there's no downside at all. I do take a fairly narrow view of "no plausible benefit", however, as I regard helping Microsoft debug stuff I use as a benefit to me.
sorry I am missing why anyone would be surprised by this data fact or even care.
largest OS distributor in the world is giving away a free OS and reminds you about it on your PC every day...hmmmmm shocker?
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Yes, have to agree though, is there really that many people interested in Forza?