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#2 funkyzoom
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@illmatic87:

Ok, thanks a lot!

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#3  Edited By funkyzoom
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I just completed mission 34 (Backup, Back Down), and also witnessed the cut-scene involving Quiet. But after that, I don't know how to trigger the start of the next mission.

Please help. Thanks in advance.

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#4 funkyzoom
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@FelipeInside:


3rd part drivers, in my experience are pretty difficult to find, and are usually a gamble. Especially for on-board peripherals and laptops.

Well there's a few different situations here:

1) the manufacturer should have had Win10 drivers ready to go before launch. Win10 has been out nearly a year with alphas and beta so that's just lazy on their part.

2) contact the manufacturer and ask if they are bringing out Win10 drivers or if they know how to fix it

3) search for 3rd party drivers, or even try drivers for different models (sometimes you get lucky)

4) when all else fails, only thing left to do is downgrade sadly and wait till they release drivers, or buy new hardware in the future

I normally wait at least 6 months before upgrading to a new OS because of these issues. This time I did it in the first month because my OS needed a reinstall anyway.

I have a pretty cheap Gigabyte motherboard (GA-78LMT-USB3). The worst part is, my board is rev 5.0, which is the only one having VIA onboard audio. All other revisions have Realtek audio, and people have been able to find drivers for it. But for VIA audio, I tried 7 different drivers and none worked. The Gigabyte customer support people are such imbeciles. They are totally clueless if they'll release Windows 10 drivers for this board. They give generic responses, like "Just try Windows 8.1 or Windows 8 drivers, they should work". In fact, Gigabyte does not even list Windows 10 under 'Supported Operating Systems".

So the only way I would be able to upgrade to Windows 10 in the future, is using an add-on PCI sound card. Should probably stay away from Gigabyte boards. Even the expensive ones don't seem to have Windows 10 drivers listed.

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#5  Edited By funkyzoom
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@FelipeInside said:

Driver are drivers.

Some will work with current and future versions of Windows, some won't.

For example my Win8.1 drivers for my printer worked fine on Win10, but my sound card ones didn't and I had to find third party ones.

Suppose a hardware manufacturer refuses to provide Windows 10 complaint drivers, and those meant for Windows 8.1 don't work Windows 10, am I left with only 2 options - Either buy new hardware, or not upgrading to Windows 10? 3rd part drivers, in my experience are pretty difficult to find, and are usually a gamble. Especially for on-board peripherals and laptops.

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#6 funkyzoom
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@FelipeInside said:
@funkyzoom said:

This Windows 10 seems to be more messed up than I thought. I did a clean install on my brother's high end Dell Laptop (core i7, 8 GB RAM, AMD graphics). Downloaded Windows 10 drivers from Dell. First problem, they refused to extract or install. Had to move them to my desktop PC to extract them, and then run setup from the Dell laptop. Even after this, the AMD graphics driver (which was downloaded form the Dell site for this specific model) installed fine, but after restart, gave an error that AMD hardware is not found. Tried to revert to the default Intel HD graphics, but it showed up with that dreaded yellow exclamation mark under 'Device Manager'.

I'm well versed with computers, and I even work in IT. But looks like I need a pHD in Computer Science to solve the issues with Windows 10. Way too many problems, and abysmal driver support. Don't know if this blame goes to Microsoft or the device manufacturers. Of course, there are people who are having a great experience with this new OS, but for me it has been an utter failure on more than one device. Hard to call it a co-incidence.

I just have to give Windows 10 a rest for now, and perhaps get back to it after an year or so, when (hopeful) the driver support would have improved. And yeah, most, if not all, Windows 8.1 drivers did NOT work on Windows 10. I have never had this much of trouble with ANY previous Windows OS a month after launch. Not even the universally panned Windows ME and Windows Vista.

Looks like you've had a bad luck run with drivers.

I've upgraded 5 PCs already and none of them has caused me issues except my one which needed a fresh install (reset).

Yeah, I guess so. From what I have seen, people are either immensely satisfied with Windows 10, or are simply unable to get it to function well. No middle path. But I'm really surprised that WIndows9.1 drivers never work for Windows 10. Since Microsoft made the NT family of Windows mainstream, previous drivers have usually worked. Even before that, Windows 9x drivers used to work with Windows ME.

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#7  Edited By funkyzoom
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This Windows 10 seems to be more messed up than I thought. I did a clean install on my brother's high end Dell Laptop (core i7, 8 GB RAM, AMD graphics). Downloaded Windows 10 drivers from Dell. First problem, they refused to extract or install. Had to move them to my desktop PC to extract them, and then run setup from the Dell laptop. Even after this, the AMD graphics driver (which was downloaded form the Dell site for this specific model) installed fine, but after restart, gave an error that AMD hardware is not found. Tried to revert to the default Intel HD graphics, but it showed up with that dreaded yellow exclamation mark under 'Device Manager'.

I'm well versed with computers, and I even work in IT. But looks like I need a pHD in Computer Science to solve the issues with Windows 10. Way too many problems, and abysmal driver support. Don't know if this blame goes to Microsoft or the device manufacturers. Of course, there are people who are having a great experience with this new OS, but for me it has been an utter failure on more than one device. Hard to call it a co-incidence.

I just have to give Windows 10 a rest for now, and perhaps get back to it after an year or so, when (hopeful) the driver support would have improved. And yeah, most, if not all, Windows 8.1 drivers did NOT work on Windows 10. I have never had this much of trouble with ANY previous Windows OS a month after launch. Not even the universally panned Windows ME and Windows Vista.

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#8 funkyzoom
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A lot of people seem to be having issues with their sound in Windows 10.

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#9 funkyzoom
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@glez13 said:

I also had problems like you with my realtek audio. Also boot times were slower than W7 and also was somehow sluggish. But I finally managed to fix my audio problem. Also Windows somehow fixed boot times by itself and now it's a few seconds faster than my W7 install and is no longer sluggish. I also had problems with whatever was the current version of Firefox at that time and the AMD driver that crippled Firefox's tabs. The new version of Firefox seems to have fixed the issue. The only other problem is with Windows 10 itself and some of it's functions like always on Windows Update and some other kinks I don't really like. But I have found ways around some of them or simply just ignore them.

Could you please let me know how you fixed the audio issue?

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#10 funkyzoom
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@adamosmaki

What do you mean by 'GameDVR'?

I suppose I needed to do a clean install too, but I didn't want to go through the hassle of setting up everything the way it was, after the clean install.