Two years after launch Windows 11 adoption is still waaaay behind Windows 10

[Verge]

AMD and Intel have been doing 8 hours of battery for a while now.

So it's 2x the weight of a mac air, and 1/2 the battery life. Wow, where's the line to buy one lol.

 

[Lakados]

AMD and Intel have been doing 8 hours of battery for a while now. If you're just watching YouTube constantly then 10 hours is possible on AMD based laptops.

That's actually good that Intel and AMD have managed to catch up, a little late to the party but at least they have decided to make an appearance.

 

[Seelenlos]

So it's 2x the weight of a mac air, and 1/2 the battery life. Wow, where's the line to buy one lol.

I don't know what you have been ordering but the Mac and Windows laptops we have been ordering are pretty much the same in weight.

 

[Mazzspeed]

That depends on your hardware and config an any-any-any-any-any-Deny as rule 1 is becoming more popular for business devices. Home ones not so much.
Allowing all traffic out is dangerous and it’s how breaches go undetected for long periods. Knowing exactly what is trying to leave is just as important as knowing what’s trying to come in.

Considering only NAT, you do not need to forward ports for outbound connections in any scenario that I've ever seen. Once again, malware can also make use of commonly used ports to get around port forwarding.

 

[Lakados]

Considering only NAT, you do not need to forward ports for outbound connections in any scenario that I've ever seen. Once again, malware can also make use of commonly used ports to get around port forwarding.

But it doesn’t match application signatures. Which is what differs layer 7 from standard layer 3 filtering.
Any-any-any-any-any
Source-destination-user-application-protocol

Malware may match source, user, and protocol, but if you have your destination rules set and application libraries defined it fails that rule and hits the below deny rule.

Also layer 7 devices update very frequently with malware signatures so it’s not uncommon for updates to be available in under 24h that allow them to recognize traffic generated by those malware variants which then falls into a pre rule for auto deny.

Additional:
For the source and destination rules you can also use dynamic lists to block things like known VPN Entry and Exit nodes as well as Certificate Revocation Lists. Toss in a rule to deny any domain younger than a month old and a running list of problematic countries and address blocks and it tightens up things considerably.

It’s not bullet proof but it puts up a solid wall.

So in my case I have my lists contained in a group I call “Sketchy” so when source of or destination to includes anything in the sketchy list it’s blocked.

 

[DukenukemX]

Yes. That battery life is possible on Windows laptops with the performance turned way down.

The benefit of Apple's chips is you pretty much get most (if not all) of the performance whether you are plugged in or not. When you unplug these Windows laptops, the performance drops dramatically. But I guess that bit of information isn't helpful for your point.

If you watched the video you can see that at least on AMD you can leave the chip running at full tilt which is like 35W on battery. The downside is that you obviously shorten the battery power. If you think you don't have this problem on M1/M2's then you're wrong. If you play a game on a M1/M2 at full tilt then you only get about an hour and 40 minutes worth out of it. It's all about the load you put on these chips that determines how much power they will consume.

View: https://youtu.be/c3exhJpNQbU?si=3Ca5z4LFMfToWyFV

View: https://youtu.be/66n1nylac0M?t=332

So it's 2x the weight of a mac air, and 1/2 the battery life. Wow, where's the line to buy one lol.

The 14inch Lenovo Legion slim 5 that they tested is 3.86lbs pounds. The 14inch Macbook Pro is 3.5 lb. Again if you looked at the video the AMD chips last as long if not longer.

That's actually good that Intel and AMD have managed to catch up, a little late to the party but at least they have decided to make an appearance.

I'd argue that AMD's Rembrandt had already caught up. The new Ryzen mobile 7000 series chips have surpassed Apple.

 

[Verge]

The 14inch Lenovo Legion slim 5 that they tested is 3.86lbs pounds. The 14inch Macbook Pro is 3.5 lb. Again if you looked at the video the AMD chips last as long if not longer.

Well a quick glance at the lenovo site shows the 14inch with a 73wh battery, YOUR video clearly states they are 80wh, which corresponds to the 16 inch that is 5+ pounds.

Also i clearly said mac air, then you brought up a macbook pro for some reason. Like what are you even talking about right now homie?

 

[MrGuvernment]

You CAN set up a firewall that way, but if you have to manually open every port for every outgoing connection, man that is going to be a hell of a pain in the ass.

it actually isnt really. as noted, app based rules, and even then, most networks only need a handful of ports other than 80/8080/443/8443 - you get some for apps outside of that, but for most networks, SMB, Enterprise level, it is not that bad. And a quick search for any app should get you a list of ports you need opened. Done, once done , you dont have to touch em again.

Yes, it adds a little more over head and unknown for home users, but any business, should be doing this, but they dont, cause they just think inbound is what matters...

 

[MrGuvernment]

Backups are not excuses for apple's horrible anti-consumer practices. Even though I have backups how much easier it is to just slap the drive into another MB and continue working as if nothing has happened?
You can't have backups that are up to date to the minute anyway.

You pretty much can if you really want... and using cloud storage, and storing files on say OneDrive or something with auto saving, as soon as it saves, or you save, synced and done..

And even with that, if it wasnt down to the minute, it can be with in a few minutes. There are all ways you can do it, if you really want. Logging into an m365 account, on a new system, get onedrive going, sycned - done on new system. App install, sure you got to install some apps, but doing a restore, vs taking a drive out, having an external case , or a system with another slot to put it in, boot, copy files off, or what ever...seems more cumbersome...

 

[Lakados]

it actually isnt really. as noted, app based rules, and even then, most networks only need a handful of ports other than 80/8080/443/8443 - you get some for apps outside of that, but for most networks, SMB, Enterprise level, it is not that bad. And a quick search for any app should get you a list of ports you need opened. Done, once done , you dont have to touch em again.

Yes, it adds a little more over head and unknown for home users, but any business, should be doing this, but they dont, cause they just think inbound is what matters...

A smidge more than that, to make mine work I have nearly 200 outgoing rules and 1 incoming.
Incoming is just deny, I don’t have any need for an outside service to initiate a connection to anything in my house.
But strict rules for the PlayStation, the Nintendo, Apple Updates, Microsoft updates, Samsung Tizen, game A, B, C, etc. It adds up over time, FaceTime, took a bit to figure out when Apple added the end to end encryption because it initiates with IKE 400 and blarg that took a hot minute to fish out of the logs but yeah.

You can get things going with web-browsing and SSL. The big question is do you want to run local SSL decrypt or not to ensure bad things aren’t sneaking through that generic SSL allow you need for https. At home no I don’t use it, but at work for sure I do.

Then it’s just a matter of setting up notifications for rules not triggered in 30, 60, 90, and 180 days for review.

 

[DukenukemX]

Well a quick glance at the lenovo site shows the 14inch with a 73wh battery, YOUR video clearly states they are 80wh, which corresponds to the 16 inch that is 5+ pounds.

The 16 inch model Lenovo is 5.07lbs. The 16 inch Macbook Pro is 4.8lbs. Not a world of difference.

Also i clearly said mac air, then you brought up a macbook pro for some reason. Like what are you even talking about right now homie?

Macbook Air doesn't count because you want to take advantage of the light weight but then you can't complain when it thermal throttles. Can't bounce between both Air and none Air models to win the online spec battle.

 

[M76]

You can literally have Time Machine back up every hour, 24 hours a day with a drive connected or any other backup software you want to use. So yes, you can have extremely current backups on either platform. I wasn't disagreeing that their current System-On-A-Chip hardware kind of sucks, but your comment about backups is irrelevant as everyone should have backups.

And why would I want to loose just a days work, or even half a day's work? I don't know where do you get it from that I said people shouldn't have backups? You brought it up that apple's anti consumer bs doesn't matter cuz backups. I said backups are no excuse for apple.

You pretty much can if you really want... and using cloud storage, and storing files on say OneDrive or something with auto saving, as soon as it saves, or you save, synced and done..

And even with that, if it wasnt down to the minute, it can be with in a few minutes. There are all ways you can do it, if you really want. Logging into an m365 account, on a new system, get onedrive going, sycned - done on new system. App install, sure you got to install some apps, but doing a restore, vs taking a drive out, having an external case , or a system with another slot to put it in, boot, copy files off, or what ever...seems more cumbersome...

Yeah, if you are only working with teeny-tiny files. For me having even daily backups is not just impractical, but literally impossible. I work with files in the hundreds of GB range.
And there is one thing that is even more important than the work files themselves, the environment that has dozens of applications installed, and set up perfectly to suit my needs. That is irreplaceable, and will take months for me to get back to the same level if I have to start from scratch because I can't just move my boot drive to a working system.

 

[Shoganai]

And why would I want to loose just a days work, or even half a day's work? I don't know where do you get it from that I said people shouldn't have backups? You brought it up that apple's anti consumer bs doesn't matter cuz backups. I said backups are no excuse for apple.

Your point was that if something happened to the computer and you couldn't access the drive, you were screwed. This problem is alleviated by having back ups. If your hard drive failed in a Windows computer, you would also be screwed if you didn't have back ups. Yes, Apple having everything soldered to the motherboard is annoying. But your drastic scenario is simply eliminated by having backups. I didn't say what Apple is doing doesn't matter cuz backups. I'm saying your scenario is unrealistic unless you willingly choose not to have a back up plan.

Yeah, if you are only working with teeny-tiny files. For me having even daily backups is not just impractical, but literally impossible. I work with files in the hundreds of GB range.
And there is one thing that is even more important than the work files themselves, the environment that has dozens of applications installed, and set up perfectly to suit my needs. That is irreplaceable, and will take months for me to get back to the same level if I have to start from scratch because I can't just move my boot drive to a working system.

Nonsense. It's not impossible. It sounds like you just need a backup method that involves Thunderbolt 4 and NVME drives. I work with massive data files as well. I'm not going to use that as an excuse to have a crappy back up plan or even worse ... no back up plan at all. Your hard drive(s) could die at any moment. What would your excuse be if you simply lost everything because you think that backing up is impossible?

There is mirroring software for both Mac and PC. If you had a proper back up method, you wouldn't need to do anything from scratch as most modern solutions allow for "metal to metal" backup restoration ... meaning if you had to get a completely different computer than what you are using now, you could just restore everything from the most recent backup with all your apps, files, and settings being exactly as they were. You can be mad at Apple all you want, but from the sound of things, it just sounds like you have a garbage means of backing up your files and configurations, regardless of what platform you're using.

 

[Lakados]

Yeah, if you are only working with teeny-tiny files. For me having even daily backups is not just impractical, but literally impossible. I work with files in the hundreds of GB range.
And there is one thing that is even more important than the work files themselves, the environment that has dozens of applications installed, and set up perfectly to suit my needs. That is irreplaceable, and will take months for me to get back to the same level if I have to start from scratch because I can't just move my boot drive to a working system.

That’s irresponsible…
Who keeps 100’s of GB on their active system in a working folder set. I can understand 100’s of GB hell dozens of TB in a project but in an active set that’s asking for a bad time. That should live in a NAS and you check the work in and out, otherwise you are just asking for a bad day.

And if you run local encryption as is recommended by just about every community, then you can’t just pick up and move your storage drive between devices.

So even my basic bitch windows workstation, take that m.2 out to another machine or a USB enclosure and good luck.

 

[philb2]

I guess I just don't understand the usage scenario that makes okg battery life a must have.

Pretty much everywhere you go has outlets.

Not so on a lot of airplanes. I've run out of power on transatlantic flights from the west coast.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

No power cords and wireless displays only, it's strictly an optics thing 90% of the time but blah blah blah first impressions.

Wow, people are actually that petty?

I've never once associated cables with a lack of professionalism or anything like that, and honestly, I think I would take that as a sign of a shitty person if they did.

On the flip side, I once excused myself from an interview with a fancy Cambridge MIT spinoff startup because during the tour when I walked in the door I saw they were using Apple computers. To me it was a sign that they weren't serious, and were more into appearances. I declined to continue the interview as I wouldn't have taken the position if it were offered to me, so it would have been a waste of my time and theirs.

I'm in the medical device engineering field (Quality/Regulatory) and it's the one and only time I've ever seen any non-byod Apple product in an office (at least outside the C-Suite)

I consider myself lucky that I work in Engineering and don't have to deal with this bullshit. I'd imagine it is in the realm of sales/marketing and those who are proud to call themselves "creatives" even though your average engineer has created way more in their career than someone who edits artwork on a mac.

I'm glad I don't have to deal with those people.

Not so on a lot of airplanes. I've run out of power on transatlantic flights from the west coast.

That is a fair comment. I used to have to travel a lot for work, but it has been over a decade at this point.

That said, even when I did, I found I could never quite work on a plane anyway. I used to do supplier audits a lot, and I'd try to write up my audit reports on the plane and I just couldn't do it. Too many distractions, too cramped space. So instead I'd just try to sleep, and write my reports either before takeoff or after landing So, not an issue for me, but I can see how it might be for some.

 

[Lakados]

Wow, people are actually that petty?

Yes they are...

 

[DukenukemX]

Your point was that if something happened to the computer and you couldn't access the drive, you were screwed. This problem is alleviated by having back ups. If your hard drive failed in a Windows computer, you would also be screwed if you didn't have back ups. Yes, Apple having everything soldered to the motherboard is annoying. But your drastic scenario is simply eliminated by having backups. I didn't say what Apple is doing doesn't matter cuz backups. I'm saying your scenario is unrealistic unless you willingly choose not to have a back up plan.

When I'm dealing with a dead computer my first action is to remove the SSD and transplant it to another machine. This is a rather quick and simple process. Backups are a last resort, and if the backup is done on the local drive like with TimeMachine then you lose all your data. TimeMachine is more of a solution for when data corrupts, not when the computer no longer functions. You could depend on an external drive to store backups, but who carries around one of those? Time Machine doesn't work with iCloud, but it will backup stuff in the home folder which might work if that's where you store your important documents.

Having an NVME M.2 based SSD instead of soldering it onto the board would solve a lot more problems than whatever Apple was trying to solve. Lets be honest here, the only reasons Apple solders Nand chips to their boards is to cut costs and to force consumers to spend an abhorrent amount of money for larger storage. Why else would Apple put 256GB of storage that ran at half the speed other than to push consumers to buy the next tier up?

 

[Lakados]

When I'm dealing with a dead computer my first action is to remove the SSD and transplant it to another machine. This is a rather quick and simple process. Backups are a last resort, and if the backup is done on the local drive like with TimeMachine then you lose all your data. TimeMachine is more of a solution for when data corrupts, not when the computer no longer functions. You could depend on an external drive to store backups, but who carries around one of those? Time Machine doesn't work with iCloud, but it will backup stuff in the home folder which might work if that's where you store your important documents.

Having an NVME M.2 based SSD instead of soldering it onto the board would solve a lot more problems than whatever Apple was trying to solve. Lets be honest here, the only reasons Apple solders Nand chips to their boards is to cut costs and to force consumers to spend an abhorrent amount of money for larger storage. Why else would Apple put 256GB of storage that ran at half the speed other than to push consumers to buy the next tier up?

Time Machine requires an external destination...
You can select iCloud as the destination for your time machine backups if you want.
Time machine does not backup data you have stored in iCloud nor the OS, just local files, folders, and applications.

But nobody carries around an external drive, just like they never carry around their power cords, but sweet Jesus they always need a thumb drive for one reason or another, I can't restock my drawer of them fast enough and nobody ever brings the one they "borrowed" back.

 

[Shoganai]

When I'm dealing with a dead computer my first action is to remove the SSD and transplant it to another machine. This is a rather quick and simple process. Backups are a last resort, and if the backup is done on the local drive like with TimeMachine then you lose all your data. TimeMachine is more of a solution for when data corrupts, not when the computer no longer functions. You could depend on an external drive to store backups, but who carries around one of those? Time Machine doesn't work with iCloud, but it will backup stuff in the home folder which might work if that's where you store your important documents.

It backs up the entire computer, as is, to an external drive. When you restore from a Time Machine backup, all your files, settings, app, icons, configurations, and everything in between is restored exactly as it was for the last back up. It's a complete system backup.

Having an NVME M.2 based SSD instead of soldering it onto the board would solve a lot more problems than whatever Apple was trying to solve. Lets be honest here, the only reasons Apple solders Nand chips to their boards is to cut costs and to force consumers to spend an abhorrent amount of money for larger storage. Why else would Apple put 256GB of storage that ran at half the speed other than to push consumers to buy the next tier up?

No, the main reason is because communication between all the parts is faster than them being separate. The problem is how much they charge for storage. The storage on the bottom tier being half the speed is indeed incredibly stupid, I agree. It wasn't like this before. So they're definitely sticking it to the consumers with this choice.

 

[t1337duder]

For me Auto-HDR is the #1 killer feature. I really love it. Both my HTPC and my backup Gaming computer use HDR-capable GPUs connected to HDR-capable displays, but CPUs that were too old so I had to use a bypass to install Windows 11 on both.

Search has just got a lot of love. It used to be agonizingly slow to do a Windows file search, especially if you have a lot of mapped network drives. It's amazingly snappy now in the latest version of 11.

Multi-path SMB is a cheap and easy way to get speeds above gigabit using nothing but gigabit hardware, and although it existed in 10, it had major issues if you used multiple connections with different speeds. That's fixed in 11 now. So you can combine a gigabit and 100Mbit connection if you want, or even toggle your WiFi on in addition to your wired connection for a speed boost (assuming no bottlenecks in your network topology and that the other end can keep up).

Windows 11 is integrating RGB functionality directly into the OS, in an attempt to clean up the nightmare of different apps from different companies used to control RGB. It's still in it's early stages but I think this is a great move.

Windows 11 will not only restore your programs after you reboot, but will restore them to their previous locations. This is amazing when running 6 monitors.

And that's just off the top of my head. Windows 10 is fine... but I like new features, and I like the way tech evolves over time.

So, I might as well ask. Why do you care about auto-HDR so much? I've long used HDR displays but would never consider auto-HDR a viable feature in of itself, let alone a reason to upgrade an OS. Is it simply because you know you have HDR displays and that Windows 11 is "activating" that feature for you? Or do you genuinely believe that auto-HDR is better than SDR?

 

[staknhalo]

Or do you genuinely believe that auto-HDR is better than SDR?

On a crappy HDR display without local dimming = no

On a HDR display with local dimming or OLED/emissive = yes - still not as good as true HDR (difference is noticeable) but more towards actual HDR than not to the point that it is obviously better than/improved over SDR

Edit: Also Auto-HDR is not consistent across all games itself, results on 'how good/better' over SDR can vary per game because of the conversion of original aesthetics > Auto-HDR

 

[t1337duder]

On a crappy HDR display without local dimming = no

On a HDR display with local dimming or OLED/emissive = yes - still not as good as true HDR (difference is noticeable) but more towards actual HDR than not to the point that it is obviously better than/improved over SDR

Edit: Also Auto-HDR is not consistent across all games itself, results on 'how good/better' over SDR can very per game because of the conversion of original aesthetics > Auto-HDR

Okay, so you're presenting SDR and HDR as a spectrum where auto-HDR falls closer on that spectrum to HDR. I personally don't think image quality works that way, but I was curious to see how you thought about it, thanks.

 

[staknhalo]

Okay, so you're presenting SDR and HDR as a spectrum where auto-HDR falls closer on that spectrum to HDR. I personally don't think image quality works that way, but I was curious to see how you thought about it.

You're altering the original image from issued/authored (SDR) - it all relies on equipment/perception/execution of Auto-HDR as there's no true HDR version to compare against (except for titles that have native HDR and Auto-HDR - like the recent Resident Evil titles off the top of my head that you can do A/B comparisons with - but in those instances outside of comparisons it would be dumb to not play in native HDR) - Auto-HDR for me at least comes in handy for older games or the odd recent-ish game where there is no native HDR support.

Edit: Plus as I said, the execution of Auto-HDR itself varies per game non-consistently so Auto-HDR might look great in 9/10 games to someone and on the 10th game it's just better to stick to SDR

 

[t1337duder]

You're altering the original image from issued/authored (SDR) - it all relies on equipment/perception/execution of Auto-HDR as there's no true HDR version to compare against (except for titles that have native HDR and Auto-HDR - like the recent Resident Evil titles off the top of my head that you can do A/B comparisons with - but in those instances outside of comparisons it would be dumb to not play in native HDR) - Auto-HDR for me at least comes in handy for older games or the odd recent-ish game where there is no native HDR support.

One reason I'd imagine not being satisfied with that solution is because auto-HDR doesn't have the capability to detect HUD elements. The thing that makes HDR look good doesn't come from a flat boost in contrast, which AFAIK all auto-HDR is capable of. Using auto-HDR reminds me of throwing a sharpening filter on a lower resolution image because it "looks closer" to the higher resolution image (which I suppose is common these days). Particularly if you're mentioning OLED - you're definitely not going to want your HUD receiving that brightness boost. Also in regards to OLED, the OLED also engages in heavy ABL & other potentially annoying "features" when HDR is active. I'd argue it's not worth engaging those features for artificial HDR.

If you really like the feature, I wouldn't fault you for liking what you think looks better. I'm just having a hard time imagining it as a feature even worth using, let alone worth upgrading my entire OS for.

 

[staknhalo]

One reason I'd imagine not being satisfied with that solution is because auto-HDR doesn't have the capability to detect HUD elements. The thing that makes HDR look good doesn't come from a flat boost in contrast, which AFAIK all auto-HDR is capable of. Using auto-HDR reminds me of throwing a sharpening filter on a lower resolution image because it "looks closer" to the higher resolution image (which I suppose is common these days). Particularly if you're mentioning OLED - you're definitely not going to want your HUD receiving that brightness boost.

If you really like the feature, I wouldn't fault you for liking what you think looks better. I'm just having a hard time imagining it as a feature even worth using, let alone worth upgrading my entire OS for.

You're able to adjust the intensity of Auto-HDR on a per-game basis if issues like HUD elements or something look off (and if you can't dial it into your liking, SDR time). Windows will retain individual per-game Auto-HDR settings, you don't have to adjust it for each game every time you launch/play, if you have different settings for each individual Auto-HDR game.

Auto-HDR expands/stretches/maps/projects out brightness and color pallet.

https://hardforum.com/threads/control-remedy.1962308/page-14#post-1045709792

If you use something to take HDR screenshots like the Xbox Game Bar or GeForce Experience, you can then use this app to view them and analyze HDR data like I did there

 

[MrGuvernment]

A smidge more than that, to make mine work I have nearly 200 outgoing rules and 1 incoming.
Incoming is just deny, I don’t have any need for an outside service to initiate a connection to anything in my house.
But strict rules for the PlayStation, the Nintendo, Apple Updates, Microsoft updates, Samsung Tizen, game A, B, C, etc. It adds up over time, FaceTime, took a bit to figure out when Apple added the end to end encryption because it initiates with IKE 400 and blarg that took a hot minute to fish out of the logs but yeah.

You can get things going with web-browsing and SSL. The big question is do you want to run local SSL decrypt or not to ensure bad things aren’t sneaking through that generic SSL allow you need for https. At home no I don’t use it, but at work for sure I do.

Then it’s just a matter of setting up notifications for rules not triggered in 30, 60, 90, and 180 days for review.

This is the way!

At my old job, it was block all in and out default, then add what was needed. Even end user devices hade DHCP reservations and specific rules for specific people. I re-did my pfsense a couple months back. but have not gotten back to my default block out rule and adding back all the required ones, one of those weekend jobs when I deploy my other brocade switch and do ACL's at the switch level.

But it does feel good right when you know every single thing that is allowed to leave your network!

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

I'm on Win11 now, but I think I feel more stutter in games in 11 than I did 10.

I went back and reinstalled Nvidia drivers and AMD chipset drivers after the "upgrade" but I don't think that solved things.

I'm not sure I have the energy for a from scratch clean install right now...

 

[Lakados]

I'm on Win11 now, but I think I feel more stutter in games in 11 than I did 10.

I went back and reinstalled Nvidia drivers and AMD chipset drivers after the "upgrade" but I don't think that solved things.

I'm not sure I have the energy for a from scratch clean install right now...

What AMD chip?
I noticed with my 5950 I needed to run the XBox game bar, and play with Adrenaline a little. It messed up my memory timings, kept lowering them from 3400 to 3000.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

What AMD chip?
I noticed with my 5950 I needed to run the XBox game bar, and play with Adrenaline a little. It messed up my memory timings, kept lowering them from 3400 to 3000.

Threadripper 3960x. I've never used the Xbox bar. (I've actually often wished I could uninstall it, and been really frustrated that they won't let me)

I generally avoid any overlays or anything running in the background.. Just running it made it run better? That sounds weird.

 

[Lakados]

Threadripper 3960x. I've never used the Xbox bar. (I've actually often wished I could uninstall it, and been really frustrated that they won't let me)

I generally avoid any overlays or anything running in the background.. Just running it made it run better? That sounds weird.

AMD sort of gave up thread prioritization for 11 and left it to XBox game bar. It’s basically required for any of AMD’s multi CCD chips there. You don’t need any of the overlays so disable them all, it just needs to be there in the taskbar.
Also check for Microsoft KB 5006476, it’s needed to fix L3 Cache issues It may still be an optional update. And I want to say there was a note about the AMD drivers and Auto HDR if you have that enabled, it’s recommended you don’t.

 

[philb2]

Wow, people are actually that petty?

Yeah, some people are ...

I consider myself lucky that I work in Engineering and don't have to deal with this bullshit.

Since I worked in product management and product marketing, there was a minority, a distinct minority, that would just get under my skin. Or they had to "prove" that they knew my job better than I did. A distinct minority, but I have encountered a few of those people in my career.

That is a fair comment. I used to have to travel a lot for work, but it has been over a decade at this point.

That said, even when I did, I found I could never quite work on a plane anyway. I used to do supplier audits a lot, and I'd try to write up my audit reports on the plane and I just couldn't do it. Too many distractions, too cramped space. So instead I'd just try to sleep, and write my reports either before takeoff or after landing So, not an issue for me, but I can see how it might be for some.

I have over 2 million miles in one of the airline frequent flyer programs, so I've done way too much time on planes. For me, a plane ride is a chance to catch up on email without any distractions. When I got to my hotel, I would dump off all the messages I'd sent out while working offline. For really long trips, I used to carry extra batteries. Yeah, coach is kind of cramped, but I used to try to snag exit row seats. But I also had to deal with a few flaming you-know-whats who spread over into my seat. Then there was the guy in the row adead of me who deliberately jammed his seat all the way way, his seat and the empty seat next to him, just to piss me off.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

AMD sort of gave up thread prioritization for 11 and left it to XBox game bar. It’s basically required for any of AMD’s multi CCD chips there. You don’t need any of the overlays so disable them all, it just needs to be there in the taskbar.
Also check for Microsoft KB 5006476, it’s needed to fix L3 Cache issues It may still be an optional update. And I want to say there was a note about the AMD drivers and Auto HDR if you have that enabled, it’s recommended you don’t.

Interesting. I had no idea the Xbox game bar did anything outside of annoying streaming bullshit.

I had no idea it could change how the Windows scheduler works.

So you just start it, and then start the game?


I also found quite a few articles from when Win 11 2H22 was new stating how Nvidia users were having issues, and how a few people solved this by DDU:ing their drivers and reinstalling.

I tried it and it seems to have worked.

 

[Lakados]

Interesting. I had no idea the Xbox game bar did anything outside of annoying streaming bullshit.

I had no idea it could change how the Windows scheduler works.

So you just start it, and then start the game?


I also found quite a few articles from when Win 11 2H22 was new stating how Nvidia users were having issues, and how a few people solved this by DDU:ing their drivers and reinstalling.

I tried it and it seems to have worked.

Yeah the Xbox game bar is a requirement especially if you are running the multi CCD x3D chips.
AMD has a driver hook in there to offset their existing scheduler.

Just glad you fixed it.

 

[GotNoRice]

So, I might as well ask. Why do you care about auto-HDR so much?

Because it gave me a tangible improvement to the games that I care about and play the most.

Is it simply because you know you have HDR displays and that Windows 11 is "activating" that feature for you?

No.

Or do you genuinely believe that auto-HDR is better than SDR?

I believe that first and foremost the capabilities of HDR are dictated by your monitor... If your monitor has a piss-poor HDR implementation, then nothing on the software side is going to fix that, including Auto-HDR. On many monitors, HDR is included more for marketing reasons than as an actual usable feature. HDR was so terrible on my previous monitor (32" Samsung C32HG70) that I just left it on SDR and never used HDR at all. Enabling HDR at all made all SDR content (including the windows desktop) look washed-out and dull, forcing you to toggle HDR on and off constantly depending on what you were doing. In most actual HDR content, things usually looked too dark. Auto-HDR made games actually look less vibrant than just using SDR. No amount of calibration was able to fix this; I tried, for a long time, until I gave up and just started using SDR for everything.

On my current Alienware AW3821DW 38" Ultrawide, the HDR implimentation is fantastic. I can leave HDR turned on it doesn't make the Windows desktop or other SDR content look washed out. No need to contantly toggle HDR on and off. Authentic HDR content looks great, and is not too dark. My experience with Auto-HDR on this monitor is that it does a fantastic job of giving me both dark blacks as well as rich vibrant colors. SDR still looks good, but Auto-HDR looks better.
On my Samsung 75" Q60A HDTV, the HDR implimentation is also quite good. While I don't usually use my HTPC to play games, when I do, they definitly benefit from Auto-HDR also.

The thing that makes HDR look good doesn't come from a flat boost in contrast, which AFAIK all auto-HDR is capable of.

Dude, if you're implying that people on here can't tell the difference between what Auto-HDR does and simply cranking up the contrast... Suffice it to say, most of us weren't born yesterday...

 

[ManofGod]

AMD sort of gave up thread prioritization for 11 and left it to XBox game bar. It’s basically required for any of AMD’s multi CCD chips there. You don’t need any of the overlays so disable them all, it just needs to be there in the taskbar.
Also check for Microsoft KB 5006476, it’s needed to fix L3 Cache issues It may still be an optional update. And I want to say there was a note about the AMD drivers and Auto HDR if you have that enabled, it’s recommended you don’t.

I looked and unless I am missing something, which is possible, you cannot run the XBox Gamebar in the background or have it run in the tray. Are you sure you are not speaking of the XBox Game App?

 

[staknhalo]

I looked and unless I am missing something, which is possible, you cannot run the XBox Gamebar in the background or have it run in the tray. Are you sure you are not speaking of the XBox Game App?

I don't know about tray but background yes

Win+G will bring the overlay up in desktop or game, should always be running unless one disabled it I think

 

[Bankie]

Pretty sure this happens with almost every Windows release. I think that in general, the enthusiasts are excited to try new versions while the casuals and businesses are uninterested in new software and hold out as long as they can.

 

[DukenukemX]

Time Machine requires an external destination...

Or the local drive to have a partition for it.

You can select iCloud as the destination for your time machine backups if you want.
Time machine does not backup data you have stored in iCloud nor the OS, just local files, folders, and applications.

Basically stuff in the home folder. iCloud does not do a 100% local backup.

But nobody carries around an external drive, just like they never carry around their power cords, but sweet Jesus they always need a thumb drive for one reason or another, I can't restock my drawer of them fast enough and nobody ever brings the one they "borrowed" back.

USB drives have gotten so big that they can almost do a local backup. I'm afraid the prices will soon jump back up.

No, the main reason is because communication between all the parts is faster than them being separate. The problem is how much they charge for storage. The storage on the bottom tier being half the speed is indeed incredibly stupid, I agree. It wasn't like this before. So they're definitely sticking it to the consumers with this choice.

You think Apple did this to reduce communication? It's not like SSD's care about stuff like that. You also see a lot of M.2 based NVME drives that are faster than what you see on Macs, while also being a fraction of the price.

 

[Lakados]

Or the local drive to have a partition for it.

Not many Apple users are going to go through the trouble of booting to recovery mode, launching disk utility, formatting, re partitioning, and reinstalling so they can run Time Machine locally.
They pay through the ass for that storage they aren’t about to just hand half of it over like that.