Windows 10 is fucking mess. Especially games.
UWP seems like made for mobile/table apps and Microsoft wanted to bolt games on for stupid reasons.
- Creators update (1703/1709) broke audio drivers. GG. 9 months and still not fixed.
I would've not even upgraded from 1607 whatever, but I bought Shadow of War Win 10 version thinking it can't be that bad. But it somehow is and even worse.
Someone gave me free month of Xbox Game Pass so I have had to checkout all Win 10 games included. There's total of 3 games for 10€ a month.
Because it's time limited , might as well check those first.
Recore
1. Often crash when alt-tab if in full screen
2. Often reset if alt-tab from Windowed mode. Less often crashes. But reset it pretty much same thing as crash, so it's just semantics.
3. Pauses if you alt-tab from full screen. This includes any loading. Maybe I'm only one that tabs out to do something else while game loads?
4. So I have to switch to windowed mode to wait while game loads. Doable, just minor inconvenience. (but see 2 and 5)
5. Switching to windowed mode with alt-enter might reset settings rendering resolution to 1024x576
6. Exit Game in options? something less logical than shutdown in start menu :P
7. Frame skipping. Game randomly skips frames (stutters), however movement happens and I have multiple times ended up rotating like 360 degrees and ended up going to another direction WTF.
Gears of Wars 4
1. Often crashes on launch
2. Crashes randomly, not often though.
3. Game randomly freezes on cutscenes. Have to manually exit and restart from latest save and hope next time it doesn't.
4. Weird mouse control
5. Very inconsistent frame rates (28fps - 60fps, usually in high 45-60 fps)
Halo Wars Definite Edition
1. I didn't have any crashing issues yet. Probably matter of time, though.
And to non game pass games:
Forza Horizon 3
1. Has stuttering. Didn't play much tho.
Shadow of War
1.
Gives me option to install 4K movies pack to another drive.
'This is cool and something even Steam doesn't have'
And movies don't really need to be on SSD anyways, so of course I chose to install internal HDD.
This ends up with error "This can't be installed to SD card". The fuck? It's hard drive.
Maybe because that HDD is hot swap enabled, so let's choose another HDD that is not.
Aaand same error.
So you get option, but unless you chose that one correct it doesn't work GG.
2. At least it failed before download, so it didn't download same thing three times.
3. Game plays pretty well enough. Some rare crashes tho.
Deus Ex Go*
1. Works perfectly without issues
Lara Croft Go*
1. Works perfectly without issues
Hitman Go*
1. Works perfectly without issues
2. Has paid hints system, Steam version instead features achievement for not using hints.
* Tested in 1607
So non-Microsoft and mobile games works the best. Some how I'm not surprised.
Well, not replacing, but actual competition appearing would be great. And Vulkan needs a bigger push so that we won't get locked to DX forever.
This please.