Windows 11 will soon let you know why your PC hardware sucks: Windows 11 will be able to explain why your PC needs more RAM and a better GPU.
New Frequently Asked Questions list in Settings > System > About hidden in builds 26120.3576 and 22635.5090. Has some questions related to the Windows version and device specs. (vivetool /enable /id:55305888).
This existed briefly, but was quickly removed because big box retailers complained that people were looking at the real stats instead of big numbers in their ads.
Windows 11 won't let me know anything. Ever since I was able to get Final Fantasy XIV to run on my Debian laptop, I have not had Windows on any of my computers.
Brings back memories!
5.1 Calculations per second? Seems low.
Its running Windows. Once the corporations have taken their cut, there are 5.1 calculations left for the user.
Simpler times, when 0.0000000051 GHz was enough to get by!
Depends on what is calculated. Calculating all digits of pi 5.1 times per second seeems pretty fast.
Didn't it also max out at something ridiculous like 8.6? To "keep room for better hardware in the future"?
it maxed out at 5.9 at first, then it was raised to 7.9 for Win7 and 9.9 for the rest. TIL it's still a thing, I thought it started and ended with Vista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_System_Assessment_Tool
Windows 11 will soon let you know why
your PC hardwareWindows 11 sucks.
fuck windows 11
fuck Microsoft
The answer is always going to be, "Because you're running the incredibly bloated Windows operating system."
Oh you mean like Windows 7 did
Wasn'it even introduced in Vista?
Can it tell why the currently running OS sucks tho?
Seems like a way to push hardware sales
MS doesn't really sell much hardware though...
Imagine your car does this too: "Beep Bop. Too slow. Car needs a new engine and tire."
Not really even accurate though. It's more like "buy a new car".
It's already happening, not this aggressive. My kia vehicle for example, it will display a prompt screen on the dashboard. Telling me about how I have X days of service left. It is telling me, indirectly, that I need to change my oil or do something when I looked up what it was.
That's a pretty bog-standard feature though... My 2008 Toyota has a maintenance reminder light that pops on every 5000 miles.
Honestly, not a bad feature for once. I have seen people build (or get others to build for them) the weirdest fucking systems.
Just install UBUNTU, it will make your 10 year old machine run like it's brand new because the OS doesn't suck and isn't Windows 98 with code piled on top of it.
Ubuntu has been in quite its own mess and having an identity crisis now.
That's unfair. It's Windows NT with code piled on top. Also, Linux Mint may be an easier transition for Windows users.
But it can't even give me a descriptive error message as to why it won't accept my password change. Huh.
(Minimum password age, really?)
Or any error issue.
I wonder if it’ll handle e-cores better than Task Manager.
Overall, it’s reporting 20% CPU usage. But all P-cores are pinned at 100%. E-cores idle. Of course I’m not CPU bound, I don’t need a better laptop, don’t be silly! And that’s just a Teams call. Fuck teams.
Ugh I hate this. It could be a list but they've got AI or somebody that writes like AI expand each bullet into a useless paragraph.
Image a world where the OS got faster and wasn't the focus of the computer.
I was just wondering why tripple-a games don’t tell you that in the graphics options. Gave cyberpunk another chance with a newer pc and it was hard to dial in the right settings. It’s weird to me that they put a lot of effort into the games itself but don’t care how it will be experienced. Stating bottlenecks and recommendations for demanding settings would go along way i think.
Don’t most games list their recommended and minimum system requirements? Wouldn’t also Task Manager or something similar suggest what the bottleneck is?
Yeah but “recommend” could mean anything? Is that 60fps at full ultra or 30 at high? It’s often quite a bit of trial and error to dial in a good compromise on lower spec pcs
What games should do is tell you the impact that settings have on performance. Just a text blurb that mentions how significantly you can expect a setting to matter. I've seen it in a few games where some settings are marked with something like heavy performance penalty but it would be nice for more things to be labeled.
Looking at something like the task manager will tell you your CPU or GPU is maxed out, but how do you know what to change to correct this? Can you just change a few barely-noticeable settings, or are you expected to replace your CPU? If the recommended is CPU X, then why is my CPU Y maxed out? If I exceed the recommended build, why is my performance so bad?
Often the recommended build is not enough to max out graphics at reasonable framerates, for example.
Who has time these days to read stuff and research it before spamming that "buy" button? 😉
It's incredibly hard to properly benchmark your PC's capabilities just from some hardware specs. You need an actual benchmark for that, which takes time and usually slows the machine to a crawl
Windows taking a page out of Apple's book. Apple's way of forcing you to buy new products from them is when they make slightly more newer things of the same-ish specs, with minor tweaks and with massive marketing pushes. And support starts dropping quickly.
Windows seems to be doing this, by passively telling you to do it. The biggest plus with PCs over Apple, is we decide when we want to upgrade. Until you make a better OS, which is unlikely Microsoft, I'll upgrade my hardware when I want to and if push comes to shove, I'll get Linux or I'll pirate your damn OS like I have done for the past 5 Windows OSes.