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During a livestream that aired today, Microsoft officially unveiled its next OS: Windows 11 and announced that Windows 10 users will get access to Windows 11 as a free upgrade, similar to how Windows 7 and 8 users were upgraded to Windows 10 for free.

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Microsoft also said that Windows 11 will be "the best Windows ever for gaming". To back that claim up, the tech giant announced a slate of gaming-related enhancements. One of these is Auto HDR which will make games look better as it adds High Dynamic Range (HDR) enhancements to titles built on DirectX 11 or higher that previously only leveraged Standard Dynamic Range (SDR). This tech was in fact introduced Xbox Series X|S consoles.

Another enhancement will come to loading speed through the new DirectStorage technology. This was part of the Xbox Velocity Architecture featured in the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S and Windows 11 PCs will load new games faster with a high performance NVMe SSD and the proper drivers.

As a final gaming-related feature, the Xbox app will be built into Windows 11 to provide easier access to Game Pass. Cloud gaming will also be directly added into the Xbox app on PC.

Another interesting announcement during the event, albeit not directly related to gaming, is that Android apps will apparently run natively on Windows 11. The apps will be downloadable from Amazon’s Appstore, which will itself be accessible via the new Windows store.

For more details about the gaming-related announcements, head to the official Xbox blog post in the source link below.

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[Barloomo]

wonderin if i can survive the update xd

 

[ghjfdtg]

its a free upgrade so like..... you wont have to pay another 100$ for the new OS,

Yes, the upgrade is free but ultimately you will pay for the license when you buy a new PC with Windows 11 installed. That was my critique. On one side they give away free licenses and make a PR stunt out of it but on the other it's still paid for new PC's with it pre-installed. You are not even getting any advantage for the paid one.

 

[jesus96]

It's literally the same stuff,did they really expect people to pay for that?

 

[SkittleDash]

Seriously, the requirements are pretty stupid. My PC is only 2 years old and doesn't support TPM 2.0. And it's no gaming one either. So it doesn't have DirectX 12 support either. Would also make laptops with soldered in components much more worthless. Seriously, Microsoft?

 

[Lazyboss]

Looks like Mac now, which I really hate.

 

[Ericthegreat]

New windows means time for a fresh install.

 

[DEFIANT]

well i guess i have the unpopular opinion...i always said apple osx was a pretty os...but it doesn't do ALL the games and its too proprietary. i really like that windows centered the taskbar icons...something i currently do with either taskbar x or startisback++. the updated icons are a start but i feel more attention to color couldn't hurt. rounded corners aren't bad either. the start menu changes over the years have never really affected me. i always do a dock or dock style center pinned icon approach. so that leaves performance and over all ui work flow...that will be a hands on approach so that's a wait n see.

 

[the_randomizer]

Nah I'm good. The centered taskbar and UI look horrible.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

*me with KMS activation*

haha i'm in danger.

 

[Lacius]

well i guess i have the unpopular opinion...i always said apple osx was a pretty os...but it doesn't do ALL the games and its too proprietary. i really like that windows centered the taskbar icons...something i currently do with either taskbar x or startisback++. the updated icons are a start but i feel more attention to color couldn't hurt. rounded corners aren't bad either. the start menu changes over the years have never really affected me. i always do a dock or dock style center pinned icon approach. so that leaves performance and over all ui work flow...that will be a hands on approach so that's a wait n see.

I don't dislike the UI either. My only issue right now is the TPM requirement.

 

[wiitendo84]

Everything I found about my laptop says that it doesn't have it. Ran the windows checker thing and lo and behold it does in fact have a TPM 2.0

 

[DEFIANT]

I don't dislike the UI either. My only issue right now is the TPM requirement.

i just enabled mine and checked it. its at 2.0 so i hope that will get me in the club...but i feel there will be a hack or a way to disable it. hell it might all go away in the final version...too soon to tell just yet.

 

[Lacius]

i just enabled mine and checked it. its at 2.0 so i hope that will get me in the club...but i feel there will be a hack or a way to disable it. hell it might all go away in the final version...too soon to tell just yet.

I have a laptop from 2015 with no TPM chip, and I have a desktop I built in 2019 that has no TPM chip ("Why does my desktop need BitLocker?" I said). If I can't bypass the requirement, I won't be happy.

My SO's laptop is also from 2015 with no TPM chip.

 

[leerpsp]

My 2 year old gaming pc doesn't support TPM 2.0 also just found out 1st gen ryzen does not work with the new windows 11 my Ryzen 1500 is not going to work, I did not mind upgrading to a new cpu but no way I will upgrade to a new motherboard I was only going to do that when ddr5 come out. I got a 2070 6 months ago so My gpu is fine.
Microsoft must be wanting to make money on hardware this time around with the new windows 11 it's just seems they worked hard to make people have to ether buy a new pc or hardware.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

For those worried about TPM requirements, MS has clarified this already, 2.0 is recommended but not required, TPM 1.2 is their actual required hard limit.

And firmware-based TPM implementations will work just fine, and TPM 1.2 is basically included in every CPU for the last decade-ish now, it's just a matter of activating it in your BIOS (Intel PTT for Intel CPUs, fTPM for AMD).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/windows-11/ <

 

[Viri]

Yes, the upgrade is free but ultimately you will pay for the license when you buy a new PC with Windows 11 installed.

I don't think the people who use this site, are concerned about the Window's price.

 

[leerpsp]

For those worried about TPM requirements, MS has clarified this already, 2.0 is recommended but not required, TPM 1.2 is their actual required hard limit.

And firmware-based TPM implementations will work just fine, and TPM 1.2 is basically included in every CPU for the last decade-ish now, it's just a matter of activating it in your BIOS (Intel PTT for Intel CPUs, fTPM for AMD).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/windows-11/ <

My Motherboard the Asrock ab350 pro 4 does not support it, I can but a Module for the Motherboard but from some reviews its a hit or miss on if it will work and some say it likes to disconnect a lot, I just will not update to windows 11 till I do my next big update but linux with steam play just keeps looking better and if most people can not game with windows 11 and need to do a big hardware update to do it I really could see game devs moving over to linux for gaming, The only thing windows has going for it is gaming.

 

[Crazynoob458]

like many people this should have been a update to windows 10
unlike many people i like the new ui

 

[leerpsp]

like many people this should have been a update to windows 10
unlike many people i like the new ui

I like the new UI but it really looks like a 1 to 1 rip off of mac os.

 

[Crazynoob458]

I like the new UI but it really looks like a 1 to 1 rip off of mac os.

it does have a weird macos vibe on win32 apps but for some reason on uwp apps i dont feel like its macos