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STO and Windows X

maracroftmaracroft Member Posts: 201 Arc User
edited June 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Does anyone have any information on running STO under Windows 10? I realize it hasn't been released yet but was just curious if others were going to upgrade at release or wait to see what happens.

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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    I haven't tried it, but there was a thread a while back where several people running the Windows 10 Preview were able to run STO without any problem.

    It shouldn't be a problem, but we'll have to wait until final release to know for sure. From what I know so far, it works under the current build of Windows 10.
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
    I can only assume it should work. I mean STO is a rather recent program and I can't imagine 10 being so much different from 8 so six year old programs don't work anymore. I thought win 10 is just 8.1 with old functionalities reintegrated and some obnoxious SIRI-schlick which I can hopefully disable.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    Its a new version of Windows. Of course it won't work right. Since when does a Windows launch work correctly prior to the release of SP1?
  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    as the majority of the players are on either win 7 or 8.1 and most will likely take the free upgrade when its available cryptic better make sure sto does run under win 10 or they are likely to loose an awful lot of the player base when it happens.
    as you can choose to install win 10 at a later time then personally I will be installing win 10 on my desktop first so I can test sto and see if its ok, only then will I also install it on my laptop.
    to be honest though I don't think it will be a problem as I have read somewhere of players who have tested sto on the test builds of windows 10 and have run it without any issues.

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  • meurikmeurik Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Its a new version of Windows. Of course it won't work right. Since when does a Windows launch work correctly prior to the release of SP1?

    There hasn't been an SP1 for any version of Windows since Windows 7.
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  • championshewolfchampionshewolf Member Posts: 3,162 Arc User
    STO will work fine in Windows 10. I am just curious if Cryptic plans to make use of DirectX 12.
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  • maracroftmaracroft Member Posts: 201 Arc User
    This is great! thanks people. Yeah i have the little 'upgrade to 10' button on my desktop. I've already reserved it but it's nice that we can install when we want to instead of being forced.
  • midniteshadow7midniteshadow7 Member Posts: 787 Arc User
    maracroft wrote: »
    Does anyone have any information on running STO under Windows 10? I realize it hasn't been released yet but was just curious if others were going to upgrade at release or wait to see what happens.

    I am running Win10 on 2 laptops - one runs STO through Steam and the other through Arc.
    Both are working fine.

    Windows is only out as a Technical Previews for testers and is released to the general public at the end of July.
  • jbmonroejbmonroe Member Posts: 809 Arc User
    Assuming that driver support is available for your particular cards (audio and video), Windows 10 shouldn't keep you from playing STO. I haven't tried it in the Tech Preview VM I'm running because of lack of driver support, but with decades of Windows experience to draw from--nothing leaps up as an obstacle based on my experience with the Tech Preview.

    (I think I'll go try some things now. I just got some ideas. :smiley: )
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  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,534 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    jbmonroe wrote: »
    Assuming that driver support is available for your particular cards (audio and video), Windows 10 shouldn't keep you from playing STO. I haven't tried it in the Tech Preview VM I'm running because of lack of driver support, but with decades of Windows experience to draw from--nothing leaps up as an obstacle based on my experience with the Tech Preview.

    (I think I'll go try some things now. I just got some ideas. :smiley: )

    I see a youtube video regarding this and top of the list was old hardware that might not be supported, basically if the pc you are using didn't originally have at least windows 7 but was upgraded from xp or vista then installing windows 10 might be a bad idea.

    see the full video here >
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00s_yaNSK4c

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  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    meurik wrote: »
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Its a new version of Windows. Of course it won't work right. Since when does a Windows launch work correctly prior to the release of SP1?

    There hasn't been an SP1 for any version of Windows since Windows 7.

    Um Windows 8.1 was basically a Windows 8.0 SP1 no matter how MS would like to portray it.
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    crypticarmsman wrote: »
    meurik wrote: »
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Its a new version of Windows. Of course it won't work right. Since when does a Windows launch work correctly prior to the release of SP1?

    There hasn't been an SP1 for any version of Windows since Windows 7.

    Um Windows 8.1 was basically a Windows 8.0 SP1 no matter how MS would like to portray it.
    But did pretty much nothing when it comes to software compatibility. Because nothing really needed to be made.

    The challenging jump was Vista and its security model. It affected a lot of software and drivers. Afterwards, everyone knew the hard way what they needed to do, and did that.

    It doesn't look as if Windows 10 will make any significant under-the-hood changes here. The most significant might be the new DirectX version, but that's backwards compatible and you need to actively do something to use the new features. (Considering how long the DirectX11 adaptation took Cryptic, I would expect this to take a while before it affects STO.)
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