08-05-2015, 09:31 AM
Went from 7 to 10 on an old and underpowered Netbook Eee from Asus.
+ The performance improved with Win 10. Looks like it has more intelligent methods to handle hardware constrains
+ Most things look different but similar enough to feel home in less than an hour.
- Had no luck with drivers for one Serial-to-USB adapter but got another one running with MS supplied drivers.
- The old graphics drivers permitted to force the screen resolution to 1024 *768 with reduced quality even though the physical size is 1024 * 600. The new MS supplied Windows 10 drivers do not permit a higher resolution then the physical resolution. That is a problem with programs that do not have the flexibility to adjust to all screen sizes (e.g. ESU sound decoder programming tool). The lower part of the logical screen is simply not accessible.
My recommendation is to search for experience reports of your specific hardware and/or look for updated device drivers of your hardware supplier in case genetic MS drivers don't work as expected.
+ The performance improved with Win 10. Looks like it has more intelligent methods to handle hardware constrains
+ Most things look different but similar enough to feel home in less than an hour.
- Had no luck with drivers for one Serial-to-USB adapter but got another one running with MS supplied drivers.
- The old graphics drivers permitted to force the screen resolution to 1024 *768 with reduced quality even though the physical size is 1024 * 600. The new MS supplied Windows 10 drivers do not permit a higher resolution then the physical resolution. That is a problem with programs that do not have the flexibility to adjust to all screen sizes (e.g. ESU sound decoder programming tool). The lower part of the logical screen is simply not accessible.
My recommendation is to search for experience reports of your specific hardware and/or look for updated device drivers of your hardware supplier in case genetic MS drivers don't work as expected.
Reinhard